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Show French Persecution and Anglicans. (London Catholic Times.) Wre have called attention in these columns to the movement amongst the Anglican clergy in England for presenting pre-senting to the Catholic clergy in France an expression of sympathy on the persecution per-secution of the Church in that country. From tho last issue of the Church Times we find that an address which, it is proposed, individual Anglican clergymen cler-gymen should present to the Cardinal-Archbishop Cardinal-Archbishop of Paris has been drawn up for signature. In it his Grace is assured as-sured that in the trying circumstances in which the Church of France finds itself it-self placed by a persecution which has affected numberless members of Con-gations Con-gations and religious Orders, a persecution persecu-tion that bids fair to'extend itself to all the members of the Church in France, the French clergy have the esteem and sympathy of the signatory. It is pleasant pleas-ant to note this disposition on the part of Anglican clergymen to extend the "entente cordialc" to a recognition of the right ofthe members of the French Congregations to be allowed to live in their own land. Despite articles in newspapers governed by considerations unfavorable to the Catholic religion, there seems to be, at least in a measure, meas-ure, a revival of the generous sympathy with which the clergy exiled from France at the time of the great revolution revolu-tion was received In England. |