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the Pope to possess this country. In this intention he is 

 aided by the Jesuits and all the Catholic prelates and 

 priests." And in some cases expectation is as eager as 

 desire. Father Hecker in his last work/ published in 

 1887, says: "The Catholics will out-number, before the 

 close of this century, all other believers in Christianity 

 put together in the republic." 



III. Many of our Roman Catholic fellow citizens un- 

 doubtedly love the country, and believe that in seeking 

 to Romanize it they are serving its highest interests, but 

 when we remember, as has been shown, that the funda- 

 mental principles of Romanism are opposed to those of 

 the Republic, that the difference between them does not 

 admit of adjustment, but is diametric and utter, it be- 

 comes evident that it would be impossible to ''make 

 America Catholic,'''' (which the archbishop of St. Paul 

 declared at the late Baltimore Congress to be the mis- 

 sion of Roman Catholics in this country) icitJiout bring- 

 ing the ivinciples of that church into active conflict ivith 

 those of our government, thus compelling Roman Catho- 

 lics to choose between them, and in that event, every 

 Romanist ivho remained obedient to the Pope, that is, 

 icho continued to be a Romanist, icoiild necessarily 

 become disloyal to our free institutions. 



IV. It is said, and truly, tliat there are two types of 

 Roman Catholics in the United States. They may be 

 distinguished as those who are "more Catholic than 

 Roman," and those who are more Roman than Catho- 

 lic. The former have felt the influence of modern 

 thought, have been liberalized, and come into a large 

 measure of sympathy with American institutions. Many 

 are disposed to think that men of this class Avill control 

 the Roman Church in this country and already talk of 

 an "American Catholic Church." But there is no such 

 thing as an American or Mexican or Spanish Catholic 

 Church. It is the Roman Catholic Church in America, 

 Mexico and Spain, having one and the same head, whose 



1 The Church aud the Age, p. 56, 



