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_005197586	Littledale, Richard Frederick, 1833-1890.	Why Ritualists do not become Roman Catholics : a reply to the Abbe Martin	1879		.txt	text/plain	20870	590	51	According to his view, sheer ignorance is the main deterrent of wholesale conversion, and as this ignorance disappears gradually before the light of inquiry, and the Roman Church becomes daily better known, the prospects of the Holy See will brighten in England. Clearly, there is a flaw in the Abbé's reasoning here, and it is, to say the least, more than likely that the greatly increased knowledge now possessed by English Churchmen of the real character ofpractical Roman­ ism helps to deter them from seceding, because they know that the difficulties and abuses they must encounter in their new communion are certainly as great as those they are familiar with at home, and probably greater; with this ad­ ditional consideration, to which no light weight attaches, that they see the visible progress of wholesome reform in the Church of England, the steady abatement of nuisances, extinction of abuses, establishment of new or revival of disused agencies for good; while they perceive that in the Roman Church, contrariwise, the man who chafes against scandals may not even hope to see them removed, but must choose sullen and dumb acquiescence, or else the title of bad Catholic, as his reward for remonstrance.	cache/_005197586.txt	txt/_005197586.txt