BONDS OF MATRIMONY

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 7 June 1935, Page 8

BONDS OF MATRIMONY

Causes for Dissolution Should be Severely Limited CHURCH OF ENGLAND REPORT CONVOCATION AGREEMENT (United Pre*s Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). Received 2 p.m. to-day. LONDON, June 6. “Marriage is for life and, although provision for dissolving the legal bond is inevitable, there cannot be a right to a second marriage in the church within the lifetime of the former member,” says a majority report of tlio joint committee of the Church of England Convocations of the Houses of York and Canterbury after four years of discussions. The report emphasises, that the grounds for dissolving marriage ought to be severely limited in secular legislation and protests against the possibility of arranging for divorce by inferred misconduct. The report expresses the opinion that additional causes for nullity of marriage should include certain abnormalities, diseases and the eoncea - ment of hereditary mental and physical disorder. The Convocation of Canterbury accepted the report on January IS last, Bishop Barnes dissenting. He and others submitted a minority report declaring that they were not convinced that one whose first marriage was blighted should be condemned to celibacy.