Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-16
men:ignor Lueey
 on Marriage
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 +bo Catholic church is in Rome, it does not follow that the church is for eien everywhere else. There are in- +ornational societies and commercial oroanizations whose headquarters are in London or Paris or some other Eu- ronean city and whose business car ries their agents and their work into the United States and no one accuses them of their foreign power. The more money that the foreign insur- ance companies bring into the United States the more popular they become. Every intelligent person knows that the principles and policy which gov ern local business is regulated al- most exclusively by local agents. It is simply local people enriched by foreign capital doing business in To- cal style.
 This is what happens in regard to the polity of the Roman Catholic church. The marriage laws which come from Rome with the seal of the authority of the head of the church upon them, are laws which originated in the Councils of the Bish- ops of the United States held in Bal timore and which were sent to Rome with petition that they be approved. As rule the pope tones down sever- s{tg and enlarges charity in such en- Ftments. But whatever. may be N leir merits, the bishops of the Unit bd States should receive the credit or the blame and Rome should be hon. bred for allowing the riches of her wisdom to be added thereto
 "The bishops of the Catholi 2 church in the United States, number ng about 100, have been taken from the ranks of the clergy who have Berved from ten years and upwards successful missionary work. They Pught to know the wants of the peo- pie and the needs of the times and if heir advice was followed, there would bot be so many unhappy marriages. This talk of foreign domination is nere claptrap, especially in view of ne fact that at this very moment all ne civilized nations of the world are assembled at The Hague for the ery purpose of establishing an in- ernatlonal tribunal of arbitration nat will have it's seat at The Hague lno therefore be foreign to all na- ions
 II the laws of the church about marriage were observed, the few di- orces in which Catholics are con- efned would become fewer and be- come practically separations from ed and board without a dissolution
 the bond of marriage One law that Catholics should not get mar aeo by ministers of another church no cannot we'll be familiar with the 4ws that bind the conscience of Cath 'lcS. Tn some such cases the marri ee IS null and void, the couple lives adultery and the children are il- 'eltlmate. The same misfortune ouio occur if a priest should marry 'ne parties without taking certain ecauClons. In many cases the mar aee or a Catholic and non- Catholic protestant or other outside min 'ef IS valid, though illicit. But so uoh confusion, complication and dis M nave arsen from the indiffer- n ol outside ministry towards the
 mat bind Catholics, that the ,fen' in the new regulations that
 so into effect on Easter Sunday, '' VIII require all marriages of llollcs to be made by ministers of IT own church.
 me Catholic ministry does not Nure n m the affairs of other church
 lit church forbids her ministry
 A'oidte at the marriage or funeral
 person who is not a member of
 snufcn except in case of an ex-
 ~ndry circumstance or extreme
 sssi'y where no one else could be
 :. M 'o perform the ceremony. Ne
 Has no law and charity is the
 eieat principle on which the
 s''an M religion is founded. A Cath
 p'''s' IS required above all thing