Original....Remarks on the Christian Register, Original....Conference between Bossuet and Claude, Original....Notice of the establishment of the Catholic religion Original....Introductory address, Original....To "The Protestant," Original....Essay on Sacred Biography, Freedom of opinion, Letter to the late Rev. Mr. Nagot, Original....Genius of Universal Emancipation, Original....Address to C., a writer in the Philadelphia Album, . 233 Original....Dialogue between a writer in the Southern Religious Telegraph, and a contributor to the Metropolitan, 260 Original....Correspondence on the conversion of the Rev. Geo. Address of the Right Rev. F. P. Kenrick, Original....Opinions of celebrated personages respecting Liguori, Original....Interrogatories, On futurity, Original....Correspondence on the conversion of the Rev. Geo. Increase of Catholics in England, Original....Triumph of the Church over Heresy, Essay II. On the Mass, On the perpetuity of the Church, THE METROPOLITAN; OR, CATHOLIC MONTHLY MAGAZINE. JANUARY, 1830. We cannot but congratulate ourselves, as well as all the Catholics of these good states, on the institution of a periodical, the object of which is to convey information and truth, in a manner suited to the age in which we live, and the people whom we address. It has long been a subject of astonishment to many, why, in the present important condition to which the Catholic religion has attained in this country; considering the number of clergymen scattered over the union, or living in the literary otium of our colleges; men, who have, most of them, been regularly trained to letters as well as to theology; and whose education, it is granted on all sides, fits them for any undertaking of this kind; it is astonishing, we repeat it, why so long a time has been suffered to pass, without any thing like a Review or a Magazine, through which interesting and useful instruction might be conveyed to the inquiring mind, and a medium afforded of defending ourselves against the attacks and misrepresentations of the malevolent or the ignorant. In making this remark, we do not forget the valuable paper, which, under the auspices of a great and persevering personage, has been issued in the South: it has done much good: it has proved a powerful engine in the cause of truth and religion: it has been, and is, and may it ever continue to be, a check to presumption, and a scourge of folly. This we not only grant, but we feel a pride in acknowledging. What we say of the Miscellany, we wish to be understood of the two other papers recently established in the East: which, there can be no doubt, will scatter much light through an hemisphere which has been covered with a more than ordinary darkness. We |