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Corporate Re-union. 229
tamper with the integrity of Catholic Faith,
to compromise some essential principle of the
Catholic Religion, in order to effect a mere
apparent external union of men not holding
the same doctrines. It is wonderful that any
honest Catholic can bring such a charge as this
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against his Catholic brother who upholds the
Corporate Re-union. Does he not at once per
ceive that he is making a charge that is utterly
groundless, from the very fact that he is charg
ing him with upholding
a scheme which the
simplest child must know would be impossible
of realization; for how could a Corporate Re
union between separate branches of Christians
with the Catholic Church be effected without
the consent of the authorities of the latter, and
without the concurrence of that great centre of
Catholic Unity the holy See of S. Peter t
The Re-union then which is advocated by
Catholics between ourselves and our separated
brethren is not a Union based on compromise or
on any sacrifice of it is
principle, a Union based
on the mutual recognition of Catholic Truth, and
submission to the authority of Our LORD JESUS
CHRIST, as manifested in His Visible Church.
On the other hand in their first yearnings
after Union, it is very natural that our separated
brethren, who from their point of view regard
Catholicity and Unity in a different light from
ours, should regard such a Union also in the