At the request of the president the Rt. Rev. Bishop of Mayence gave the episcopal blessing, whereupon the public session was adjourned. The second day also began with prayer, a High Mass of Requiem being sung for all the members of the Union who had died during the last year. Then in a private session followed the discussion and approval of resolutions. The resolutions proposed by the officers of the Congress, and received by all with acclamation, surpassed in importance all others which had yet passed. We give them, therefore, a prominent place; they are a sign that the Catholics of Germany have not lost their courage as yet, and they deserve to be published verbatim. They are as follows: The Second Congress of the Catholic Germans declares: I. _Regarding the State of Christian Society._ 1. The violent persecution which the Catholic Church in some parts of Europe and South America now suffers, verifies the expression of the Holy Father that anti‐Christianity—that is, modern civilization—is incompatible with Catholicity. 2. The certain result of a systematically‐arranged combat against the church of Christ, as well as against Christianity itself and the essential foundations of society, will be the dissolution of social and political order, endless war, and the destruction of the nation’s rights. 3. The re‐establishment of permanent and national order is only to be looked for when political independence is again restored to the Holy See, and when all those rights are recognized which belong to the head of the Catholic Church by virtue of divine dispensation and historical development. II. _Regarding the State of Germany._ 1. The constitution of the German Empire, for the reason that it guarantees neither protection to personal liberty, nor to the independence of states, nor to the different ranks of society and incorporations, cannot establish the true welfare of the German people. 2. The influence of the so‐called national party, which abjures the essential rights of the German people and of the representation of the people, will be the ruin of the German Empire. 3. The exception laws, by which the German Empire, founded as it is by a common sacrifice, has deprived one‐third of the citizens of their essential rights, thereby destroying the peace and the power of Germany. 4. The unlimited development of military power is incompatible with natural rights, civil liberty, and the spiritual as well as the material welfare of the German people. 5. The unchristianizing of public instruction now in progress, the control by the state of the entire school system, founded as it is upon compulsion, and at the same time the suppression of the educational rights of the church and of the family, is a source of spiritual and moral ruin.