ARCHBISHOP GOOLD ON MIXED MARRIAGES.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1077, 21 April 1882, Page 3

ARCHBISHOP GOOLD ON MIXED MARRIAGES.

: ♦ One of the topics dealt with by Archbishop Goold in the Lenten pastoral which was read in the Catholic churches on Sunday (says the Melbourne Argus of February 28) was mixed marriages. The subject was introduced as follows : — " The solemn celebration of marriages is forbidden from Ash Wednesdry till after Low Sunday, and from the first Sunday of Advent till the day after the Feast of the Epiphany. Mixed Marriages. — A mixed marriage (that is, a marriage between a Catholic and one who, though baptised, does not profess the Catholic faith) may not take place without a dispensation, and the dispensation cannot lawfully be given unless for a sufficient grave reason, and subject to the following indispensable* conditions: — 1. That all the children that may be born of a marriage shall be baptised and brought up in the Catholic faith. 2. That the Catholic party shall have full liberty for the practice of the Catholic religion. Z. That no religious marriage ceremony shall take place elsewhere than in the Catholic Church. The marriage before a Protestant minister is a grave sin, as being a participation in the religion rite of those who are separated from the Catholic Church, and therefore a sacrilege, and as the Holy See has declared, 'an implied adhesion to beresey.' Mixed marriages are abhorred And forbidden by the Church, and leave cannot be obtained for them unless some grave motive be alleged in addition to the fulfilment of the conditions prescribed."