The Black Robe
The Black Robe
A high ranking Catholic priest schemes to recover land considered Church property.
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everence and admiration of the spirit of
Christianity--but he never, to my knowledge, attended any place
of public worship. When we met again outside the church, I asked
if he had been converted to the Roman Catholic faith.
"No," he said. "I hate the inveterate striving of that priesthood after social influence and political power as cordially as the fiercest Protestant living. But let us not forget that the Church of Rome has great merits to set against great faults. Its system is administered with an admirable knowledge of the higher needs of human nature. Take as one example what you have just seen. The solemn tranquillity of that church, the poor people praying near me, the few words of prayer by which I silently united myself to my fellow-creatures, have calmed me and done me good. In our country I should have found the church closed, out of service hours." He took my arm and abruptly changed the subject. "How will you occupy yourself," he asked, "if my aunt receives me to-morrow?"
I assur
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