ANGLO-CATHOLICS AND REUNION [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Much
water has passed down the Tiber since Fr. Windle and I used to run the Society for Reunion at Oriford. The theoretical goal of reunion between the Anglican and lionitui' communions remains as he has painted it, bat MIgii Ros6". Macaulay has a juster appreciation of the situation . today; Apart from the old theological obstacles toreuniOn, imnreasnr- ' ably increased by the Vatican Council, -the Ronlan Pontiff has lately raised several stumbling-blocks of a nrioral and political nature. The attitude of the Roman Church in the Ethiopian and Spanish affairs, the Austirttiti„experiment, a succession of encyclicals and the institptiove the feast of Christ. the King combine to, show that the Roman Glum* will cast its influence . on the side of autocracy against democracy.. . It. is..a sobering, thought that every one of the modern dictators is or has been a °Roman Catholic. When the Roman Church ceases to be the spiritual_ buttress of Fascism, discussion of reunion may again be profitably undertaken. In the meantime, it is with profound thankfulness that I find
myself still able to worship in the Abbey rather than in Westminster Cathedral, and to read the Scriptures in the Authorised rather than in the Douai version. .
16A John Street, Adelphi, W.C.2. IVOR THOMAS. ,
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