Ultramontane Catholic Committees Expand in France
The article outlines how Vatican centered Catholic committees extend into rural areas and circles among soldiers, workers, and clergy. It notes government complicity in military chaplain recruitment, Jesuit schooling influence, and extensive clerical control over education and public life, warning of creeping Ultramontane power in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Michaud
Paris
Vatican
General Assembly
M.M. Tresneau
Carron
Marmont
M. Mighand
St. Geneviéve
France
Liberation movement in the villages faces church conflict
A Leicester Chronicle discussion argues for disestablishment and disendowment of the Church of England as the nation shifts toward religious equality. It notes three opposing sections High Low and Broad and predicts dissolution of state control with independent communions forming, while addressing Blaby tensions and Nonconformist support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leicester Chronicle and Mercury
Liberation Society
Church of England
Boortion
Pithily
Blaby
Nonconformists Stand For Free Expression In Church-State Debate
The article defends Nonconformists rights to voice ecclesiastical politics and to support church activities without surrendering personal convictions. It rejects the idea that neighbourly friendship requires silence on public issues and cautions against conditioning harmony on conformity. The piece opposes the correspondent’s call to deprecate the Blaby meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blaby
Confraternity Probed for Ritualist Aims in England
A Western Daily Mercury expose reveals a confidential Intercessory Paper from the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament detailing aims to restore daily Eucharist, reserve the Sacrament for the sick, and promote early communions. It lists intercessions for clergy and laity, prayers for the dead, confessions, retreats, and vestment sanctifications. The piece argues these practices amount to Romanist influence contrary to Church of England law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West of England
Daily Mercury
Church of England
England
Church of
Engand
Enland
St. Giles’s
Lord Jesus Christ
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the Confraternity OF the Blessed Sacrament OF the Body and Blood OF Christ
The
Brighton Herald
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