The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-12-26 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MIXED MARRIAGES IN IRELAND. A notice has been posted up in Kilkenny in which, after expressing hie "pain" on learning that marriages between Catholics and con-Catholics have very much increased of late, the Bishop f awing goes on to say: Many evil-disposed persons, utterly unmindful of the prohibitions of the Church and regardless of the dreadful cinsequencss they Lrin4 on therm& ve., have I not hesitated to enter into these unholy matrimonial alliances called " ruixel marriages," which the Catholic Church has always bated and detested. Those misguided Catholics who do not deserve the name, have not blushed to go, in some instances, before the Protestant minister, in ether instances, before the Public Registrar, to ask them to Assist at their marriage with a Protestant. By contractihg marriage in this way they run a error risk of bringing on themselves and on tteir children, should they have any, the maledictions of Heaven,ineteed of the blessiugs of religion. In order to put s atop to this growing abuse and to prevent it horn spreading like a coutagion to other pasts of the diocese, we beg to remind the faithful of certain regulation, which, for the future, shall have force in the diocese of Ossory in reference to the Catholics who so far forget themselves as to contract such merrier!. 1. In the first place, any one who contracts a mixed marriage " without a dispensation from the Holy See and before a Protestant minister or Registrar is, by the very fact, guilty of • most grievous mortal sin by violating a solemn law of the Church in a most grave matter. 2. The Catholic who assists as witness at such marriage also commits a most grievous sin by co-operating in an unlawful act. 3. Both the Catholic party c ntracting gee marriage and the Catholic witnesses to it cannot be absolved by any priest in the diocese of Ossory, unless by the bishop or by those to whom he grants special faculties. 4. In order more effectually to deter people from entering into those detestable marriages, the penalty of excommueication is hereby attached to that sin both for the Catholic contracting party is also for the Catholic witnesses to ouch marriage. 5. The notice which the Protestant rector or the Registrar ie legally bound in such case to scud to the parish priest of the Catholic party will be read from the altar for three consecutive Sundays, and thus the crime of the offending party brought out into open light before his or her fellow. parishioners. 6. For the rest, we hope the sense of deeecey and religion of the Catholic people and their paetors shall be no more hurt by any Catholic enter. mg into those marriages, NO full of misery and evil of every kind for themselves, their children, and society at large.  The annual meeting of the G:asgow Natienal Security Savinga Bank was held on Wednesday, the Lord Provost presidirg. Toe btatemsut subroitted 'hewed that the batllt lad the largest amount of deposits of any savings bank in the empire, to tat being £4,251,94Z, an in crease of Et V2;f.41 on the you. . . .  Au Arab fanatic, actuated by nea,ives of jealousy and revenge, murdered hi, tostermidaw and oer child at Baroda. Another Arab who went to see what was the matter wan shot down, at en. :1.190 • Borah, who went to remove the h Air . rohror barricaded hino,elf in the house, :011 resisted all attempts to capture him for four days, when the military btortned the house, and the Arab was wounded with a re, iver. T. prevent his czoture alive he stabbed himseli to the heart with • dagger.