What Catholics Still Contend for.
By Editor
It is said now and then by some deceived Protestant that Roman Catholics do not desire that the temporal power of the pope shall be restored, but no honest, genuine Catholic so declares. What Catholics desire is expressed in the following, adopted by the German Catholic Congress, September 26, at Louisville, Ky.:— "We again express our filial love and reverence to our Holy Father, Leo XIII., and in the name of that liberty bestowed upon his church by God himself we declare that the first condition of such liberty consists in the entire independence of the head of the Catholic Church from every earthly power. The only solution of the Roman question acceptable to the Catholics must, therefore, imply the territorial independence of the Holy See, the terms for which must be stipulated by the Holy Father himself." And this from the same source shows inferentially that the public schools of the country are not at all in favor:— "As free citizens we claim for parents the right to choose the schools and teachers to whom they want to intrust the instruction of their children. As Catholics, therefore, we claim the right to establish and govern our parochial schools in accordance with our ecclesiastical superiors and to develop them by all available means."