Show bead of catholic uia tb DIDe nalon cannot B iid by some time ago the ecclesiastical court of jurisdiction at home was appealed to on the question whether it would be considered sacramental and valid to hear confessions by telephone the decision was in the negative adverse dec sion has been recene from the some source by archbishop kain on the subject of asking for die sensations from canonical laws by cable and telegraph in american haste and hurry the custom 1 as been steadily growing of bishops sending cable message to bome asking permission to do thi or that act which would be contrary to a strict interpretation of some ecclesiastical sias law the answer from borne is that this practice shall no longer obtain and that it is now specifically condemned the church does not mean by this to set herself against the use and de of the agencies of modern science an adequate reason must be given for every dispensation asked and this cannot be done by telegraph or cable |