The Irish Ecclesiastical Record 1887 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Vol. 19: January 1906 In Catholic circles, too, the year just passed has not been an altogether uneventful one. The life of the Church, like that of the individual, is to be a life of warfare. She has had her crosses and defeats, but she has also had her consolations. Under the present illustrious Pontifi, whose motto is, the renewal of all things in Christ, she has freed herself more and more from the nets of diplomatic entanglements, to the strengthening of her own innate powers of defence. We are not of those who think that in the days of the Middle Ages the Church reached her prime, and that the remainder of her course must be marked by signs of senility and decay. New developments in social and educational circles, though at first apparently anta gonistic, but open new Spheres for her activity and new fields for her conquest, and it only requires a man and a policy to ensure success. Never before did the Church stand in a higher or better position. Old abuses, which for centuries crippled her power, have been eradicated; the doles of State assistance with their consequences of slavery and silence have disappeared, or are rapidly disappearing, and in the present conditions of the world may they never return the union of the different parts with one another and with Rome is closer and more sympathetic than it had ever been new activities have been developed, new weapons of defence have been pressed into the service, new policies more in conformity with modern developments have been initiated, and with courage, patience, and withal prudence, the ultimate triumph is, we are convinced, assured. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.