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A Few Comments on Mr. Gladstone's Expostulation
Excerpt from A Few Comments on Mr. Gladstone's Expostulation
In some of the replies already given, as it appears to me, a mistake has been made. It has been supposed that the only, or, at least, the main question at issue, was that of Allegiance, as affected by the Vatican De crees, and into this supposition one is naturally led by the title of the pamphlet. To accept this view is to miss the main gist of Mr. Gladstone's composition, which is, not to elicit in a friendly way from Catholics an avowal of their undisturbed allegiance under the Vatican Decrees, but to exhibit the Church of Rome as arrogant in her claims, dishonest in her policy, shallow and ignorant in her teachingmin fact, an effete institu tion which no modern State can tolerate within its realm with any degree of security to itself. To explain satisfactorily the allegiance of Catholics at present, would be, borrowing the word from Mr. Gladstone himself, to blunt only one of the many fangs he has whetted for his attack upon the Church.
In some of the replies already given, as it appears to me, a mistake has been made. It has been supposed that the only, or, at least, the main question at issue, was that of Allegiance, as affected by the Vatican De crees, and into this supposition one is naturally led by the title of the pamphlet. To accept this view is to miss the main gist of Mr. Gladstone's composition, which is, not to elicit in a friendly way from Catholics an avowal of their undisturbed allegiance under the Vatican Decrees, but to exhibit the Church of Rome as arrogant in her claims, dishonest in her policy, shallow and ignorant in her teachingmin fact, an effete institu tion which no modern State can tolerate within its realm with any degree of security to itself. To explain satisfactorily the allegiance of Catholics at present, would be, borrowing the word from Mr. Gladstone himself, to blunt only one of the many fangs he has whetted for his attack upon the Church.
117 pages, Paperback
First published September 27, 2015
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