The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

"66 THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS.archy. 1Their faces were marked by almost everyshade and color that distinguish the human family.They spoke every civilized language under the sun.Kneeling together in the same great Council-Hall,truly could those Prelates exclaim, in the languageof the "Apocalypse Thou hast redeemed : us, OLord, to God inThy blood, out of every tribe, andtongue, and apeople, and nation."What the Catholic Church lostby the religiousrevolution of the sixteenth century in the old world,she has more than regained by the immense accessions to her ranks in the East and West Indies, inNorth and South America.Never, in her long history, was she numericallyso strong as she is at the present moment, when herchildren amount to about two hundred and twentyfivemillions, or double the number of those who bearthe name of Christians outside of her communion.In her alone is literally fulfilled the magnificentprophecy of Malachy ; for in every clime, and inevery nation under the sun, are erected thousandsof Catholic altars "8upon which the clean oblationis daily offered up to the Most High.It is said, with truth, that the sun never sets onBritish dominions. It may also be affirmed, with1Does not this fact conclusively demonstrate the truth thatthe Catholic Church can subsist under every form of government? And is it not an eloquent refutation of the oft-repeated calumny that a republic is not a favorable soil foiher development ?3Apoc. v. 9. 8 Malachy i. 11.