The Roman Catholic Clergy of Armagh, headed by Primate Cullen,
as- sembled at Dundalk on Tuesday, and passed resolutions of congratula- tion to their English eoreligionists on the reestablishment of their hier- archy in England. They take this bold position- " Believing as we do that the Apostolic See is the centre of unity and the source of all spiritual jurisdiction, and holding with the ancient fathers that any church separated from that See is a branch cut off from the tree, or a stream divided from the fountain, or a sunbeam from the sun, we shall maintain with unshaken confidence our right, and that of all our Catholic brethren, to a free and unrestricted intercourse with the Holy See." 'They assure their English brethren, that in case any attempt should be made to revive the legislation of a barbarous age, they may depend on "active cooperation [from Ireland] in every constitutional effort for their defence against such an unjust and unprovoked aggression on their liber- ties?"
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