The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger

DOMESTIC CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE

DIOCESE OF CINCINNATI.—Consecration of St. Ludwig Church.—No event in the history of the Roman Catholic Church in this city, bears a greater significance in the eyes and to the understanding of the great body of Catholics than the consecration of St. Ludwig Church, on the corner of Eighth and Walnut streets. Many years ago, when the debate of the great Alexander Campbell and Archbishop Purcell filled the community with theological interest, and excited the profoundest feelings that agitate a people, it was scarcely dreamed that the humble edifice on Sycamore street in which it was held would pass from the hands of the Campbellites into possession of the Catholics. No more probable was it, a few months ago, that the Christian Church, from whose pulpit the truths of the Gospel were expounded by Elder Wm. T. Moore, editor of the Christian Quarterly, largely devoted to exposing the errors of Rome, would also pass into the possession of Catholics, and that upon the very spot where for many years the simple Gospel was preached, would stand an altar with sacred light and host enshrined, the centre and radiating point for the many and imposing ceremonies of the Catholic Church. "Here's a fine revolution, an' we had the trick to see 't." —Cincinnati Commercial.