"I regret that John Huss was not burned sooner than he was. "I regret that Luther was not punished in the same way. "And I regret that there was not found at that time a king wise enough to organize a crusade against Protestantism."
So writes the editor of the leading Catholic Journal in Europe, the Universe, and just now the special protege of Pius the Ninth. These amiable gentlemen certainly need the sympathy of all the faithful. They would do something worthy of Hildebrand, but they can't. One cannot but think of Bunyan's poor Giant Pope in the cave, growling at the pilgrims as they pass on to the city of God, but unable to do more. The old nature remains, the real genuine love of blood and bones; but alas! the tooth and claws, how time has played the mischief with them!—Cosmopolitan.