I 1 I 1 it 11 jn I 1 aa i I 1 N 1 ON 0 1 the letter or of father I 1 con his marriage arriago nj is in tar far mor dioro A than an for his individual action it is a declaration of ir idias not only true and noble able in ia them th to elves but bat most essential to the soundness or of tho the carch and of pressing importance at itis just t t I 1 IS tu lie I 1 0 t touches oue the root of tho the matter in two principle st tamely namely ill that I 1 celibacy j ii never to bo be enforced by vow I 1 but to lo be always a matter of coo constant atcas voluntary intimation nod and flint the state of madriago mar riago is in itaf cs essentially W nil a ily be ored and with the highest bitant aut function 8 I 1 llie lie mitake mi nil take or oatlie tile church of rome on 00 the last ht 11 0 lot to 10 us its as 48 faral an error os 03 ever entered the minds of nice men I 1 that lab church baa founded its practice of priestly on the ibo I 1 lea I 1 hat marriage involved degradation that it was a concesa on to real lie and incompatible with lio file bighead ol condition A more degrading and um chic chiconis ouis falsehood nei er came from ilio ilia father of lies its effect illy vi has boa been wholly cil al affixing a stigma to 0 o tho the noblest human relation it ha bao in tic fio lar far actually degraded that relation it lisa has established for the of ficera of the church a law flatly contradictory of tho burnan mature baturo tant god made tho the natural result haa followed fullow cd UD for Us its clergy an artificial and f faba hie bien ard of purity it hast lia them front deac reaching durity A ang that which was divinely ordained wo we cheve that tile worst faults in the catholic church havo have been beco not got its carom in doctrine but the corruption action g its clergy and it ita des poti m I 1 abat bat corruption has iu been duo due to no lubria than tho 1116 baw of celibacy celi baoy 1 I here 1 I ij too a close fistori cal connection between the I 1 iran fan oy my against which inn his associates rebel and I 1 the a celibacy of the clergy that practice proc tico was first mald mado of universal obligation by the great popo iu in the eleventh c century calory it was one ot of liia his must most effective We measures lures ft fir toil albo organization of tho the c liy cutting the priest off rom 00 lies of family it isolated jim from Eo ciely it severed him from the great conin common ioli son and affections of humanity and malc made him the llort obedient even to servility lity to the authority t aw which le took tho of wife and hildren it IL hafl as largely largel the d disciplined wine ILL or actuation im in in 10 1 appearance p n but ILL deatrus live to spiritual if ft an and growth 0 t w which ic culminated I 1 knatcal in t the IA cata hali ment 01 ol a ample absolute I 1 t dc c pot pol tho he revolt against that a dc B ILL all can vail but lit little tile except as it 81 ri es a tho the unnatural b barrier a fria between I 1 at the e priest an abid human buma 1 a 11 purifier the union of bibaud bu baud anil and wife gre ordained of god GA for raising mankind out of tho the animal loto into the spiritual to many and many a waa man has the iho love of ofa IL noble bowall come ass as a deli delivering verin 9 segel ogot opening A i inui him a DOW DOB 11 lire rc abo 1 bo family of if which that thai rc relation lation is ia the kource andi bond is id the great school io in WILL a it educates his bia children to forget tb and live for each and ter lor haiti it il tho blury of christ caully to have hare honored and elevated a ar ringe to tal hare mado 0 its purer r 1 Is its more sacred and t 61 alway boici 0 had a fatal fatal perversion than thai which pronounced tle the marl mamago ridge stat an inferior ono and denied it to the teachers an and I 1 leaders of the I 1