CATHOLIC LAWYERS
ATTITUDE TOWARDS DIVORCE ADVICE FROM SYDNEY PRIEST Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, February 16. Preaching in St. Mary’s Cathedral to-day at a red mass, marking the opening of the 1937 law term. Father P. J. Murphy observed that there was an obligation upon Catholic members of the legal profession to refuse “to have a hand, act, or take part ’’ in divorce proceedings. “As Catholics,’ 5 he continued, “ you cannot countenance anything so vile as marriage being considered merely a private contract between a man and a woman which can be dissolved if the law thinks it well. Do not tell me you are refusing good fees and losing clients. The law is not a livelihood; it is-a profession you follow to enable your fellow men to resist an oppressor. Surely you cannot hold with the contention that an Act of Parliament can directly deny the positive teaching of Christ or that it can take holiness out of a marital contract and make it what the irreligious teach and desire, merely-a traffic in chattels.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22575, 17 February 1937, Page 10
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175CATHOLIC LAWYERS Evening Star, Issue 22575, 17 February 1937, Page 10
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