No Remarriages For Partners In Divorce

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27987, 6 June 1956, Page 13

No Remarriages For Partners In Divorce

(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, June 5. There could be no marriage in the Church when one or other of the parties had a partner still living, the Bishop of London, Dr. H. M. Campbell, said last night. Dr. Campbell was attending his first meeting of the London Diocesan Conference since his appointment as Bishop of London. He said it had been a surprise to him that so little had been said about the report of the Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce since it appeared in March, and that no notice had been given on any intention to give effect to any of its proposals. From whatever angle they looked at it they could see nothing but shame in the numbers of divorces sought and obtained in Britain every year.

“The Church has to be firm in her witness to the God-given theory of marriage, an indissoluble union : of one man and one woman,” Dr. Campbell said.

“Therefore we have to stand to our resolution that there can be no remarriage in the Church when one or other of the parties has a partner living.” The "Daily Sketch” said that last month, on the advice of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Dr. G. B.fisher, the upper house of the Convocation of Canterbury re-

moved a clause proposing that ministers should be forbidden from remarrying divorcees.