Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

236 Corporate Re-union.
Unio Anglicanorum cum Ecclesia Romana eo
sensu intenditur, ac promovetur, ut illi quovis
errore ac schismate ejurato Doctrinam Catho-
licam sincere amplecti Romanoque Pontifici
tanquam Ohristi Vicario ac Supremo Eeclesia?
Oapiti subesse velint, potes existimare benignitatem
hujus Sanctse Sedis Anglicanis omnibus
ac singulis paratissimam fore, cum nihil magis
optet amantissima Mater, quam ut omnes pro
quibus Cliristus mortuus est, atque ii pr^esertim
qui Christiano Nomine gloriantur, in portum
salutis seternse, quse sola Catliolica Ecclesia est,
recipiantur."*
As my readers will naturally conclude,
I lost
110 time to write to the Cardinal a full explana
tion of my Essay, of which moreover he now
which he had ordered to be
possessed a copy,
translated : and I showed him that nothing was
further from my intentions than to connive at
" *
But, on the other hand, if the report sent me be untrue
or the result of a misunderstanding of your Essay, and if
the Union of the Anglicans with the Koman Church is in
tended and promoted in this sense, that they laying aside
all error and schism are willing to embrace in sincerity
Catholic Doctrine and to accept the Supremacy of the
Eoman Pontiff, as the Chief Vicar of JESUS CHRIST on
earth and the Visible Head of His Church, you may count
upon the kindness with which this Holy See would be ready
to treat with the Anglicans whether collectively or in
dividually, for there is nothing which the most loving
Mother more earnestly desires than that all for whom
CHRIST died, especially they who glory in the Christian
Name, should be received into the bosom of the Catholic
Church, in which alone is the haven of Salvation."