CATHOLIC CONGRESS.
A PROTEST, PROCESSION OF THE HOBT. PETITION TO KING. (by TEr.EGP.ArK —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIEIOHT.) " London; September'B. The Protestant !£ssbciatiori lias'requested 'fc the police to forbid-a-procession of- the j Blessed Sacramont"'iir the neighbourhood: of' Westminster Catholic Cathedral, as .being ills-- c gal and idolatrous.-i The procession will be tho. chief ceremonial s in connection with tho Eucharistio Congress. _ t A guard of consisting 0f_20,000 men { is being organised.''" ~T. ( CROUNDS OF OBJECTION. i i RELIGIOUS''FEUDS. : - (Ree. September,,9, 11.3 p.m.) ~ ! ' • A London, -9u'.-.l' j A meeting of tho Loudon Council of 51 United Protestant societies, presided over ] by Mr. C. M'Artfi\ir| v '(Unionist member for . Kirkdale division qj>.;£iverpool, and author •; of "Evidence of 'fNational' Religion"), re- < solved to urge the Government to forbid the Procession of the Host in connection with ; the Eucharistio {• thoroughfares. 5\?4- ''A The Council, a ,; petitidn tolling Edward, and,ftsiS'seis. : t(}-.fQflt. hundred Peers and Commoners a message" inviting ' them to use their infludncd 'to prevent' a. pro-' cession which the Council, feared might cause, riot and even bloodshed. " ' Mr. M'Arthur aljj^Totjiers, lished in the newspapers, describe tho procession and public adoration -6f r the"'-Host-' ; as- ; an attempt to create a precedent for-similar. -. procossions in all the great towns of the Empire, thus loading KtoVTeligimiß ! It -is not clear wli'ac 'the "".Protestant 'Association" referred was. the "Church tji£object'of Which" " is ."To maintain the princJjxs. and. doctrines established at the Refftrmiitidh, l n , n'd";tb p.'ig-" ' serve the purity of Protestant worship'in.- the Church of England? t.O'-'f&ist in the order of the service as prescribed by tho joint authority of ;tK6 lfi.h.urch.Lanili,State, ; all attempts to restore the use of the confessional, and every exercise,of,-that priestly-authoritjv ■ which was put down at the Reformation." The" association has for'medon Protestant .electoral - organisation in mor6"thatf' lial'f' "tlie:'"3?arliamentary boroughs in Englaud."' '... '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 298, 10 September 1908, Page 7
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295CATHOLIC CONGRESS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 298, 10 September 1908, Page 7
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