Today our Holy Father can hardly look elsewhere than to America if he would replenish the decimated ranks of his Apostolic army and sustain it in its fight against the hosts of Satan. Besides, the Church in the United States must not. fail to develop, in its widest expression, the missionary spirit, which is the surest guaranty that its present vigorous life shall be sustained and strengthened.

— Giovanni Vincenzo Bonzano Observations in the Orient (1919)

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