A Memorandum has been presented to the Vatican on behalf
of Anglo-Saxon Roman Catholics. It points out that they have a position of great numerical strength even com- pared with all the rest of the Roman Catholic world. The English-speaking Roman Catholics number forty-five millions, of whom the United States and her dependencies possess twenty-four millions. The cause of the Roman Church in her quarrel with France has been taken up by none more earnestly than by these English-speaking members. And as the Anglo- Saxon nationalities are the wealthiest, so does the Pope rely upon them chiefly to sustain the Church in the new financial troubles imposed on her by the Separation Law in France. In these circumstances, the petitioners suggest that they ought to be better represented in the Sacred College of Cardinals. Evidently the object is to secure that they shall have at least one Cardinal in the Consistory of April 15th. We record the numbers given above with reserve. They may be correct, but we should like to see a statement of the data on which they are based, as far as the British Empire is concerned.
