Bishop Ingram and Catholic Rituals

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 12, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 24.

Bishop Ingram and Catholic Rituals

If the charge be true which Mr. John Kensit brought against Rt. Rev. A. F. Ingram while the latter was receiving his appointment recently as bishop of London, there certainly is no broad and inseparable gulf between such Protestantism and the Church of Rome. Mr. Kensit's charge was that the bishop had encouraged clergymen, who, “in defiance of the rubrics, had elevated the host, offered masses, and practised the confession.” The report states that the Vicar-General overruled the objections, and the election of Dr. Ingram was confirmed. Mr. Kensit is known as an anti-ritualist, and the practises which he condemns are well-known rituals of the Catholic Church.