'They Shall be One'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 39, 28 September 1905, Page 17

'They Shall be One '

A writer in a Fribourg contemporary has the following remarks, 'based on figures in thet Rev. P. Krose's work, ' Statistique Religieuse dv ' : 'If we compare the Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church, with her 265,503,922 members, we shall see that t'hc is far beyond comparison the most numerous and most extended of all the Christian bodies. Nearly half tilie Christians of the entire glebe— over i 3 per cent.—and nuare than a sixth part of the total population of the world profess the Catholic faith. 'Moreover, the Catholdc religion is not divided and subdivided wito an infinity of sects, as is the case with Protestantism, Maihommedainism, and Budd* hism, tout is one. Thus in spite Of her enemies and their most determined efforts against her, the Cabhcw lie Oiiucall is still, at the commencement of the twentieth century, living, flO'iiris'M'n'g, and spread out over the whiole earth, and 'alone of all the religious systems merits the name of Catholic or Universal.'