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New Zealand Tablet, 13 June 1918, Page 31

The Catholic population of the American States was increased during the last year by the addition of 458,000 souls. Of these 45,000 were converts. “Good temper is one of the smallest of the virtues,” remarks a thinker; “but it is the one which, if an angel were to offer them a moral gift, nine out of ten men would ask for.” We love our country. However we entered on the glorious roll of its, citizenship—by birth or by adoption we owe it infinite allegiance, loving and devoted, ready for all forms of sacrifice, even of our own lives, which can never be spent for a better natural good than the preservation and the welfare of our beloved country, says Bishop Shahan. Every battlefield of our history is reddened with Catholic blood, and every year of our annals is rich with proofs of loving fidelity to the principles and the spirit of American constitutional liberty.