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Show Double Marriage Ceremony. In answer to the question "What is the law of the church with regard to a double marriage ' ceremony where one party Is Catholic and the other Is Protestant?" the Ecclesiastical Review' answers: "The legislation of the Catholic church does not countenance the celebration of the marriage ceremonial cere-monial by any other official but the priest. If a Catholic party, proposing to enter the marriage contract with a Protestant, consents, for the sake of compromise on religious grounds, to have the rite performed in a Protest-1 Protest-1 ant church, or with a Protestant ceremonial, cere-monial, such party becomes guilty of a public denial of his or her fali.h, separates sep-arates himself or herself from the church and is, therefore, excommunicated. excommuni-cated. Nor is the verdict allowed by the precedence which may be given to the Catholic worship in a case where the parties repair to , the Protestant church after the marriage has been solemnly witnessed by the Catholic priest. No priest, bishop, cardinal or pope can legitimately bless a marriage if he knows that the parties are of their own inclination prepared to have the Protestant rite performed as a subsequent sub-sequent sanction to that marriage, for it would be a formal admission that such sanction and such worship are j approved by them. Anyone is 1 free to apostatize from his or her faith, but no one can be a consistent Catholic and at the same time consciously con-sciously take part in a worship which the authorized exponent of his faith declares untrue." |