Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Postscript on Catholic Unity. 189
"Dublin Review" be its one exclusive organ) ;
and when I am so charged for a concurring in
the unfavourable judgment of the late Father
General of the Order of Charity on a recent
f
Marian manual, my critic also forgets that I
have merely quoted Father s Pagani language,
without expressing
either concurrence or
dissent,
as well because it refers to a book I
have not read as because my object suffi
ciently patent on the surface was, not to pro
pound my own opinion, which is of little con
sequence, but to record that of one of the first
devotional writers of the day in
Italy and the
head of a learned and active Religious Order in
the Church. The authority of such names as
Rosmini s and Pagani s mav well serve to re-
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assure those of our Anglican friends who are
the bluster of a little coterie of
perplexed by
amateur theologians or the idiosvncracies of a
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crotchetty journalist.
This re-awakened yearning for unity is not
confined even to those who call themselves
with the written approbation of Bishop Challoner and
"
Cardinal Wiseman. The Editor s caution against de
votional importations from the fervid poetical regions of
"
Southern Europe is in exact accordance with Dr. New
man s remarks on the subject. I may add that both his
own language and that of his authorities entirely bear out
what I have elsewhere said on the unwisdom of employing
"
the word worship," which is sure to be misunderstood, in
reference to devotion to our Lady and the Saints. Mr. Sidden
makes considerable use of Cardinal Wiseman s Letter to
Lord Shrewsbury.