Catholicism, Socialism, and Government
By Editor
An editorial paragraph in a Catholic paper states that the news has been confirmed that the British government will send the cruiser Syracuse to carry Cardinal Ferrata, the papal legate, to the international Eucharistic Congress on April 22. This is one among the many evidences of the growing strength of Catholic sentiment in old Protestant England. The nations of the Old World are in great perplexity to know how to meet the difficulties that confront them, and no one of their problems is any greater than that of Socialism. Socialism stands opposed to the militarism of the time, and in many other ways is standing in the road of what the governments want to do. The Catholics and the Socialists are very generally at enmity, and it is easy for those charged with the burdens of government to turn to the forces of Rome to assist them in meeting what they regard as the menace of Socialism. This courting of Rome will continue until she is again the supreme mistress of the Old World and a dominating power in the New. Some may regard this as fanciful, but the influences that are tending in that direction are tremendous.