MIXED MARRIAGES

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 May 1911, Page 3

MIXED MARRIAGES

THE PAPAL DECREE. LRTt KGKCTIUC TKLEBRAPH—OOPTRIGKT. , L'PIR PRESS ASSOCIATION ."J NEWCASTLE, May 11. Tlie "Anglican Synod passed, a. motion inviting the Imperial Government to repudiate the decree regarding mixed marriages, as "the Bishop ofllome bath no jurisdiction in this realm," or tho oversea dominions. They also passed a motion viewingthe'decree with disdain. MELBOURNE, JVlay 11. The Congregational Union also protested against tho decree a.s a defiance of tho civil law. (Chronicle Note: The decree No Temere has caused considerable perturbation in Ireland. The Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, recently presided at a mass meeting, when resolutions protesting against the extension of the decree and calling on the Government, to take "such steps as will secure to those who have been married in accordance with the law of the land, freedom from interference from clergymen or others of any denomination whatsoever that may lead to a violation of the marriage contract were adopted. A Boinan Catholic correspondent writing to the London Times says: "Within the past few days the best business relations have ' existed between Protestants and Catholics, and in benevolent; and philanthropise work both have co-operated in a most praiseworthy way, forgetting their religious and political differences in their desire to advance the public welfare. But now all this good work is in danger of being upset through the o]>eration of Ne Temere." The correspondent, illustrating the lengths to which religious intolerance reaches, savs that lie "knows of many cases where Catholics have been dismissed by Protestants from their employment, while in commercial life Protestants are taking action to ostracise Catholics." The Case of tho McCann family has been engineered by the Orangemen to strengthen their case, but the explanation of the Catholic Church, to any unbiassed mind, should be sufficient to show that it was used as a pretext by unscrupulous people for an unjustifiable attack on the Catholic hierarchy.)