Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1901-06-21 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

XIII. that conversions to the Romish Church were very different from the spiritual awakening and renewing of primitive Christianity? Will he admit that the religion then in John's time, proposed to the Pagans consisted, like their own, far more in external worship than in inward saving faith ? Will he admit that it was an outward show and ceremonial performance rather than an inward saving grace? (3) Will he deny that article S of Pope Pius IV.'s creed teaches the worship of saints and veneration of relics? He will not deny that a worship forbidden by God cannot terminate in Him ? Let the priest read Exodtts xx, 4.  (4) Will he confess that the core and essence of the religion of the Romish Church was made to consist in the worship of images and dead men? Also that God could only be approached by the intercession of the ai nt Will he admit that even Christ Himself, our merciful Redeemer, was supposed to need the entreaties of His mother, to recommend to Hi.s favour the sinners for whom He died? He Who said ..Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give von rest," need no entreaties from Mary. Will he admit that ?  (5) Will lie own that in the Runtish Church virgin and saints wero thought to be most effectually invoked by worshipping some relic of their bodies or clothes ? Will he admit that Rom:111km taught that heads, limbs, hairs, petticoats, even the filings of St Peter's chain, had a magical effect in compelling the attention and securing the favour of the glorified spirits? (6) Will he own that the mummy-pits and the catacombs of pagan Rome furnished most of the relies? Will he own that according to the teachings of the Romish Church, God was constantly interposingnot to attest revealed truth, or to impart discoveries beneficial to mankind but to disclose the spot where the mouldering hones of some saint, real or imaginary, lay concealed ?  (7) Will he admit that miracles were asserted in greater idiundance than those of Christ and the Apostles, but their object wan invariably to verify a relic, and increase the profit of those who exhibited it ? (8) Will ho own to the fact that saints were multiplied in proportion to the demand, but, as the privilege was precious, the mantilfacture, once free to bishops and councils, was reserved to the pope? Will he admit that John XV, was the first to exercise this right of his sole prerogative in the canonisation of the bishop lidalric (A.D. 993)? What does the priest think of these things? (9) Who are these +saints? IN Pope Cali.tus one of them, the ca-convict? Which of the sainted popes, was a schismatic, a simonias, and a murderer, and yet was a  good Romani.st, the completion of whose crimes ended in the death of St Silverius, who when he became pope, was cleansed front all his sins? Will he admit that it's written that it is the privilege of the Apostolic see to convert the greatest of sinners into saints?"  (10) Is it possible for the Romish Church to err in the canonisation of saints? If the Romish Church errs, and the popes err, of which we have glaring proofs, where is the infallibility of the Rotnish Church, and where is the true seat of authority? Not in the Romish Church, not in the popes. Will the priest admit as much as that.  (10) Wdl he admit that Cardinal Cajetan founded his doctrine upon St Thomas Aquiniei, and shows the Church may err in the canonisation of saints? Will he own that Ileliarmine himself admits that the pope's canonisations are doubtful and subject to error ? Will he admit the very terrible and imminent danger which arises out of this "relative worship"—"a worshipping God," as it is said to he, in His saints?" (11) Will he admit an instance in the history of the Romish Church, of a doubtful canonisation alleged by even Cardinal Cajetan himself, who, finding that St Bridget and St Cathi-rine, of Siena, had contrary revelations on the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, in which he tells us that St Catherine (who denied it) "nal,: more to be relied on than St Bridget, inasmuch as the latter was canonised during the schism when there was no undoubted pope? Does he see that the