Roman Catholicism in Scotland.
It is evident that Roman Catholics are determined to come out in to the open. Meetings have been recently held in Edinburgh to which Protestants were invited. From the newspaper reports, the Synod Hall was crowded, and lectures were given by prominent clergymen of the Church of Rome. Permission was given to ask questions, and advantage was taken of it. The Roman harlot is determined to seduce the nations if she can.
The Changes in the Control of the “Times.”
“Protestants,” says Mr. Walsh in the English Churchman, have reason to take a very great interest in the changes which are taking place in the control of the Times. These changes have now been finally sanctioned by Mr. Justice Warrington. I am very sorry to add that the Church of Rome has a representative on the Board of Directors (who number five) in the person of Mr. Valentine Chirol. His name appears as a Roman Catholic in the new Catholic Who’s Who. At present he is also Director of the Foreign Department of the Times.
The Irish University Education Bill.
Mr. Walter Walsh in his Protestant Notes in the English Churchman, says:—”No clearer indication of the course of some of the principal features of the Irish University Bill could possibly be given than the universal chorus of approbation accorded to the financial clauses of the Bill by the Roman Catholic Press. As was noted in the Editorial Notes of the English Churchman last week, when the Romish Press agrees its unanimity is wonderful. The loud-swelling chorus of approbation on the present occasion is no greater than that which greeted the introduction of Mr. Gladstone’s Bill, with what disastrous consequence to his Government history records. It may have no less dire results for the present Administration. Meanwhile, a word of praise is due to Mr. Michael F. J. McCarthy for his far-sighted and pregnant criticism of a measure which, as he shows, will fetter the future higher education of lay Roman Catholics with priestly chains, besides endowing the Jesuits with an enormous annual income.”