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DRUG USE COULD LEAD TO NULLITY
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ROME (NC). It is not new for the Church to view drug abuse as o possible factor affecting a Church court's
ore not really married, Roman canon lawyers The news is that more cases in which drug abuse is a factor are coming before Church courts. The relation of drugs to Church marriage court decisions was mentioned by
decision that two people
say.
they explain, if he or she cannot act with full knowledge and freedom, or is unable to assume the obligations flowing from a decision, even if it was made
her drug habit and could only obtain the money as a full-time prostitute. Church lawyers point out that the same principle rates in regard to al
knowingly and willingly. Msgr. Charles Lefebvre. If a person came to the dean of the Roman Rota, Drugs can cause either altar so drunk he did not Church court of appeal for kind of incapacity, canon know what he was doing, marriage cases, at a papal lawyers explain, as can men- he could not freely consent audience marking the begin- tal or emotional illness or to marriage. ning of the Rota's judicial alcoholism. If he were so addicted to year. "If a person were to go alcohol that he could not Msgr. Lefebvre called to the altar under the influlive up to the obligations of drug abuse ' "a plague," ence of drugs, he or she marriage, that condition which "beyond its many would not be free." a canon would also invalidate the harmful effects, including lawyer said. marriage. death, momentarily exalts "If a person were so adCanon lawyers note that beyond measure will, intelligence and emotions, to make dicted to drugs that he or civil courts recognise this After three years in private hands, the such divine gifts fall back she could not live without principle too. former convent at Beverley has been re-puragain, soon after, into the them, that he lost interest "Suppose an LSD addict opaque abyss of mere bodi- in his wife or she in her sells his house.". one said. chased by the archdiocese and will serve as husband, then the person liness." a reception centre for Aboriginal children in could not assume or carry "If it can be proven in the new cottage programme. out the obligations of mar- court that he was on a 'trip' at the time of the sale, "JURIDICAL riage:' The programme of care linked to a parent instituthe sale would not be valid." for Aboriginal children that tion or not RELEVANCE" If a man were to make has been conducted at MORE CASES Saint out his last will and testa- Francis Xavier He added that drug abuse The Catholic venture is Mission, Lack of freedom as an ment while he was drunk, Wandering, has was appearing more often now been to be known as the Centre invalidating factor in marin Church court proceedthe will would not be valid, care Children's Cottages in phased out and replaced by riage cases was nothing ings,. the lawyer said. order to indicate its link a new cottage scheme. new, the lawyer said, but It had "juridical rele- "now with Centrecare the social more people have acvance," he said, in the sense agency of the Two State Housing Com- welfare cess to these clings," and of "incapacity to understand mission houses are being Catholic Church. cases coming before Church and to will matrimony and courts made available in Beverley in which drugs imperhaps to fulfil the oblige - pede freedom are and one in Northam to more fredons inherent in it" a quent. cater for the children in NEW BOARD common ground for a forthe new scheme. In some cases in Church The cottages will be mal Church decision that courts, the claim is made managed by a board resan attempted marriage was that the man or woman Cottage parents will look FRANKFORT, Germany ponsible to the Archbishop in fact null, not a true went through the marriage (NC). Pallottine Father after the children both at marriage. ceremony under the influ- Walter Meader recently of- the reception centre and in of Perth. Canon lawyers point out ence of LSD or some other Mr. John Namnik lives ficiated at a wedding for a the houses. that this ground, legally mind -affecting drug. at Beverley and is supercouple as close as any to called "a defecto due discreIn others, it is argued Cloud Nine. intendent of the scheme. tion," has long been re- that the man was so adNORMAL CONTACT cognised in Church courts dicted to drugs at the time He works in conjunction The couple, a stewardess as a bar to a valid mar- of the marriage that he and a pilot, asked the priest with Miss J. Underwood The aim of the new pro- who is a social worker both riage. was rendered impotent. to marry them during a gramme A person suffers from a is to give the chil- for the Aboriginal parents In one case, a girl needed flight. dren a more normal contact and their families. defect of due discretion, $50 or $60 a day to support They told him they with town and community Other board members are wanted to be married in a environment than was pos- Father B. Hickey, Director Catholic ceremony that sible at Wandering because of Centrcare, and Messers would be significant to them of its somewhat remote B. Coffey, A. Mowle. B. for the rest of their lives. farm location. Smyth and G. Dench. Father Meader, the chapUp to fifteen people can lain at Frankfort Airport, agreed, even though he be accommodated at the reception centre and those FLEXIBLE usually turns down unusual will be short-term residents marriage request. The nes, scheme is said either because their families to be flexible and econo"I told them I'd asked are in crisis or while they mic compared with the the bishop," he said, "and arc waiting to be placed in high cost of conducting the the bishop said yes." a permanent cottage group. Wandering operation since Bishop Wilhelm Kempf the religious staff left in In the cottages that will of Limburg, the diocese in 1975. which the airport is located, eventually be established in The new board will have cautioned that the plane had a number of country towns, to be within the boundaries eight children will live as fund raising as part of its responsibility. of his diocese during the a family unit, attending Persons wishing to help ceremony otherwise the local schools and taking with the Centrecare Chilnewlyweds would be out part in the community. dren's Cottages are invited of his juhsdiction. The new programme is to contact Mr. John "During the actual cere- being called Scatter Cottage Namnik, 96 Lukin Street, mony," Father Meader Scheme or Group Homes Beverley, W.A. 6304 or said, "we made sure to by the Department of Commessages may be left for 1308 Albany Hwy. Cannington circle the cathedral in Lim- munity Welfare, depending him at Centrecare, phone Phone 451 2333 D'L Oast burg." on whether the cottages are 325 6644.
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