Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

28 The Exigency of Truth.
more. Borne was allowed to have the first
place under the Patriarchal system, but she had
that which 110 General council could either give or
take away. She was constituted to be the strength
and support of all other Churches the centre
round which all others should gather. And
though she has often, by exaggerating her claims,
driven others into opposition, and though the
corruptions which have encrusted her keel have
arrested the progress
of the Bark of S. Peter over
the stormy waves of agitated Christendom, yet
sooner or later all thoughtful Christian scholars
have come to recognise in her more than the mere
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creation of spiritual ambition or the creature of
political combinations.
It is not for a mere Essayist to say how on
the one side Rome is to right herself with the
rest of Christendom for the many faults by
which she has stamped a sense of her injustice,
almost universally, on the minds of those who
are not of her Communion, nor, on the other
hand, how we are to win for her a recognition
of her just claims from those who will not listen
to a word in her favour. There is one way,
and one way only, to accomplish this, and with
this directly I have nothing to do. We may use
prayers for the graces of charity and humility.
If we should ever again become One, the teach
ings of past history may lead us to expect a
repetition of what we have had in times past