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DIVORCE LAWS TIGHTENED IN FRANCE The divorce law in France has been altered by a recent decree. In giving some details, Vatican Radio said the reform be welcomed though it does not as far as some might wish. The new law does not suppress divorce, but marriage is to be regarded as something holy, and divorce is to be the last remedy. The judge must try to reconcile the parties and may impose a delay of two years. Divorce is forbidden for a period of years after the beginning of married life, the provision is to be made for wives abandoned by their husbands. Lower Moral Tone. The Catholic Press of France has received the new measure favourably as far as it goes. Speaking of the progress of divorce in France, Vatican Radio said there were 11,000 divorces in 1906 and 15,000 in 1915. From 1884 to 1910 more than 250,000 French marriages had been dissolved. In 1921 there were 32,000 divorces and the yearly average for the postwar period showed that the moral tone of the people had been definitely lowered.
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BELFAST "MOTHER CHURCH" REBUILT. Mary's, Chapel -lane, "mother church" of Catholic Belfast, which was condemned as unsafe two years ago, has now been reconstructed. It was to have been opened by Cardinal MacRory, but recent raids have caused a postponement. The reconstructed church, however, is unharmed. The interior has been transformed and z. w sanctuary, sacristies, organ and t new altars have been built. leaving debt of £5,000.
"CHRISTIANITY'S COMPLETE ANSWER TO THE LABOUR PROBLEM" American Governor Praises Encyclicals ''Christianity's complete answer to the labour problem of our industrial civilisation" lies in the labour Encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius XI, Governor Murray Van Wagoner, of Michigan, said in a telegram. The message was read at a meeting held at Detroit; commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of "Rerum Novarum," and the tenth anniversary of ''Quadragesimo Armco."
Three thousand attended the meeting, which was sponsored by the University of Detroit, the Archdiocesan Labour Institute and the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, Governor Van Wagoner's telegram read: "Immortal Encyclicals." "Please accept the thanks of one outside your Faith for the steadying influence of the Catholic Church's labour attitude in Michigan's critical hour. The immortal Encyclicals you are commemorating to-night are Christianity's complete answer to the labour problem of our industrial civilisation. America can find no better formula to resist to -day's physical and moral enemies of our way of life." As the concluding speaker, the Most Rev. Edward Mooney, Archbishop of Detroit, told the meeting, the fate of the United States in this tragic time
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DAKAR PRIEST -HERO IN CANADA. Memories of Dakar were recalled when a priest wearing the uniform of a captain of the Free French Navy instead of the brown habit and white mantle of his Carmelite Order, Rev, Father Louis of the Trinity (or Captain Georges d'Argenlieu as he is known for the present) arrived in Canada on a mission for General de Gaulle. He is a member of de Gaulle's Free
French Council. Father Louis was conscripted into the French services along with other clerics of military age when the war broke out. On the capitulation, he joined de Gaulle's forces and is still in the Navy. As aide-de-camp to General de Gaulle on the Dakar expedition, his courage in that unfortunate episide attracted considerable attention.
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EX -ENVOY TO HOLY SEE IDENTIFIED RUDOLF HESS. Mr. Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick, C.M.G., former Charge d'Affaires to the Holy See, was flown to Glasgow to
identify Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuehrer of the German Reich. Mr. Kirkpatrick had known Hess intimately during his work as a diplomat in Berlin. An old Downside boy, he served as a captain in the last war when he was wounded and mentioned in despatches.
largely depends on developing "leaders, moderate men and men of reason, representing management and labour, who will solve their difficulties by discussions held around instead of across the conference table." The Archbishop said it was "heartening that such a meeting could take place with representatives of Government, labour, management and religion standing on the same platform and discussing the principles of the Papal social Encyclicals."
FIRST COMMUNICANTS AND NEWLY-WEDS SEE THE POPE, Two thousand pilgrims attended a Papal audience in the Consistorial Hall recently. Round the Holy Father's throne were grouped many children, clothed in white, who had just made their first Holy Communion, There were some hundreds of newly married couples besides. The presence of the children inspired the Pope to talk on the spring -time of life, says Vatican Radio.
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another: give yourselves together to God," said the Holy Father to the
newly-weds. His Holiness developed the parallel between the promise of springtime and the promise of the new families which the Young couples had just founded. There is no love on earth which could compare even remotely with the infinite love of God, the Pope said. "God has pointed out the way to follow. Walk along that way upright and virtuous, . So many lives which begin in radiant happiness finish in the .
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darkest misery" Especially in the problems of to -day their hopes must be based on the solid foundation of trust, which was an act of faith in the love of God.
IMMORAL PRACTICES THREATEN OUR NATION "If we are fighting for Christianity let us be honest about it and behave like Christians, and let our country be regulated by Christian principles. We as a nation are positively doomed unless something is done about the matter under discussion to-night." Such was the startling, and yet fullyconsidered, statement made by Mr. R. F. O'Sullivan, F.R.C.S. (Eng.), during a lecture recently given by him to the Professional Men's Sodality, Melbourne, on the subject of Australia's declining birth-rate. Erroneous Ideas. Whilst dealing with the issue of contraceptives to overseas and home defence forces, the lecturer praised the efforts of St. Joan's Alliance, which had petitioned the War Office to declare "maisons tolerees" "out of bounds" for all British and Empire forces; but the War Office refused, alleging that such a restriction lead to greater dangerc of clandestine intercourse and an increase of V.D. But it had been proved beyond doubt that where there were no such "maisons tolerees" there was no increase in clandestine intercourse, and there was always a decrease in V.D. The presence of such places was an incitement to immorality, and the issue of prophylactics to army troops encouraged men to engage in illicit intercourse, who would otherwise have never considered it. As regards the suggestion that it was injurious to the health of the normal man to practise continence, he would refer them to the statement of Dr. Mervyn Stewart in the Melbourne Town Hall in July, 1924, on the occasion of the screening of moving pictures dealing with V.D., that "the Victorian branch of the B.M.A, affirms that chastity is the only absolute safeguard against V.D. The popular idea that continence is injurious to health is erroneous."
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