The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-17
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Universal
"This is
the victory
which over.
OOneth the
w9rld-..Onr
faith"

members or her doctrine of marriage
are concerned. Her position is per-
fectly plain. Teaching that matrimony
is one of the seven sacraments of the
church, she holds that this sacrament
can only be administered or solemnized
| by a Roman Catholic minister and
that it cannot be administered to an
unbaptized person. We understand
also her theological and ecclesiastical
reasons for Withholding her sacrament
of marriage from 'unbelievers. 1t is
only where the Roman church attempts
/ to interfere with the action or coerce
the conscience of the members of other
Christian bodies, and more particularly
those of our own church in this ques-
ton of mixed marriages between Cath
olics and nom Catholics that we feel
called upon to protest"
Bishop Satterlee appears to think
! that the Catholic church should not OBJ
iect so strenuously when the other par
/ t. is an Episcopalian. Well, all
Protestants look alike to US. They are
IN protest against the church of Christ.
They are not with US, hence they are
against US. They may hold more
Catholic doctrine, but being guilty of
heresy at all, they are in opposition to
the church Christ established.
The interference referred to by
Bishop Satterlee is set forth in the Ro-
man Catholic service for mixed mar
riages.'' Cd She insists that the mar
riage shall be solemniZed by Roman
Catholic priest and none other. {2)
She only consents that the said priest
shall officiate, on condition that there
shall be no supplemental religious mar
riage service either preceding or fol-
lowing her prescribed service for
y0A ,.1,-
forbids that such mixed marriage
shall be solemniZed in any one of her
churches or chapels; she forbids the
officiating priest to use any sacred
vestments; she forbids him to utter
single prayer; she forbids him to pro-
nounce any blessing upon the marriage.
She also insists that the children of
both sexes who may be born to the
married couple shall be reared Catho-
lies.
The Roman Catholic reasons for in
sisting upon great care in the grant of
for mixed marriages
are set forth in an interview with a
member of the Jesuit order in New
He expressed himself opposed to such /
marriages on utilitarian rather than &c
grounds. He says:
'Of all that / have performed, say
from thirty to thirty-five. have not |
known more than two to have happy
results. Two people have hard enough |
time to get along together all their |
lives without the added burden of reii- /
gious differences. Most decidedly we |
set our faces against them; we do not |
prohibit them absolutely. but we make !
1t as difficult as possible"
The same man declared that hiI |
Sc - A., ,;or~
mot from any antagon.sm to Protest I
ants, but wholly on account of the
miserable results which have come in
he experience of every priest. This
sentiment is not growing; 1t has always
0een the same. and the laws whieh
govern such cases have come down
rom time immemorial and are quite
adequate to present needs 1t is not
80 much a question of regulations as
# the discretion of the spiritual father
If the party concerned. One thing
lbout which I would like to be EN-
)hatic is in contradicting The common
lotion that the church regards the tie;
# such marriages lightly. Once made,
t is as irrevocable as any other mar
iage."
Should a marriage between a CATH
lie and a baptized pc sen take place
'efore a Justice of the peace, or even
'efore a minister, thu marriage woulo
e valid and is so he'd by the Catholic
hureh. The marriage of a Catholis
efore justice is Illicit. and the mar
iage before a minister entails eN-
for tie Catholic party
ut both are valid when each of tha
parties is 4 baptized per-
on.
The church is both wise ana kind
nd in her wisdom a0d kiOdOacc f0r- |
ids and seeks to prevent mixed mar
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