But, as for my part, at the time Bishop Fitzpatrick wanted me to purge myself of communism, I had settled the question in my own mind, and on principles which I afterwards found to be Catholic.

The study and settlement of the question of ownership was one of the things that led me into the Church, and I am not a little surprised that what was a door to lead me into the Church seems at this day to be a door to lead some others out.

But when the bishop attacked me about it, it was no longer with me an actual question.

I had settled the question of private ownership in harmony with Catholic principles, or I should not have dared to present myself as a convert.

But I mention this because it illustrates Bishop Fitzpatrick's character.
"His was, indeed, a first-class mind both in natural gifts and acquired cultivation, but his habitual bearing was that of suspicion of error; as man and prelate he had a joyful readiness to search it out and correct it from his own point of view.