CHURCH AND WEDLOCK
GUARD AGAINST LAXITY. QUESTIONS TO APPLICANTS. London, Jan. 6. A movement for the tightening up of the practices of the Church of England with regard to marriages has been initiated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Lang. He states that owing to the increasing public laxity pastors should be careful in accepting notices for banns. Dr. Lang has authorised the diocesan use of a list of questions to be submitted to parties requesting the publication of banns. He does not desire the solemnisation by the church of the marriage of a divoAed person whose husband or wife is still alive, nor of a person purposing to marry within the Prayer book’s prohibited degrees of kindred, nor of any unbaptised persons. Civil marriage is, the archbishop says, available for such cases.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1932, Page 7
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