The Catholic World, Vol. 13, April to September, 1871Various
Religion
The Catholic World, Vol. 13, April to September, 1871
Various
Catholic Church -- Periodicals
Martyrs Omitted by Foxe, 575
Meditations on the Litany of the Most Holy Virgin, 431
Miles's Truce of God, 574
Moran's Life of Archbishop Plunkett, 574, 858,
Mrs. Stowe's Pink and White Tyranny, 859
Mulrenan's Sketch of the Church on Long Island, 854
Natural History of New York, 432
Oakeley's Priest on the Mission, 719
Perrone's Divinity of Christ, 286
Rome and Geneva, 283
Russell's My Study Windows, 427
Seelye on Roman Imperialism, 141
Sestini's Manual of Geometrical Analysis, 856
Seton's Romance of the Charter Oak, 288
Starr's Patron Saints, 853
Stowe's Little Pussy Willow, 144
Sullivan's Prayers and Ceremonies of the Mass, 144
Synchronology of Sacred and Profane History, 144
Vaughan's Life of St. Thomas Aquin., 427
Weiss's American Religion, 720
West's State of the Dead, 574
Whipple's Literature and Art, 430
Wonders of European Art, 576
Wonders of the Heavens, 432
Young's Catholic Hymns and Canticles, 719
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THE CATHOLIC WORLD.
VOL. XIII., No. 73.--APRIL, 1871.[1]
UNIFICATION AND EDUCATION.[2]
The Hon. Henry Wilson, recently re-elected senator in Congress from
Massachusetts, may not be distinguished as an original thinker or
as a statesman of commanding ability, but no man is a surer index
to his party or a more trustworthy exponent of its sentiments and
tendencies, its aims and purposes. This gives to his article in
_The Atlantic Monthly_, indicating the policy to be pursued by the
Republican party, a weight it might not otherwise possess.
Mr. Wilson is a strong political partisan, but he is above all
a fervent Evangelical, and his aim, we presume, is to bring his
political party to coincide with his Evangelical party, and make each
strengthen the other. We of course, as a Catholic organ, have nothing
to say of questions in issue between different political parties so
long as they do not involve the rights and interests of our religion,
or leave untouched the fundamental principles and genius of the
American system of government, although we may have more or less to
say as American citizens; but when either party is so ill-advised
as to aim a blow either at the freedom of our religion or at our
federative system of government, we hold ourselves free, and in duty
bound, to warn our fellow-citizens and our fellow-Catholics of the
impending danger, and to do what we can to avert or arrest the blow.
We cannot, without incurring grave censure, betray by our silence the
cause of our religion or of our country, for fear that by speaking we
may cross the purposes of one or another party, and seem to favor the
views and policy of another.
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