The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-25
Issued by the Plenary Council
Of Baltimore. .
JAY GOULD ON THE STRIKES.
oueen Victoria Receives Scare-Er-
roneOus observation-disclosures
Quarrel-Other Notes.
Those DEGREES.

| BALTIMORE, March 24.-The DEGREES
enacted by the Plenary Council held in
this city in November, 1884, which were
sent to Rome for approval, and re.
turned several months age, were given
to few persons to-day in printed
form. They extend over 400 pages, and
are in Latin.
! The american will tomorrow publish
an extended summary OF them. The
opening decree is on faith, fol-
| lowed by DEGREES on ecclesiastical
persons, divine worship, the sacra-
ment, the education of the clergy, the
instruction Of Catholic youths, Chris
tan doctrine, zeal for souls, church
property, ecclesiastical courts and &C.
clesiastical tribunals. There is a pre-
fatory exhorting all to faithfully OBJ
serveWthe enactments of the second
Plenary Council of Baltimore and
the final title regarding the pro.
mitigation and publication of these
DEGREES. Some of the regulations
are very eloquent in expressions on the
dignity of the clergy; sanctity and sci
ence are the objects of labor and this is
to insure them lasting influence over
the focks entrusted to their care. 1t
is recommended that special
house in charge of some reli-
gious order should be erected
for the reception of priests who have
been suspended for serious faults
yet give hopes of correcting their
vicious inclinations. Special attention
is to be paid to the music adopted in
church, TO add solemnity to the sacred
services. One OF the most important
DEGREES is that concerning matri-
mony. 1t holds that. since mar
riage was raised to the dignity OF a
sacrament, it belongs solely to the
church, to whom the administration
OF sacraments was entrusted to pass
judgment on the val;dy OF the rights
and obligation OF marriage. No legal
divorce has the slightest power before
God to loose the bond of marriage and
make subsequent one valid. Adultery,
though it may justify separation
from bed and board" cannot
loose the marriage tie, so
that either OF the parties may marry
again. Though the church sometimes
permits marriage OF Catholic with nom
Catholic, she never does so without the
deepest regret and with the explicit
understanding that the children of
those parties must be brought up in
the Catholic faith. The council orders
that within two years from the promul-
cation of these DEGREES, a parochial school
must be erected and started near each
church, unless the Bishop for grave rea-
sons, should defer for time the build
ing of such school. The 5000 900 colored
people are subject OF vigorous plea for
help from all those who would place
this important element of the future
in place to act for the
veal of this republic, The In
dian tribes have also been considered
and arrangements have been made for
a special yearly collection to be taken
up in all the churches throughout the
country to help in promoting Catholic
ity among the colored people and In
dian tribes. Societies which are secret,
as the church understands this term,
such as Masonic lodges and
other similar fraternities, are not
to be joined by Catholics. The
council directs the pastor TO have in
every church free space, and admon-
ishes them from humiliating people in
public if they do not exactly keep
within limits of that space. The sale of
intoxicating liquors, will not be allowed
in any case. Fairs also are not to be
held without special permit from the
Bishop and not on Sundays. and no.
Intoxicating liquors can be sold by
them. Slippers and dinners, social
parties and balls given at night, for the
purpose of raising money, are prohibit
ted.