Lectures: On the Present Position of Catholics in England - Softcover

Blessed John Henry Newman; Aeterna Press

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785165259 ISBN 13: 9781785165252

Publisher: Aeterna Press, 2015

Synopsis

THERE is a well-known fable, of which it is to my purpose to remind you, my Brothers of the Oratory, by way of introducing to you the subject of the Lectures which I am proposing to deliver. I am going to inquire why it is, that, in this intelligent nation and in this rational nineteenth century, we Catholics are so despised and hated by our own countrymen, with whom we have lived all our lives, that they are prompt to believe any story, however extravagant, that is told to our disadvantage; as if beyond a doubt, we were, every one of us, either brutishly deluded or preternaturally hypocritical, and they themselves, on the contrary, were in comparison of us absolute specimens of sagacity, wisdom, uprightness, manly virtue, and enlightened Christianity. I am not inquiring why they are not Catholics themselves, but why they are so angry with those who are. Protestants differ amongst themselves, without calling each other fools and knaves. Nor, again, am I proposing to prove to you or to myself, that knaves and fools we are not, not idolaters, not blasphemers, not men of blood, not profligates, not steeped in sin and seared in conscience; for we know each other and ourselves.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aeterna Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1785165259
• ISBN 13: 9781785165252
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210