Word: mcauley
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Claire McAuley" and her husband are to be sincerely praised on doing the impossible. Life is, after all, a short time as compared with the unending time of eternity...
...wife, but in private must be as chaste as brother and sister. The true story of one couple's struggle to achieve this relationship is poignantly told in a new book, Whom God Hath Not Joined, by a young woman under the pen name of Claire McAuley (Sheed & Ward...
...Neat Trick. "Claire McAuley" was married in the church at the age of 18, and two years later, "after a series of misfortunes which eventually saw my legal, valid husband behind bars and bigamously married to another," her bishop granted her permission to get a civil divorce. Thus at 20, the mother of a small son, she found herself legally free but ecclesiastically still married. When she met the man she "realized was the one with whom I should spend the rest of my life," she was confident God understood that her first marriage had not been a marriage...
...Claire McAuley gradually began to be nagged by doubt that God "understood" so well, after all, and that through her own willfulness she might be "paving a path to perdition," not only for herself but for the man she loved. In an agony of conscience, she appealed again and again to her parish priest. She had never heard of the brother-sister vow, but had come to the conclusion that she and John could stay together if only they avoided "adultery," i.e., sex ("A neat trick, if you happen to be quite young, quite normal, and very much in love...