Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1895 — Change in English Sentiment. [ARTICLE]

Change in English Sentiment.

The meeting of the Catholic Truth Society in London, which aims to spread Catholicity over Great Britain, was a ' notable gathering last week. Many eminent churchmen were In attendance. The congress concluded on Thursday with a pilgrimage to Glastonbury Abbey, the oldest shrine in England. Thousands "of pilgrims, including 100 robed clefgy, traveled by train from Bristol to Glastonbury. It was not very long ago that popular sentiment would not have allowed such a pilgrimage. On Thursday a large crowd watched with the greatest sympathetic interest the long, banner carrying procession, . composed of Catholic guilds, Jesuits, Dominicans, Franciscans, Benedictines aud Carmelites, alternately singing and reciting prayers. The scene was an impressive and picturesque one, and marked an immense change in the position of the Roman Catholic Church in England.