The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

SUPREMACY OF THE POPES. 141light of faith from Roman Catholic Missionaries,because Europe then recognized only one ChristianChief.Passing from Europe to Asia and America, it isundeniable that St. Francis Xavier and the otherEvangelists who, in the sixteenth century, extendedthe kingdom of Jesus Christ through India andJapan, were in communion with the Holy See and;that those Apostles who, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, converted the aboriginal tribes ofSouth America and Mexico, received their commission from the Chair of Peter.But you will say: The people of the UnitedStates profess to be a Christian nation. Do youalso claim them ? Most certainly ; for, even thoseAmerican Christians who are unhappily severedfrom the Catholic Church, are primarily indebtedfor their knowledge of the Gospel to missionaries incommunion with the Holy See.The white races of North America are descendedfrom England, Ireland, Scotland, and the nationsof Continental Europe. Those European nationshaving been converted by missionaries in subjectionto the Holy See, it follows that from whatever partof Europe you are descended, whatever may be yourparticular creed, you are indebted to the Church ofRome for your knowledge of Christianity.Do not these facts demonstrate the Primacy of thePope? The Apostles of Europe and of other countries received their authority from Rome. Is not