Q.A. Quizzes to a Street Preacher: Marriage

by Charles Mortimer Carty, Leslie Rumble

116 Questions and Answers on Marriage--its indissolubility, impediments to marriage, remarriage of widows and widowers, the Pauline Privilege, separation, annulment, mixed marriages, the promise to raise all children Catholic, divorce and remarriage, apparent divorces of famous Catholics, Church law vs. civil law, etc.

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Fr. Charles Carty broadcast a radio program, the Catholic Radio Hour, from St. Paul, Minnesota, and worked as a Catholic Campaigner for Christ, an "Apostolate to the man in the street", using a trailer and loud-speaker.

He wrote and distributed pamphlets and books on the Catholic Faith, most notably the Radio Replies series, in which he collaborated with Fr. Leslie Rumble, M.S.C.

They worked together--Fr. Carty in the United State, and Fr. Rumble in Australia--without meeting in person until after the first Radio Replies volume was a hit.

Fr. Carty died on May 22, 1964 in Connecticut.

Reviews

[Prince Cad Ali Cad · Rating 3 out of 5]

A short booklet on common questions concerning marriage. Begins by briefly stepping through the origins of marriage, marriage as a Sacrament, and impediments and prohibitions of marriage. Over a third of the book is devoted to warning Catholics of mixed marriages (that is, marriage between a Catholic and a non-Catholic, no matter how well-meaning and virtuous the other party is), with much of the remainder discussing divorce and annulments. At the time of the writing (sometimes in the late 1920s, seemingly) the Church had over 430 million adherents, yet only 16 annulments granted annually. The author gives reference to various real-world incidents involving annulments, but little context is given save in one. At one point, he points the reader to another book when but a paragraph explaining the situation would have been sufficient.

While the work is recommended, it doesn't come across as particularly dense (though the print is small), especially when compared to other works on marriage (like Abp. Fulton Sheen's "Three to Get Married," which has to be read a page at a time, if that, in order to get it all soaked in). Neither is it very technical, and, outside some of the impediments to marriage and duties of Catholics regarding non-Catholic marriage services, will likely not offer anything new to a moderately formed Catholic on the subject.

Ends with a humorous story by the famed Protestant preacher Billy Sunday, replete with twenties slang.

[ShepherdsDelight · Rating 3 out of 5]

70/100 (= 3.0/6) ≈ 3 Stars