The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-04-08
Ne TEMERE DECREE
DISCUSSED BY PEERS
Half-Penny Papers Catch at Any
thing That Will Stir up
Animosity.
Discussion of Decree Resulting in
Talk of British Representa-
tive to Vatican.
Father Bernard Vauehan's Lenten
Sermons Attracting London
Smart Set.

The Ne Temere decree has figured
very largely in the public eye and
there is reason to hope that out of this
evil of prejudice and mistaken or per-
Vcrted zeal will come Il good which
the instiSatorS Of the affair never
dreamed Of. Lord Donoughmore, an
Irish peer who attended Il vocifcrous
meeting of the Evangelical Alliance,
which passed resolutions cUndcmning
the dcc"ee and saying it WAS induce
mcnt to immortality. bronchcu the
same subject in the House Of Lords
and started Il discussion which lasted
for several hours, says the London
correspondent of the Catholic Union
and Times. His Lordship seemed to
wish to create the impression that the
passing OF the decree was a move on
the part of the Vatican to direct con-
1lict with the civil law, but why the
Vatican should do so iniudicious a
thing was not apparent. Several
lords followed, the marquis of London-
derry being most unhappy about the
insecurity of feeling aroused in Ire
land by the case according to his in
formants while Lord Kinnaird said
darkly that the whole thing wanted
thorough investigation, Though he
didn't appear to heu" Mccain, when
the Earl of Liverpool suggested mildly
that the husband should not be con-
demned without Il hearing. The Risl-
op Of Liverpool seemed principally con-
ccrned with the fact that what might
be termed "prcrercntial treatment" had
been given to Germany by the Holy
See, and said what WAS good enough
Tor Germany was good enough for us.
En passant, this is not the idea OF the
half-prnny papers who are forever try
ing to stir up animOsity between the
two peoples. The Duke of Norfolk sug-
gcsted that the difficulty raised by the
decree was one which needed discus
sion removed from the bitterness and
bigotry on both sides. Viscount Hall
fax, leader of the English High Church
party, seized the opportunity to sug-
Ecst that the whole marriage law of
the three Kingdoms needed amendment.
Lo.d Crcwe, in replying for the gov
crnnent, said he was not at all sntis-
fled that the facts OF the Mccain case
that the woman had not met with JUS
tice, since Lord Aberdeen, being q
Presbyterian himself would certainly
not be prcjudiccd against her. The
leader of the Upper House added that
he could not say at present whether
the difficulty and similar ones which
might a:ise would be met in the only
possible way, viz by a British repre-
sentative to the court Of the Vatican,
and he added, with Il smile that the
two lords who had just spoken C<in-
naird and Donoughmorc) would prob
ably find the remedy less to their lik
ing than the disease. Nevertheless the
matter of such Il representation is re-
ceiving attention. 1t must be -cmcm-
bercd that Great Britain is almost iso-
lated in being unreprescnted at the
Vatican even amongst professcdly
Protestant countries. Also even Lord
Donoughmorc with all his prcjudiccs
paid an Involuntary tribute to the rea-
sonablcncss Of the Catholic authorities,
70: he said that the Archbishop Of
! Westminster was always ready to cor
respond on any matter. and must sure
ly look upon the secretary for war as
an intolcrallc nuisance, so often was
that faithful official Obliged to APP
proach his Grace. But, q, the bitter
tears that will be wept by Protestant
cvangclicals if the Mccain strategy
only results in an English ambassador
to the Vatican:
| It is very seldom that a Catholic
preachers name figures in the Court
Circular, but society at large is so en-
amored Of Father Bernard Vaughan,
the well-known Jesuit preacher, that
the announcement he was preparing g.
course of Lenten sermons on the
Lords Prayer to be given at Farm
Street on the Sundays from now till