ATTACK ON ANGLICANS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20362, 17 September 1929, Page 9

ATTACK ON ANGLICANS.

ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST.

TALK OF IGNORANT MEN.

A SUBSEQUENT WITHDRAWAL.

(Received September 16, 8.5 j>.m.) United Service, LONDON, Sept. 16. Father Dudley, in the course of an address at the Roman Catholic Congress yesterday, declared that the prospects of n corporate return to the Roman Catholic faith were very slight. However, individual conversions ought to increase.

"The Church of England," said the ''is fast becoming a farco. Disestablishment inevitably must come. When it does tiie Church of England will be a sect among other sects." Father Dudley went on to criticise modernism as Roman Catholicism's greatest enemy. He described Dr. W. R. Inge, Dean of St. Paul's, and Dr. E. W. Barnes, Anglican Bishop of Birmingham, as very ignorant men. They were, he said, ignorant of the first things which, as professing Christians, they ought to know, namely, theology and the Christian religion.

In a letter to tho authorities of the congress Father Dudley said that if his reference to ignorant men had offended members ol the Anglican Church, he humbly withdrew it. He wished it to be cloarly understood that ho was not referring to lack of scholarship in those ho had named, but to the ignorance of Modernist leaders in theology. In tho Roman Catholic Church they held theology to be science revealed by tho truths of God.