Queen Ena

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 25, 21 June 1906, Page 18

Queen Ena

As a contrast to the clapper-clawing of - Miss Corelli (referred to in our Current Topics) we reproduce the following from the ' Church Commonwealth,' the Australian Federal paper of the Church of England : 'A correspondent to one of our English contemporaries makes the following remarks with reference to the recent protests which have been made in certain quarters against the conversion of Princess Ena of Batteriberg to Romanism upon her marriage to the King of Spain. He certainly puts his finger upon a weak spot when he deplores the lacft of consistency on the part of the English Episcopate. " When did our Bishops protest against the ' conversion ' of the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice to Lutheranism, involving communion with those who, on important points of theology, contradict the Catholic faith, have no validly-ordaincd ministry, and dispute the Catholic doctrine of the Sacraments ? When did they protest against the rupture of unity created by the Court in the last reign, and, unhappily, in this, by attendance at Presbyterian worship when in Scotland ? . . . Those who know the life^of Courts cannot but allow that from one point of view the marriage of a young English princess to a young king, living the ordered, disciplined life of a Catholic Christian, is infinitely to be preferred to an alliance with some German non-Catholic with the usual tendency to rationalism and unbelief." '