"Puff" on Catholics and Protestants
The Irish Catholic announces that the conversion of a female member of the Royal Family is imminent ! Who's that, I wonder ? Goodness^ knows !' The "Queen's daughters all married Protestants. How about Louise.? . The Marchioness of , Lome ?. Well, she's the most likely of the lot ! . It would be a great "triumph for the holy Rum'uns would'nt it ? The Catholics would claim it as a conspicuous proof that they are gaining great ground in England! The proofs are all the . other way ! The Catholics have gained no ground .at all, but rather lost ground sinct •every sort of persecution ceased ! There are about a million Catholics ir sail England, out of 23 millions ol people, and the vast majority of thost Are Irish! . ',<•«' What is the cause of tnajt ? The cauß6Liß simply that the popu lation as a whole ar& increasing at i -vast rate, and all political distinctioni and animosities having been remove( the Catholics are gradually bein{ Absorbed into the Protestant majority Then you don't think Great Britaii will become a Catholic country^ agaii if the Marchioness of Lome goes ove to Rome? ; ..../ ... I don't think so! I think it l quite as likely that the. Pope will joii the Salvation. . Army and b,eas a bij drum under people's windows on th Sabbath morn !
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 29, 18 August 1888, Page 3
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219"Puff" on Catholics and Protestants Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 29, 18 August 1888, Page 3
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