The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-04-19
Interesting Figures of the Growth
and Spread Of Catholicity
in America.
In Thirty of the States of Union it
is in Excess of All Other
Denominations.
The Adherents of the Church in Is
States Exceed All Other
Put Together.

Tho days Of bitter. uncompromisins
warfare between Roman Catholic and
Protestant churches arc gone. never,
let us hope to return, says H. III. Car
roll. formerly of the u. S. Census bur-
eau.
They will constitute separate camps
having more or less the appearance Of
hostile hosts, but the little fighting to
be seen is of dcsultory character, in
which only participating groups are
engaged. Considering myself
a staunch Evangelical Protestant. with
passion for tho unadorned, untis-
torted truth. can say that / admire
and reverence many things in the Ro-
man Catholic Church. and it is always
painful to me to see 1t abused and
misrenrcscntch. No reasonable, re-
Spectacle controverslalist should call
1T by any name or title which 1t does
not rccognize and which is offensive
TO 1t. IL accepts without question,
the term Church OF Rome or Roman
Catholic Church. 10 apply to it such
offensive words as "Romish,' "Popish."
| Is not good manners to start with and
shows coYtemptuous feeling. If IL,
be asked why these words are obler-
| tionabc, it is sufficient to say that
| they are Objectionable and being OH
jcctionablc, ought not to bc used.
| Methodsts were at first so called con-
tcmptuously, but they themselves ac-
ccptcd the term and made 1t a cgiti-
mate name.
Stgmatized "Foreign" Church.
The Roman Catholic is sometimes
stigmatizcd as Il foreign" Church. 4,
! is true that immigrants from other
| countries have made up most of its
| millions. That is no valid objection,
for Immigrants have built up other
churches, Protestant and Oriental, AMI
| they have built up our national popu-
| lation. II Ia also true that the CEN
tral government OF the Roman Cath
olic Church has its scat in q European
capital; but what of that? The Meth
| odist Episcopal Church., with it's xov-
erning body in the United States, has
| an annual conference in Italy and sim
| liar conferences in many other coun-
tries, OF Europe, Asia and Africa. The
Moravians OF the United States look
to a town in Germany as their head
quarters. In these days OF world
powers world faiths and world de-
nominations. 1t is not possible to con-
fine much opprobium in the word
! foreign" particularly in country
| which has attained it's eminence as a
power by assmilating the population
Of the world II there are any de-
nominations which have no foreign
element among their communicates
and who would not welcome it I do
not know where they are. Moreover,
Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran,
Congregational, Reformed, Baptist,
Episcopal and other we'll known
churches came to this country from
across the sea as missionary bodies.
They came with immigration; they
profitrd by immigration, some more,
some less but all in some degree. They
are polygloi churches and preach the
gospel in many tongues, not only in
other countries but in the United
States. Indeed it would be reflec-
ton upon the adaptability and enter
prise Of these denominations if they
refused to minister to people q diff
fcrent races. The Roman Catholic
Church is not, therefore, peculiar in
embracing many nationalities from the
ends Of the earth in it's communion
Charge Of Un-Patriotic Absurd.
Sometimes the cry is raised that the
Roman Catholics are not true Amer
lean patriots. and it has been asserted
! that a whole regiment of Irish be-
trayed the cause Of the Revolution and
went over to the invading host, that
there were more Catholic deserters
from the armies Of the Union in the
civil war than of any other class and
!also that the Pope recognized the
Southern Confederacy. These state