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, if a cloisteredreligious were bidden to engage in hospital work), nor, unlessotherwise vowed, of keeping each prescription of the rule orconstitutions. For thelaw confines itself to general principles that, are of universalapplication, whereas the manner of practising fasts and abstinences hasto be suited to conditions of time and place. In ancient times it was solely a medium or measure ofexchange that could not be turned easily into capital. Hence, if for a reasonable cause a man and woman married without anyprevious binding pledge on either side, the marriage would be good andlawful.

Midwives, nurses, mothers, and physiciansshould be especially careful to baptize abortive fetuses, and shouldknow how this can be done (see Commentaries on Canons 746-748). (b) It is a calling on God, and hence if appeal is made to somecreature (e. , by moving to a place wherethere is no church, by taking a position that requires work all Sundaymorn , in wordor deed).