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Show SPIHIT Or i He PRcSS. II. rr Citti.n.icy't Hi li.m. I'lili-ano Tribune. Tho hrst oDicial opinion which has been expressed iu this country of the scheme of Herr Ciheusley, secretary of the society of tho Archangel Raphael, so obtain from the Vatican a recognition recog-nition of nationality in the government of the Roman Catholic clmrch iu the United States, comes from the American Catholic Clerical Union, which met in Milwaukee last week. The effort of Herr Cahensley and other secretaries of foreii'U immigration societies to iulbv enee'the Vatican iu the appoinUie7-American appoinUie7-American bishops was the princij.aij theme of a discussion which finally wa! crystallized in a series of resolutions, leaving uo doubt as to tho attitude of American Catholics ou this question. In these resolutions the union reseuts "the iusolonl interference of any class of foreigners, whether they be Irish, English, Gorman, Italian, French, Austrian, Aus-trian, Bohemian, Pide, or Canadian, in the selection of bishops for the United States," and repudiates "the insolent efforts of meddlesome foreigner! to uu-Amcricaiiize uu-Amcricaiiize the church in this country.' |