MARRIAGE ANNULMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1926, Page 13

MARRIAGE ANNULMENTS

ATTITUDE OF THE ; DIVORCE NEVER GRANTED THE MARLBOROUGH CASE By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Nov. 19, 8.5 p.in. Rome, Nov. 19. A prelate of the Sacred Rota made a statement, air follows, concerning the Duke of Marlborough’s annulment of marriage by the Pope: "The judgment was based on incontestable evidence, without reference to the social position of the interested parties or the judgment of outsiders. Insinuations are often made in these matters that tho Church, on the pretext of annuling marriages, really grants divorces by roundabout ways. "There is no need for me to say that the Church lias absolutely never granted a release from rital ties. 'Die decrees of the rota are simply annulments. Tho tribunal, in cases like the present, affirms that matrimony is null and void and that as a real true marriage never existed, therefore no matrimonial vows have been broken, as they fiiever existed from the beginning.” There were fifty eases presented to the tribunal during .1925, but in only ten were found the elements making them the subjects of an annulment In the Marlborough ease there was incontestable proof that moral violence wae used on the' bride, who gave her assent under the influence of grave fear.