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Show DEFECT OF ANGLICAN ORDERS Henry VIITs Defense of the Supremacy of the Pope Admits That Jurisdiction in Spirituals Originates in the Pope Orders Invalid No Exercise of Functions Intended for Orders Denial oi the Sacraments Contradictory leaching - Inconsistency Between ! Claims and Practices Dire Consequences Conse-quences If Claims Were True. (Written for The Interniouutain Catholic.) ; In defending the supremacy of the Pope against Martin Luther, Henry VIII, in his Defense of the I Seven Sacraments, wrote: "He (Luther) cannot deny that all the faithful honor and acknowledge ? the snored Roman See for their M other' i "The Indies themselves . . . do submit to the See of Rome. If the Bishop of Rome has got i this large power, neither by command of God, nor 1 ihe uill of man. but by main force, I would fain know of Luther when the Pope rushes into the )n?ePsion of so great riches. . . By the unani- mous consent of all nations, it is forbidden to " change, or move he things which have been for a long time immovable. . . Since the conversion I of the world, all churches in the Christian world I have been obedient to the See of Rome, except when they were in any turbulent schism.' Here the ' founder of the Anglican church admits with St. i Ambrose that "where Peter is, there is the church.' and as a necessary consequence the source of all true jurisdiction in spirituals. All power and au-j au-j :liority must have its origin in God, according to St. Paul. "There is no power unless it be from fed.' As Henry admits, that : "By the unanimous went of all nations, it is forbidden to change or PTe the things which have been for a long time -ivable.''all . lafcortfie cruTejTiris'dteTfou'lff rif Catholic church, and as "it is forbidden to hanpe," they know also that there can be no true I jurisdiction outside of the Catholic, because those Ha separated from her communion denied or re-! re-! j'udiated the source from which it flowed. "Xo one j rives what he has not." Henry, in his rcruark-) rcruark-) alio anc truly Catholic work, admits that the first principle of jurisdiction had been always recog-I recog-I uizH by the Catholic world. "Though the empire," I lio writes, "was translated to the Grecians, yet did t hr-v still own and obey the supremacy . of the ' ihureli, and the See of Rome, except when they vere in any turbulent schism." j Xft only is the Anglican church deprived of jurisdiction, but its orders are also defective. This clearly demonstrated during the rigid investi- cation made by order of the late Pope Leo XIII here it was proven that Parker's ordination was. ii'Jt sufficient, together with the defects in King : LJward's ordinals. But apart from these proofs. MijK.sijig the orders to be valid, though illicit, wlmt would be the consequences? After the reformation, ref-ormation, the religious spirit that dominated Eng-' land was that of bigotry, intolerance and persecu-i persecu-i That domineering spirit would brook no op position. Altars, at which English Catholics wr-"'lipej wr-"'lipej since th landing of Augustine, were razed, "he Confessional abandoned, and the Mass reviled. .. bat ua offered as a substitute? A table for an 1 "j'31-- a eomijieinoration of the Last Supper for the j ... l.'--o, Eucharist, and an entire abandonment of " 1!,p acramenl of Penance, notwithstanding that 1 ; liniry in his work against Luther defended that , sdTiiu-jii . Here are words taken from the De- It of the Seven Sacraments: ''Luther says pub- i I'O in are to be confessed; he is not clear on pri-j pri-j J Y'' Ecclesiaslicus, St. John. Chrysostom. umber. St. James, Isaias, St. Ambrose. St. An-. ! j Purine and custom, all prove confession of secret : SIIis ly the divine order of God. . . Confession j, ; V instituted and is preserved by God himself, not I , 1 v any custom of the people, or institution of the athr-rs." The same applies to Henry's defense of I W("-sr-d Eucharist. ''Let us begin." he writes. vwie ,0 (Luther) began himself with the adora-" adora-" "Tr.nicnt of Christ's Body. The changing of "' Xanic tliereof. calling It the Sacrament of !'rf,H shows Luther's intentions. . . Next : '"inis ;ni, consubstantiation theory of Luther, who v dotfrininrd with himself to draw tho people to Ij.,''"!' 'he bread and leave out Christ's Body." t yiK SiiTuo Seerament, which Henry declared to be ! " adornbl,.. Sacrament of Christ's Body." An-j An-j ministers held to be simply bread, and al- J";d the sacristian to gather up what remained J 8ne would particles of bread that fell from his ! J'' What their King and Supreme Pontiff terra-? terra-? "dnj iil,f. Sacrament," Anglican ministers never i iJf-d i() tell all communicants was not the Real I , " 1nat 1ne-v received the Lord "by faith ! and "in the heart." Their faith in the Sac- ; of th. llass had vanished, hence they repu- I j 'iito,j J)amp pr;Cet. whose duty it is to offer sac-j sac-j ,t!r'f' -and adopted that of parson or minister. Yet 11 Tne !';hp of these contradictory teachings and - 7 "''mui.iis -hange of faith, Anglicans claim that ?rrr" r,f their parsons are valid and that the. i "''iinniiy. w,; ia (.ome Jow-n for a thousand j .i-""- ,",lit England was subject to Papal juxis-(I juxis-(I i'Kl". had not bren broken or lost. If their or-VV or-VV '- ni idcntiofll with that saintly i Uf'! p nf awtcrbury, Thomas a Beckct, slain i li..,rr fitar GT listing tho encroachments of r hnAVy 11 n lllP spiritual jurisdiction of the Pope, CII 'JWay back the line for a thousand years to Au-' Au-' ! Vnv fJid te8ch differently from their - ff f,1ss.'r!? Their predecessors had seven Sac- raments, but this same priesthood reduced them to two. The five which were dropped they designate as a "corrupt following of "the apostles." They taught that for the remission of sin a full confession confes-sion of all mortal sins was neoes ry, and yet all Anglican divines declared the ancient faith of their ' predecessors regarding the Sacrament of Penance to be a "soul-destroying error," adhering to the tradition of. their predecessors and following their customs they taught that the proper form of divine worship was the Sacrifice of the. Mass, yet with the usual and always logical inconsistencies of error er-ror called Mass "a blasphemous fable and a dangerous danger-ous deceit." Regarding Transubstantiation. which the Anglican church declares to be a Romish invention in-vention or superstition, Henry YI1I replying to Luther's denial wrote: "The evangelists so plainly plain-ly write that Christ took bread and blessed it. . .. We confess He took bread and blessed it, but that He gave bread to His disciples, after He made It His Body, we flatly deny, and the evangelists do not say He did." They teach marriage to be a Sacrament, to be a Christian Sacrament, yet subject sub-ject to dissolution by a civil magistrate. In the midst of these contradictory statements and entanglements, en-tanglements, to which many more could be added, how claim the same priesthood as that of their saintly ancestors back to St. Augustine, or if in possession of it, why fail to exercise its functions? or if exercised, as it is by the Catholic priesthood, how great would not be the irreverence and sacrilegious sacri-legious manner in which the Sacrament of the Blessed Eucharist was offered? The conclusion is that order, like jurisdiction, is wanting in the Anglican An-glican church. 1 . D. |