The Catholic bulletin., 1922-10-07
FROM ABROAD

Christian education. 1t is interesting
to note that in the Socialist Party it.
self a strong opposition was manifest
ed against the action of the council
in prohibiting the school prayers.
Speakers for this opposition declared
it to be inexcasable to precipitate q
religious controversy at the present
time, in a country confronted with the
worst possible economic problems and
struggling for it's very existence, and
to carry unrest and disorder even into
the schools.
This opposition in their own ranks
was, however, only one of the minor
reasons why the Socialist leaders
yielded. The Catholics of Vienna are
able to rejoice because by systemat-
ically enlightening the public they
have succeeded in ayerting an attack
directed against Christian education
in the schools, in which movement the
elimination of school prayers waste
have been the first STEP |
ANGLICAN HOPES REVIVED.
The recent decision of the Synod of
the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Con-
stantinople in favor of recognizing the
validity of the orders of the Anglican
Church, opens an entirely new aspect
of this question of Anglican ordina-
tion. For the real motive behind all
this question Of Anglican orders is
the securing of Roman acknowledg-
ment Of the priesthood of the Angii-
can Episcopal Church.
Accordingly, it is more than possi-
BILE that fresh movement will be
started shortly amongst the so-called
Anglo-Catholics, with the idea of get.
ting the Apostolic See to reopen the
question of Anglican ordinations; for
section of the Anglicans is firmly
persuaded that the Bull of Leo XIII
| Apostolicae Curae, did not dispose OF
the issue finally and irrevocably
| The fact that the Patriarcha1 Synod
Of Constantinople affects to regard the
orders of the Anglican Church as pos
sessing the same validity as those OF
the Roman Catholic Church, has giver
new impetus to the hopes of the High
Anglicans.
/ Now good deal of quiet work has
been going on on the Anglican side
to induce Rome to change it's point o
4 view. The purpose of this article il
] not to say anything in favor of Angli
can orders, but merely to point ou
that the Anglicans still hope for Papa
i recognition of their Bishops ant
i priests as true members of the Catho
lie priesthood.
Lord HaIifax's Activity.
One of the foremost protagonists o
the overtures made to Pope Leo XII
was the Viscount Halifax, a well
known High Churchman, and former
ly president of the English Churcl
4 Union, which is the organized ,voic
of the High Church Party. In spite q
Z Leo xIII's discouraging Bull, Lor
Halifax has never despaired of gel
ting a favorable decision from Rome
and to the present time has worke
hard in, this direction. To promote hi
cause, Lord Halifax went to Belgium
last year, and had long talk wit
Cardinal Mercier. The results of tiles
conversations are to be published i
a volume to be called, "A Call to RI
union"
The Patriarchal document, whic
has aroused fresh hopes in the Angl
can breast, is dignified with the It'll
of an Encyclical It expresses in tn
most definite terms the fact that th
, Anglicans possess valid episcopal
and priesthood. and states further thu
the Orthodox Church has never OF
!, cially treated Anglican orders as que
!. tionable.
But as to any intercommunion
. tween Constantinople and Canterbur
: that is another matter. The Ang
can Church. in its present state
!, comprehensiyeness, includes belieye
in the immaculate Conception and
! niers of the Divinity of Christi A
the Anglicans look for at present
: kind of friendly understanding b
tween the two Churches; but tt
not impossible that fresh overtur,
$ will be made to Rome in the not Fl
} distant future.