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Corporate Re-union. 231
to their objections and their misrepresentations,
once more protest that the idea of Corporate
Re-union does not involve any compromise of
any essential principle
of Catholic Faith or
Catholic Discipline, but that it contemplates
the Union of all Christians in the One Holy
Catholic and Apostolic Church of JESUS
CHRIST, acknowledging the same Divine truths,
and indissolubly knit together around the great
centre of Catholic Unity the Chair of the
Blessed Peter. Now to say that such an idea
as this is uncatholic or heterodox is to give the
lie to Holy Church v
in her continued action
throughout all ages of her : history it is to con
tradict and insult the authority V
of the
(Ecumenical Councils of Lyons and of Florence,
it is to gainsay the teaching of her greatest
doctors and fathers, and to proclaim a policy,
the only issue of which would be the perpetual
prolongation of heresy and schism, and the
definitive reversal of the design and the prayer
of JESUS CHRIST Our LORD.
But to come to our immediate purpose, that
which we have now consistently and continually
advocated for more than thirty years the
f /
Ee-union of the Anglican and Catholic
Churches, it will be well to lay
before our
readers a few facts connected with the
origin
and progress of this movement, which has now
.assumed such
important dimensions. As