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Pope Leo’s Encyclical and Catholic Federation

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 16, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 3.

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Pope Leo’s Encyclical and Catholic Federation

In Pope Leo’s latest encyclical occurs this statement: “About the rights of man, as they are called, the multitude has heard enough; it is time they should hear of the rights of God.” And yet the whole object of the federation of Catholic societies in America is to “secure to Catholics their rights,” which they fancy have been denied them. Now will the agitation for Catholic federation cease? or does the encyclical refer only to the rights of such men as are outside the church?