We felt sure that the English Roman Catholics would not
remain silent while the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops were stirring up sedition, without incurring the disapproval of the Vatican. The Council of the Catholic Union of Great Britain, including Lord Denbigh, Lord Edmund Talbot, Sir Mark Sykes, and other typical representatives of the good British Roman Catholics, met on Tuesday and drew up a strong protest against the action of the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops in resisting Conscription in !` organized disobedience to the law." The Catholic Union rudely disturbed the Vatican's dreams of temporal power by regretting " any interference by ecclesiastical authority in questions which are purely temporal and political, and in no way connected with faith and morals." The members of the Catholic Union can reconcile their religion and their patriotism, but they repudiate the Ultramontanism of the Vatican.
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