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33. It must consequently be
acknowledged that the Church has deserved exceedingly well of all nations by
her ever watchful care in guarding the sanctity and the indissolubility of
marriage. Again, no small amount of gratitude is owing to her for having,
during the last hundred years, openly denounced the wicked laws which have
grievously offended on this particular subject; (51) as well as for her
having branded with anathema the baneful heresy obtaining among Protestants
touching divorce and separation;(52) also, for having in many ways
condemned the habitual dissolution of marriage among the Greeks;(53)
for having declared invalid all marriages contracted upon the understanding
that they may be at some future time dissolved;(54) and, lastly, for
having, from the earliest times, repudiated the imperial laws which
disastrously favored divorce.(55)
51. Pius VI, Epist. ad episc. Lucion., May 20, 1793; Pius
VII, encycl. letter, Feb. 17, 1809, and constitution given July 19, 1817; Pius
VIII, encycl. letter, May 29, 1829; Gregory XVI, constitution given August 15,
1832; Pius IX, address, Sept. 22, 1852.
52. Trid., less. xxiv, can. 5 7.
53. Council of Florence and instructions of Eugene IV to the
Armenians Benedict XIV, constitution Etsi Pastoralis, May 6, 1742.
54. Cap. 7, De condit. appos. (Corpus juru canonici, ed. cit., Part 2, col. 684).
55. ]erome, Epist. 69,
ad Oceanum (PL 22, 657); Ambrose, Lib. 8 in cap. 16 Lucae, n. 5 (PL 15, 1857);
Augustine, De nuptiis, 1, 10 11 (PL 44, 420). Fifty years after the
publication of Arcanum, Pope Pius Xl published his own encyclical Casti
Connubii (December 31 1930), which may be found translated, with
notes and bibliography, in J. Husslein, S. J., Social Wellsprings, Vol. II, pp.
122-173; also in pamphlet form, translated by Canon G. D. Smith, Catholic Truth
Society of London; Paulist Press, New York; with a discussion club outline by
Gerald C. Treacey, S. J.; National Catholic Welfare Conference, Washington,
1939. These pontifical acts should be completed by two addresses given by Pope
Pius XII (October 29, 1951, and November 26, 1951),English translation
published in pamphlet form by the National Catholic Welfare Conference under
the title, Moral Questions Affecting Married Life, with a discussion
outline by Edgar Schmiedeler, O. S. B.
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