Blanchet, Francis Norbert, Archbishop, Portland, Oregon, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1875 January 10

For many years, according to the small ritual, they were forbidden to publish bans in mixed marriages. Now, feeling the publication necessary in such cases, he has just consulted and Sacred Congregation on the subject and encloses the answer, leaving it to Purcell to send it to Archbishop John McCloskey of New York and Archbishop Peter R. Kenrick of St. Louis. He asks if he is going too far in sending his notes to the American hierarchy. The American Catholics must know the situation to come forth and help them. A.L.S. 1p. Enclosure: Under the heading in French of: Response from Rome to a letter of the Archbishop of Oregon City dated January 9, 1874 touching the note of the little Ritual of Baltimore on mixed marriages, page 189.