THE POWER OF A CATHOLIC PRIEST.
There was a thrilling scene enacted in Cleveland the other Sunday (says an American secular newspaper), when a mob of strike sympathisers charged upon two unsupported policemen, and would have killed them but for the intervention of a priest.
That victory and rescue is an exemplification of the power possessed by the Catholic Church. . It is probable that no other personality than that of a priest could have intervened at that moment with power sufficient to save those two lives. The Bohemian Catholic priest who saved tho=e two policemen in Cleveland is just as much a hero as the man who has led a charge against an army in battle ; more so, perhaps, for he did what he did on his own motion and without any words of command other than his priestly obligation. Those who rail agaicst the priesthood and the power it possesses would very speedily find that life and property would not be half so safe in mariy places as they are now if these men were not present.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 49, 7 December 1899, Page 15
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178THE POWER OF A CATHOLIC PRIEST. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 49, 7 December 1899, Page 15
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