Hardy, T: Catholic or Roman Catholic? - pocketboek

Excerpt from Catholic or Roman Catholic?: Twelve Letters to One Unsettled in the English Church

What I want you to see is that all your grounds of dissatisfaction with the English Church do not afford ground for joining the Church of Rome. You will only be received into the Roman Church if you are convinced of the truth of a certain belief about the Bishop of Rome, or, as he is commonly called, the Pope.

What is that belief? This: that the Pope is the successor of S. Peter, whom our Lord made His Vicar; consequently that the true Church is formed only of those who are in communion with the Pope.

If you are absolutely convinced of the truth of this belief you ought to become a Roman Catholic even if the English Church were perfection itself. If you are not convinced of this, then all your dis satisfaction with the English Church, however just it may be, is no ground for joining the Roman.

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