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REPLIES TO BISHOP FUTILE
FATHER M'NULTY QUOTES AU-
THORITIES TO SHOW THE
CHURCH OF ROME
Is Not an OfGshoot of the Church of
England-AlsO Denies That
Catholic Bishops Cannot He
Loyal American Citizens

England-Also Denies That
Catholic Bishops Cannot He
Loyal American Citizens.
Father McNulty. who during Lent is
lecturing on church history at st.
Luke's church, last evening interrupted
his course to reply to remarks made
by Bishop futile at Christ church
Tuesday night:
During the past few weeks three bishops of
and delivered public lectures on points of re-
ligious controversy. Bishop Sessums, Of
Louisiana. taking for the subject of his dis
course the work of Wycliffe, went con-
siderably out of his way to cast doubt upon
fact now universally admitted by scholars.
be they Catholic. Protestant, or infdel. name
and was put to death in the Eternal City
Bishop Seymour, of Illinois, followed. and
In lecture on ''Cranmer," aimed at under
mining belief which is as well founded in
Scripture as is any doctrine of the Catholic
faith and which for fifteen centuries was re-
garded as a precious heritage of the Chris
tan church-the primacy of the Roman pom
tiff.
Last night Bishop futile, Of Missouri, con-
tinued the campaign, and taking for his
theme Hooker and the Post Reformation
statements:
o. That the Roman church is an offshoot
OF the Church of England, and (2), that the
bishops of the Catholic church cannot be
loyal American citizens. .-g
In common with all who defend the Epis-
copal position, Bishop Tuttle maintains that
mission of st. Augustine the Church Of Eng
land was Independent of the Church OF
Rome. Despite the scantiness Of historical
documents which have survived those trou-
blous times, we are in possession Of facts
which prove that the Church of England was
from the beginning Under the jurisdiction Of
the Church of Rome.
In the year 314 the bishops of London, York
and Lincoln represented the English church
at the council Of Aries. The acts of this
council We're forwarded to Rome, together
hail the Roman pontiff as 1.-The most beloved
Pope Sylvester salute him with the rever-
enee due" to him., regret his absence. and
add that had ne been present their SEN
tence would have been more severe and their
assembly more rejoiced." They request him
to make our decisions known to ALL the
natural it was for the bishops to submit to
the pope the acts of their council may be
inferred from the testimony which their letter
bore-that ''the apostles continued to sit" in
the see of Rome. If. then, 2SS years before
St. Augustine set foot on English SOIL the
leading bishops of England acknowledged that
Rome, and submitted their DEGREES to the
Roman pontiff they were little independent
of Rome as the American bishops of today.
who recognize in Leo the successor of st.
Peter and submit to him the DEGREES of their
plenary councils.
Again. Prosper tells us that when the
Pelagian heresy broke out pope Celestine
sent Germanus, bishop of Auzerre, to restors
the Britons to the Catholic faith This was
early in the fourth century. few years
later, as the same chronicer writes. Pope
Celestine despatched to Ireland Palladius.
the Roman deacon. TO be the first bishop
of that island, and thus enlarged the terri
tory of Christianity in Britain and the ad-
jacent countries.
But if early in the fourth century the Ro-
man pontiff was taking measures to guard
the Catholic faith in England against the in
lection Of heresy and TO secure the spread of
Christianity to the adjacent countries, there
Is surely no foundation for the assertion of
an Episcopalian bishop that the Church Of