What Changes were made at the English Reformation.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XI, Issue 3, 1 September 1920, Page 316

What Changes were made at the English Reformation.

I.— The Authority of Rome was Re-pudiated--"The .Bishop of Rome hath no greater jurisdiction m this kingdom given to him by God m the Holy Scriptures than any other foreign;bishop.'-'' This' w&s\the only change made under Henry /-VIIL „ 2.— The Clergy -were Allowed to Marry r—" Romanists who 'scoff at the married clergy of England find it convenient to forget that throughout, their own tlniat Churches m the East the law of compulsory marriage of priests is not m force." ■'>:■- --3.—Confession was made Voluntary instead of Compulsory.— lnnocent 111. (1215) first made confession com- 1 :" pulsory. - ■;■•.;.. '' i 4.— The Laity were Allowed to Partake of the Chalice,— Communion m one' kind was. not allowed till 1099, when children might omit the wine. It was first ordered m 1415. s —The Services were to be said m ■ English.— Originally m Rome the Eucharist was celebrated m Greek as it is to-day m many" Roman Eastern Churches. When the wealthy Latin-speaking people became Christian, Latin was used so that they might understand the service.; 6.— Gross and Vulgar Errors concerning Purgatory, the Saints, and. Transubstantiation were Condemned. —No one was forbidden to believe m, the Intermediate State, m the pray-v era of the 'Saints, . prayers for the dead, or the Eiicharistic Sacrifice, but only "the grossness and sensibleness m the receiving thereof." These are all- the changes of any importance made at. the Reformation. All these .things changed, were comparatiyely recent accretions to. the Catholic faith and and their cleansing did not alter the Church. But since the Reformation new errors have sprung up m, the Churchl of Rome which the Church of England does not receive. These are some of them:— - • >■-'': .-■■ v I.— The Infallibility of the Pope.— It was declared m 1870 against the strongest protests of the best Roman theologians that the Pope, speaking m his capacity as the successor of St. Peter, could not err.

, 2.-— The Immaculate Conception of the. . Blessed Virgin.— This .theory, made an article of faith m 1854, tea--ches that ,' JjheV Blessed; i v Virgin: was without sin from her conception m her mother's, womb. ', \ 3.— lDhat Marriage is Invalid unless Conlracted^ m the Presence of a Roman' Pnest.-r-Tho , Cath6Uc;teacnling is that thtf marriage, contract consists 1 of mutual cbrisent inCtfie preserice of witnesses.-—' ' Northern Churciiman, ' f