We are certain that the normal English and American Roman
Catholics, and millions of foreign Roman Catholics, throughout the world will loathe the doctrine of "Killing No Murder" as described in the Irish Theological Quarterly quite as heartily as we do, in spite of the fact that it has the imprimatur of the Roman Primate of Ireland. All we ask from these Roman Allies in a great cause is that they should bring home to the Vatican, in. the most forcible way possible, the terrible injury which is being done to the Roman faith when Irish eecleeiastics are allowed not merely to condone but to endorse such doctrines as those which lie sequestered in the article under notice. That the teachings of the Dublin ecclesiastical publicist will be very heartily approved of by the Spartaciets. in. Germany and the Bolsheviks in Budapest we do not doubt for a moment. But are these the people whom the Vatican really desires to encourage? We understand fully the implacable hatred of the British Empire felt by the Ultra- montane party at the Vatican, but may not that hatred ha carried too far ?
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