Show CATHOLIC MARRIAGES rules to prevent elopements Elope ments or mixed marriages pittsburg jan 6 A pastoral letter to be issued early in the approaching lenten season by bishop canevin or the pittsburg diocese of the catholic church as well as other bishops will impose new regulations governing marriages upon all who profesa the catholic religion the letter will give full force and effect to the ot pope plus X promulgated everal months ago providing that no priest of one parish shall unite in marriage persons who are residents 0 another parish under the new regulations marriages celebrated outside the parish of the residence of either the bride or groom will be declared illicit and such marriages will be possible only by falso representations the marriage may not bo declared invalid but it would bo clandestine and illicit loss a special dispensation were procured and the celebrants deprived of the benefits of the church the law will bo practically prohibitory hibi tory of elopements elope ments and of all ill considered marriages said a local official of the church it will place an in the way of the of catholics with uon catho lyias to which the church has always been opposed as almost invariably products of unhappiness the clergy of a parish are supposed to know their peor le and if persons desiring to wed within the church are compelled to do so under the eyes of their own religious guides there will be fewer errors and subsequent heart burnings |