Catholic Claims for Church Damages
By Editor
MORE than once last year in these columns we called attention to the great probability that the Catholic Church would push herself upon the United States in immense claims for “damages to church property” in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines. And now she has already begun it. And this to the extent of more than a million dollars in Cuba alone. And this is only the beginning, too. And when that is only the beginning, and only in Cuba, what will it be when she has finished for Cuba and the Philippines? In Cuba hardly any damage at all was done, while in the Philippines churches have been greatly damaged, if not actually destroyed. And since the Methodist Episcopal Church South got four hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars from the government for the occupancy of only one building belonging to that church, and not a church building, what will the Catholic Church be likely to get for the many buildings in payment for which she will enter claims, which are actually church buildings? The colonial career of the United States is a harvest of gold, as well as a golden harvest, for Rome.