The San Francisco call., 1896-02-25

places the con- JugaI union In tie hands OF the
| church, the sole dispenser OF things sacred. -
| Marriage, 211.
1.-THE secular power has no right over what
| is given in marriage" Marriage being chiefly
| thority over its essence and its fundamental
| properties. "Incompetency of the civil power
| is still more manifest if we consider that mar
| riage is Observation-Disclosures, 22S.
"Peter C.. Yorke i'll the Monitor said edi-
torally of Mrs. Slattery that she was Slattery's
| substitute for wife.''-Monitor.
'She binds, she looses the contracting wills.
| Their consent cannot unite them if she PRE-
| vents it. There are no further obstacles the
| moment she shall speak. Where the tie is
| doubtful she alone has the right 10 pronounce
| on its validity. If she decides that all is done
| WELL they must remain united They are free
If she says It is i'll done Marriage, 104.
| "Canon II of the Council of Trent session
| "a. 'Si quis dixerit ecclesiam non potu1sse
| constituere inpedimenta matrimonium dlri-
ema SIT. If any one shall say that the church
| cannot establish impediments annulling mat
rimony, or that she has erred in establishing
| them, let him be Marriage, 105.
''The church OF her own authority-tnat is
| to say, independently of any civil power or
! magistrate, but only by virtue of the power
| she received from the Divine Founder-can en-
act laws concerning Christian marriages. regu-
| lating their contract and affecting their law
fulness ana validity which no other laws can
| do by whatever magistrate or authority they
may be enacted, unless approved and sane
| toned by the same. .'-Amat 21.
''The church of God never ceased to lncul-
| ETC." Amat. %.
"The church respects the civil laws and even
| enforces them whenever they are not In OPPOSE
| tion to those OF God and of her own; but IN
| case of any opposition between the laws OF the
| church and those of the prince or the states;
| those of the church would stand as TO me
| validity or invalidity of the marriage contract
| before God, whatever might be the opinion ana
| judgment OF men to the contrary" etc
Amat. 21.
'.The church has always judged upon matri.
| mony without any regard TO the civil laws OF
the country in which they had been con-
| tracted. ."-Amat. %.
| "The church has never nor shall ever, recog-
| nize the validity of matrimony contracted IN
virtue of a divorce from previous marriage
| validly contracted. She rather looks always
| upon it as an adulterous union according 70
that of our Lord. ."-Amat 90
'In the catechism of DR.. Butler and Miner
| we find: Q.-'Can the bond or tie of marriage
| be ever broken? Alt never can but by the
| death of the husband or wife All Catholics
OF all nations. are bound TO defend the tenn
| poral rights of the church. Plus AZ.
! al mean to assert that the temporal rights OF
the. Holy See are most intimately connected
with our dearest and our most sacred
religious, social and political rights. Plus II.
! The Roman people, had they so desired,
| had NO right TO transfer by their suffrage the
Patrimony OF st. Peter 10 Victor Emmanuel. y
! Gibbons 10
"The second Lateran council held in Rome.
| 1883, under Pope Innocent XI, attended oy
| 1000 Bishops, condemned the opinions OF
Albigenses and the heresies of Peter de Bruys
| and Arnold BresCia, and suppressed the Sch1sm
| OF Peter Leo."-Catholic Belief, 127.
"The first Council of Lyons, 1245. under
| Pope Innocent ", excommunicated Frederick
II, Emperor of Germany, and deposed him. y
| Catholic Belief, 12S.
| the matrimonial contract is sacrament: is
one and indissoluble; its administration is
confined to the pastors of the church, who
| alone OF their own authority can establish laws
| regulating the same and affecting its validity
and iawfulness, which all Christians are bound
| to observe, as we have heretofore proved.'-
| Amat. %.
"Of the nine impediments which rende-
marriage null and void the ninth is candes
| tine performance of marriage" Second Solemn
Vow OF Chastity, Cateehism of Perseverance, %.
| "Nor can any Chr istian at any time under any
pretext whatever apply to any civil magistrate
| or any court Whatever for a divorce
| of a marriage validly contracted for the
purpose of marrying another or avail himself of
a divorce previously obtained to get married
esists in NJ this resnect o WEB az
has been contracted by two infdels, or unbap-
| tized persons, end one of them after marriage
| embraces the Christian faith, if the unbeliever
abandons him will not live peacably with
| the new convert, this remains free from the
first tie and can get married to another"
The tribunal o. the Inquisition is composed o
a supreme chief, who is called the grand inquis-
itor, and is always either an Archbishop or
Bishop, and of eight ecclesiastical counselors,
six OF whom must be of the Dominican order,
by virtue OF q privilege which was granted by
King Phillip III-Inquisition 49,
"H the accused be declared hereto the tri-
| bunal, after having pronounced sente ce of
confscation, hands him over to the secular
| power for legal punishment. etc. II the proofs
are not irresistible, if the culprits are not
obstinately attached 10 heretical doctrines
| they merely required TO abjure them.
A certain family stain and civil dis
| qualification whereby he can hold no Office
under the Government are the result, etc. Let
| human legislators, in enacting laws concern
inc. marriage, be careful not to extend their
| legislative power beyond the civil power
| confided to their care; directing we'll
according to the rights OF eternal
| justice, the effects resulting from the
| matrimonial contract, inasmuch they may
| affect civil order or the order of society, and
leave sacred and untouched the matrimonial
! contract itself as an institution OF God and
their laws will be by all respected But if they
| go beyond that their laws shall command
neither respect nor esteem. not even obedi-
| ence, whenever people will be able to eYade
them."-Matrimony, by Amat, Monterey.
| ''Pope Nicholas say: 'Civiles imperatorem
| leges nullum posse praejudicium inferre evan
| geicis, apostolicic atque canoniceis decretis' -
the laws of emperors can in no way preiu-
| die the evangelical, apostolical and canonical
! laws. Marriage, 204.
| "The secular power has, then, nothing to
| look after when man is giving himself in
marriage; it has nothing to look after, either,
! in what he does when giving himself. =
| Let the profane keep far from here. Mar
riage, SO.
For weighty reasons ecclesiastical authority
sometimes allows the parties TO separate, and
| not to live together; but the marriage ALWAYS
subsist before God and the church, even when
the civil authorities grant divorce accord
| ing to the law To marry again after separa-
! tion, and live together in that way, is to live
| in a state of perpetual sin.
Religious Instruction page 379:
| "Will it be said that the church in affirming
| her rights does not exclude that of princes?
| This would be to misunderstood her constant
| doctrine both on the pre-eminence of her leg
| isation and on the very essence of marriage"
| Marriage 2O4.
| Catholic Education-A lecture delivered in
St. Peters Church, Barclay street, New York
| on Thursday evening May o. 1872 by Father
| Burke. He says: "The Catholic church insist.
| in the teeth of the world ana in
! spite of the worlds pride and Ignorance
and bloated self-sufficiency-the Catholic
church insists, as she has insisted for eighteen
| hundred and seventy-two years, on saying: Il
know how TO teach; you don't. You must
come to me-; you cannot live without me-
| Don't imagine you can live by yourselves, or
| yol will fall back into the slough of your own
| lmpur1ty and corruption"
The world does not like to hear this The
Catholic church insists that she alone under
stands what education means; the world does
| not like to hear that. But came here Tonight
| to prove 1T.
| The speaker continues:
| There is more to read to you from the publi-
| cations OF the Catholic church-of the church
| that claims to be of Jesus Christ; that claims
| TO be neutrality-suspicious. most appalling
| showing the murder of st. Bartholomew n2
other terrible crimes for which Rome is d;raotI.,