Mixed Marriage

Last week the Roman Catholic Church tightened its rules on mixed marriages.

Heretofore Catholics marrying heretics or infidels have obtained dispensations by solemnly promising that their offspring would be raised in strict Catholicism. Because these guarantees have often been disregarded, the new law from Vatican City states that persons seeking dispensation must now give actual proof that they will be able to carry out their intentions. The fact that secular law may hamper or prevent education of children in the Church will not be accepted as an excuse. It is a "great horror to innocent souls" to have the law of dispensation "rendered impotent." Offending Catholics will be unchurched until they indicate repentance.

P: Busy with the administration of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, with California's Immigration Commission, with civic affairs as well as with being Archbishop of San Francisco, Most Rev. Edward Joseph Hanna lately asked the Holy See for an assistant. Appointed last week to be his Archbishop Coadjutor was Bishop John Joseph Mitty of Salt Lake City, 48, Wartime chaplain.

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