THE WESTMINSTER LIBRARY A SERIES OF MANUALS FOR CATHOLIC EDITED BY THE RIGHT REV. MGR. BERNARD WARD [PRESIDENT of st. edmund's college AND THE REV. HERBERT THURSTON, S.J. Mibil obstat. FRANCISCUS M. CANONICUS WYNDHAM, Censor Deputatus. Imprimatur. EDM: CAN: Surmont, Vicarius Generalis. Westmonasterii, die 28 Octobris, 1910. DENOMINATIONS BY THE REV. ROBERT HUGH BENSON, M.A. LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK, BOMBAY AND CALCUTTA EDITORS' PREFACE. THIS series of Handbooks is designed to meet a need, which, the Editors believe, has been widely felt, and which results in great measure from the predominant importance attached to Dogmatic and Moral Theology in the studies preliminary to the Priesthood. That the first place must of necessity be given to these subjects will not be disputed. But there remains a large outlying field of professional knowledge which is always in danger of being crowded out in the years before ordination, and the practical utility of which may not be fully realised until some experience of the ministry has been gained. It will be the aim of the present series to offer the sort of help which is dictated by such experience, and its developments will be largely guided by the suggestions, past and future, of the Clergy themselves. To provide Textbooks for Dogmatic Treatises is not contemplated-at any rate not at the outset. On the other hand, the pastoral work of the missionary priest will be kept constantly in view, and the series will also deal with those historical and liturgical aspects of Catholic |