The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-05-23


toned by their education and training. The SUI
premacy of the Pope they would dispense with An
other element would have nothing dstlnctlvey
Catholic. They rejected not only the Pope, but all
that they irreverently designated as Popish doc
trneS. Henry VIII. was of the former. The only
thing dstinctively Catholic that he rejected was
the supremacy of the Pope and indissolublllty OF
marriage His son and successor to the throne, Ed
ward VI yielding to the growing hostility against
Rome. Gisavowed Catholic unity and conformed to
European professionalism. During the reign OF
Maiv. who succeeded Edward VI, efforts were made
to heal The wounds caused by the schism. She was
a devouk Catholic and if anything overzealous Ill
her forts to heal the breach created by her father
aud half brother. Elizabeth her half sister, was
by conviction a Catholic, and would, if admitted
on Catholic principles be the legitimate heir 70
the English throne use her power and influence to
bring England back to the unity of the Catholic
faith But the church could not compromise, while
Elizabeth compromised with her own conscience by
abandoning the old faith in which she firmly be-
loved. During her reign the Anglican church took
definite shape It steered middle course between
the two contending parties, was less Catholic than
it was during her fathers reign and less Protest
ant than during Edwards reign. The thirty
articles of faith drawn up to define the Anglican
Greed admit such latitude in their Interpretation
that each wing of the cor tending parties could so
interpret them as to suit their private Judg
ment The Catholic tendency during Elizabeths
reign had gained such strength that it was con-
sidered through William Lands influence who was
archbishop of Canterbury and was beheaded at
London, 1915, that reunion with Rome would be
effected. All hopes were dissipated after the revo
luton of 1888, and the accession of George L. the
Lead of the present reigning family in 1714 After
the revolution religion was the decay, rational
ism and infdelity rampant From the revo-
lutionary spirit sprang pride, arrogance and
igious intolerance as substitutes for the peace
meekness humility and brotherly love inculcated by
the gospel of Christ The Oxford movement, which
began in 1888. and lead so many prominent An
glican diyines into the Catholic church. was pro-
test against the tendency toward liberalism, indif
ferentism and rationalism-
The same causes which brought on the Oxford
movement are at the bottom of the movement to-
day toward Rome Men of learning and deep devo-
ton realizing the inroads made by ratonalisrn,
ciahsn, ndiferentism and infdeliy on societ7, the
home and the family art alarmed. The Episcopal
church, with its "open pulpit has come down from
its "hieh horse and lost. the respect of its own
members This wakening brings up the DID
struggle in the days of Elizabeth between the Cath
olc and Protestant tendencies.
1t was Thomas Erastus a. German polemie in
the middle of the sixteenth century. who wrote
work accommodation restricting ecclesiastical
jurisdiction. This found its way into Englsn6
y.bo he A10 n,
power deriving, as it has been clearly pr wen in
this paper some weeks ago. its jurisdiction from the
secular power in violation of the well known axiom
'Nobody gives what he has not Their reignng
monarch is, and according to the constitution, must
be Protestant He swears to defend the Protest
AMI faith and perpetuate the same in his descend
ants. A few months ago. because King Edward VI.
attended Catholic memorial services held in London
for King Carlo and his son, there such an exhi-
biton OF fanaticsm and religious intolerance that
many claimed they longer owed allegiance to
his majesty the defender of their religion, and
spiritual head of the Anglican church What a
strange anamoly. No wonder then that in Eng
land Angcans with Catholic tendencies should be |
steering their barks toward Rome.
At home where the Episcopal church is. free
from all civil restraint, and no monarch to repress
Catholic tendencies in those who are seeking for
the light of the true faith, the authority infali-
oility and indefectibility of the Catholic church
supply all the longings of the soul, whilst those
'wayed by Protestant tendencies are abandoning
more and more each year, their ancient claims of
unity and Catholcity. and with their open pulpit
nave reached the level of the Evangelirals. Not
MY this, but in a convention held in Detroit last
week the startling views of their theologia1s must
e great disappointment to those who still cling
o Christianity. Here are the subjects which we're
ebated
l. Monday. Rev. Loripg of New York throws
ut Biblical miracles as improbable
IL Tuesday. Rev. Paddock of Pennsylvania /
IL Il Il a..