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Excerpt from Christian Literature, Vol. 1
Some years before he had told Archbishop Croke that he was as good an Irishman as himself, and that he sincerely wished well to his Irish children no one could doubt who ever met him. In conversations with Arch bishop Walsh he had completely reassured that astute and somewhat rusé relate as to the genuine sympathy with w ich he re garded the Irish cause. So notorious were his tendencies, that Cardinal Howard, being asked on one occasion by an Irishwoman whether the Pope would receive her, replied that there was no doubt of it, but that if she would say that she was a Home Ruler his Holiness would receive her with special favor. In this there is nothing surprising. Ireland is to the future of Catholicism what England has been to the Protestant world. Ireland has always been the Isle of the Saints, but few Englishmen understand that in the new world which is springing up around us the Irish are the missionary race. In a remarkable sermon which Bishop Vaughan preached many years ago in Rome, he brought out with extraordinary effect this too often unnoticed feature of the Irish character. But for the Irish the whole English-speaking world beyond the narrow limits of the Catholic caste in Great Britain would be almost exclusively Protestant. It is owing to Ireland - and to Ireland almost alone - that the Holy See is able to establish its bishoprics in every land where the English tongue is spoken, and to encompass the world with churches not reared in portions infidelium, but in the midst of the house hold of faith. The Irish brogue is as universal as the En lish language, and wherever there is the rogue there also is the Mass.
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