RELIGION COUNTS
Free State Judge’s Sentences r London, February 3. The “Manchester Guardian’s” Dublin correspondent says that Mr. Justice Walsh, when trying cases of illicit whisky distilling in Donegal, where the practice is rife, ascertains the accused’s religion. If it is Roman Catholic, he imposes a sterner sentence on the grounds that the accused violated both civil law and the Church’s commandment, as the Roman Catholic bishops recently condemned illicit distilling Mr. Justice Walsh, who is himself a Roman Catholic, holds that the notion that the law courts are concerned only with a man’s civic and not religious duty Is the unfortunate result of the British regime’s secularism and must be corrected now that the Free State is essentially Catholic.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 112, 5 February 1935, Page 9
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120RELIGION COUNTS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 112, 5 February 1935, Page 9
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