MIXED MARRIAGES.
THE M'CANN CHILDREN, By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, April 23. The Chief Secretary for Ireland (Mr. Birrell) and the police believe that the M'Cann children, with their father, are in the United States. On February S, in the Hou;-e of Commons, a debate took place en the subject of mixed marriages in Ireland, in the course of which Mr. J. H. Campbell, member for Dublin University, referring to the V atican degree "No Teinere," declared Mrs. M'Cann, a Presbyterian, married to a Roman Catholic, stated that her children were taken away, and her husband lett her, after saying that unless she was married again in a Roman Catholic chapel she would . not bo allowed to see her babies. Mr. Birrell agreed that the circumstances of the M'Cann case were distressing, but held that they should not have been mixed up with politics. With the "No Temere" decree of the. Pope he had nothing to do; Mrs. M'Cann was the lawful wife of Mr. M'Cann, and was entitled to every legal right appertaining to her status as a rcarried woman. It was a cruel act on the part of the husband to deprive Mrs. M'Cann of her children, but she- should have sought redress in a civil court.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1115, 1 May 1911, Page 5
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