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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955. Why I left the church - Image 42. 1912. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. September 23, 2020. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1058/show/1051.

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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955. (1912). Why I left the church - Image 42. Socialist and Communist Pamphlets. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. Retrieved from https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1058/show/1051

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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955, Why I left the church - Image 42, 1912, Socialist and Communist Pamphlets, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, accessed September 23, 2020, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1058/show/1051.

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Title	Why I left the church
Series Title	Pamphlets for the million; no. 1
Creator (LCNAF)	McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955
Contributor (LCNAF)	Rationalist Press Association
Publisher	Watts & Company
Place of Creation (TGN)	London
Date	1912
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Catholic ex-priests Personal narratives
Subject.Name (LCNAF)	McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
Original Item Extent	46 pages; 19 cm.
Original Item Location	BX4668.3.M33A3 1912
Original Item URL	http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304505~S11
Original Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection URL	http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections
Use and Reproduction	This item is in the public domain and may be used freely.
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Image 42
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_5792348_041.jpg
Transcript	42 WHY I LEFT THE CHURCH greater difficulty in finding bishops and archbishops in the text of the Gospel; the Presbyterian does violence to the text for his own purposes; even the pure Evangelical is ever finding deeper meanings and constructing dogmas or systems on one or other text of the Gospel. But Roman theology is a masterpiece of ingenuity in exegetics. From Christ's simple wrords, "Whose sins you shall retain they are retained," the whole system of the Confessional is evolved; from a medicinal remark of James comes the curious dogma of Extreme Unction ; from some strong language of the sorely-tempted Paul are pressed Original Sin and Baptismal Regeneration ; from the farewell supper of Christ the extraordinary doctrines of the Eucharist and the Mass, with all their complicated ceremonies; and the Immaculate Conception is proved from a stray remark in the Genesis version of an old Babylonian legend. Scripture must not be taken alone, they tell us; tradition embodies revelation with equal authority. But what is tradition ? From the heterogeneous contents of the writings of the Fathers what are we to choose as revealed ? Well, the Pope is infallible; but it turns out that even he has no inner revelation or positive assistance in the matter; he must be convinced from Scripture and tradition like ourselves, and it is extremely difficult sometimes to see the connection between his dogmatic conclusions and the scriptural data he alleges for them. If it is hopeless to trace the origin of the hierarchy of the Church of Rome in Scripture, it is certainly not difficult to understand it as a purely human