AGAINST DIVORCE
Priest Directs Catholic Lawyers. Press Association— -Copyright Sydney, February 16. Preaching at St Mary’s Catheiral I 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 have hand, act or part” in divorce proceedings. Was marriage being considered as merely a private contract between a man and a woman which could be dissolved if the law thought well? “Do not tell me you are refusing good fees and losing clients,” the preacher proceeded. “The law it 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 4ct of Parliament can dirccly deny the positive teaching of Christ or that it can take the holiness.’ out of the martial contract and make it what tWe Irreligious teach and- desire; — merely a traffic in
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 362, 17 February 1937, Page 5
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163AGAINST DIVORCE Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 362, 17 February 1937, Page 5
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