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When the dissolution of a Roman Catholic marriage hits the front pages, non-Catholics are often lost in a maze of civil and church legalities. Last week's case in point was the broken union of Sloan and Bill O'Dwyer, and it provided a good capsule course in Catholic marriage...
...when the 32-year-old model caught the smiling Irish eye of the 58-year-old mayor of New York, they had both been married before. Mayor William O'Dwyer was two years a widower. In 1938, Texas-born, convent-bred Sloan Simpson had married an insurance executive named Carroll Dewey Hipp, a Protestant, in a civil ceremony, was divorced from him five years later. The Archdiocese of New York granted her a "declaration of free state," permitting her to marry again. Catholics are not recognized by the church as married unless they have had a Catholic wedding (though...
...Three Separations. Last January, after the Republican victory had brought an end to Democrat O'Dwyer's ambassadorship to Mexico, he announced that Mexico's Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez had granted him and Sloan a "temporary separation...
Mortal Sin? Mexico's Archbishop Martinez indicated that the case of Sloan and Bill O'Dwyer was under study and might lead to a permanent separation or annulment. But Sloan was not content to wait. Last week it was disclosed that she had sued her husband in a Mexican civil court last February on the ground of mental cruelty. Said her petition: "The irascible character of my husband, which in time led to almost continual threats and insults, is the cause of all our trouble...
Sounding more chipper than usual, New York's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer threw an office-warming cocktail party in the Mexico City penthouse suite of O'Dwyer, Bernstien & Correa, the law firm he is starting up with his brother Paul, New York Lawyer Oscar Bernstien, and a Mexican partner. O'Dwyer, who stayed on in Mexico (despite investigations back home of corruption in city politics) after resigning as U.S. ambassador last December, expects to visit the U.S. for about 90 days this year. "I plan to spend as much time in the United States...