CHURCH OF ENGLAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20312, 21 January 1928, Page 11

CHURCH OF ENGLAND

REUNION WITH ROME. THE POPE SLAMS THE DOGE. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 19. The Rector of Birmingham (Canon Rogers), one of the leading clergy in Bishop Barnes’s diocese, expresses the opinion that if the laity was allowed freely to ballot they would endorse the House of Commons rejection of the Prayer Book. The bishops had acted precipitately since the book was defeated. He regretted that ' the defeated stalwarts panted for a fight to the finish, and, unless the bishops met the rising tide of popular feeling regarding the reserved sacrament, the book would again be defeated in the Commons. Referring to the Malines conversations, Canon Rogers said that the Pope nad slammed the door on a reunion with Rome during the present generation.—A. ana N.Z. and Sydney Sun Cable. TRAN SUB ST ANTI ATION. REGARDED AS SUPERSTITION. BISHOP BARNES INTERVIEWED. LONDON, January 19. (Received Jan. 20, at 5.5 p.m.) “ Archbishop Cranmer, in the sixteenth century, and Latimer, a predecessor of the modern bishops of Birmingham, were burned at the stake because they denied papal supremacy and transubstantiation,” said Bishop Barnes in an interview. “It now appears that Viscount Halifax, Bishop Gore, and their friends imagine that English churchmen are prepared to accept papal primacy and transubstantiation. They are mistaken. We regard transubstantiation as superstition, and we are not prepared to admit the Roman Church to our communion until the Vatican reforms more than its theology.”—A. and N.Z. and S.S. Cable.