THE PAPAL MARRIAGE DECREE.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13021, 9 February 1911, Page 2

THE PAPAL MARRIAGE DECREE.

A DUNLIN AYOMAN'S CASE,

MR ISIRRELL ARRAIGNED

(Received Feb 8, 10,10 p.m.)

Lcncton, Feb 8. Tlk» lloih'o of Coniinons contimicd the debate- on the Address-i.n-Reply. ! Mr J. H. M. Campbell (Dublin Univeisity) arraigned Mv Birrell for his inaction in connection \wth the Papal decrt-o, and evcii refus-inp; to intervene in the ease* of J\lrs iMcOann, whoso cliildrcii worn"taken .away from her because she refused to he married in the Unman Catholic Church wnon a priest alleged that her ott'spring were illi^itwnatf. Mr Uirrcll paid, the JlcCarm case wits a distixsf-iiijj; ovu', unit the wife's led'i'css was through the civil court. 'I'll;' J'resbyterian ministers wore less interested in the wonr.in than in using her .Cia«e as an exaiii]>le of what would 'liappen when Ireland secured Homo llv.h. _ A vituperative debate followed between the Irish Unionists and the Nationalists, the latter stating that Mrs jMcC'a.nii had a temper, which was the, cause of her husband hiding the children.