DISTINCTION WITHOUT DIFFERENCE.
In a letter addressed to a Dunedin contemporary Bishop Moran writes.— Marriages celebrated before Regis trai s in this colony though sinful, and bringing with them the penalty of excommunication in the case of Catholics—provided always there exist no diriment or annulling impediment arising from the natural, divine, or ecclesiastical law—are valid. And this statement I made after explaining that the law of clandestinity of the Council of Trent, requiring parties to get married before the parish priest and two wit nesses, in order to the validity of marriage, has not been published in this country, and is not, consequently, binding here. Throughout my discourse on Sunday, I insisted on the distinction between unlawfulness and validity, and took great pains to explain how a marriage might he valid and at the same time unlawful in the eyes of the Church, and sacriligious.”
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Kumara Times, Issue 487, 18 April 1878, Page 2
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