The Pope and America

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 5, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 23.

The Pope and America.

The Chicago Record-Herald has the following: “London, May 6.—‘Pope Leo XIII. regards the United States as the future center of the greatness of the Roman Catholic Church,’ said Perry S. Heath, former Assistant Postmaster-General of the United States, to The Record-Herald correspondent to-night. Mr. Heath has just reached London from Rome, where he had a long interview with his holiness. He said further: ‘The Pope takes great pride in the growth of his church under the Stars and Stripes. He feels most kindly toward the American government and people, declaring that both spontaneously favor and constantly insist on absolute religious freedom. His holiness believes that America is unfolding a spectacle of material and spiritual development almost unparalleled in the history of the world.’”

The freedom when this country becomes Romanized will be freedom only for Romanists.