us freedom to turn our attention in another direction, and to
cultivating other virtues. If one infidel was equal to two Catholics
in courage and action in the past, in the future one Catholic, moved
by the Holy Spirit, will be equal to half-a-dozen or a thousand
infidels and heretics.

"The stupid Doellingerites do not see or understand that what they
pretend to desire--the renewal of the Church--can only be
accomplished by the reign of the Holy Spirit throughout the Church,
and that this can only be brought about by a filial submission to her
divine external authority. Instead of their insane opposition to the
definition of the Vatican Council and to the Jesuits, whose influence
they have exaggerated beyond all measure, they ought to embrace both
with enthusiasm, as opening the door to the renewal of the Church and
a brighter and more glorious future. . . . To my view there is no
other way or hope for such a future."

He left Rome and his many warm friends there early in the spring of
1870, and, as he thought, for the last time. He was full of courage,
he was conscious of not only perfect agreement with every credential
of orthodoxy, but of interior impulses of a marvellously inspiring
kind. In a very familiar letter to his brother's family he says that
just before his departure, while standing in one of the great
piazzas, looking at the concourse of representatives of all nations
passing back and forth, gathered to take counsel with the Vicar of
Christ for the well-being of the human race, he was so exhilarated
that he could hardly refrain from calling out, _"Three cheers for
Paradise, and one for the United States!"_

"I return with new hope and fresher energy," he writes, "for that
better future for the Church and humanity which is in store for both
in the United States. This is the conviction of all intelligent and
hopeful minds in Europe. They look to the other side of the Atlantic
not only with great interest, but to catch the light which will solve
the problems of Europe. Our course is surely fraught with the
interests, hopes, and happiness of the race. I never felt so much
like acquitting myself as a Christian and a man. The convictions
which have hitherto directed my course have been deepened, confirmed,
and strengthened by recent experience here, and I return to my
country a better Catholic and more an American than ever."

That he might say Mass daily and at convenient hours while in Rome,
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