Kurzbeschreibung von: Catholic World

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: whether I was white or colored, rich or poor, learned or ignorant,?simply I was a priest, and as such I had a blessing to impart; and the good, simple people, of all grades, classes, and colors, were anxious to kneel and have me place my hands, as yet moist with the holy oils, on their heads in benediction. The most affecting incident of the day was the kneeling before me of an old white-haired priest?eighty years or more of age,?and his kissing my hands after I had given him the blessing.' " The history of England after the Norman conquest is an instance of the same force acting on a large scale. For some generations the bitterest enmity existed between the victorious Normans and the conquered Saxons. Macaulay's phrases are anti-Catholic, but his narration of the facts may be taken as accurate: " In no country has the enmity of race been carried further than in England. In no country has that enmity been more completely effaced. In the time of Richard the First the ordinary imprecation of a Norman gentleman was, ' May I become an Englishman !' His ordinary form of indignant denial was, ' Do you take me for an Englishman ?' The descendant of such a gentleman a hundred years later was proud of the English name. . . . " Meanwhile a change was proceeding, infinitely more momentous than the acquisition or loss of any province, than the rise or fall of any dynasty. Slavery, and the evils by which slavery is everywhere accompanied, were fast disappearing. " It is remarkable that the two greatest and most salutary social revolutions which have taken place in England?that revolution which, in the thirteenth century, put an end to the tyranny of nation over nation, and that revolution which, a few generations later, put an end to the property of man in man? were silently and im...