31 MARCH 1923, Page 24

Catholicism and Roman Catholicism. By Bishop Gore. (A. R. Mowbray.

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Bishop Gore's attitude towards Anglicanism is one—to put it mildly—of detachment. Its history fills him "with profound humiliation " ; he finds its continuous Erastianism and its complacent nationalism depressing and humiliating." And he takes refuge in a Catholicism of which it may be said that it "never was on sea or land " ; i.e., in that dream of a non- Papal Catholicism which haunts a section of English Church- men and has much in common with that of a Judaized Christianity which obsessed an important party in the Apostolic Church. In each case a larger and more august body exercised a natural attraction over a smaller and less imposing ; in each logic, language, and the course of events swept the abstraction away.