p. 10 | Note and Comment by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Jun 27, 1912

Note and Comment

By Editor

Is the Papal Throne to Be Moved to America?

THIS is a question which a correspondent of the Herald and Presbyter, in its issue of June 5, 1912, raised. Quoting the Central Christian Advocate, he claimed that in the papal organ called Rome of Jan. 6, 1912, the following appeared as an appeal to the new cardinals:—

Eminence, you will not forget the corner, here where your shield hangs, which is your title, which is yours. And, Eminence, will you ask your people not to forget that they, too, have a share in that corner and in Rome? We here never know, year in and year out, what may be out in the lands of free nations. And when your people are strong enough to force your rulers to do right, when the cry reaches you, "Come over and help us," yours to say, "No longer a prisoner within four walls, at the will of an enemy, no longer exposed to the insults in his own city, but independent, free, free to take the right place that is here by right."

The papal seat will probably never be transferred to the New World, but that Rome proposes to make the United States more dominantly Catholic than even Italy at the present time is clearly apparent, not only from her utterances, but from the earnest propaganda which she is carrying forward. Through her representatives her power will be felt quite as potently as if the papal see itself should be transferred to America.