RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 247, 17 September 1929, Page 8

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

LOrJDON CONGRESS. (United Service.) LONDON. Sept. 15. In .an address to the Catholic Congress to-day, Father Dudley declared that the prospects of a corporate return to the Roman Catholic faith in England were very slight, but individual conversions ought to increase. The Church of England was fast becoming a farce. Disestablishment must inevitably come, after which the Church of England would be a sect amongst other sects. ... Father Dudley went on to criticise modernism as Catholicism’s greatest enemy. He described Dean Inge and Bishop Barnes as very ignorant men —ignorant of the first things which as professing Christians they ought to know, namely, the theology of Christian religion. AN EXPLANATION. (United Service.) LONDON, Sept. 16. Father Dudley, in a letter to the Catholic Congress authorities, states: “If the' reference to ignorant men offended members of the Anglican Church, I humbly withdraw it. I wish it to be clearl’- understood that I was not referring to lack of scholarship in those named, but the ignorance of modernist leaders in theology, which in the Catholic Church we hold to be a science revealed by the truths of God.”