CHURCH UNITY

Evening Star, Issue 19762, 12 January 1928, Page 5

CHURCH UNITY

THE PAIi-GKfIISTIAf} KOVEKEHT DISAPPROVED BY POPE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, ROM IL January 10. In n Papa! Encyclical disapproving of the pan-Chri.sliaii movement which .specially interests English Roman Catholics, the Pope deplores the # state of mind which holds all religions equally estimable. He says that many urge a, false religions unity between Christians, thereby seeking to undermine the lee,is of Catholicism. It is impossible to have a Christian league in which the faithful are free to haVd a personal criterion, since it would le'n'd to indifference. The Pope directs thd bishops to forewarn the people against such pernicious, 1 alscnecs, and to'clarify the principles ol religious unity. Tli'O encyclical confutes the various iibfrCatholic arguments in favor of. a nnionistic thesis, ami alarms that church unity is obi ai liable only by tlfe return of the dissidents to tho llom'an Catholic Church, Hie only true Church of Jesus Christ, from which they dfc» sorted.—A- and N.Z. and ‘SuU 1 Cable. A PROTESTANT VIEW, ANCLO-CATIIOLTC HOPES DASHED. LONDON; January- !L (Received January 12, at noom) Mr Henry Fowler, secretary of the Protestant " Alliance, expresses - the opinion that the Pope’s pronouncement dissolves the A nglo-Cal holies’ dream of the reunion of tho Anglican Church, with Rome. Ho .says that attempts at reunion must always result in loss to the Anglicans, because Rome’s dogma is rigid. It is tho Anglo-Catholics who alone cherish the illusion of reunion. They would go to Romo, and the Evangelicals would turn ’to the NofP conformists.