The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-28 00:00:00

dent of the Catholic Institute of Great Britain.

" Beloved Son, Health and Apostolical Benediction,—
Whilst filled with sorrow on account of the ever-increas-
ing calamities of the Church of Christ, we have received
such abundant cause of gladness, as has not only relieved
us in the bitterness wherewith we were afflicted, but
has excited in us more than ordinary joy. For we have
been informed that by the care of yourself, and other
noble and pious men, the Catholic Institute was, two
years ago, established in Great Britain, with the design
especially of protecting the followers of our Divine Faith
in freedom and security, and, by the publication of works,
of vindicating the Spouse of the Immaculate Lamb from
the calumnies of the heterodox. Since, therefore, these
purposes tend in the highest degree to the advantage of
the English nation, You can easily understand, Beloved
Son, the reason why such joy should have been felt by us,
who have been, by Divine appointment, constituted the
heirs of the name and chair of that Gregory the Great,
who, by the torch of the Catholic Faith, first enlightened
Britain, involved in the darkness of idolatry. We are en-
couraged to entertain the cheering hope that the light of
Divine Faith will again shine with the same britness as
of old, upon the minds of the British people. We desire
nothing with greater earnestness than to embrace once
more with paternal exultation the Eneli,h Nation, adorned
with so many and such excellent qualities. and to receive
back the long-lost sheep into the fold of Christ. Where-
fore, Beloved Son, we cannot refrain from strenuously
exhorting you, and ail the members of the pious Associa-
tion over which you preside, to offer up fervent prayers
with us to the Father of Mercies, that He would pro-
pitiously remove the lamentable darkness which still covers
the mind of so many dwelling unhappily in error, and in
His clemency bring the Children of the Church, who
have wandered from her, back to the bosom of the mother
whom they have left.
" Meanwhile, to you and to all your countrymen who
belong in any way to the Catholic Institute, We most
strxtionately impart our Apostolical benediction.
" Given at Rome at St. Peter's, on the nineteenth day
of February, moccen., the tenth of our pontificate.
" GREGORY P.P. XVI."
There was not a word in that letter of hate or uncharita-
bleness towards the Protestunts.—(Cheers.) He trusted,
therefore, it would be an encouragement to them to perse-
vere.—( Cheers.) He would not advert to those who had
called the Pope Anti Christ, or the Man of Sin ; but this
he would say, that he thought the application of that term
was quite as suitable to the Archbishop of Canterbury
as the Pope.--( Cheers.) He regretted extremely that it
should have been thought necessary to send emissaries
round the country to declare that the Catholics inculcated
perjury. Those who had done so would have to answer
for it to their God.—( Cheers.) He should regret ex•
ceedingly it this society should ever become the engine to
assail their adversaries in the manner they had assailed
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the Resolution :
The Rev. Mr. RoesoN seconded the motion. It was
to him a source of the greatest satisfaction to find that the
proceedings of that Society met not only with the appro-
bation, but with the encouragement of the Holy Head of their
Church. The approval of such a man was valuable indeed. It
showed that his vigilance had never slumbered, that his anxi-
ety for England had never relaxed, that his desire was for the
promotion of the great cause of truth—(Cheers)—and as
a proof of that he had increased the vicars in this country
from four to eight. It had been said, and most truly, that
Gregory was an auspicious name ; it was so, and the pre-
sent day was equally auspicious for England, for it was
the feast of the apostle of this country, St. Austin.--
( Cheers.) The opposition to Catholicity did not proceed
from the love of truth or the hatred of error—truth and
error could not be blended together—but it proceeded
from selfish motives.—(Cheers.) He was aware that
the intercourse of the Catholics here with Rome was
decried in this country as a foreign connection, but he
must be allowed to say, that there existed those who co-
veted it. An organ of the Establishment lamented
in direct terms, that the establishment of England stood
alone in the world, and that it was enthralled. Now, the
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