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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 259, 19 April 1878, Page 12

The Jtfeio York Sun, a paper which we cannot praise too highly for its liberal tone and -broad intelligence, or recommend too strongly to those of our readers who desire to have a daily newspaper, makes, the following observation in an editorial on the death of Pius IX : "Yet, in our judgment, the most remarkable faot in this long, laborious,: and devoted life is that while the deceased Pontiff leaves: •* the Church shorn of her territories and her temporal power,' he yetf . _ leav.es her with a firmer hold than ever upon the mjincls and hearth! of the almost countless myriads who belong to her communion. ." Slie is less an earthly|kingdom, but hone the- less powerful as a Church. V' < ' ! "The Catholic prelates in England exhibit in 1 their addresses and sermons great apprehension of -infidelity and indifference. In his lns.fi pastoral letter the Bishop of Birmingham, says :— r'f The jOld Catholic traditions remaining in the country are f att dying out, and what is the .result? ' Free thinking, disbelief in Christianity, and' open infidelity. . . '. The- most depraved systems of Atheism invented by' , the t mosti corrupt imaginations of Germany and Franco have' found their sponsors in England.'"