17 JANUARY 1931, Page 3

We who are not members of the Roman Church may

have a very deep respect for the Pope's earnestness and yet feel ourselves free to reflect upon the results of the absolute refusal of divorce. In practice the law of nullity provides for members of the Roman Church what is virtually the equivalent of a divorce law. It must be left for members of the various churches, without unfair- ness or bitterness, but also without any desire weakly to shun facts, to ask themselves whether the use of the law of nullity is either legally or morally satisfactory.