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iv Preface. I was reluctant for some time to yield to the request made to me to write this brief Preface, in view of the frequent and too partial allusions of Mr. Bodley to myself, which I would fain expunge from the pamphlet, had the distinguished author permitted. But the importance of the subject which he as a stranger has dealt with, has constrained me to sacrifice personal feelings to the instruction and edification of the reading public. BALTIMORE, August 20/A, 1890. JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS, Archbishop of Baltimore.
ROMAN CATHOLICISM IN AMERICA. THE students of the Collegi Esteri at Eome are not in appearance an athletic race. They are a familiar feature of the Eternal City as they promenade somewhat listlessly its thoroughfares in groups of two and three, attired in the uniform of their various nationalities. The British tourist, as he suns himself on the Pincian Hill on a Sunday morning while his wife and daughters have gone to the English church at the Porta del Popolo, eyes askance what he calls their monkish garb, and as he unfolds his Times to read the correspondence on I Compulsory Athletics' he devoutly thanks heaven that his young barbarians at Harrow and Oxford are not as these students. Even to the more sympathetic observer these pale seminarists do not give the impression of being in training for the life of endurance which the main body of the Church Militant imposes on its officers wherever stationed, whether in the slums of Westminster or in the fever-stricken camps of Tonkin or in the swamps of the Zambesi river. ' Such being the characteristic of these young ecclesiastics, the proceedings of a group of them surprised me not a little one sunny afternoon in the spring of 1887 on the flowery green sward of the Pamphilj Doria gardens. There, in an open space cleared among the ilex trees, a band of them, with cassocks turned up, were engaged in an active game. Its nimble mysteries were unfamiliar to English eyes, but the scientific manner in which a ball was thrown convinced me that the players were no foreigners. It is an ethnological fact that the Anglo-Saxon 3
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