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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...
Last week, while Sloan was vacationing in Spain at the ranch of wealthy Banker Pedro Gandarias, O'Dwyer said in Mexico City that as a Catholic he could not recognize the civil action. Sloan said that she had hoped a church annulment would come through simultaneously with a civil divorce; she indicated that she had no intention of putting herself in a state of mortal sin by remarrying without one. On the advice of church authorities, she is planning to return to Mexico to be interrogated by an ecclesiastical council...