MIXED MARRIAGES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 56, 24 July 1912, Page 6

MIXED MARRIAGES

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC VIEW. Mixed marriages were condemned in strong terms by Archbishop Kelly in an address in Sydney last week, lie said that Roman Catholic men should on no account marry non-Catholic wives. The iran who voluntarily deprived himself of the help-meet that God had grunted him in a good Catholic wife did not desire to lie pious, and did not desire his children tc become good Catholics. It was an awful thing for a man who believed sincerely in his religion to contemplate. God forgive the man who deprived himself of a Catholic wife, and deprived his children of the privilege of being reared by a Catholic mother. The non-Catho-lic woman must be cancelled from the list of those who could become partners for life of Catholic men. lie was never more in earnest on any matter than on this. The mandate of the Church had gone forth, and the people understood the prohibition; it was for them to obey. The Church desired to prevent the murder of souls, and the spread of spiritual indifference. That was why it had taken the course it had to prohibit mixed marriages.