The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-09-21

certain. to assist at marriages within
the limits of their district.
The delegated priest. IN order to as
,sist validity and licitly. is bound to OBJ
serve the limits Of his mandate and
the rules laid down above in w. and
", for the parish priest and the or
binary of the place.
VII. When danger Of death is inn
minent and where the parish priest or
the ordinary Of the place or priest
delegated by eithes of these cannot be
Of conscience and (should the case re-
Quire it, for the legitimation of off,
spring, marriage may be contracted
validity and licitly before any priest
and two witnesses
VIII, Should it happen that in any
district the parish priest or the or
mary Of the place or a priest dele
gated by either of them, before whom
marriage can be celebrated, is not to
be had, and that this condition of
things has lasted for month, mar.
riage may be validity and licitly en-
tered upon by the formal declaration
Of consent made by the spouses in the
presence of two witnesses.
, TX. l. After the celebration Of
marriage the parish priest or he who
"a = &c ~1o l.
the book Of marriages the names Of
the couple and of the witnesses, the
place and day Of the celebration of the
marriage. and the other details, ac-
cording to the method prescribed in
the ritual books or by the ordinary;
and this even when another priest
delegated, either by the parish priest
himself or by the ordinary has assisted
At the marriage
2. Moreover, the parish priest is to
note also in the book Of baptisms that
the married person contracted mar
riage on such a day in his parish. If
the married person has been baptized
elsewhere the parish priest who has
assisted at the marriage is to trans
NIT. either directly or through the
episcopal curia the announcement of
the marriage that has taken place, to
the parish priest of the place where
the person was baptized, in order that
the marriage may be inscribed in the
book Of baptisms
8. Whenever a marriage is con-
tracted in the manner described in
VII. and VIII. the priest in the former
case. the witnesses in the latter are
bound .conjointly with the contracting
I parties to provide that the marriage
be inscribed as soon as possible in the
prescribed books
X. Parish priests who violate the
rules thus far laid down are to be
punished by their ordinaries accord
:. ing TO the nature and gravity Of their
L transgression. Moreover, if they as
sist at the marriage of anybody in
violation of the rules laid down in
and of No. ", they are not to appro
rate the stole-fees. but must remit
them to the parish priest Of the con-
> tracing parties.
XII. 1. The above laws are binding
on all persons baptized in the Catholic
Church and on those who have been
converted to 1t from heresy or schism
(even when either the latter or the
FORMER have fallen away afterwards
from the Church) whenever thew CON-
tract sponsalia or marriage with one
another.
2. The same lesss are binding also
on the same Catholics as above. If thew
contract sponsalia or marriage with
non Catholics. baptized or unbaptized
even after dispensation has been OBJ
tatned from the impeachment mixta re-
ligionis or disparitatis cultus; unless
the Holy See decree otherwise for
some particular place or region.
20. Non Catholics, whether baptized
Or unbaptized, who contract among
themselves are nowhere bound to oh
serve the Catholic form of sponsalia
or.marriage
The present decree is to be held as
!egitimately published and promuleat-
d by Its transmission to the ordi-
Eharies, and it's provisions begin to
have the force Of law from the solemn
feast Of the Resurrection of Our Lord
Jesus Christ. next year. 1908.
Meanwhile: let all the ordinaries Of
places see that this decree be made
public as soon as possible, and ex-
planned In the different parochial
churches Of their dioceses in order tina,
y may be known by ALL
These presents are to have fore. nv
the special order of our Most Ho,v
Father Pope Plus X, all things to the
contrary. even those worthy Of specia,
mention n thu ooptror,,