The Tablet, in attempting to defend Father Hennebery, makes the follow, ing statement.—“ Wherever the decrees of the Council of Trent have not been published, the marriage of even two Catholics solemnised before a Registrar, or Minister of any denomination, are valid. The Catholics, or the Catholic, who are thus married commit a mortal sin, but the marriage remains good.” Any fool knows that such a marriage by the laws of the land in which we live is valid and “ hqhfc good,” whether the Catholic Church or any Church may or may not consider it a “ mortal sin”—otherwise adultery. Happily ,in these days Civil,' not Eccleaiastial law is supreme.
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Kumara Times, Issue 469, 28 March 1878, Page 2
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