MISLEADING TERMS.

New Zealand Tablet, 26 June 1919, Page 43

MISLEADING TERMS.

• The Church Times in its issue, of April 4 publishes a letter from the Rev. Marcus Donovan, of- St. Benet's Vicarage, Tottenham, which makes it necessary thatwe should address a word of caution to Irish Catholics (says an exchange of recent date). - The rev. gentleman, who, as a clergyman of the Church of England, is not of course in communion . with the - Catholic Church, says that there is a "Guild of St. Patrick,' the object of which is "to promote Catholic doctrine and discipline in the Church in Ireland," an that the warden, Rev. F. S. Le Fanu, Vicar of St. ■. John's, Sandymount, Dublin, has asked him to get into communication with Irish Catholics in London. Doubtless the people thus referred to are Irish Anglicans of the High Church type* but the Rev. Marcus Donovan-uses language from which it might be inferred that he was alluding to genuine Irish Catholic?. ; The three tailors of Tooley Street called themselves "the men of England," and the Rev. ? Mr. Donovan has the same sort of right to term himself and his High Church friends Catholics. \ But by exercising it he creates the

need of assuring him that neither in Ireland nor in London cam Catholics acknowledge them as such.