Towards a Bigamy Bill ?
Sir: May I point out to M. B. Cadbury of Canada (Letters, 3 January) that not all Catholics hold what he calls a 'sectarian view' on the question of divorce? The word 'bigamy' in this connection has been used by others.
I would call attention to the very humane, and, I might add, truly Christian, view ex- pressed in a book by an American Catholic priest—a marriage guidance counsellor and canon lawyer—V. J. Pospishil. It is called Divorce and Remarriage : Towards a New Catholic Teaching (Burns and Oates).
This book will reasonably surprise many, including Catholics, who find 'official' pro- nouncements uninformed, inhumane and con- fusing.
Catholic 'teaching' is now being worked out by people qualified by experience and charity to speak, and the `officials' are learning slowly and reluctantly that theories based on the in- terests of authoritarianism can no longer be tolerated.
C. M. Cheke 4 Beatrice Court, Empire Way, Wembley Park, Middlesex
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