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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 13, No. 23. September 28, 1950

Rapprochement of Churches

Rapprochement of Churches

"Apart from the Catholic Church (pardon me)—apart from the Roman Catholic Church sectarian divisions now existing are anachronisms—the main issues which called them into being no longer exist, and the extant differences are mainly in forms of government."

Apart from a lack of evidence which may have been in this lecture this appears to be a very sweeping statement. To suggest a couple of tests. Does an Anglican take this purely governmental view of his separation from the Methodist? Within the Anglican Church is the denial of the Divinity of Christ by Bishop Barnes purely governmental? There are 4000 religions in New York alone and it would be under-estimating the disunity that exists to suggest that the main differences are governmental,

Undoubtedly there is saintliness among all churches but the barriers and the differences were created by Protestant choice and are maintained on the Protestant thesis. Unity is impossible upon the basis of private interpretation.

Q: Does the standard of infallibility require a human to measure up to the standard, or is this a misunderstanding of that Catholic doctrine and is this the basic issue as to the truth of Catholicism, anyway.