The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15

husband and wife and blessed the little
ones that the mothers brought him.
More than that, Christ took a human
mother. thus sanctifying, by the touch
OF divinity, the office of motherhood"
The conservation of six new bishops
in st. Paul, Mimi, next Thursday, all
for one province and all residents of
that province, is an event unparalleled
in America, if not in the history of the
world.
True, Plus X, after the breaking of
the concordat and the separation $50
called) of church and state in France,
consecrated IA bishops in one day for
that country, many of whose appoint
ments had been held up for years by
the government; but these were for an
entire nation, not for a single province.
And, during the lifetime of Arch
bishop Grace. three bishops were con-
secrated at one time for the province
of st. Paul; but the recent elevation of
six priests, all of that province, to the
episcopacy in that province, seems to
have broken all records.
The same province has also supplied
an archbishop for Portland, Ore, and a
bishop for the see of Cheyenne. Moth
ing could proclaim more eloquently the
wonderful growth of Catholicity in the
great northwest or the remarkable
prominence of the state of Minnesota
in Catholic ecclesiastical affairs.
In his encyclical letter on the teach
ing of Christian doctrine, the holy
father, Plus X, decreed and strictly
commanded that I'm large towns and
especially in those which contain uni
versities, colleges and grammar schools
religious classes be founded to instruct
in the truths of faith and in the prac-
tice of Christian life the young people
who frequent the public schools, from
which all religious teaching is banned"
The year after this encyclical ap-
peared the Rev. Francis B. Casilly,
S. j., vice president of st. Ignatius col
lege, Chicago, ILL.,, called attention, in
the American Ecclesiastical Review, to
the necessity of caring for Catholic
students at the secular universities.
Since then provisions have been made
at number of universities in this
country to shield Catholic students
from the tendency of irreligion and
even anti-religion which each year be-
comes more pronounced at so many of
these public institutions.
There has long been a Catholic club
at Harvard, and in the fall of 1907 an
1S room house was opened, the gift of
the most reverend archbishop of BoS-
ton. In the same year Archbishop
Farley opened a parish church for the
special DeneHt OF CdtnOllc students at
Columbia university. In 1906 Arch
bishop Messmer appointed chaplain to
care for the 800 Catholic students at
the University of Wisconsin. Here a
clubhouse has since been purchased
and a university chapel erected. The
latter, which cost 100000, is on the
campus and contains a reading room
and other apartments for social meet
ings. 1t was recently dedicated by
Bishop Schwebach of La Crosse and is
for the exclusive use of Catholic stu
dents.
In 1907 Bishop McQuaid appointed a
Catholic chaplain al Cornell university.
In 1908 the Paulist fathers were in
vited by Bishop Gallagher to open a
hall and chapel in Austin for the Cath
Ollie students at the University of
Texas. Catholic clubs are also in ex-
istence at Yale university, in Pennsyl-
vania, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota,
Iowa and Missouri.