The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-08-27
fessiOnal and schools.

gard to Protestant marriages, or
even Catholic marriages when mar
ried by a Protestant minister, is an
insult to every one of the S0,000,000
Protestants in the United States and
should be resented with all the force
that righteous Indignation can COM
mand.
That insolent hierarchy openly
takes the position that the marriages
Of Pr0testants, or Catholics by Pro-
testant preachers, is common adul-
terry and the children Of such mar
riages are Nightmares.
Pope Plus TX. is modest enough
to call it Filthy concubinage, but
his toe kissing priest, Timothy Cor
bett, Of Duluth, Mimi, goes his chief
enc better when, on Dec. 10th, 1898,
he said: "YOu Catholics ought to
be proud Of your women, because
you are the only people in the world
who have virtuous wives; there are
none yirtuous in the Protestant
churches"
Such expressions as these are
based upon fundamental laws Of Ro-
man Catholicism. The Council Of
Trent expressly decrcod: ''Thoy who
shall try to contract matrimOny
otherwise than in the presence Of
the parish priest, or some other
priest, or some other priest by his
permission, Or by the license Of the
ordinary in the presence of two or
three witnesses. shall fail and the
I0Iy synod renders thcm utterly in
capable Of contracting it; and de-
crces such contracts void and null"
To make the matter still palmer,
it is claimed that if Catholics marry
before a Protestant preacher or civil
magistrate, such marriage is void.
quote from Den8, who is competent
authority. He says: whether mat
rimony between two Catholics, in the
united provinces Of Belgium, con-
tracted without the presence of a
priest, who can be easily obtained,
in the presence Of a magistrate
or nOn-Catholic minister is valid"
Answer Negatively; because the
doctors are unanimous that the claw
Of the Council Of Trent is there suffi
GENTLY received in the Catholic com
mUnity Catholics, indeed, are there
compelled to contract marriage be-
fore a magistrate or nOn-CathOlic
minister otherwise their marriages
in civil matters are not Waldo but
the matrimonial contract before
these is not valid but, afterwards,
in the presence Of the priest, they
are compelled to be married anew,
and rites Of the church prescribed
by the Council Of Trent being OBJ
served and then the marriage is
proncrly valid" Ode Martr, No.
113D All of which is to teach that
in countries where the law require
marriages to be sOlemnizod before
nCn-CathOlics or civil magistrates, it
is lawful for Catholics to be married
by them, but they must go at once
and be rg-married by the priest.
Now, let us come to the. Catholic
Mission Book, turn to pages 461 and
4G2 and see what it has to teach US
alone the same line. We read,
"MiXod marriages are forbidden, viz,
the union Of Catholic with heretics
lor Protestants) and persons eXCom-
municated by tho church. This pro-
hibition is founded upon reasons Of
the highest Importance. In the first
place, there is always something re-
puguant and unnatural in these I'M
ions. Bear not the yoke with un-
believers" says the Apostle Paul to
the Corinthians. "What fellowship
hath light with darkness? or what
part hath the faithful with the un-
bcliever?" Such marriages moro
over are unfavorabla to domestic
pe3cC "HOW " asks ST Ambrose