| Show CARDINAL NAL WISEMAN AND ROMAN OATHO cardinal Cai dinal wiseman IN I 1 ENGLAND in an has just published in ill a bound volume the paper which lie ho road read at the roman catholic congress at malinas 1 on the religious and social position oi liis his fellow religionists in edg england land he tells his hearers and readers that catholicism in england is in a prosperous 0 state stafe everybody in england Ell gland seems to acknowledge 0 c that catholicism is daily gaining ground upon protestantism in 1830 there was only priests for the whole of england there are now 1242 the number of chapels which was then now amounts to from 16 convents which they possessed in 1830 they had risen in 1863 to lastly while in 1863 no house of religious men existed there in 1850 there were 11 and their present number is 58 the cardinal proceeds to say that conversions conversions to the faith 11 are now made noiselessly the clergy were always opposed to publish publishing ilig them do not suppose therefore gentlemen that because you hear less than you formerly did of conversions the current of proselytism is stopped on the contrary conversions are gradually increasing they embrace persons of every position extending as formerly even to the highest in tile the social scale the catholics he hc says are arc becoming strong in england edgland at the last election a candidate in a consid crable town came before the electors on liberal principles and was surprised to find himself rejected by the preponderance of catholic votes which turned the scale he was informed that the cause for this conduct was his having exceeded even the liberty accorded to au an advocate in a cause which lio lie had pleaded against a roman catholic bishop in order to excite the religion 6 prejudices of a jury ile he was told that lie he would meet with the same determined and organized opposition in another place where lie ho intended D to try tr y his chance this was the case so having to stand for the very place where that bishop lived he h e called upon him and made his pear peace oc 11 tile the cardinal adds that with roman catholics in england one claim must be made at a time that it may be calmly and leisurely lei surly enforced and then another must succeed till all shall have been favorably exhausted |
