THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 203, 31 July 1903, Page 3

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

At the peroration of the splendid ducoiiise on the death of the Pope dt - livered by His Lordship Dr Grimes quoted the following passage from the Protestant Historian Maeauley on the vitality of the Catholic Church “The proudest royal houses,” says Maeauley. ‘are but of yesterday when compared with the line of Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth centurv to the Pope who crowned Pepin in the eight; and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasto extends till it is lost in the twilight of fable. The Republic of Venice came next in an - tiquity. But the Republic of Venice was modern when compared with the Papacy ; and the Republic of Venice remains. The Papacy remains, not in decay, not a mere antique, but full of life and youthful vigor. . . Kor do we see any sign which indicates that the term of her long dominion is approaching. She saw the commencement of all governments and of all ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world, and we fell no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all. She was great, and respected before the Saxon had set foot on Britain—before the Frank had passed the Rhine—when Grecian eloquence still flourished at Antioch . when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca ; and she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take’ his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch tho ruins of St Paul’s..”

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