Excerpt from Notes on the Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Schism From the Church of Rome, Called the German-Catholic Church, Instituted by Johannes Ronge and I. Czerzki, in October 1844: On Occasion of the Pilgrimage to the Holy Coat at Treves J. Czerski, and are now establishing congregations of a German Catholic or Christian Catholic church purified from the errors and abuses of Popery, and independent of the power, spiritual or eccle siastical, of the Pope, and of the hierarchy of the church of Rome. Let me be rightly under stood, says Czerski, a Catholic priest, who has renounced the Roman Catholic church and its errors, has entered into the married state, and joined the German Catholic church, and who, next to Ronge, is the most eminent of its founders, I renounce the Pope and the false doctrines of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, but I remain a Catholic Christian, a Catholic priest. I will not be a Lutheran, nor a Calvinist, nor a Mennonite, nor a Greek christian, -i will remain a Catholic, but according to the words of the Scriptures, - according to the precepts of Christ and his Apostles, I am and will be an Apostolic Catholic Christian, - an Apostolic Christian priest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.