THE ANGLICAN CHURCH AND ROME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9981, 19 November 1895, Page 3

THE ANGLICAN CHURCH AND ROME.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— the late meeting of the Diocesan Synod, in Auckland, tho Rev. W. Katterns moved, " That this Synod welcomes with thankfulness the kind expressions toward] the British Empire and the call to prayer for unity contained in the letter of His Holiness the Pope Leo XIII., and in response to his wishes, now respectfully requests the Bishop to take such steps as he shall see fit, and call all people in this diocese to prayer to the Great Head of the Church for unity." Mr. Templar seconded this motion, and of course it fell dead—not a single voice was raised in its favour. The Synod, no doubt, collectively considered the request as a most impertinent insult to the nation. Cardinal Vaughan has reminded us of what we all knew, that " the kernel of the question consists in the admission of the Roman claim that the Popo has received by Divine right authority to teach and govern tho whole Church," and than England must submit unconditionally to Rome. I would ask Messrs. Katterns anil Templar, if in the course of their reading they ever heard of those glorious men, Uranmer, Ridley, and Latimer, and the fate they met with at the hands of Romanists? Afto, if they had ever read •'The Moral Theology,"of Peter Dens, the text-book of Maynooth College, the " Glories of Mary," recommended to the faithful by Cardinal Wiseman; the " Secreta Monita," of Alphonso Liguori; also, I should like to ask these two gentlemen the meaning of the 63 years' indulgence offered by the Pope to all who will on the nine days of Pentecost, pray for the conversion of England. Is Pope Leo XIII. so ill-informed that he does not know that the men who wrought out tho Reformation are better taught than they were 400 or GOO years ago. There is a great tendency among a class of our clergy to pander to Rome. I was once talking with a clergyman upon the diabolical cruelties of Rome, and ho said with great complacency, " Well, do not be too hard upon the Romanists, for they thought they were right." Messrs. Katterns and Templar should read " Fox's Book of Martyrs."—l am, etc., Anglican.