The Real Meaning

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 25, 23 June 1904, Page 15

The Real Meaning

The Springfield ' Republican ' evidently thinks th.it the voids ' in partibus lnfidehum, 1 which may he tian~>lated as in mfide! paits 'is applied by tlie CliVinh to courtm-s whose ])opu,'ation is mainly Protest ajil (sajs the ' Sar-red Heart Review ') This is a common delusion tunone, non-Catholics who wish to belie\e 01 lia\e ot'lieis belie\e that the Chinch Kibe's Pi otestants .is infidels. Of course tilie Church does, no such thing; A bishop ' infide nun ' does not mean a bishop of a Catholu dio-cc-c in Kli^huid or America 01 any other Piotestant country It means a bishop conseciated to a See whi< h formerh existed, but winch has been, chiefly tluough the dc\ astat ions ot Mahomet, loM to (.'hi istendom. The propel foimula 101 such non-iesident bishops now is titular bishops, "the foimufa ' m parti bus lnhdehum ' ha»\inp; iKen abolished by a deciee of the Propaganda, Februaiy 28, 1882. We may say, for the fuither mun motion of the ' Republican ' that the Church does not apply the woid infidel to Protestants, e\ en to Unitarian Protestants, for such people, to quote the , Catholic Dictionary," accept the religion of Christ as dnmely repealed, however errorco-us or lantastic their notions as to the nature of the -revelation may be '