The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-04-03
IS SEEN BY A CONVERT
THE INCONSISTENCIES OF AN
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"AII One Body We"

at many public functions in Anglican
Churches by people SO widely separat-
ed on fundamental facts of the Chris
tian Faith as the following shows An
glicans to be.
Speaking few weeks ago at the
HouldsWorth Hall of the Church
House, Manchester, England, the Rev.
G. Ommaney, a well-known Anglican
clergyman, in the course of his adj
dress said: Il know young (Angli-
CAM clergyman in Sheffield who
openly said that he disbelieyed in the
Resurrection; and another who said
at public meeting that our Lord
Jesus Christ had sins to repent Of
and this latter young clergyman was
promoted to the cure Of colliery
district" In this same speech Mr..
| Ommaney observed that through neg
lect on someone's part the people had
become heather, and the parish priest
was a missionary to convert the wan
derers and to enlighten the ignorant
as it is reported in "The (Anglican)
Church Times one wonders what the
Anglican conception of a Bishop real
ly is. Mr.. Ommaney, in response to
his request for license for curate,
represented the Anglican Bishop of
Manchester as saying: you can't
have a priest (curate), because you
believe that when rubric says So
and-so it means it, and | don't" At
the same meeting the Rev. A Corni-
beer related a conversation he had
with the Bishop. According to "The
Church Times account, the Bishop
said: "The whole question depends
on this: Is there a Mass or not?"
asked, continued Mr. Cornibeer, what
he meant. He answered, 'Is there a
sacrifice or not?" | said, "My Lord,
believe there certainly is His
Lordship replied, Certainly there is
not
Reading of such incidents as this,
one is moved by Christian charity to
ask if there is such a thing as or
binary intelligence amongst those
whose actions give rise to them; and
if such people have any idea of what
consistency consists. Prompted by
love for our separated brethren we
are moved further to ask if it can be
other than the most solemn mockery
on the part of such people to sing
"All One Body We,
"One in Faith and Doctrine?"
1t strikes the writer of this as being
as near an approach to blasphemy as
it is possible to think of, apart from
sheer blasphemy itself.
DR.. Graham Aspland, an Anglican
Medical Missionary in North China,
speaking recently in London, said it
was at the suggestion of Mr.. Lu, a
native Catholic of Pekin, that the
Chinese Senate appointed a day of
prayer for the whole Empire. The
speaker added that out of every TWEEN
ty missionaries in the world, thirteen
are Catholics, six nonconformists, and
one Anglican.
Tewkesbury Abbey.
A portion of ground between the
Abbey Church at Tewkesbury and the
boundary wall of Abbey House had
not at the time of the so-called Ref
ormation been legally secured to the
! Anglican Church, although apparently
regarded as part of the churchyard.
A deed of transfer has therefore been
recently executed, and the cloister.
garth has, after lapse of more than
$40 years, been restored to sacred
purposes. The Anglican Church
Times" commenting on this incident
says that there is thereby undone
some of the mischief done by John
Tewkesbury, and was ''consecrated'
Bishop of Gloucester by the Protestant
Reformer, Archbishop" Cranmer,
September 25th, 1541. This Wakeman
it was who surrendered the Abbey to
the plunderers. A "Reformer," be it
observed. Tewkesbury Abbey stands
as one of many melancholy monu-
ments of Reforming zeal, having
been ruthlessly shorn of all that was
movable of it's glory.
Reckless RoWdyism.
Speaking in st. Paurs Cathedral,
London, England, at the afternoon
service on the Day of Intercession, the
Anglican Archdeacon of London, DR..
Holmes, denounced "the reckless
rowdyism with which hundreds of
young men of fighting age and ply
sique ushered in the New Year outside
this Cathedral in shameless disregard
of the nations feelings" We fully
share the Archdeacon's Indignation;
but as these young men were merely
| keeping up a custom that has been
observed unrebuked for years, We
must confess that we cannot see they
are wholly to blame When the prop
erty of the Catholic Church was taken
from it and given to Church that
carries as its distinctive designation
the name of nation, the people of
that nation regarding such property
as in some sense belonging to them
feel they have a right to do at least
in the immediate vicinity of it, es-
pecially in times of license such as
New Years Eve, anything they please.
They have been taught they are a
free people, and that their liberty was
secured to them by the plunderlng
and Punishment of an "alien" Church.
They reasonably cannot, therefore. as
we have already observed, be alto