Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1915-03-03
Rome on MARRIAGE
Like Mahoms'. It's Wraag lor Others 70
Violate Law, but Alright for Them.
R,ME ON MARRIAGE

The Menace
Perhaps none of R mes teach
ings is more arrogan4 or detsstlbi'
to free Americans than those con
cerning marriage. l. Is seldom
that an admission is made ID 6
Romlsh paper which discIosss she
true Rom ;sh poa,t;ons on thls p Hi
as does the f, llo wing question and
answer clipped from Tn Catholic
Northwest Progress Of January
20 published with tha approval
of Edward John O'Dea, B shop ot
Seattle, in that city. Hare II Is
in all its fragrarce and ,eanty:
May Casho|io lawyer sscnTe
divorce for b g ci.elt?
A Oathoiic lawyer may sdv cate
absolute divorce vt III b" knows
the marriage VAS invalid, as when
it has bs4n 81 p:o.;oun :. s bs
competent ecc;ez.asticai au5holI.
ty. For just reasons he may peti
tion for a divorce, not ludeed
with she intention Of a..abjI;.g his
client 20 marry sga;n while spouse
is living, but with i Wv to OBJ
tanning civil eff cts III civil tllbu-
nal. Marriage 10 neither con
tracted nor dissolved by civil au
shortly. Ssaser's Manual. of
Moral Theology i'll English is com.
mended to Catholic lamyers.
Comme,t Oh ths extra Tdlngry
declaration of this papal organ
seem TO be supeEfiaous, blt p!eaae
n is that marriage Is nei5her
contracted nor dissolved by civil
authority y Such Is The postli4l.
of R7me, and we fad E here re-.
stated 80 plainly that no Que CAL
fail to nndertt4nd it.
This sta tes ut half Of 1hs Rom
ish doctrine In regard to matsi-
mony, for they adhere just as
strenuously to the related pElEc.-
pie thas marriage is sacra ale1t
that eau be celebrated by no au.
thority other than the Roman
Catholic church. That precICdes
the poeslbiitf of the pspal sys-
tenn recognizing a marriage cere.
mony performed by Protestant
clergyman as the answer, abovs
quoted. denies the right Of civil
officer to perform she ceremony.
Rome ains the sole authority
to bind aud loose Ii N sfriage that
the Peterises claim II binding and
looslng everything else FJr uI.-
bridled euiacity and unlimited
gall the prosecutions OF Rome have
no equal.
NEW HAVEN HoIYM VIE.
The Menace
"Movles in New H ven on q
Sunday are prohibited, but when
they are run for worthy end,
it's d!ffsfent?" So says tia New
Haven, Conn., Register, Of Feb.
1, iu telling of the Sunday picture
show reoentiy Installed in the
basement of St Roses Roman
Catholic Church of that city.
In an approving way the Ragis
ter goes on to say that R ome has
30 prevailed over the blue ltsWs OF
Connecticut as to run a Sausiay Y
movie fox revenue which had /. 600
patrons at It's ,pening and cleared
two hundred dollars net pr fit
y is said that Thcs. F. Essn,
culef Of tho state police, approves
the plan, and shat ii h5 ploiss arr
to 90 used Ia establishing a pare
chial achool.
Nov, just note she full effect
aud meaning of this beautiful
s:heme to GET money with which
to make America Catholic "
No Other picture sh1 is permit
ed in N W Havan on Sunday is
given aud the profits C c3iIecsed in
a building that is exempt from
taxation. Being strictly Romish
in ownership aud control. it af
fords ths best opportunity con-
ceivable for futheri"g every PIP
ish schame from twisting hlstor;
aud misstatllg g facts to al assault
on every American idsrl.
No one would deny the pope'I
servants th7 right to teach theil
peculiar ideas provided they
taught as she expense Of the par
tiss intsrested and without prlvl
leges that are u':ju-t to ths own
ers OF ether shows aud to New
Haven Taxpayers.