Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

84 A Conference of Theologians.
denied to the Bishop of Rome his lawful patri
archal power. They professed it and offered all
precedence to it; neither has the Anglican
Church been called on to debate the issue on this
footing? To this let us add that whatever the
law of the realm may have meant of old, or
might now be construed to mean, it is a fact
which no one can deny that the is Pope per
mitted to exercise his supreme authority through
the Roman Catholic Bishops both in England
and Ireland. This is a fact allowed and in
directly sanctioned by law, while the proposal to
remove the Royal Supremacy as an integral part
of the Parliamentary oath is, to say the least, a
public recognition
of the same truth.
Lastly in regard to the Blessed Sacrament
which Cardinal Lovain at Poissy affirmed to be
the one question, without a true belief in which
it was needless to discuss any further points ;
on this doctrine we now know that no difficulty
need be raised after due explanation of the
"
word substantia. Nay, more : Since Du Pin
and others," writes Dr. Pusey, "have owned
our Communion Service to be the orthodox, I
should hope that the belief of the real objec
tive Presence as therein contained, or even
the formula at the close of the first Book of
Homilies, the due receiving of the body and
blood of CHRIST under the form of bread and
Cf. Manning on Unity, p. 363.