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Communion Ban For Innocent Divorcees May Follow Remarriage Bill
LAITY FIGHT BISHOPS
Gravest
London, Nov. 19.
A FEW hours before
bishops, clergy and laity meet at Church House, Westminster, to thrash out the Church's attitude to divorce and remarriage the Divorce Court president will end 165 marriages for ever.
The making absolute of these deerees ahi granted six months ago will take the president. Sir Boyd Merriman, only a few minutes.
As soon as that is done two divorce judges will deal with fifty-one unde- tended cases set down for hearing) to-day.
Kard to innocence or guilt.
Issue' Raised Today
SAILORS' WIVES WHO HAVE TO DRAW
RELIEF
There are men serving in the Royal Navy whose wives and children are having to draw relief from public assistance commit- tees, Mr. J. E. Lane, hon, treasurer of the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust, told the annual meeting of the trust in London recently.
Many young husbands in the Navy, pariments of national life. He was he said, were able to give their wives more and more impressed by the and families only 10s. a week. "It tremendous voluntary services which is an absolute public disgrace," he Englishmen gave, without any re- nelted.
cognition or reward, for their fellow- Just before Mr. Lane spoke, Mr. citizens. Duff Cooper, First Lord of the Admirably, had told the meeting that
"The Royal Navy as n Carcer and
113 the
1937.
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When the courts ore closing for the day the Church Assembly will meet at Central Hall to discuss a proposed measure which would forbid elergy never had the importance of the How to Join It," issued by the to marry any man or women con- Navy been greater than to-day. Admiralty last year, gives 14s. cerned in a divorce case without re- Never had the future of this country week
and the fate of the whole world de-ordinary seamen, ordinary signal- minimum pay for pended more upon its efficiency and men, ordinary telegraphists, sick strength.
berth attendant probationers, assist- The efficiency of the Navy dependant cooks, and assistant stewards, not only on the strength and Allowance for a wife is 10. for a equipment of battleships, cruisers, wife and one child 150,, two chlidren and submarines, but upon the hearts 18., three children 20s. of the men sailing in them.
The bishops are expected to favou the measure the lay members of the Assembly to fight against it. Lord Hugh Cecil will move:→→→ RESOLUTION TO BAN
CHURCH REMARRIAGE
"That a committee be appointed with an instruction to prepare and Introduce a measure for prohibit- ing the use of the service for the solemnisation of holy matrimony contained in the Book of Common Praver in respect to the marriage of any person whose spouse by a former marriage is still alive.”“
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Mr. Arthur S. May, authority on marriage in church, who acted legal assessor when this question was brought before the joini com- mittee of the two Convocations, yes. terday described the proposal as "raising the gravest issue since the Revised Prayer-book.”
The Church Assembly sit in three houses—the House of Bishops, House of Clergy, and House of Laity.
Mr. May said: "The
will certainly favour the
bishops
measure.
| Most of them have already expressed
the view that no divorced person-
innocent or guilty-be permitted to re-marry in church.
ed
A political career, he said, opened one's eyes to so many different de-
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"Several bishops have recently warned their clergy not
such marriages.
to
ronduct
"It would seem that the apposition
to this measure must come principally
from the laity,
PUNISHING THOSE
NEEDING SYMPATHY
"My-own-view-is-that-it-is-one
thing to refuse to marry A guilty party-quite another thing to punishi
one who may be deserving of sym- pathy,
"The law allows divorce, Public opinion, in my view, is firm to-day that some right to divorce is required by morality.
"I have heard the view expressed --and I believe it is very widely held -that while Christianity sets before us the ideal marriage for our ex- ample it does not seek to put a yoke on unaulty which it is not able to buar.
"It is right to discourage divorce. It is wrong to deny that some- times, for same people, it is the only way out-and the right way out."
Mr. May shld that If Lord Hugh Cecil's proposal is accepted another measure dealing with the numission of divorced persons to Holy Communion will probably follow.
"believe," he said "that the sequel would be that a proposal would be brought forward to ban divorced persons, innocent or gull- ty, unless they were ready to seek the permission of the bishop and express regret.
"There may be, in the end, no place whatever for divorced persons
in the Church of England."
ONE BISHOP SAYS
'POLICY UNSOUND
One bishop at least does not agree that the church should "treat tho Innocent like the guilty."
Dr. H. H. Henson, Bishop of Durham, speaking on the Matrimonial Causes Act at Durham Diocesan Conference on Baturday, said he considered such treatment "unsound In principle and policy."
"It is clearly my duly frankly to dissociate myself from it," he said. "I do not understund' why the Church should treat na offenders against the Law of Christ, those Christian people—themselves in'no merely technical sense Innocent | merely--who have exercised the |parties--who have exercised the iberty of marriage after divorce,
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