THE SECESSION OF LORD RIPON.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1858, 16 December 1874, Page 3

THE SECESSION OF LORD RIPON.

The following account of his lordship's 'going-Weir to the Church of Bonae comes from «, reliable source. It would seem that it is only within the last six months that the Marquis directed his attention to the controversies between the-Anglican and Boman Catholic creeds. He was first led to do so by the intention he had to write a pamphleVin defence of Freemasonry and againsffthe pretensions of Rome with regard to the craft. But after a long course of' reading he became a convert to what he formerly disagreed from. He -— 28TSS-5Sy or. consulted,, directly -or indirectly, any irolnts^orotber4J!iest until he had fully made up his mind to bTf&eeired^ into the Catholic Church. He then catmT to London, called at the Oratory, and asked to see one of the Fathers whom he knew by name. The latter raw him, but had no idea who he was until after he had been examined as to his religious knowledge, condiiionally baptised, and formally received into the Church. He was then asked his name and address, in order that the same might be entered in the registry of the Qratory, and surprised those present not a little when he said he was the Marquis of Ripon. He attended mass, ~""^nd^paTtoot"oi~commumon for the first time on the following Sunday, a day or two before his resignation of the office of Grand Master of Freemasons was read at the meeting of the Grand Lodge. The Marchioness of Bipon has not as yet followed the example of her husband.— The Hour.