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Show Many of our exchanges will doubtless be relieved to hear that King Edward VII at his coronation will not take the offensive oath declaring certain Catholic Cath-olic practices to be Idolatrous. It never was intended that he should take it at the coronation. According to the English En-glish statute, the king must take the odious declaration at the coronation only In case he has not already made it at his accession or at the first meeting meet-ing of his parliament; and as King Edward Ed-ward has already gone through that gentle ceremony, he need not repeat the insulting words. The esteemed con- I temporary which gives the coronation oath as the reason for the absence of a papal representative at the coming function Is as far astray as that other one which commiserated the Duke of Norfolk for having to stand so near to King Edward while his majesty denounced de-nounced him as an Idolater. When we call the Blessed Virgin the mother of the church and of the people of God we mean that she watches over the apostles and their disciples with an Intense maternal anxiety, and used all the resources of her knowledge of the ways of God and of the wiles of his and their enemies to avert danger and secure them the- most perfect guidance and protection from heaven. Henry Jamea Coleridge. I |