Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

264 Corporate Re-union.
Catholic usages amongst themselves, can imagine
that they are serving. What would they have ?
would they wish the Anglicans to retain all the
antiquated prejudices of Protestantism ? or do
they fancy that Englishmen can become
Catholic, f without first abandoning O these
? Is there to be no transition
prejudices
between Protestantism and Catholicism? It
is a remarkable fact, too, that this
illogical
line of conduct is pursued for the most part
by some of the very men who have pro
fited by this very movement to become
Catholics themselves : and yet now that they
have reached the threshold, they pursue the in
credible, not to call it revolting policy, of striving
to throw down the very ladder to which thev
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owe their own good fortune ! Truly,
it is not
their hand that will help any of their former
associates in their struggles after Divine Truth,
but we will also add, it will not be their puny
hand that will hinder the great work. They
tend simply to render Catholicism itself ridicu
lous and odious to those who are honestly
seeking for it : and yet when the glorioiivS
Religious revolution of the nineteenth century
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shall have fairly worked itself out, they will
be the loudest to assert that they always
approved what they never failed to condemn.
Of one thing they may rest assured, that the
more violent they are in ridiculing the