The sun., 1903-12-07
THE ARCHBISHOP ON DIVORCE
"PUT THE THINGS OF GOD BE-
FORE TIE THINGS or MAN,"
speaks ScOrnfuliy OF Those Who Go Outside
the Church Because No Rich Mar.
riages Can BE Made In Its Ranks-He
WIN Not Oniciate at Mixed Marriages.

Archbishop Farley preached at the solemn
high mass in the Cathedral yesterday morn
ing taking for his text the words of Christ
duke vii. 22l $50 tell John what things
ye have seen and heard; how hat the blind
see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed,
he deaf hear, the dead are raised and TO
the poor the gospel is preached" The
Archbishop described the Catholic Church
as the church Of The poor He went on to
say
Yes, beloved brethren. the Church. and the
morality. so difficult for human nature to
n yf up to Ihe eWs it snn
Even those who profess Christianity rebe
at the word of law, and say this is hard and
The law has decreed. Whom God has Joined
together. let no man put asunder And
there ,t,n are some who because this $, is hard,
but was brought down by God from Heaven.
is hard. The humility, the morality OF the
law is a scandal TO them who bid fair 10 be
scandalized by their own perdition.
And there are others Of the house Of faith
but who speak Of it, with bated breath Peo-
pie are scandalized because the Church has
marriages can be. made for their children in
its ranks This is no secret to YOU, but is
shown to ns every day These are they
scandalize themselves Let us stay close
to the poor if you would have the merit of
Of Goa beors ret b us nrs 9 p1 the hms
of God before the things Of Cesar the things
Of the soul before tho things of The body
Then perhaps this stumbling block will be
removed from our path
As the collect ion was for the Cat hedral
debt Archbishop Farley touched upon this
subject,
1.-The ordinary collect ion does not sup
port the expenses of the Cathedral" he
said. This year there has been debit of
$4,000. The Cathedral was built by every
congregatio ion in the diocese, 1t has been
open twenty-five wears and there is still a
debt of 5000 900 on il although the wealthiest
Catholics of New York have attended here.
This is without parallel in the history of
the atholic Church in New York, and the
reproach should be removed. Look all
over the land, where miracles in stone have
risen without debt from purses and hearts
of the poor. Let us take this lesson 20
heart, and before anot her year shall have
passed wipe out this ncumbrance."
The Bishops allusion to marriages OF
Catholics 20 those NOT OF the faith and his
reference % divorce recalled to many
never to be present at nuptials where one
of the contracting persons ia non Cat holic
Following this rule he abeented himself
from the Vanderbilt Nelson wedding al
to officiate at the marriage Of his friends
son, John D. Crimmins, Jr., to Miss Holmes
although the ceremony took place in the
Holmes residence. directly opposite the
See house. Vicar-General Lavele per-
formed the marriage.
A semi-official bull was issued two
wears ago by Leo XIII. instructing Mgr.
Falconio to call council of the heir
archv, or at the first general meeting
of that body, 20 request them to absent
themselves from all marriage ceremonies
bet ween Catholics and Profestants. The
late Archbishop Corrigan, who had cele-
brated number of these mixed maria ges,
notably that of the present Mrs. Hollis
Hunnewell to Art hur r. Kemp objected
10 the request saving that such marriages
were performed by Bishops universally.
1t was then learned that Archbishop
Ireland of st Paul and Archbishop Williams
of Boston were the only members of
the American hierarchy who had refused
TO officiate at such marriages. Az more
OF these marriages are performed in New
York than in almost anv other large city
in this country Archbishop Farley has
decided 10 mark his dsa approval of them
by refusing to be present, even though
one of the part les be his closest friend
or the most nfluent ial Catholic in his
province.