HISTORY

history, and roman catholic church). the additional qualification of "roman" she tolerates, since it proclaims her doctrine of the see of rome as the keystone of catholicism; but to herself she is "the catholic church," and her members are "catholics." yet to concede this claim and surrender without qualification the word "catholic" to a connotation which is at best only universal in theory, is to beg several very weighty questions. the doctrine of the catholic church, i.e. the essential unity and interdependence of "all god's faithful people scattered throughout the world," is common to all sections of christians. the creed is one; it is the interpretation that differs. in a somewhat narrower sense, too, the church of england at least has never repudiated the conception of the catholic church as a divinely instituted organization for the safe-guarding and proclamation of the christian revelation. she deliberately retained the catholic creeds, the catholic ministry and the appeal to catholic antiquity (see