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Show Unity. The Catholic church is one essentially. Heretics and schismatics go out from her, but they do not divide her. They go out because they no longer belong to her;- she remains one and indivisable. This is an article of faith: I believe in One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Its oneness is not nominal mersly nor material. It is not a unity of name, so that all called Christian belong to the church; nor does it come from a material belief in Christ, as if all who profess to believe, each in his own way, in Christ. His mission, His revelation, are therefore united in His church. The unity of the church is a formal unity, coming out of its very-nature. very-nature. The living human body is undivided un-divided in itself and distinct from every other, because it is informed with one indivilual living soul; there is one living liv-ing and indivisable church distinct from every organization pretending to the name, because it is informed with the one, living Holy Spirit of God. Rev. Henry Woods, S. J., in "America." |