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No. 3080.
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Of ItMOUS LEADERS JOIN IN WarSymbAndols Peace CRITICISM Of DIVORCE BILL LONDON. — PROTESTANT
AND
CATHOLIC
BISHOPS HAVE CRITICISED A CLAUSE IN A BILL BEFORE
THE
HOUSE
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WOULD ALLOW DIVORCE BY MUTUAL 'CONSENT. The clause would allow divorce after seven years separation, even when no matrimonial offence has been committed. The Bishops said that the bill's provision for divorce by mutual consent would "help to undermine the basic understanding of marriage as a lifelong union." Signing a joint statement on April 3 were Archbishop Francis J. Grimshaw of Birmingham on behalf of the Catholic Hierarchy, Anglican Archbishop Arthur Michael Ramsey of Canterbury, Anglican Archbishop Donald Coggan of York, Anglican Archbishop Alfred E. Morris of Wales, and the Rev. H. V. Lovell Cocks, Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council. The churchmen were referring to a private bill introduced by a Labour 'Member of Parliament, Leo Abse, which has just completed the committee stage in the House of Commons. They said that the bill has "a number of proposals designed to promote reconcilation and these will, we believe, have considerable welcome." But the bill has one Clause whch would add a "new ground for divorce" and bring "a dangerous
new princple into our marriage laws," the joint statement said. "It is the clause which would allow divorce after seven years' separation, whether or no a matrimonial offence has been committed against the petitioner. "Until now the State laws of marriage in this country have been framed on the assumption that marriage is a lifelong covenant not to be terminated solely by the wish of the partners." The bishops said that the clause would change the marriage laws in two ways.
Mutual Consent The first change would allow either partner, after a separation of seven years, to obtain a divorce. The
Error In Translation Softened Racial Text
Trust Fund Aids Medicine And Many Good Works Cardiff, Wales,—Julian Hodge, Cardiff businessman who is a Catholic, has set up a trust fund to aid medicine, education and religion which will eventually be worth around £25 million. Catholic charities are expected to be among the main beneficiaries. Hodge, 58-year -old merchant banker, founded the trust, the Jane Hodge Foundation, in memory of his Mother. The first year's available income is expected to be around 1315,000. "The aim of the foundation is the encouragement of medical and surgical studies, in particular the study of and research into the cause, diagnosis and treatment of cancer, tuberculosis and diseases generally, esPecially those affecting children," he said. "Also the general advancement of medical and surgical studies, education not covered by the existing system, and religion.' Hodge said he hopes to build the trust up to a val-
second would allow divorce Four can be pleaded by by mutual consent after the either husband or wife— adultery, desertibn without same period. They said that the second cause for at least three change "even more plainly years immediately precedintroduces a new principle ing presentation of the petition, cruelty and incurable into our laws." "We think it is important unsoundness of mind and to understand the feelings continuous care and treatbehind the desire for this ment for at least five years change," they said. "Many immediately preceding premarriages run into diffi- sentation of the petition. culties through faults on Only a wife can plead the both sides. The terms 'in- fifth ground — when, since nocent' and 'guilty' party the marriage, her husband has been guilty of the crime are often misleading. of rape or sodomy or bestiality. Judicial separation Ficticious can be given for the same grounds as divorce during "It is said that at present when marriPges have brok- the first three years of maren down there is often re- riage. After that, it can be given without grounds. Its course to a fictitious planlegal effect is only that husning of matrimonial offences in order that a di- band and wife do not have to live together. It is not vorce may be obtained. important now because hus"But we believe, nonethe- band and wife cannot be compelled to live together less, that it would help to anyway. undermine the basic understanding of marriage as a lifelong' union if the prinWrong View ciple were introduced that The bill, which the Bria marriage could be termitish press has dubbed the nated by the desire of the partners to terminate it. "kiss-and-make-up" bill, has We think that there would completed the committee stage and now awaits conbe an increasing tendency sideration for a third readto enter upon this covenant ing or approval by the less seriously. House of Commons. If ap"Furthermore, if once the proved, it will be presented principle of divorce by conto the House of Lords. sent were admitted by the This is the first time law, the pressure would since shortly after,,, World arise (as the committee stage of the bill shows) to War II that the leaders of the major denominations of make the period shorter." England and Wales have 4- English law now allows made such a joint statefive grounds for divorce. ment.
VATICAN
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HIS
HOLINESS
POPE
JOHN
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TION IN HIS ENCYCLICAL "PACEM IN TERRIS," A CHECK OF THE OFFICIAL
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VEALS. He declared that "racial discrimination can in no way be justified, at least doctrinally or in theory." He said that man has "a duty to claim" his human rights, and that "all others have the obligation to acknowledge those rights and respect them."
ue of £25 million in 10 years. His goal would allow for an annual distribution of £1,350,000 in income. The trust will deal only with recognised charities The initial English version and not with individuals. of the encyclical interpreted Hodge, head of a group the Pope's anti-bias declaraof companies controlling tion as saying that "racial manufacturing industries, discrimination can no longarages, movie theatres, ger be justified, at least bakeries, trailer camp sites, doctrinally or in theory." banking and insurance, is This would allow for a view married with two children that racial discrimination was at one time defensible. and is a parishioner of St. Peter's church, Cardiff. One of seven children himself First Time and the son of a plumber, A similar translation was he credits his financial sucgiven in other modern-lancess to the encouragement given him by his mother guage versions, including; when he was studying ac- Italian, French and Spancountancy while employed as ish. All were printed by the Vatican Polyglot Press. an 18/- - a - week railway clerk. But in the Latin text,
which is the only official one, the sentence reads: "Quam ob rem, saltem in ratione disciplinaque, nullo modo probatur hominum discrimen, generis causa . . ." The key words here are "nullo modo." In English this means "in no way" or "in no manner." There was no immediate information available as to how or why the modernlanguage versions of the text interpreted the words to mean "no longer." Thus following the Latin text, the English version of the paragraph concerned should read:
Full Text "On the contrary, the conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can in no way be justified, at least doctrinally or in theory. And this is of fundamental importance and significance for the formation of human society according to those principles which We have outlined above. For, if a man becomes conscious of his rights, he must become equally aware of his duties. Thus he who possesses certain rights has likewise the duty to claim those rights as marks of his dignity, while all others have the obligation to acknowledge those rights and respect them."
The statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary looks down on t he entrance to St. Augustine's parish convent, Washington, D.C., near a sign clesignPting the convent as a fallout shelter in the event of a nuclear attack. The statue and the sign indicate the two extremes of the age—peace or destruction.
Chaplain's Testimony Not Under 'Seal'
LONDON.—A CATHOLIC GAOL CHAPLAIN WAS A CENTRAL FIGURE N A DRAMATIC MURDER APPEAL WHICH RESULTED IN
A
CONVICTED
GUNMAN ESCAPING THE DEATH PENALTY. Father John Keogh intervened in the appeal of George Thatcher, 33, sentenced to be hanged for murder in a hold-up. He t estified to the Court of Criminal Appeal that another man at the prison had told him that he and not Thatcher had done the actual shooting. The 29 - year - old Irish priest, speaking with a pronounced brogue and holding his breviary in his hand, told the three appeals court judges: "I would like to make it clear that I at no time heard the sacramental confession, so there is no question here of confession from the Catholic point of view." Father Keogh said that another convict, Philip Kelly, 23, a Catholic and one of four men involved in the hold-up, had told him before sentencing that
it was he and not Thatcher who had shot and killed milk-truck driver Dennis Hurden. The priest said he had obtained Kelly's written permisison to intervene —he produced the letter in court — and had also received the advice of his own superior. The appelate court in handing down its decision quashed the death sentence against Thatcher. It ruled that the trial judge had not properly directed the jury on the way to establish the identity of the actual killer. The judges said, therefore, that it was not necessary to consider Father Keogh's evidence. Thatcher's sentence was therefore commuted to life imprisonment — the same sentence given Kelly and the two other defendants by the trial judge.