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 among them, caa have any claim to sancty or validly, unless their priests officiate, aad their rites are observed. "4. (ston.  are  to Proefan;.s, or ]&ff'et f The marriage of Roman Catholics with heretics was always reprobated by the apestoli seat. But ff a man contracts marriage with a heretic, he ought to do penance, and to take care that he would bring his wie to embrace the Romish religion. To persons of distinction a dispensation ot' the pope is necessary; but to common persons the dispensation oi' the bishop is sufficient. Two conditions are always exacted, otherwise the dispensation becomes void, and the persons concerned are considered as fornicators, with the. added exaggeration that it is with heretics. The following are the two principal conditions: 1. To use ever endearour to bring the Protest- ant or heretic over to the Romish religion. 2. To promise, on oath. that all the children are to be educated in the Roman (athollc religion. Connected with the foregoing is the following question, and its solu- tion from Dens, a standard theologian in the Church of Home, whose System of Theology is the text book in many- Eoman Catholic sem- isy, i. tlu the shoul, d sect, asd t danKArats a (atto� motAm, ? An. DEelinEn oSserves, that if the Catholic party, entering upon mrriage under such a condition, direcdy intends the education of cildren in heresy, the marriage is invalid: whence it is supposed, says he, that he obliges himself. as it were, that his wife must not hinder such education. Schmier susatins that marriage, contracted under such a condition, as repugnant to the good of children, to be invalid; yet he confesses that he has no author agreeing with him.** "The reason of the dsparity between this case and the preceding, coneerning the education ot' children in Pesitve infidelity, is given, because heresy is comprehended under the Christian religion generally so called, in some manner." "Huce & stipulation of this k_nd i8 null, when it is repugnant to the obligation of _rents. And although some endearour to excuse such a compact, wnue the Catholic Partn only obliges himself to permit such an education, on account ot' shunning a greater evil in community, where Catholics and Protestants live mixed; nevertheless, it is to be observed with Pontius, Braunman, and tteitt'enstuel, that SCH  S- RX,OE, with the express or tacit agreement, or under such condition that either all or some of the children, for example, that males should be educated in the sect of a heretical father, xs LWA�S ASD EVSS�- WHERE UNLAWFUL, MOST WICKED, AND GRIEVOUSLY 81qFUL, against the natural obligation of .parents, and contra to divine and ecclesiastical right. For each of ttte parents are bound, from piety, to take care that their children be educated in the true faith, and should receive the means of salvation. Therefore he cannot oblige himself by any pro- mise or covenant* by which he would Permit the education of hi8 chil- dren in a damnable sect.*' "Nor are use and custom openly existing in many places different
 * DeMutr., No. �1.

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