CATHOLICS AND DIVORCE
LAWYERS’ OBLIGATIONS. [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.J SYDNEY. February 16. Preaching in St. Mary’s Cathedral to-dav at a Mass marking the opening of tlie 1937 law term, the Rev. 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 part” in divorce proceedings. “As Catholics ” he continued, “you cannot countenance anything so vile as marriage being considered as merely a private contract between man and woman, which can be dissolved if the law thinks well. Do not tell me that 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 the 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 the holiness out of the martial contract .and make it what, the irreligious teach and desire —merely ;i traffic in chattels.” he added.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1937, Page 3
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