MANNING AND AMERICA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1765, 19 August 1884, Page 2

MANNING AND AMERICA.

"I long to see America and know the Americans," the Cardinal said, 11 but, alas, lam too old. I know but Dne journey to make now. Forty times have I travelled to Romo, and I im well weary of that journey. The position of the Church in America is to me of great interest, You see in America the Church has lost nothing —it never had anything to lose. There you have no aristocracy handing down the tiaditions of the Anglican Church; no powerful territorial interest operating against Rome; there you have 'F not the effects of 300 years of Anglican prestige. The Church is free and untrammelled." Discussing religious against secular education, the Cardinal said"l have my worst fears for the future in England. In Prance the secularists have full right to exercise their tyranny. In Belgium the position is almost as bad, though recent events have improved the position of thljfr clerical party." As to America, quoting the opinion of the Bishop of St. Paul, Minn., he said:-"The influence of . the seventeenth century English Puritan blood is too strong to allow the sacred tie of parent and child to be £ severed by the State. In England we r" have lost the ear of the people; but the Church makas marvellous strides. She was never more pure, free, inclcpend- .; ent, and powerful." And the position of the Pope temporarily?" "The Church has been to an extent driven . from the position it had attained. Whether she will ever be restored to that position no man kuoweth, but this we do know: 'No man who lays hands on the Yicar of Christ (and thus on the Church) has ever prospered,'"