Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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THE NEW ST. IGNATIUS’ PARISH SCHOOL

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW Religious England “ЧТ а time when the atten- МА tion of the world is `J focussed on England and her gallant attempt for survival as one of the 4 foremost financial nat- 9) ions, it would not be amiss to spend a few moments scrutinising the religious structure of the country. England's religious army may be broadly divided into three camps: Ang- licanism or the Established Church, Catholicism, and the Non-Conformist or Free Churches. The Established Church is undoubt- edly the largest religious body in the state. Out of a total population of thirty-six million, some four and one half millions profess Anglicanism. There are the two Anglican provinces of Canterbury and York; between them, these possess twelve thousand nine hundred and thirty-two parishes, seven- teen thousand five hundred and eigh- teen churches, and about eighteen thou- sand five hundred active clergymen. In the Established Church there are three main parties, the High, the Broad, and the Low. Some attempt shall be made at defining their relative positions, but we must bear in mind that there is no clear-cut division. The Low Church party, once the most important of the trio, has steadily declined in numbers and in influence. There are probably not three thousand out of the seventeen thousand Churches that are of a dis- tinctively Evangelical character at the present time. Low Churchmen are staunch sup- porters of the King, honouring him as the supreme head of the Church on earth in matters both spiritual and temporal. They consider the minister a mere representative of the congrega- tion and have in their ritual no room for a sacrificial priesthood. They count any innovations or approximations to Catholic нар а weakening of рип- ciple. They emphatically deny the Real Presence and believe, rather, in the Real Absence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. They have a number of societies working in their interest; chief of these are the National Church League, the Church Association, and the Church Pastoral Aid Society. They publish the Record and the English Churchman. The Broad Church or Rationalising Party has steadily increased within the last thirty years. Its adherents desire a drastic revision of the creed, worship, and discipline of the Established Church. Broad Churchmen regard the Bible as a mere human document devoid of in- spiration; they reject the supernatural and the miraculous in religion; the peat number consider Christ as mere- y an ideal man, not the Son of God. The success of this branch may be attributed to the exaggerated individ- ualism that lies at the root of all Protestantism and logically leads to the complete negation of authority and unity just as real faith leads to an absolute affirmation of authority and unity. The influence of this party 18 улде- spread and can be observed in both the Low and the High Churches. The most important societies connected with the Broad Church are the League of the Church Militant and the Churchmen's Union. Тһе latter is principally in- terested in the advancement of liberal religious thought and publishes the Mod- ern Churchman fortnightly. The Broad Church numbers about one quarter of КЕЈ