EUCHARIST CONGRESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 227, 18 September 1908, Page 3

EUCHARIST CONGRESS.

THE VATICAN ENTEKTAINS No f _ ItESEATJiIENT. , lleceived 18, 1.10 a.m. , London, September 17. ; Eeuter's ltonie correspondent stales (that the Vatican denies that any resentment is felt against the British Government owing to the prohibition oi carrying the Host in me procession. The Pope and otlier dignitaries quite understand the cause ot me prohibition, and exipress great s-atislaciion at tae liberty grunted to the Congress, ill •„>' consider such liberty wili lie a lesson to tho Jacobins of all countries. hfrfr . A WELLINGTON PiiOTEST.

Bjr Telegraph.—Press Association. , - Wellington, Last Might. At tile close oi a lecture on the • Coronation oath in the Jletnodist Church last night by the It«v. C. 11. Garlan, before a large audience, t lie following resolution was curried:— "This meeting raises its protest against ,the disloyal utterances reported the Press Association to have been *»de at tile Eucharist Congre.-s o;i the - 11th inst. by the Duke of Norfolk, who described the Iloyal declaration in tak- ' lug the Coronation oath a s an insult to King and tiie good sense of the nation. This meeting is of opinion Hfct such. an utterance, made on so important an occasion, is a gratuitous ta«ult to tJhe Protestant ruler and tliii people, aiid discloses, a dangerous hosfciity to tlie Protestaat throne."

In an interview with a Melbourne representative, Dean Phelaa explained that the 'purposes of these congresses of the clergy were educa-) Itional. The present one had been controlled in order that the Blessed Eucharist and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass might be dealt with by tn,greatest living authorities against liierarohy. Broadly speaking, tiie scope of .the congress was twofold. First, the practice of the Church in regard lo She Mass from the earliest times until ■the schism of the sixteenth centm-v Would be reviewed exhaustively from ®he spiritual &tamf]>oint. la." tlfcsd flqctrineal papers the importance of frequent and even daily comiminion "amongst all classes and conditions'' Urould be urged hi accordance with the nvitih'es of the late Pope and of the preBent occupant of the Papal throne. It :tfarald be understood, however, that

while a congress could deal with points Of faith and morals, yet "definition" Df doctrine did not come within its scope. In this respect congresses differed from ecumenical councils, l'he 'latter were summoned by tlic Pope, ' usually to define some article of belief. 'Not that any new dogma was promulgated, for revelation, or the deposit of faith, was complete and entire in f/je •time of the apostles, and since then nothing had ever been added to or token away from it. .But it might be 'than an article of belref implicit in the Bacred Scriptures, and always held bv "th'e faithful, was strongly attacked. In "that case it might appear desirable to the head of (he church to have it made •explicit or subjected to exact definition. !Ab an illuminating instance of defiiiitioGl m relation to belief, one miilit quote the definition of the existence"of God. Tills was made as late as 1870 the Vatican Council, when ji great .Ware of atheism was passing over the world.