The question-box answers. Replies to questions received on missions to non-Catholics

The question-box answers. Replies to questions received on missions to non-Catholics

Author: Conway, Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis), 1872-1959

Year: 1903

PREFACE. The Apostolate to the Non-Catholics of our country, so dear to the heart of Father Hecker, has proved itself a movement blessed by God in the thousands of converts it has won to the true Church. Within the past ten years it has been successfully inaugurated by the regular and secular clergy in over sixty dioceses of the United States, and its future is assured because of the special commendation of Pope Leo XIII. and the American Hierarchy. Although no man can blind himself to the fact that we are living in a period of widespread indifferentism and unbelief, still the hearty welcome given to the Paulist Fathers everywhere in the missions to non-Catholics goes to evidence the intense longing of thousands of earnest souls for the truth of God. The many outside the fold are like travellers lost in a forest at night, perplexed, worried, anxious, on the alert for a divine guide to lead them out of the labyrinth of their doubting. What better field for the Church than in this our beloved country, where the multitudes require but the kindly presentation of the Church's claims, and the heartful prayers of the Catholic people, to answer God's call to believe? The Question Box is th