THE PAPAL DECREE
A HEAVY BLOW TO HOME RULE. By (Table —Press Association—Copyright. London, December 20. Tlio Dublin correspondent of the Times states, with reference to the Papal decree prohibiting Catholics from suing the clergy in State courts, that its transgression involves a sentence of excommunication as already pronounced. He adds that absolution from ex-com-munication is specially reserved to the Pope. The decree similarly penalises those enacting laws or decrees against the liberty or rights of the Church. Thus every member of a Parliament legislating and every executive officer promulgating such laws comes within the scope of the decree. The Nationalists already realise the possibilities of the decree as an instrument of battle against Home Rule.
The correspondent adds: "For .the second time, within . a few years the Church has dealt the cause of separation a heavy blow."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 154, 28 December 1911, Page 5
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138THE PAPAL DECREE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 154, 28 December 1911, Page 5
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