THE MARRIAGE LAW.
, "NE TEMERE" DECREE.
i| archbishop EMPHATIC-
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J \ Adelaide, January 29. Thk Roman Catholic Archbishop of Ade- •• (Dr. O'Reily), in an official stalement concerning the attitude of the Roman ■ ."-^ c l^' 1 to the marriage law, says a Church looks upon divorce from whatever cause as absolutely unlawful. Mark' them is essentially acred, i * Clv 'l l ftw nullified many of the laws ojvths lio man Catholic Church, and aimed the right to nullify the contract 0 ®'age. Ihe power over the sacrarowt of marriage she held was inalienably ir ovm. The "Ne Temere " decree was merely an assertion of the right which the man Catholic Church bad always claimed..
A Ronun Catholic must be married in ab presence of the priest, otherwise it w.aa DO marriage before God. The Archistop condemned mixed marriages, and *?; ''' 'be man were not a Roman Cathie, the children must be brought up as wman Catholics.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15520, 30 January 1914, Page 7
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157THE MARRIAGE LAW. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15520, 30 January 1914, Page 7
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