New Britain herald., 1926-08-27
ELOPENENTS ARE
SEVERELY FLAYED
Catholic Newspaper CritiCiZes
Runaway Couples

Hartford, Aug. 81. Hartford
Catholics who have been going to
New York to get married are ad-
monished against the practice in an
article in THE Catholic Transcript"
when. advanced young people go
from Hartford to New York" says
the article, "and get married" by a
magistrate or minister, they by
that very act excommunicate them
selves from the Catholic church. 1t
is lust as well that such people re-
member that they also commit NOR
tai sin which may, or may not, be
trifle to their enlightened and VEN
turesome conscience"
within "a hours the writer has
heard it from man worthy Of be-
lief, that expressions like this are
frequently to be heard nowadays:
1t is the easiest thing in the
world now to get a marriage fixed
up. All you have to do is to go to
New York, get married. Then come
back and get it Strengthened out
after two or three weeks.
The conduct of some marriage
able young people bears out painful
ly the truth of the statement just
made"
Further on the article states:
ut seems like a tempting of the
bolts of divine anger to plan dello-
erately and in cold blood a trip OF
communication with its attend
ant sins and count upon reconcilia-
ton with the Almighty that Is
termed the easiest thing in the
world
There is indeed no sin that the
Almighty is not ready and able TO
forgive. There is also no sin that
the Almighty can forgive unless the
sinner is repentant. The marriage
party which deliberately, and in con-
tempt of divine authority, plans eX-
communication and series of other
crimes-a series of mortal sins
NAV find it quite difficult, and not
at all easy, to become so contrlte
and humble of heart as to con-
ciliate the Almighty and allow Him
to blot out their iniquities. 1t may
he one of the hardest things in the
world to fix up the marriage contract
entered into in deliberate contempt
of the law of God.
After one of these easy marriages
the parties to the compact, although
allowed to live as man and wife by
the civil law, are granted no such
privileges by the ecclesiastical law.
"They live together as man and
wife in gross contempt, of the legisla-
tion of the church which is com
missioner TO speak for the Almighty
They enter upon a form of life
which is as much disallowed to them
as it is disallowed to others who
have gone through no civil cere-
monv. That's what the writer had
in mind when he spoke of trip of
accommodation and a series OF
capital crimes.
Young people who marry in the
Catholic church are expected to live
together as man and wife till death
intervenes to separate them. Others
from " UOlll llltS appeal ~
their phi osophy Of life may get
married for a time-for six months
or six years as their caprice dictates.
But it is different with those who
accept the marriage legislation OF
the Almighty as propounded and in
culcated by the Catholic church
Once married, always married.
"Tt is the teaching of the Cathollc
church that the marriage contracts
has been elevated and established as
one of the sacraments of the New
Law. It is instituted TO supplement
what's wanting in human weakness
and to enable husband and wife to
meet with all the demands and all
the obligations incident to married
life.
Those who show contempt for the
sacrament and refuse to accept it on
the dav when they take up the du-
ties and the privileges of married
life are worthy of pity, or contempt.
which wise men are accustomed 10
bestow upon the foolish.