THE NE TEMERE DECREE

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5970, 17 August 1912, Page 3

THE NE TEMERE DECREE

AN APPEAL TO'PA'ftTJAMBNT. FROM THE CHRISTCHURCH PRESBYT.ERY. WELLINGTON, August I.'). A petition was presented yesterday afternoon by Mr Davey, on behalf ol the Christcnurch Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand, praying tho House to give due consideration to the Nc Teme.e decree issued by the Vatican, and ta! e such steps as are needed to guard the civil rights a ud social interests ~i those adversely affected by this decire. The petitioners set forth at h-r,j-.lh the 1 manner in-which the Church of Rome seeks to cast reprobation on certain marriages, and claims to r.-gulate the conditions determining the validity- o: marriages solemnised in ac-'ordance '■■ with our New Zealand law, dei-'arine many such marriages entered into and legally contracted t 0 be no ma. ri.;g>s i at all, the contracting pa , hold up to reprobation as livusin.