Show ASK ASIC ASK NEW MARRIAGE LAW tY Cubans Wish Requirement of C v Ceremony Abolished Havana Havana May 24 Mgr Donato Donoto retti rett Bishop of Havana accompanied r ed edby by a number of priests priest representing nU g the lay Catholics of the diocese ha e presented to General Wood petitions signed sl e by persons requesting that the decree issued by General Brooke Bro ke while military mitry governor of Cuba Cuba ordering odering that only civil civi mar marriages marrIage marriages should be b considered lawful may be so S altered alere as a to allow alow marriages marria e celebrated according to the rites rite of any ay religion to be considered lawful pro uro provided vided vId d a record of the ceremony is duly handed bande in by the church or religious 1 i body ody thirty for days civil civi registration within I The decree of General Brooke said ald the bishop created and maintains a ausle useless conflict con ct between the th civil civi and nd the ecclesiastical law arid and 3 l to consider cider it an imposition forcing upon them as a It ft does doe an empty em ty cere ceremony i mony The decree was a gratuitous attempt to restrict liberty and It I Is the direct cause cuse of f embarrassment add of of increased expense to Catholics when contracting marriage mar f The probability is that that the decree will wi be b repealed sufficiently to allow alow the te marriage mae ceremony to be performed by any clergyman in regu lar orders n |