IN THE Tablet there is a lengthy communication from Dom Bede Camm, in which he tells the story of the submission of the Caldey Community to Roman authority. Fr Camm, who himself has gone through the process of renouncing obedience to the ancient Catholic Church in this country, manages, though unintentionally, to reveal the Caldey monks in a not very satisfactory light. Incidentally, he criticizes our contention that they have acted precipitately, but if, as he implies, their minds had been made up for a whole year, their conduct is quite unintelligible. For they invoked the assistance and direction of a Visitor, and to all appearances were ready to continue in the English Church, on condition, at least, that he allowed them to do exactly as they wished. But still, they would have remained English Churchmen, and, if so, they obviously could have no doubt of the validity of English Orders and of their full possession of the Sacraments. When their Visitor directed them to desist from certain practices, in a moment the situation was entirely changed. They discovered that they had been living in heresy and schism, that they had no priest among them, no Sacraments, that possibly they had never even been baptized. Already they have been admitted to the Roman communion by a Bishop in partibus, with the pretended title of Bishop of Menevia, but upon what terms we are not informed. We hope that they did not commit the sacrilege of being rebaptized, because such a proceeding is hopelessly irreconcilable with their readiness, only a short time back, to stay where they were, as though the validity of the Sacraments as hitherto administered by themselves and to themselves were unquestioned. We think we are justified in saying that they took the final step with no little haste.