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encyclical and that all Catholics were bound to receive it with the utmost respect being finally settled and determined without any possible appeal. We must, however, confess that certain Catholics have not responded to it, a matter which has caused Us no little sorrow. We have written this to you, beloved Son, because it especially applies to a certain journal called the Revue Anglo-Romaine, published in Paris. There are some amongst its writers who, instead of defending and illustrating this Constitution, try instead to weaken it by explaining it away. Wherefore you must see that nothing is put forth in this journal which is not in full accordance with Our Statements, and it will certainly be better for it to cease and be silent rather than bring difficulties against these excellent statements and decisions. Few of those who knew the Catholic Truth Society before Bishop Clark became its chairman would have believed that in 1977 what Pope Leo XIII had written concerning the Revue Anglo-Romain would be applicable to the C.T.S. But there could be no more accurate assessment of Anglican Orders-----A Way Forward? by Edward Yarnold, S.J., than as an attempt to weaken and explain away the encyclical Apostolicae Curae which, Pope Leo XIII has stated in its concluding passage, . . . shall be always valid and in force, and shall be inviolably observed both juridically and otherwise, by all of whatsoever degree and preeminence, declaring null and void anything which, in these matters, may happen to be contrariwise attempted, whether wittingly or unwittingly, by any person whatsoever, by whatsoever authority or pretext, all things to the contrary notwithstanding. 1. The Eucharist: Unity or Truth? (Faith-Keyway Publications, 1973), p. 28. 2. Ibid., p. 29. 3. AOWF, p. 7/8. 4. AOWF, p. 13. 5. RMP, vol. I, pp. 458/9. 6. CDT, vol. III, p. 362. 7. AOWF, p. 13. 8. RMP, vol. I, p. 145. 9. Ibid., p. 149. 10. Institutes, Lib. IV, cap. xix, 28, col. 780. 11. AOWF, p. 1 1. 12. Authority and Ministry (Grove Books, 1976), p. 24.
Chapter VI Agreement on the Ministry In 1973 the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission issued its second Agreed Statement. It was entitled Ministry and Ordination and sub-titled A Statement on the Doctrine of the Ministry Agreed by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, Canterbury 1973. 1 Catholic teaching is not affirmed in this Statement in a single instance where Catholics and Protestants have differed on the nature of the priesthood. On every crucial issue the Catholic position is either passed over in silence or the Protestant position is affirmed. A study of this document makes only one conclusion possible: the Catholic signatories have betrayed the faith they claim to hold. Among the Catholic signatories are two bishops, Bishops C. Butler and A. Clark. This in itself is quite scandalous, but equally scandalous is the fact that not a single English bishop has shown sufficient zeal for the Catholic Faith to denounce the Statement in public. We have no contemporary St. John Fisher. Most regrettable of all was the failure of the Vatican to repudiate the Statement until 1991 (see Appendix VIII). On 9 October 1977 the B.B.C. broadcast a programme in favour of ecumenism in general and the Agreed Statements in particular. No Catholic critic of the Agreed Statements was permitted to put his viewpoint; the case for and against the Statements was put by Bishops Clark and Butler. Bishop Butler explained that some Catholics had been confused because the old truths which the Statements contained were not phrased in the familiar language of the Catechism. The truth is, as this chapter will prove, that not one of the doctrines which separate the Catholic Church from the Church of England was affirmed in this Statement in any form of language. However, Bishop Butler commented upon the silence of Rome with considerable satisfaction. After pointing out that the Catholic members of the Joint Commission had been appointed by Rome he added that: The Statements were communicated to Rome before they were published. The first of these Statements has now been before the world for six years and if we have seriously compromised the Catholic faith or shown intentional or unintentional disloyalty to it, all I can say is that it's about time the Church authorities stepped in and either sacked us or showed that they disapproved. Here is one point at least on which I am in total agreement with Bishop Butler. Since the Second Vatican Council, Catholic teaching on the priesthood and the Mass has been insidiously and inexorably undermined from within the Church. An endless stream of books and articles casting doubt on or openly denying the traditional teaching has appeared in every Western country, with sanctions rarely if ever taken against the authors. Some of those authors occupied and still occupy official positions in the post-conciliar commissions which have spread like a malignant rash over the body of the Church in the West. Those writings have been reflected in, and to a certain extent endorsed by, the postconciliar liturgical reform; not simply in its illegal abuses (rarely followed by sanctions) and heterodox but official translations of the new texts, but by the officially promulgated Latin texts themselves. Chapter X will show the extent to which the existence of a priesthood, distinct not simply in degree but in essence from that of the faithful, has been obscured; even in the official texts. Those who have read Cranmer's Godly Order will realize the manner in which, to a large extent, the orthodox bishops and priests found themselves drawn into an almost inevitable process of compromise during the English Reformation. In the initial stages, Cranmer was intelligent enough not to provoke large scale clerical resistance by formulating his demands in a manner which would amount to a formal denial of the Catholic faith. But the longer this process continued the less likelihood there was of those who had been drawn into it ever making a stand. Just as has been the case since Vatican II, four hundred years earlier there was large scale lay resistance, very little
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