To be brief, Miss Vaughan has adopted, body and soul, precisely those abuses which Catholics of intelligence earnestly desire to see expunged from their great religion. She has probably never heard of the Forged Decretals, but she would defend their authenticity if she had; she has probably never heard of the corrupted, or any version of the Epistles of St Ignatius, but she would accept the corruptions bodily upon the smallest hint that they savoured better with the hierarchy, and she would do all this apparently in good faith on the authority of a purblind party within the Church, which exists to keep open its wounds. Now
Miss Vaughan appears to fully embrace the very issues that many discerning Catholics wish to eliminate from their faith. It seems she is unaware of significant historical controversies, like the Forged Decretals, yet she would likely support their legitimacy if presented to her. She also seems uninformed about the alterations in St. Ignatius' Epistles, yet would readily accept these modifications on the slightest suggestion if they favored the Church's leadership.
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