The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22
THE HOLY SEE DOES NOT USE
"RoMAN CATHOLIC" IN REFER
RING TO THE WHOLE CHURCH.

| RING TO THE WHOLE CHURCH.
| In the Private Bills Committee of
the Dominion Parliament, writes the
Most Reverend Archbishop Mcneil of
| Toronto, Ontario, Can, in Saint
Joseph's Lilies" a petition for incor-
pOration from the Catholic Truth SO,
ciety OF Toronto was under considera-
ton in March of last year. Mr. Fripp,
| NJ. .,fof Ottawa, said that the word
Roman" should be added to the title.
He laughingly told Mr.. Macdonen, M.
| p, OF Toronto, that he (Mr. Fripp) was
quite as good Catholic as Mr.. Mac
| donell, though not a Roman Catholic.
| The claim of some Anglicans to be
| called Catholics is q phenomenon in
| the religious world, and it is not easy
to understand just what they mean.
| They often speak and write as if the
question of being or not being a Cath
Ollie were a question of mental atti,
tude or of individual and internal
choice-as if a non-Catholic could
there and then become a Catholic sim
ply by some mental change! There is
only one way of being a Catholic, and
that is, by membership in the Catholic
Church. Membership implies intia-
ton into a society. If the society into
which you have been initiated, and
from which you have not been eX-
PEELED, is the Catholic Church, then,
nd pn1Jy c1o ~
be called a Catholic. But may not the
Anglican Church be Catholic as well
as the Gallican CHURCH. These days
we speak of it as the Church in
| France. The term "Gallican Church
is not now used; but it was much used
in former centuries, and historically
we can say that the Gallican Church
is Catholic. In this sense the Angli-
| can Church was Catholic before the
break or schism made by Henry VIII,
and Elizabeth. 1t was then often
| called in Latin Ecclesia Anglicana.
effort to prove that the change which
took place in this Anglican Church
at the time of the Reformation was
not strictly a schism. There is no
need of going into the elaborate the
cries devised to reconcile the facts.
they prove nothing. Whatever hap
pened centuries ago, there can be no
doubt about the fact that the Anglican
Church is today completely out of
communion with the rest of the Chris
tian world, and this fact alone suffices
be called Catholics. A Church con-
fined to one race of men is essentially
non-C Catholic if separated ecclesiastic-
ally from the rest of the Christian
world. This is precisely what Cath
Ollie means. The Kingdom of God on
earth was not Catholic before the COM
ing of our Lord. 1t was confined to
| one race of men, the Jews. But He
commanded His Apostles to teach all
nations and baptize them, and then
| the Kingdom of God on earth began to
be Catholic.
The British Government-the King,
| Lords and Commons-did manifest a
desire, during and after the Reforma-
| ton, to have the modern Anglican
! Church regarded as a continuation of
| the Church of previous centuries. The
Protestant wave from Germany de-
feated this pious desire even as to
| appearances, and the Catholic name
disappeared from British official no.
menclature; but shadow of that de-
sire is seen in the official reluctance
| to allow others to call themselves
| simply Catholics. In the army, the
navy, the schools, the prison and poor
| law administration in England the
| Catholics are always Roman Cath
| olics." When Queen Victoria cele-
brated her Diamond Jubilee, QS97,
| Cardinal Vaughan submitted to the
| Home Secretary of State an address
| which he wished to present to Her
| Majesty in the name of the Cardinal
| Archbishop and Bishops of the Prov
\ ince of Westminster The Home Sec,
| rotary decided that it should be pre-
| scented in the name of "The Roman
Catholic Archbishop and Bishops in
England" The Cardinal suggested an
amended form, namely, THE Bishops
of the Catholic Church in England"
| The Home Secretary refused to ac-
| cept this, and no Catholic address was
read at the Queens Jubilee. The Car
dinal thought it best to avoid the word
Roman" when he used it in one sense
and the Home Office understood it in
another. Since then the majority of
| those who use Roman Catholic" as
a name understand it as the Home
| Office understands it, namely, as i'm
| plying that members of certain differ
ent and separated Churches may right
| ly be termed Catholics, the equivoca-
ton thus arising should lead all of us
| to call ourselves Catholics without
| qualification. Let it be noted, how
ever, that it is only the appellative use
| of the word that is here in question.
| The word Roman" as descriptive
Adjective is correctly applied to the
| Church. As Cardinal Consalve said,
as representative of the Pope at the
| Congress of the Powers of Europe in
| Vienna, in 1915, the joint use of the
| terms Roman Catholic" is objection
able; but he was willing that they
should be separately applied to the
| Church, which is Roman by reason of
necessary dependence on the See of
Rome, and Catholic by reason of uni
versal diffusion" This question of