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Rome's Ambitious Aims

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 22, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 43.

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Rome's Ambitious Aims

In his sermon at the centenary of the establishment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the United States in 1889, Archbishop Ireland said that the work which Roman Catholics in the coming century were called to do in the United States was—
“to make America Catholic, and to solve for the church universal the all-absorbing problem with which the age confronts her. Our work is to make America Catholic. . . . Our cry shall be, ‘God wills it,’ and our hearts shall leap with crusader enthusiasm. We know the church is the sole owner of the truths and graces of salvation. . . . The Catholic Church will confirm and preserve, as no other human power or human church can, the liberties of the republic.
The Catholic Church is the sole living and enduring Christian authority. She has the power to speak; she has an organization by which her laws may be enforced.”