THE MARRIAGE BILE
STILL BEING CONSIDERED. The Statutes .Revision Committee of the Legislative Council has not concluded.itg consideration of the Alarriage Amendment Bill, and further evidence will be heard this week. / Referring to Sir Francis Roll's recent utterance, Ithe "New Ztealand Tablet" says:—"Archbishop O'Shea ... explains that Catholic marriage laws .in no way intorfcre with the civil law. The Catholic Church, roganMng marriage as a sacrament of the New Law, vindicates her right to legislate concerning the conditions for the valid reception of the sacrament, Without in any way presuming' to interfere with State regulations concerning the civil recognition of the validity of .matrimony contracted: in accordance with corditions required by the law of tho laud."
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10669, 16 August 1920, Page 3
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