CATHOLICS & DIVORCE
Obligations Placed on Legal Fraternity (Received 17, 8.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 16. Preaehing at St. Mary's Cathedral to-day at a Mass marking the opening of the 1937 law term, Father P. J. Murphy observed that there was an obligation upon Catholic members of the legal profession to refuse "to shave a hand, act or part" in divorce proCeedings. ' ' As Catholics, ' ' he continued, "you cannot countenance anything so vile as marriage being considered as merely a private contract between man and woman which can be dissolved if the law thinks well. "Do not tell mo you are refusing good fees and losing clients. The law is not a livelihood; it is a profession you follow to enable your fellow men to resist the oppressor. Surely you cannot hold with the contention that an Act of Parliament can direetly deny the positive teaching of Christ, or that it can take the holiness out of a marital contract and niake it what the irreligious teach and desire, merely a trafic in chatteis "
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 28, 17 February 1937, Page 5
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