Publications of the Catholic Truth Society, 1897, Vol. 34 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Publications of the Catholic Truth Society, 1897, Vol. 34 Never, perhaps, did a nation receive its faith more directly and more certainly from Rome than did our Saxon forefathers. It was not that the British Church had no connection with Rome it was Catholic, and had a regular hierarchy in communion with the Holy See. The leaders of the Church formally dissociated them selves from the work of St. Augustine and left the Saxons entirely to his ministration. In the account of Vener able Bede no trace of any doctrinal differences can be detected, and the points of disagreement at the Con ference turned on questions of discipline and co-opera tion. Had any divergence in doctrine existed Venerable Bede could not have failed to mention it, not eoxno. 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.