Excerpt from The Lad Felix: A Tragedy of the Ne Temere

It is not the intention of the author of this story to reflect upon the commendable work of the Roman Catholic Church. But in its legislative and administrative capacities the Church of Rome is just as human as the Protestant Church. It is just as likely to err. And in common with probably the majority of Canadians, Protestant and Roman Catholic, the writer believes that in reviving the undesirable, effete tenets propounded in the Ne Temere decree, the authorities of the Roman Church will produce discord where we now have harmony, religious strife where there is now brotherly love and Christian charity.

No word or suggestion of offence to any member of the Roman Catholic Church, lay or clerical, is intended. The aim of the author is merely to show what privations and hardships must be endured by hundreds of helpless women and children should the application of the Ne Temere in Canada be continued. Once this is appreciated the Canadian hierarchy will no doubt seek to have the law repealed, and if this story helps, even in an unimportant way, to present to the minds of its readers a true picture of the home-wrecking and unhappiness that must follow in the wake of the decree, should it not soon be voided, the narrative will have served its purpose.

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