The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-07-20
REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM.

June %, 1907.
Editor "lntermountain Catholic:"
Dear Sir-A copy of your issue of May Is last
has just reached me- and though it is far cry
from Japan to Salt Lake, venture to send yor
few beated pointers the subject of your re-
marks ON an article of mine on christian Re
union which appeared in the Lamp. 1 hope you
have not forgotten what you wrote.
1. You charge me with keeping in the back
ground the real difficulty" l. G.. the recognition
of the Papacy." Now, sir, we people who write
for the Lamp have all committed ourselves to an
expression of belief in the Papacy as the true
centre of Christendom, and we are doing battle
for procuring the very recognition which you ac-
cuse of keeping in the background. If | had
not believed in the Pope the proper person to
do it, perhaps | might have ventured on making
restatement of the Catholic faith myself!
2. You say that 'the faith is given in the
simplest language in the Apostles Creed" Surely
you must know that when an Anglican like my
self comes to a Catholic priest to be admitted into
the fold he is presented with act of abjuration
which contains various items not to be found in
the Apostles Creed If Rome were content with
the Apostles Greed it would be strange indeed
3. You say that there was no give and take
about the reconciliation with Rome in Mary's days.
There was very considerable amount of it. Mary
consented, for instance to allow the holders of the
purloined church property to retain it. And pos
siby your manuals of history may not have it that
after Eizabeth's accession negotiations went
for some time between the see of Rome and the
crown of England, negotiations which might have
resulted in lasting peace had not Elizabeth lost
confidence finding that the Papacy in
triguing all the time with France to procure her
dethronement For this please see an excellent ar
ticle which appeared year ago in the Bulletin of
the Paris Arch-confraternity for Prayer for the
return of England to the unity of the church,
No, sir, there we're faults on both sides, just
as there is pride and prejudice on both sides now.
We have, both Catholic and Anglican to go to God
with confession of sin on our lips and prayer
for pardon and healing
ARTHUR LLOYD.
We give prominence to the above letter of Rev.
Arthur Lloyd, who takes exception to an editorial
which appeared in this paper last May. He states
that whilst he, with other writer's in Lamp "are
committed to an expression of their belief in the
Papacy" the article in question charges him in
his contention for reunion of Christendom Of
keeping the recognition of the Papacy, which is
the real difficulty, in the background" Do these
writer's "who are committed to an expression of
their belief in the Papacy" acknowledge the Pa
pacy in the Catholic sense? i. e.. not only as the
centre of unity but the source of divine authority
the fountain of universal jurisdiction, and the
preme and infallible court of last appeal in mat
tiers of faith and morals? If so, we have no quar-
rel with Rev. Arthur Lloyd. If the writer's in the
Lamp confne their expressions of belief in the
Papacy as simply essential for unity and nothing
more they fall far short of the Catholic belief in
the essential prerogatves of the Papacy which in
clude supreme authority universal jurisdiction and
the infallible organ of the church in declaring
what is the true faith or defining articles of faith
and morals. Supreme authority and universal
jurisdiction are co-relative terms The former is
needed in order to ascertain the true faith; the
latter, which is "the moral power of ruling those
who are subject to you," was conferred on Peter
when Christ said to him, "Feed my sheep" 1t is
this recognition of the Papacy that it was
claimed, in the editorial referred to, that the
writer's in the Lamp keep in the background the
real difficulty, viz, the recognition of the Papacy
in its full meaning and true sense
2. Exception is taken to the statement that
'the faith is given in the simplest Ian
guage is the Apostles Creed" Yet we
contend it is, for who says, 81 believe in
the Holy Catholic Church" must, if he is logically
consistent with his profession of faith believe
what the Catholic church teaches. You cannot say.
what the Catholic church teaches You cannot
say, Il believe in the Holy Catholic church" and