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THE CATHOLIC DEMOCRACY OF
AMERICA.
1. Life and Times of the Most Rem. John Carroll, Bishop and First Archbishop
of Baltimore. By JOHN GILMABY SHEA. New York: 1888.
2. History of the Catholic Church in the United States. By HENRY DE COUBCY
and JOHN GILMABY SHEA. New York: 1879.
3. The Faith of Owr Fathers. By JAMES, CARDINAL GIBBONS, Archbishop
of Baltimore. 31st Edition. Baltimore: 1887.
4. Owr Christian Heritage. By JAMES, CABDINAL GIBBONS, Archbishop of
Baltimore. Baltimore: 1889.
5. Souvenir Volume of the Centenary Celebration and Catholic Congress. Detroit:
1890.
It is just half a century since, in the pages of this review,
Macaulay wrote his great essay upon the Papacy. The moment
of the appearance of that remarkable contribution to ecclesiastical
history gives to it now a peculiar value. The year 1840
stands halfway between the French Revolution and the present
day, but the changes which have taken place in the world
since the commencement of the Victorian era have brought
with them greater and swifter alterations in the political status
of the Church and in its relations with the peoples of the earth
than have occurred not only in the previous half-century, but
probably in all the previous ages since the foundation of
Christianity.
It would be foreign to our purpose to describe the position
of the Roman Catholic Church among the nations fifty years
ago. Suffice it to say that in Italy Italian Unity was as yet
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