Konings, C.SS.R., Father A., Mt. St. Clement, Ilchester, Maryland, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1876 December 27

Purcell's letter of Dec. 18 was missent to Missouri and was not received before Dec. 25. He consulted Kenrick's New Testament but did not find any indication in his notes on the Pauline Privilege that he holds the dispensation of the Pope unnecessary in case the interpellatio should be impossible. But why ask a dispensation in a law that cannot be observed? Modern Theologians agree that the dispensation or declaration is unnecessary even in case of the impossibility of the interpellatio, at least for the lawfulness of the marriage. :: II-5-f A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.