The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-05-02

4 Trent puts IT, "merlted by his passion
| grace which might perfect that natural
! love and confirm that indissoluble union
and sanctify the married as St. Paul in
| Inmates saying: Husbands love your
wives as Christ loved the church and de-
| livered himself for IT," adding shortly af-
| ter; This is "A great sacrament but
| speak I'm Christ and In the church"
For all who claim TO be Christians this
union OF Christ with the church must bc
the type and model of the bond subsist-
ing between husband and wife. Christ
is the head OF the church: the man is the
head of the woman: she is 10 obey him,
not az servant. but as n compan
Christ's union with his church is unbrok-
en- and inviolable. In like manner the
union beween husband and wife IN ire
vocable aud indissoluble. No cause what
ever can Justify and no human power,
civil or ecclesiastical can authorize the
breaking OF valid marriage complteded
between vshristians.
Hence the Catholic church knowing
herself 10 be the true and sole church
of Christ, and the appointed custodian n
Of his doctrine. has always and every
where proclaimed the insolubility OF
the sacred marriage tie. She has never
granted and she never will grant a di-
vorce, strictly so-called. She does not
claim any such power. as she believes
sense), 60 be I'm opposition to the law OF
God What God hath Joined together, let
no man put asunder.
"A divorced man or n divorced woman
Is not permitted 10 enter second mar
riage during the life ~ his or her former
partner IL IL true the Catolic church has
declared marriages invalid but only such
marriages as were null and void from the
beginning.
NOT A GRANTING OF DIVORCE.
This is not granting a divorce or
breaqing marriage bonds, but merely an
Official declaration that "a certain mar
riage on account OF invaldatins causes
never was real marriage. The church
also permits occasionally for grave rea-
sons separation from bed and board AL
lowing the innocent party to live separ-
ately; but the marriage bond remains
firm and neither party can marry again
during the lifetime OF the other.
mo matter what crime Christian
man or woman may commit Il does not
break or entitlc TO break the marriage
bond. ] know that our separated breth-
rem point To st. Matthew / las Justify
ing real divorce I'm the ease OF conju-
gal infdellty but the Catholic church
explains that that text in conjunction
with other passages of the New Testa-
ment in the sense that the offended con
sort may obtain separation from bed
and board, never dissolution OF mar
riage The preVarca ton OF wife who
violates her plighted faith is no more a
cause for divorce than the crime or an
husband. In this interpreta-
tion OF our redeemers word the church
is backed up by the testimony of the
whole Christian antiquity.
"Slnce The days of the apostle she has
never swerVed from this uniimching
doctrine. Ncs, since the days of the
apostles when the council Of Jerusalem
condemned loose and free love. and ST
Paul accommodated the Corinthians
for the crime OF incest the church has
defended the sanctity Of marriage
against the agnostice Manichaeans and
communists OF our own
times She smotc with anathcma the i'm I
furious doctrine OF divorce and rcpudla-
ton; she condemned the dissolution Of I
practccd by the Greeks, she 4
rejected Che perniclous teaching that /
nupiials could be contracted under con. /