CATHOLIC LAWYERS AND DIVORCE
BARRISTER’S REPLY.
CAN ACT IN COURT.
Not In Opposition To Canon Law. Press Association—Copyright. Received noon. Sydney, To-day. A Sydney barrister, commenting on Father Murphy’s statement that the Catholic Church had no place for divorce and consequently Catholic lawyers should not appear in divorce cases, even though to refuse would mean financial loss, said that “it is definitely appreciated by those conversant with canon 'law that Catholic lawyers can defend or act for any petitioner with a lawful cause, in the Divorce Courts of this or any other coutrj- where divorce is legal. Only in the Catholic mind there is no possibility of the dissolution of the marriage bond being effected as against I the Church by legal divorce proceedings. “The Church views the divorce decree as effecting separation only. A Catholic lawyer, by appearing in such proceedings, is certainly not acting contrary to canon law.”
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 363, 18 February 1937, Page 5
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150CATHOLIC LAWYERS AND DIVORCE Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 363, 18 February 1937, Page 5
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