• • [To the Editor of Tor: SPECTATOR.] Sta,—In your
issue of January 5th a correspondent refers to the practice of members of the Roman Church to describe themselves as Catholics, and not as Roman Catholics, and no doubt most people who use the latter expression have at sonic time or other been subjected to the scornful indignation- of their (Roman) Catholic friends.- It may, however, be of interest to your readers to know that the expression Roman Catholic was used in the decrees of the Council of Trent, by Pope Pius IV in 1568 in his creed, by Pope Pius XI iri 1930 in his Encyclical on Education, and in his Treaty with Musso- lini, and that the Vatican authorities in a communication to the British Government on the Maltese controversy declared that the omission of the word " Roman " as a prefix to " Catholic Church " offends and disgusts Catholics.---I am,
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