Catholic Progress in England.
FROM a London letter in the Chicago Evening Journal, of May 24, 1873:— A ponderous volume has just been published, by a Roman Catholic author, showing the strides that his Church has been making in this Protestant country. He gives a vast amount of statistics, with none of which I shall now deal. I only wish to call attention to the fact that, although only a few years ago, say fifteen or twenty, there was not a solitary convent, or nunnery, in all England, there are now no less than about 450, fully recognized and tolerated. The occupation of the Sisters is nursing and teaching, and it is estimated that about 200,000 children are being brought up under their instructions. These will, of course, grow up Roman Catholics, and by-and-by take their places in society and diffuse their influence throughout the land. Is it not easy to see what the political future of this Protestant country is to be? Such statistics as these speak louder than whole volumes of argument.