CHURCH REPORT

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1935, Page 6

CHURCH REPORT

ON MARRIAGE PROBLEMS

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(Received t-Jiis day at 2.45 p.m.) LONDON, June 0,

“Marriage is fer life, and although a provision for dissolving the legal bond is inevitable, there cannot be the right to a second iualTiage in church, within tile lifetime of a former member,” says the majority report of the Joint Committee of Convocations of Mirk and ’Canterbury) after four years’ discussions.

The report emphasises the jgt'oUhds for dissolving marriage ought to lie severely limited in Secular legislation, and protests against the possibility of svirryiging divorce by interred misconduct.

The report . expresses the opinion that additional causes/for nullity Of a marriage should include certain abnormalities, diseases and concealment of hereditary mental or physical disorder. The convocation of Canterbury accepted the report by IS fo 1, Bjsbop Barnes dissenting. He and others submitted a minority report declaring tjhey were not convinced that one whose Hirst- - marriage was 'blighted should be condemned to celibacy.