CATHOLIC AND ROMAN CATHOLIC

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 19, 17 October 1917, Page 5

CATHOLIC AND ROMAN CATHOLIC

(To the Editor.) i Sir —I would be obliged if you would j allow me to reply briefly to the points • raised by your correspondent: in Satur- i day's issue. . , ' 1. The Anglican Church does official- i It" and "unitedly" claim and use the title "Catholic." Anglicans all over the ; world say in the Creed: "I believe in the ; holy Catholic Chnrcli." . ■, 2' The State has, 011 certain occasions, ; nnplied "Protestant* to the Church of •' England, This was done avowedly for ; nolitical purposes, and with the inten- ; tion of emphasising tho independence 01 . the National Clmrch. ' 3. There is no opposition between the terms "Protestant" and "Catholic.' The j former orisrinal.lv meant ono who vemidi* ; at«l Roman Catholic doctrines and Papal •; authority, and this is the meaning siren in the dictionary open before ine. Thus, ! ono cnn be a whole-hearted Protestant, >; end at the eame time believe in the > Catlinlia Church. J \ ( I am nfrairl vour correspondent ; would not accent all the generalisations ■ of the man in the street. Does he real- ; lv think tlrat the newspaper should not j reflect more enlightened opinions tunn ■ tliis incoherent individual? 5. There are. I Mindersland. about j HurtT-Hvo mi'linn AnTlican-. Vour eor- ■ respondent's Genres show that there are : i-ifl million Orthodox. There arn I'ms 152 mil'inn o<n'«tiaTw who claim ; the tiH" of outside the fio- j nan Church. f'nniin? to' onrselTe?. • 'here are in New Zetland an ovtwMm- • i.«. proportion of Anglicans. T tMnV, .! sir. 011 figures alone, tho j f'liiirrh has CT»ry rirH to have her j "'aimc allowed, if any Chnrch has. in an j community.—'t nm. etc., j J. R. JfITRVEY. St. Thomas's, Wellington South.