The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-08-17
Washington City
A Catholic Center.
Missionary Orders and Great Col
leges Are Established Frequent
ly in the Capital City.
Southern Messenger:

Washington is becoming a center
of interest for the Catholic Church
in America, and in the northeast
ern part of the District of Column
bia, just beyond the Soldiers Home,
a group ofsplendid buildings, which
were begun fifteen years ago, is
gradually increasing until they will
soon form the largest Roman Cath
Ole colony outside of the Holy
City, says William E. Curtis in the
Chicago Record Herald. In the
center is the great University, which
in several respects is unsurpassed
by any Catholic institution of learn
ing and when the comprehensive
plans for its extension are carried
out it will be equal in the strength
of the faculty, the number of stu
dents and in the extent of its build
ings, to Harvard, Yale or the Uni
versity of Chicago.
4 little way from the entrance to
the University, on the other side of
the main road that leads to the city,
is a recently erected university for
the higher education of women.
This institution is said to have a
higher standard than any other for
women under the care of the Cath
Ole Church. 1t ranks with Bryn
Mawr and other Protestant intsti-
tutions, and, while it is not official
ly connected with the university for
men, its students share the benefits
of the instruction OF several men,
bers of its faculty.
Beyond the university, at the
summit of a noble hill, is a Fran !
ciscan monastery, the largest in the
United States, which was erected |
about four years ago, and has be-
come the headquarters Of that or
der in this country. The superior
general here has jurisdiction over
the missions in the West Indies, .
Central and South Amrrica and
Eastern Asia.
The Order of Dominican Fathers, !
following the example OF tie Fran
ciscans, has commenced the cree
tion of an immense Guthic monas-
terry in the same neighborhood IT.
will be of Indiana limestone. 200 !,
feet square, with Il quadrangle audi,
clo;sters similar to the Dominican
in the old world. There
will be accommodations for 1901;
monks and students, and the head
quarters OF the order, which are
now in Perry County, O., will be
transferred to Washington when
the new building is completed.
The Paulist Fathers, a mission
airy order, have recently commence
ed the erection Of building within }
he university grounds. which will I
De used as training college FOR {
missionary priests, and large enough
% accommodate sixty students.
The erection Of this apostolic mis- ,
'ion house, as they call it, is the re-
'ult of the official recognition Of the :
oaulists in educational work by the 3
rustees of the university, who in :
Jude all of the Archbishops in the 4
United States. Students must be !!
graduates OF recognized colleges and
eminaries, already consecratcd to
he priesthood lis work VIII be
nat Of giving special training for
work.
The Sulpician Fathers of Canada,
,hich Is one of the richest orders III
lie Catholic Church, and owns an
amount Of valuable prop.
rty in Quebec, Montreal. New
'ork, Baltimore and elsewhere.
ave decided fo erect q coIiara