AN UNFOUNDED STATEMENT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 24, 11 October 1873, Page 12

AN UNFOUNDED STATEMENT.

THE 'EECOBD'S' WONDEBITOi SIOBY*. Thebe recently went the rounds a big story to the effect that two clergymen in England now holding livings in the Church of England had been received into the Catholic Church, bub had received dispensation from the Pope enabling them to hold j their present offices. As many non-Cntholic readers are ignorant enough of the Catholic Church to be gulled by this, we hope that those J!few Zealand papers in which the statement appeared will be unprejudiced enough to pub.ish the following regarding it: — "The story," says the London. * Tablet,' " was circulated on the authority of Prebendary Brooks, who now writes to the ' Record to admit that he has been unable to adduce any evidence in support of it. We challenged Mi* Brooks to give the names. The rev. gentleman expresses sincere regret that he should have been deceived." It is but in very few instances that the authorship of these reckless calumnies cau be traced, and it is in still fewer instances that the person who first brings them into print has tho honesty and manliness to do what Mr Brooks has done~wurcly, to express his regret at having published, what he has found to be false, and to admit having been the victim of deception.