Excerpt from The Church at Home and Abroad The Catholic Truth Society has undertaken the publication of a series of pamphlets on the Church at home and abroad, designed ultimately to form four volumes of seven pamphlets each, of which the first now appears. As will be seen, it deals with countries which differ from each other considerably, both in their general Character and in their relation to the Church. The mixed Character of the volumes will, so far as is possible, be maintained, so that in any one of them the reader will have a picture of the work and life of the Church under widely varying conditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.