The Irish standard., 1909-04-10
Episcopalians Angicans Members of the Church of
England Not Entitled to the Name of Catholics
on Historic Grounds.
EXPRESSIONS USED IN A D|sPARAG|NG SENSE
The Single Title Of Catholic Without any Modifying Word,
is Proper, Ample and Comprehensive
For all Purposes.

As the late correspondence on this
subject has shown, this question Is a
perpetually recurring one of much I'M
portance, and propose to give few
selections bearing on it, writes NJ. D..
in The Examiner, Bombay. India.
L. st. Pacian, Bishop Of Barcelona.
answered the Protestants Of his day,
in the year 1913:
Thou revilest; but see, am not
moved. Have we ever borne any such
name? Ask century. brother, and
/ all its years in succession, whether the
people Of Cyprian have been called
other than Catholic? For myself ]
never heard any Of these your names:
And can man have a name and not
: know iii? What mean you, then: These
are not names, but insults. Could l
allow myself to be angry l, too, could
retort on you with as many ;,ames as
YOU will. You call Cyprian a saint,
and Ills pAople apostate! How can
sssss,.s u ths. &C fruit hels. I'D
issatte lump also; and. If the root DO
holy, 30 are the branches. (RoFn. Kin
,ts,5 Am, an apostate, or was Nova
tus such? Noyatus, say, who for
sock his father and abandoned the
church. Do you deny. that the Nova,
tians are: so-called after Novatus?
This will ever cling to them, give them,
what name you will.
Search, if you choose. whole annals
and trust SO many ages. You will an
swer christian But if I ask the gen.
us Of the sect, you will not deny that
it is Novatian. And yet it is not the
name of Novatian that I censure, and
which in spite Of all my questioning,
you hide with SO many circumlocu-
lions, and, if may speak, in closed
bosom. Confess it without deceit.
There is no crime in the ua'ae. Do
you envy me my name. and yet shun
your own? See what shame must
attach to a cause which shrinks from
its own name"
q. st. Cyril Of Jerusalem. in his
Catechetical Discourses delivered in
the year 347, said:
when you go to any city do not
ask merely for the House Of God or
for the Church merely, for all heretics
pretend to have this; but ask which
is the Catholic Church, for this title
belongs to our Holy Mother alone"
8. st. Augustine, Bishop Of Hippo.
the famous Doctor of the Church, who
died in 430, tells us:
MANY other things there are which
most justly keep me in her bosom;
the name itself Of the Catholic Church
keeps me. a name which in the midst
of SO many heresies this Church alone
has not without cause so held possess
sion Of. that although all heretics
would have themselves called Catho-
lies. yet to the enquiry Of any stran-
ger Where Is the meeting Of the Cath
olic Church held?' no hereto would
dare to point out his own tasilica or
house re
Let us now turn to the history Of the
s.sword Catholic, which we extract
from DR.. Miners immortal work. At
the first PRONUNCIATION of the Gospel.
its followers were distinguished from
the Jews by the name Of Christians,
as we learn from Scripture, Acts XII.
rs. Hence the title OF Catholic did not
occur in the primitive edition of the
Apostles Greed; but no sooner did
heresies aud schisms arise. to disturb
the peace Of the Church. than there
was found to be necessity for dis
eliminating the main stock OF her
faithful children, to whom che prom-
ises Of Christ belonged. from those
self -willed ohoosers Of their articles
Of, belief, u the word Hereto sisnifies.
and those disobedient separatists. as
\ the word schismatic means. $50.
4 For this purpose the title of CATH
\ Ole or Universal. was adopted and