CATHOLIC DOCTRINE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I was exceedingly surprised at a cutting enclosed in the correspondence columns of your issue of July 5th, and were it not for the deplorable ignorance of Catholic doctrine evinced by the public in general and your correspondent in particular, I would never have ventured to trouble you. Indeed, it was only the fact that Mr. Oldfield had been imposed upon, and that others would probably have fallen into the same error, that could have induced me to answer such a charge. As a Catholic I can fairly state there is not one syllable in the Decalogue which could by any possible stretch of the imagination be said to conflict with "Roman Practices," and that there is no Catholic on the face of this earth who could view the so-called "adoration of images" with anything but feelings of the deepest horror and disgust.
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