The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-07-17
TRAINING IN MISSION WORK.

Bishop Tierney'e New Enterprise il
 Milford Founded in Accord Witt
 Recent Encyclical of the Pope.
 Bishop Tierney the Roman Catholi'
 bishop of Hartford. has adopted tho
 recommendations of the famous recen
 encyclAal of the Pope in the matter O
 training the secular clergy to mission
 ary work, and has established the first
 mission house for his diocese at Mil
 ford. The establishment of the mis-
 sion house marks a new era in the
 work of the Catholic church in Con-
 necticut.
 Heretofore the pastors of the Cath
 ollie churches throughout the state have called in members of the missionary | orders biennially to excite their parish
 toners to a proper state of fervor in | the work of swing their souls. The re-
 suits of the two or three weeks of mis-
 sionary work by these experienced and
 eloquent exhorters have been of note worthy and everlasting character. The Jesuits, the Paulists, the Franciscans | the Doninicans and the Redemptorists and the Passionists were frequently engaged by the heads of the variioue parishes to conduct missions for the general religious welfare of their charges
 Hereafter, if the initiative and sug- gestion of the reverend bishop of the Hartford diocese are to be observed, the newly formed band of missionaries of secular clergymen will be called upon whenever the pastors of the state feel that renewed devotion should be aroused in their flocks.
 The Pope in his encyclical while commenting highly the work of the Paulist Fathers in this country in giv- ing missions to the people of other de- nominations of religious faith with the intention of making clear the spiritual advantage of joining the Catholic church, pointed out the feasibility of control by the ordinary of stpal feat ures of church work.
 At present there are six missionaries located at Milford under the charge of the Rev. James H. O'Donnell, formerly of Watertown, who will be remembered by many for his letters to the now de- funct Connecticut Catholic, which were read with lively interest.
 At present there is established at Milford, under the eyes of the bishop, a Petit Seminaire, at which young as- pirants for the priesthood. graduating from the public and parochial school system of the state, are advanced un- der the guidance and instruction of priests selected for their piety and cru dtion in the special manner which is considered necessary to the work in the Connecticut diocese.
 In addition to the Seminaire, directly under his guidance and inspection at Hartford, the young candidates for orders who have shown more than or dinary ability in the preparatory col- leges and have been adopted by the bishop are placed in the famous Grand Seminaire of Europe for the completion of their studies.
 Young men adopted by Bishop Tier ney for the Hartford diocese are now preparing for their life work in the semnaries of Rome, Genoa, Paris, Iouvain, Bonn and Venice
 The training of these young men in
  them with the customs and languages of the different nationalities and then fitting them to take charge of Italian French, German and Austrian congre- cations, will also, no doubt, go far to- ward removing the un-American Ca- hensyism, which of late years has been seeking recognition and indorse- ment of ecclesiastical authorities.
 It is expected that the young men trained in this way will return broad ened in mind and vastly better able in every way to take charge of the con- of foreigners than the priests who are usually sent from their native lands and over whom the bishop has only nominal control.
 Of course 1t sometimes happens that the clergymen who are sent from abroad to take charge of the congrega ions of foreigners have unusual abili- ties.
 The scope of the new work begun un- der and by the present diocesan is of a wide and comprehensive character, and cannot fail to excite admiration for the completeness of it's design. The bishop of the Harford diocese is quiet unpretentious man personally, very approa enable, and is on terms of an easy familiarity with the priests of the diocese that is in striking contrast to the relations that existed between bishop and clergy years ago.
 It will be remembered that he was appointed bishop by the Pope after a demonstration of his popularity by the clergy of the state. Of the candidates for the office whose names were sent 1 10 Rome he was overwhelmingly the l choice of the priests, and although | -he bishops of the archdiocese put his | name third in the list of candidates | that were sent to Rome for the Pope |