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A CATHOLIC STATE

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 6, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 1.

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A CATHOLIC STATE.

In reply to an interrogator as to what the State is, the Christian Citizen, of Chicago, goes to Cardinal Gibbons for a reply, as follows: “The State is what we ourselves make it. It is our own creation, for the State is made up of units of citizens. The destiny of the State, under God, is in our hands.” And so the Christian Citizen will find it. When the success of the “Christian Citizenship” movement, for which the Citizen is working, is assured, it will be found to be a Catholic State, with its destiny in Catholic hands. It is fitting that the Citizen should quote from Gibbons, “The destiny of the State is . . . in our [Catholic] hands.” And the Christian Citizen is laboring hard to put it there. Why can they not see it?