The Aglipay Movement in the Philippines
The independent Catholic Church in the Philippines, otherwise commonly designated as the Aglipay movement, has taken at least one million Roman Catholics out of the old Roman Church, says the Missionary Review of the World. “Whole provinces have ‘gone over’ to the new church, taking with them their members, priests, and church property.” A feature of this movement which separates it in character from the papacy and allies it with Protestantism is that it seeks to make the Scripture the basis of faith and the guide in morals. “Archbishop Aglipay and his supporters have bought and put into circulation among their people thirty thousand Scripture portions since Nov. 1, 1903. Some of his bishops are prescribing the New Testament as the book which all candidates for confirmation must study until such time as they have a regular catechism.”