ment they are burning their bridges behind them.
The gospel of pure "humanitarianism," which is the absolute negation of a
supernatural religion, will eventually be the last result of this present
unity.

Destructive criticism, to be profitable, should be followed by
constructive suggestions.

"_That they may be all one!_" This ideal of the Master, this supreme
wish of His last hours, remains the ideal, the wish of His Church. But
its realization cannot be at the expense of truth. Cardinal Gasparri
outlined to the promoters of the "World Congress on Faith and Order" the
view and position of the Catholic Church in this most important issue.
"The Holy See has decided not to participate in the Pan-Christian
Congress which it is proposed to hold shortly, _as the Catholic Church
considering her dogmatic character, cannot join on an equal footing with
the other Churches_. The feeling at the Vatican is that all other
Christian denominations have seceded from the Church of Rome, which
descends directly from Christ. Rome cannot go to them; _it is for them
to return to her bosom_.[4] The Pope is ready to receive the
representatives of the dissenting churches with open arms, since the
Roman Church has always longed for the _unification of all Religious
Christians_. Pope Leo XIII. was deeply interested in this question and
wrote two famous encyclicals on the subject of the _unification of the
Christian Churches_."

The divine Founder of Christendom did not leave to several Churches the
conservation and propagation of His doctrine. He founded only one Church
and gave "unity" itself, as the supreme test of its divinity. Therefore
the Church, that has remained "one" through time and space, and has
conquered those two great enemies of unity, bears the birth-mark of its
divine origin. The Catholic Church alone makes that specific claim.
History is there to substantiate it. Matthew Arnold himself could not
help acknowledging this universal fact. "Catholicism is that form of
Christianity which is the oldest, the largest, and most popular. It has
been the great popular religion of Christendom. Who has seen the poor in
other churches as they are seen in Catholic Churches? Catholicism
envelopes human life, and Catholics in general feel themselves to have
drawn not only their religion from their Church, but they feel themselves
to have drawn from her, too, their art, poetry and culture. _And if
there is a thing specially al