'CATHOLIC MARRIAGES'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 20, 21 May 1908, Page 24

'CATHOLIC MARRIAGES '

SOME FURTHER APPRECIATIONS

. . . Let me express my admiration of your magnificent defence and attack. . . Long may you have power and opportunity to wield the pen in a 1 good cause.'— Rev. Father Tubniian, S.M., Timaini. ■'• Permit me to congratulate - you on ( " Catholic Marriages." How you could have stored' away and afterwards drawn so promptly on your" fund of knowledge, absolutely confounds me.'— Mr. E. O'Connor, Christchurch. 3 What a Secular Paper Says. The Christohurch ' Spectator ' of May 11 has the following editorial note :— ' A pampililet entitled "Catholic Marriages " has just been issued from the '■' N.Z. Tablet " office, Dunedin, which deals fully with the recent Papal Decree on the subject. The writer is the Rev. Father Cleary, Editor of the " Tablet ", and'it is an elaborate, argumentative, and logical defence, from the Catholic standpoint, of the Decree. The genesis of the pamphlet was the correspondence of the Rev. C. W. Carrington, head of the Anglican College House, Choh., on the subject in the Chch. " Press ". Father Cleary prints the whole of the correspondence, as well as the Decree (in Latin and English) and Bishop Grimes' Pastoral upon, it. The letters to the paper showed Father Cleary's ability as an analytical logician and dialectician, but in the pamphlet he " lets himself go " in real earnest, 'and shows a knowledge of ecclesiastical history of the marriage laws of England,, Germany, and these colonies, that stamps him as a writer of marvellous grasp and acumen. It does not come wit/hin the province of this paper to express an opinion as to the subject matter of the pamphlet, which lies right beyond our scope, but this .writer ventures the opinion that any man who ventures into print on religious matters had better be cautious whilst Father Cleary is "on the job," We imagine his pamphlet will be adopted throughout the Catholic world as a standard work upon the question "with which it deals.