ECCLESIASTICAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 31 December 1923, Page 5

ECCLESIASTICAL

TiE-UNION OF CHURCHES.

VARIOUS OPINIONS,

T& CABM—PBBBB ASSOCIATION—COPYWSH*

LONDON, Dec, $9. Bishop Welldon believes re-union \nth the Church of Rome is a will of "the wisp, entailing submission thereto. I He believes the English Church's hope of re-union lies with the orthodox tshurches of the Near East 'and the reform churches of Britain and the Continent. The Bishop of Hereford any rennion idea which leaves out of sigHfc the Church of Rome must be whofty inadequate. It would "be easy amtSng Anglicans and Free 'Churchmen to xm the passions of the past, but reasonable objection cannot T>e taken to ful and guarded conferences at Malmes. Captain Barron, secretary of thei drarch Association, states tliat the IPrrmate Tsas done ylo service to the re-> union of the Christian chtirches by countenancing secret conclaves at "Malines- at wTiicli "£he 'Church of England was represented hy Dr. Prere, one «if. the Mirneld monks, ;bo£h.of whose Home, proclivities are "well known. Ormfereirces cannot lead to any satisfactory solution unless Rome is prepared to withdraw its claims of Papal infallibility and supremacy, its curses of Anglicans and its 'unscriptural doclirines and aspirations for temporal -power. • The Church Association, t*he Protestant majority lof the Qrarch of England, will resist any attempt to revert to pre-Reforma-±ion. L LtJNDON, Deo. 26. D€Hfe Hyle,' of "Westminster, oomraentiTiK on the Primate's re-union letter, says that Vhile it is a good thing that Roman and Anglican prelates should meet for a round table talk, there "are such things as Papal infallibility . "an^ the immaculate conception wtojich. cannot he proved by Holy Writ and are not justified by reason or learning. Other clerical authorities regard the subject as ( one without any possibility of success. *. .■ _, Dr. Norwood, of the City Temple, says that while the Primate is right in sxploring any avenue towards an inderstanding -with the Church of Rome, he personally did not believe ;he, latter would entertain any union «cept ahsorption.