The ideal line of conduct for the priest in Assyria will be out of all measure in Mexico or Minnesota, and I doubt not that one doing fairly well in Minnesota would by similar methods set things sadly astray in Leinster or Bavaria.

The Saviour prescribed timeliness in pastoral caring.

The master of a house, He said, "bringeth forth out of his treasury new things and old," as there is demand for one kind or the other.

The apostles of nations, from Paul before the Areopagus to Patrick upon the summit of Tara, followed no different principle.
The circumstances of Catholics have been peculiar in the United States, and we have unavoidably suffered on this account.

Catholics in largest numbers were Europeans, and so were their priests, many of whom--by no means all--remained in heart and mind and mode of action as alien to America as if they had never been removed from the Shannon, the Loire, or the Rhine.