. Three Catholic Afro-American congresses [electronic resource]: a short resume of the work that has been done since the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, letters of the hierarchy, clergy and prominent laymen to the congresses, the sermons of Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Elder, Archbishop Ryan and Father Mackey, speeches and portraits of prominent colored Catholics, their friends and institutions, the public addresses of the three most remarkable gatherings of Negroes in America : all nicely bound in cloth. o get the approval ofHis Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Baltimorebefore giving p
. Three Catholic Afro-American congresses [electronic resource]: a short resume of the work that has been done since the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, letters of the hierarchy, clergy and prominent laymen to the congresses, the sermons of Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Elder, Archbishop Ryan and Father Mackey, speeches and portraits of prominent colored Catholics, their friends and institutions, the public addresses of the three most remarkable gatherings of Negroes in America : all nicely bound in cloth. o get the approval ofHis Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Baltimorebefore giving publication to this your address,Cardinal Gibbons is broader than your address; andhe will give it his approval in the samo hearty spiritwith which the Sovereign Pontiff, Leo XIII, has thisevening blessed you--Gladly, Proudly, and withall his heart You have been delighted beyond measure by thebroad and able sermon preached to you by our illus-trious Cardinal on New Years day. He tore himselfaway from the venerable traditions of theCathedral ofBaltimore, ^on New Years day, and so delighted washe to discourse to you of your liberties as citizens andas Catholics that he declared it was the happiest NewYears day of his life. Within the portals of theChurch, he has told you, There are no lines of dis-tinction. Canon Law restricts the administration of 64 Baptsim, Matrimony, Extreme, Unction and Viaticumby the territorial limits of parishes. These are theonly restraints to your rights as Catholics; these you. I. B. FLETCHER, PENN. are subject to, equally with all your brethren in thiscountry, and you are free to go to church where youplease because you are Catholics. Such is the law of 65 the Church oFGod, and such is the practice of Rome,There are nearly four hundred churches and publicchapels in the city of Rome, and all are open, and allare free to enter and to worship without distinction ofi ace or condition. The National Capital is advancing on the broadlines of Catholicity, Here
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