CATHOLICS AND ROMAN CATHOLICS.
Sir,-Good secular newspapers should call churches by names that are correct. If anyone takes the trouble to look up the word "catholic" in an Oxford dic‘tionary he or she will find that its meaning is "universal", and as a small band of people cannot call themselves "universal" the term "Roman Catholic" must | be the correct one.
J.
BROADLEY
(Paeroa).
| (It is a little naive of our correspondent to direct us to the Oxford Dictionary for the answer to a religious controversy. Also a little dangerous. There are strange pronouncements in. the Oxford Dictionary. For example: "‘ Pedant-one who overrates or parades booklearning or technical knowledge or insists on strict adherence to formal rules. Bigot-one who -holds irrespective of reason, and attaches roportionate weight to, some creed or view. Sect--Body of persons agreed upon religious doctrines usually different from those of the Church from which they have separated."-Ed. )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 162, 31 July 1942, Page 3
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150CATHOLICS AND ROMAN CATHOLICS. New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 162, 31 July 1942, Page 3
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