The Roman Church in America
RAYMOND BLATHWAYT, writing to the London Chronicle in defense of Cardinal Gibbons on the labor and other questions, says:— "The Roman Church in America is in the van of the forward movement to a greater extent than is generally imagined, and those who have studied the question with open, generous minds have no doubt that the future welfare of the republic lies in the hands of the Italian mission now flourishing in its midst." The future doom of the republic rests in the hands of the Roman Church, and professed Protestants have put it there. Right in line with this is the following from a dispatch from Rome to the New York Herald:— "It will be placed on record in the history of the world that the latter years of Leo XIII.'s reign were passed in interested contemplation of the progress of the Catholic Church in the United States. This is in fact the dominating interest of his closing years, and he shows this in every way possible. He takes the deepest interest in the progress of Monsignor Satolli's work." The above are both clipped from the daily Examiner of December 31. They show the current of affairs.