The Dublin Review, Vol. 13
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Excerpt from The Dublin Review, Vol. 13: New Series Last year this curious opinion was re-announced by the Archbishop of Armagh in his charge, and by the Bishop of Oxford in the House of Lords; its echo was heard on many hustings at the last election, and it has doubtless been received as a fact by most of the clergy and half the people of England. Even if true it would be useless as an argument, since the length of ecclesiastical possession by Catholics in Ireland previous to the Reformation is admitted to have been at least equal to that of Protestants since; and whether, therefore, the Catholic Church had existed in Ireland for four hundred or for fourteen hundred years before the Reformation, its right by possession was then, even according to the Protestant view, more venerable than that of the Irish Established Church is now. But the statement, though argumentatively useless if true, is positively untrue, nay, the very opposite to the fact; for, as Dr. Rock had proved before, Dr. Moran proves again, and more completely from the further evidence which has during the last twenty years come to light, and chiefly from Protestant sources, that S. Patrick was a Catholic, and a Roman Catholic, and that the Irish, his spiritual children, were and ever continued to be Catholics, in communion with the See of Rome, professing the distinctive doctrines and habituated to the distinctive practices of the Catholic Church, and that not a single Protestant doctrine or Protestant practice prevailed amongst them. The Bishop of Oxford at the same time mentioned that S. Patrick himself informs us that his father and grandfather were, the one a priest, and the other a deacon; this and the extract from an old Irish canon, to which we shall next refer, form the most plausible grounds of inference on the Protestant side we have yet seen, though these relate to discipline only - and even these grounds disappear when they come to be examined. S. Patrick does mention the fact alluded to, but that it was the custom of priests and deacons then to marry by no means follows, any more than it would follow that, because the late Cardinal Weld had a daughter well known in English society, therefore it is the present custom for cardinals to marry. It is no very unfrequent circumstance for a layman left a widower with a child to become a priest; the only thing extraordinary is if it happened to have occurred with both father and son, and perhaps it was just because it was extraordinary that his father and grandfather should have been, the one a priest and the other a deacon, that S. Patrick mentioned it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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