The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-01 00:00:00

CHURCH ITEMS.

The John Bull says that the Latin speech which
Archdeacon Denison will make on Tuesday, in pre-
senting the Prolocutor of Convocation to the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, will contain an allusion to all
the leading questions of the day, pointing out how
the Church of England is to be subverted for the
honour and enlargement of the Roman Church, and
dealing with the need of an increase of the Episco-
pate, with the Ritual question, and with that of the
Court of Appeal, in a masterly but most temperate
manner.—The same paper mentions that in all pro-
bability an attack will be made upon the cathedral
system by a distinguished member of the Liberal
party.—Throughout the diocese of Oxford altar-
lights have ceased to be burnt.—The Bishop-
designate of Lincoln will reside in his cathedral
city.—The Bishop of Honolulu is just about to start
for his diocese, and will receive a commission to
visit on his way the consular and other chaplaincies
in British South America.—lt is reported that
the Colonial Bishoprics Council intend to found a
bishopric for the Falkland Islands, and another,
probably, at Lima or Coquimbo, which would, we
presume, displease high Churchmen as much as the
bishopric of Jerusalem.

The Roman Catholic papers are greatly excc.C.„ed
by Mr. Ffoulkes's pamphlet. The freckly Register
has declared that no priest would think of giving
Mr. Ffoulkes absolution or administering the sacra-
ment. Sir George Bowyer writes to the same paper
with regard to one of the points taken up by Mr.
Honlkes—the forged decretals of Isidore—and admit-
ting that they were false, urges that the powers which
they were supposed to confer can be as abundantly
proved without them.
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Thomas W. Morsman, " priest in the ancient
diocese of Lincoln"—the same Anglican clergyman
who a short time ago expressed his belief in
the near approach of the good time when the
English Church would submit itself to the Holy See
—is very indignant that Mr. Ffoulkes should have
written against his own Church, and asks how he can
cons.Hentiously remain in it ; to which that gentle-
man might well reply with ato pope. The
_Register is also very angry because the Church
News liis had the " cool impudence " to
speak of the Roman Church r.s " that new
communion created in 1851." " That we are not of
the Church of Laud is perfectly true (says the
Register), and God be praised for that mercy; but to
say that Augustine or Anselm would, if they re-
visited the earth, belong to that hotch-potch called
the Church of England, is about the greatest
absurdity ever uttered off the boards of a theatre.
Fancy St. Augustine an Anglican bishop, with a wife
and some fast daughters; or imagine St. Anselm
paying the quarterly bill for his womenkind at Swami
and Edgar's. And might we aslc, if we poor people of
the ' Roman Obedience' belong to a ' new commu-
nion' in England, to what did the race of men who
for three hundred years braved the anger of the
Anglican Church r.s by law established in these realms
belong Finally, a favourite correspondent of the
same journal w..rns the Ritualists that every time
they offer up the mass they desecrate the Blessed
Sacrament, incur the penalty of Korah and his
brethren, and " are dawning souls daily." Strife,
bitterness, curses everywhere and on all li:nds, be-
ebunoeill-ccirthbeeseatv
ori(c•lts
iN.s.-epearecaecl,,the la n d
tween Church and Church, between party awl party.
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