communicated the substance
of the 2nd paragraph to ~ Bishop Raimondi .
In reply to the 3rd paragraph I have to state
"that the objections entertained. by myself and the Executive Council to a law providing for marriages in articulo mortis are that such
law
means
a
by providing the
of obtaining condonation, from a religious standpoint at any rate, of the sin
of
а
"
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life spent in concubinage, would tend to weaken the
influence of the moral
scruples which, in the -
absence of such
must have
a
a
law,
considerable
snen
effect in deterring from a practice which
to the facilities for
owing
it which local conditions
offer, is unfortunately widespread here, and that
the result would be
undesirable from
very
a social
do
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