The Saint Paul globe., 1900-03-25

| tion for the Propagation Of the Faith,
with headquarters in France. This asso-
citation supports missionaries in every
| country on the globe, the Brooklyn Eagle
says. Beside this missionaries are sent
! from Rome every year who work among
| the heather races. In this country there
| are special bands that labor among the
| Indians Of the West and the negroes Of
! the South. These latter are supported
| by all the churches in the country by spe-
| cial collections taken up for that purpose
| Sunday, March T. was set apart for the
| collection of the missionary funds for the
| negroes and the Indians in this country
| and in all the Catholic churches in the
| Brooklyn diocese these collections were
taken up. Since the repeal OF the law
| which gave public funds each year to-
ward the support Of the Indian schools
| under sectarian influences the burden has
been very heavy on the church author
tiles. Consequently the appeal for funds
was made with greater earnestness this
year. The collection is made under IN
structions from the bishop of the diocese,
and has become one of the permanent
regulations of the diocese.
The Association for the Propagation of
the Faith Is not a diocesan institution,
but is an organization that courts a,
large membership among the people of
the church, who contribute a small an
spiritual benefits. The association is not
so large by many thousands in this
country as IT is in the countries Of the
old world. The organization is strong
est in France, where 1t was established
by two women about the year 1876 The
contributions from the Catholics of the
country last year amounted to S815,4l7 or
about two-thirds of the amount collected
in all parts of the world. The entire
amount collected by the society was
S1,S3S,911. OF this amunt only $5S,642 was
collected in this country, which is
very small sum indeed. considering what
smaller countries have done and the
numbers and wealth of the Catholics
here. In Ireland where there are about
5000, 600 Catholics, most of whom are eX-
tremely poor, there was contributed to
the missionary fund $16,42S, about two
third Of the amount contributed by the
United States, with a Catholic population
of about 25,000,0OO, or SO,00O,00O.
The money received, according to the
last report from the various countries,
is given as follows: France, $Sl5,4l7;
Monaco, $3.50; Switzerland, $25,149; Aus
tria, $12,57S; Hungary, s1,067; Belgium,
SO, no; Holland, $19,4S5 British Isles.
$25, $50; Spain, $27,202; Portugal, S5C56;
Italy, $56, ,996; The Levant, S,37S; Russia
and Poland $131; various northern coun-
tries $181; Asia, 81, 1865; Africa, $607S; Can
$1S,253; Central America, $3,624; South
America. $32,S94; Oceanica, $1,95S; Alsace-
Lorraine, $70,7 TAG; Germany, $79,6l5. Total,
$1,39S,311.
The Brooklyn diocese's contributions to
this missionary fund is $1,2SS, which is
much smaller than that of any other do
cese Of size in the country. The largest
amount contributed by an American do
cese comes from Boston, which amounted
to $685. The diocese of Newark comes
next with $3,S11. The archdiocese OF
New York is the third on the list with
81. .6S1 to It's credit Baltimore contrib
uted the next highest amount S2,555.
Brooklyn comes about the sixteenth on
the list of contributors
An interesting feature, and something
that will probably prove very surpris-
ing, is that more money is sent by the
Association for the Propagation OF the
Faith to this country toward the sup
port of number OF the dioceses in the
South and West than is actually contrib
uted toward the funds Of the society by
the Catholics of the United States at
large.