AN ITEM OF ROMAN CATHOLIC PROGRESS.
SIR MORELL MCKENZIE has declared that the only hope of Rome’s ever having success in England or America is for that church to become Anglicized. In reply to this, the (N. Y.) Catholic News of August 25, makes answer with the following statistics:— “A hundred years ago there were three Catholic bishops in England, one in Scotland, a few in Ireland, one in Canada, none in the United States, none in British, East, or West Indies, no Catholic chaplains in army, navy, or institutions. During the century the church has been catholicizing; England and America have not been altering her divine constitution; and he is a lying prophet who says the future shall reverse this order of things. Now England has twenty-one cardinals, archbishops and bishops; Scotland, five archbishops and bishops; Ireland, thirty-one; the British possessions in America, thirty-four; Australia, etc., twenty-four; there are about twenty-four in other British territory; a cardinal and eighty-three archbishops and bishops in the United States. There are at least two hundred and twenty-five Catholic archbishops and bishops, with five cardinals, in English-speaking countries, against about thirty a hundred years ago.” It cannot be hidden; Romanism is gaining more to-day than Protestantism.