Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Hi Introductory Essay.
simple priest/
that he is invested with no au
thority, and that consequently he could not
take upon himself to give the detailed explana
1
tions.
M. Gondon, who quotes
this as well as
another sharp statement, admits the possibility
of guarantees being given, even while he re
gards as a phantom the dangers against which I
expressed a wish for guarantees.
" Mr. P. will soon see the phantom disappear,
against which he asks for guarantees, when he
says that in case the Church of England should
unite with the Church of Rome, this last ought
not to force Anglicans to admit certain doctrines,
which are taught by its priests and in books of
devotion approved by the Bishops. He wishes
that this point should be stipulated on both
sides, which could present no For if
difficulty.
the doctrines, to which Dr. P. alludes, are <de
fide, he declares that he admits them ; and if
they are not, Rome will not impose them on
Anglicans any more than on Catholics."
The same is expressed by a Dominican
"reader in
Theology,"* whose statement is the
more remarkable as being contained in an
impassioned appeal to the Russian Church not
to unite with us,f in which he exhibits us to
* Che ry, Appel a 1 Eglise Russe et a 1 Eglise Anglicane,
approved by the Provincial of tlie Dominicans in France,
"
f One of the approvers calls it a victorious answer to the