New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-26
Intervievv with !. Roman PreIate.

a
view with Monsieur Capel 1.-THE Caterly OF
Lothainl, one of the most influential Roman
prelates in Great Britain. Capel said, N
recent conversation: / am fond OF the
Americans, although l see their'faults as
clearly as those who are not fond Of them.
MANY of my converts have been Americans.
During my life in Rome met hosts OF them.
Here / am continually meeting them, l
have in New York and your other cities
c-raet Numbers of personal friends. One of
INV cherished hopes is to visit your country
I sbould try to 60 there at once If 1t were
nossibIe. have a great scheme IN my mead
for the establishment here OF an immense
middle GLASS school for the education OF our
vonng neople in secondary education, ana
nv American friends tell me that IL VIII
onlv come over to see them, they will send
me back with all the money that need Ior
that purpose. $3.50, "a =.
diffusion abroad: England will again be-
come Catholic, but she will return to her
old faith through the path OF lnhdehty'
Two great movements are going on here.
The Catholic church is daily, hourly, recelV-
ing accessions from every quarter, and the
established church is preparing the way
first for IT'S separation from the State, whose
authority is all that keeps 1t together, anu
then for its disintegratiOn. These dlssenU-
ers. by their action on the educational ques-
ton, have thrown themselves into the arms
of the secuIarists. When the establishment
is split in two the secularists will again re-
ceive accessions to their ranks. You must
have seen how fast these men travel toward
virtual infdelity who once cut loose from a
belief that the authority Of the church is
witness and teacher of infallible truth, and
who begin to exercise their private right OF
Judgment upon the question OF whether God
is true.
The ignorant Protestant remains a Chris
tian because, without knowing or confess
ing it, he believes the truths of salvation
not on the authority of his own Judgment,
but on the authority of the church; but the
educated Protestant is very apt to be at
heart an infidel. He sees that science about
revelation, what he calls science, that is,
and as he fancies that science conflicts
with revelation in his heart he rejects the
latter, although with his lips he may still
continue to profess it. This is the road on
which Professionalism in England is now
travelling. The really honest and earnest
men and women of the educated Protest
ants come to US, and in the church they
find the rock on which they can rest. The
others, who are in the majority, go on in
the path that leads, sooner or later, to in
fidelity.
The change that has occurred here with
regard to the feeling entertained toward
the church is really wonderful The Cath
Ole clergy used to be Stunned and avoided
and despised. Now they are sought after,
consulted and respected. Ten years ago,
if CHANGED to put my head out of rail
way carriage, / was certain to have the car
riage all to myself for the whole of the jour-
ney; to-day, if l am seen in a railway car
riage, there are plenty of fellow travellers
for me. So it is with all of us. You and l
will live to see four millions of Catholics in
England, and with us there will be perhaps
six millions of Christian Protestants who
will be ready to fight at our side in the bat
tie then to be waged against infdelity. l
only fear that the battle will have TO be
fought too soon.
We are greatly in want of English priests.
The foreign priests who are here are doing
noble work, but they don't know the Eng
lish character well, and can't, in the nature
of things, guide Englishmen so well as their
own cOuntrymen can.