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Excerpt from The Catholic World, Vol. 72: A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science; October, 1900, to March, 1901
At this psychological moment it was that the church in England entered into a new phase,0f life with the re-establish ment of the hierarchy. Coming at the time it did, we cannot but recognize in the act of Pius IX. The hand of God guiding the destinies of His Church. For three centuries English Catholics had been without canonical sees. For nigh upon threequarters of a century after the accession of Elizabeth to the throne they were practically without any sort of episcopal government. Those bishops who remained firm in their alle giance to the faith (and, thank God, most of them did!) were imprisoned or exiled. Th last surviving bishops, Coldwell of St. Asaph and Watson of Lincoln, died in 1585, the former in Rome, the other in prison. But it was not until 1623 that the authorities at Rome seemed to recognize that the old order of things had passed away, not again to return. The religious revolution under Elizabeth was complete.
Unlike that brought about by Henry VIII., it was no longer merely a question of recognizing Papal supremacy. The re formers under Elizabeth had struck at other essential points of Catholic belief - the Mass, invocation of saints, and the doc trine of purgatory. Moreover it was held to be the political interest of Elizabeth to champion the Protestant cause, and she undoubtedly did her work thoroughly. Catholicism was in deed crushed. At Rome they seem to have hoped against hope that Elizabeth's measures would end with herself or be reversed by'some political change.
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