The king, too, had set his heart on this marriage, and the Huguenots were somewhat reassured by the king's declaration that Catholic and Huguenot alike were now his subjects, and were equally beloved by him.

The average Catholic became a hard-core, if later disillusioned by the subsequent twist of events, supporter of the Konkani camp, without quite understanding the unstated issues involved.

[Footnote 207: An amendment was proposed by Lord Chandos to add the office of Prime-minister to these three, on the ground that if a Roman Catholic were Prime-minister "he might have the disposal of all the patronage of the state and the Church vested in his hands."

Roman Catholic is the national faith, but they are tolerant of other religions.

Your King Henri IV of beloved memory, a Protestant, didn't hesitate to make himself a Catholic to be King of France.

LUCERNE (36), a Swiss canton E. of Berne, mountainous in the S., where cattle are pastured and much cheese made; in the N. and in the valleys fertile with corn and fruit crops; is German speaking, and Roman Catholic; its highest elevation, Mount Pilatus, is 7000 ft.

The Catholic is the prevalent religion.

Both the Roman Catholic and the Presbyterian missions in India have been the recipients of large gifts, and the university at Bombay owes him for its finest building.

In such adversities to sceptre train'd, The name of Great his famous grandsire[20] gain'd: Who yet a king alone in name and right, With hunger, cold, and angry Jove did fight; 100 Shock'd by a covenanting league's vast powers, As holy and as catholic as ours: Till fortune's fruitless spite had made it known, Her blows, not shook, but riveted, his throne.

Add to this that almost all the Catholics were emigrants, but newly settled and poorly furnished.'

The Catholics, they alleged, were the people of Ireland; they had now regained many of the churches, which, not a century before, had been taken from their fathers; and they could not in honour or conscience resign them to the professors of another religion.

While some features of this portrait of Catholic life are common to all its phases, others are peculiar to the aspect it presents in England, where Catholics being a small and weak minority are, so to say, self-conscious in their faithcontinually aware that they are not as the rest of men; disposed therefore to be apologetic or aggressive or defensive.

The Catholics were not slaves.

The Catholics are good folks.

To the German-speaking Catholic of Altdorf the German Catholics of Bavaria are foreigners, while the French-speaking Protestants of Geneva are fellow-countrymen.

The ejected clergymen were still excluded from the pulpit, and the Catholics were still the victims of persecuting statutes.

The singer, we must suppose, was one of the leaders of the party, and his "dog" a companion or faithful official of the Society; and the song was sung on occasions when the members met together socially: and thus, as the Roman Catholics were Royalists, the allusion to the mutual attachment between the "maid" and "my dog and I" is plain and consistent.