THE MARRIAGE SACRAMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19406, 16 February 1925, Page 8

THE MARRIAGE SACRAMENT

DIVORCE BILL REJECTED. , NORTH AND SOUTH IRELAND ’ DIVIDED. PnU Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, Eebruary 13. The Dail Eireaim’s divisionlcss rejection of the Divorce BUI was duo to the preponderance of Catholic members. The critics adopted the slogan, “The women always pays,” pointing out that a wealthy husband can depart and establish a domicile abroad and obtain a divorce. The ■woman cannot establish a domicile abroad ■without the husband’s .consent, The Irish Times emphasises the fact that the decision means stark divorce between north and south Ireland.—Sydney Sun Cable. a . The Dail Eireann debated divorce in the Free State on a motion by Mr Cosgrave to instruct the Standing Orders Committee to set up rules which would debar divorce a vincula matrimonio. Mr Cosgrave said that the majority of southern Irishmen held that the marriage sacrament could not bo dissolved, and any attempt to legalise divorce would strike at the root of Irish social life. Professor Thrift urged that the motion was not fair to the Protestant minority. It would be a further barrier against re-union with northern Ireland. The motion was carried.