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Show The Church's Battlefield. The battlefield ot the Catholic Church is one and the same throughout through-out the world the early training of her children. For it is there that Masonic sectorie.4 and other freethinkers free-thinkers mass thiir forces, against her. Not only i;this so in Spain; it is more prominently the case in France, as the thousands of parental defense associations that have sprung up in recent years amply testify. In Italy it is becoming so every day more and more. Again, in Belgium the coming com-ing elections will turn very largely upon this vital point, for the anti-clericals anti-clericals there have raised the electioneering elec-tioneering cry that the Catholic Government, Gov-ernment, which has ruled the land so prosperously for the past twenty-five ' years, favors the Congregational schools to the prejudice of the State ones under its care. In England, too, a similar battle is in progress. Surely this is a fitting period for prayers, Masses and frequent communions for the souls of the young that is to say, for Christian schools. Universe and-Catholic and-Catholic Weekly, London. |