The Pope Praises the American Government
THE pope has again been praising the American government, says a dispatch in the Chicago Record-Herald of October 11. It is not a new thing for the pope to praise the United States, but we note in this instance an expression which the astute pontiff has not used with reference to this government before. The dispatch says:— On reading the agreements arrived at with General Wood as military governor of Cuba, the pontiff exclaimed: “Washington is the most loyal and generous government the church ever had to do with.” In 1893 Pope Leo issued a rescript in which he pronounced the United States to be “a Catholic country,” and “elevated” it to “the first rank as a Catholic nation.” Now he says that the United States is a “most loyal government.” A remarkable expression is this, and there is a meaning and a purpose in it. The web of papal diplomacy is being steadily woven about the American republic. Protestants, are you taking note of these things?