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...Eucharistic Conference at Sydney, Australia, may wander about the states all he pleases. He will not arrive at San Francisco until after the election. Prince Rebuffed. The Governor (mayor) of Rome, Prince Ludovico Spada Potenziani, was refused an annullment of his marriage by the Tribunal of the Sacred Rota,* which rejected his contention that he is not really the husband of Princess Potenziani because their marriage ceremony was "performed without her full consent...
Married. Senator Guglielmo Marconi, 53, famed wireless inventor; to Countess Maria Christina Bezzi-Scala, in Rome. Senator Marconi's marriage to Hon. Beatrice O'Brien, daughter of late Baron Inchiquin, was annulled this year by the Rota Tribunal...
...Jersey, Inventor Thomas Alva Edison approached his 80th birthday (Feb. 11) ; in Bermuda, Dr. Francis Landey Pattton, 84, onetime (1888-1902) president of Princeton, celebrated his birthday; lectured to the local Rota,ry club. Dr. William Williams Keen, 90, of Philadelphia, also celebrated his birthday. John Davison Rockefeller,* 87, played golf in Florida with Soldier Adalbert Ames, 91, last Union Army gen eral. And in Detroit, Soldier Roland, 100, came forward. To memoralize the death of Empress Charlotte, he had put on all his medals, for once he had been a colonel of lancers under her hus band, Maximilian...
...effect is to inform the unhappy pair that they have been living together in an unmarried state?" The Catholic Church grants no divorce, that is well-known. Neither does it grant an annulment. It announces that a marriage is null, when it is null, an entirely different thing.... The Rota gives an average of eleven declarations of nullity a year, not a very heavy percentage, for a Catholic population of several hundred millions. (There were more than 175,000 divorces in the U.S. last year.) The Acta Apostolicae Sedis, the official gazette of the Vatican, duly reports the facts...
While U. S. clerics thus fulminated some British newspapers devoted scarcely ten lines to Bishop Manning's remarks, and the Archbishop of Canterbury refused to open his lips. Frenchmen and Italians read attentively a statement by Monsignor Massimi, Auditor of the Sacred Rota: "The declaration that the Rota's action was an intrusion and an impertinence leaves It unmoved because this is not the viewpoint of the Catholic Church. . . . The Catholic Church deems the Rota capable of examining the annulment not only of Protestant but of Jewish and Moslem marriages if the grounds are sufficient according to canon...