Note 18 — Chapter XXXI

There are other indications of some improvement in this matter, but an Anglican resident in Italy, quoted by the Review of Reviews as "a painstaking and fair-minded" witness, says, "People are not shocked by clerical immorality, but regard it as natural and inevitable." To an Anglican friend a Roman prelate lamented that a certain cardinal was not elected at the late conclave. But the Anglican replied, "He is a man of conspicuous immorality." "No doubt," was the answer, "but you Americans seem to think there is no virtue but chastity. The Cardinal has not that, but he is an honest man."