Catholic Federation Address on Protestantism's Decline
THE following words are quoted from an address by the president of the American Federation of Catholic Societies, which recently convened in Chicago:— Infidelity, agnosticism, or absolute indifference is already digging the grave of Protestantism in the United States. A most important mission of federation of the fraternal, social, and charitable Catholic societies is to secure the layman’s part in helping to make this country Catholic. The Catholic Church has not been backward in making her demands known in this country, but according to the president of this new federation the church has been a “timid, shrinking apologist” heretofore in comparison with what she intends to be hereafter. In the decline of the Protestant spirit she sees her opportunity.