ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD'S REPLY TO REV. HAMMOND.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 281, 6 December 1911, Page 4

ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD'S REPLY TO REV. HAMMOND.

PIE-CIIUST POLITICAL PROMISES."

Interviewed by an Evening Pos't repuVter on the subject of the Bev. 31 r Hammond's telegram, bis Grace Archbishop Redwood said: —"3ir Hammond's l telegram to mo is in. direct contradiction to the account of the interview which he bad with the editor of the Tablet, which- account the said editor declares to be serupu-lotif-ly ae'eurate. And further, I say that Catholics have a. natural and divine right to the unfettered possession and of the necessary matter of the great Catholic Eucbaristic Sacrifice. Thenetn-re, it would bo un insult to their reason and their faith to -accept it on the precarious tenure of pie-crust political promises, or by a clause in an Act of Parliament which might be, and eertaitfly would: be, repealed if Prohibition ea.me to •prevail in tho Dominion."*