We Should Hope Not by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 18, 1899

We Should Hope Not.

By Editor

The editor of The Catholic Mirror in speaking of the Protestants who are sending Bibles to Porto Rico, to convert the good Catholics there, asks:—

“Does the prayer of the Saviour find its realization in these visitors? Are they one, as the Catholic Church; . . . as the church and her two hundred and fifty millions are one?”

We should hope not. For years Spain and Cuba have given us an example of Catholic unity. The recent war between this country and Spain is another instance in point. Catholic soldiers with hearts fired with unholy zeal showed their unity by killing their brethren of the one church on the other side, and Catholic priests and bishops were found in quantity on both sides praying for the success of the respective armies. Is this the union for which Christ prayed—a union which puts “patriotism,” “expediency,” etc., before duty to God? We do not believe in the necessity of the various sects of Protestantism; but to be acceptable to God they must possess a different union than that of Roman Catholicism.