The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-03-30

-NatiVe-born Catholics and the
Civil Service-Blshop of Warsaw
Imprisoned.
The taking of a religious census
has directed the attention of the Eng
disappearing world to great Empire
which offers a wide field for the mis-
sionary, and every year receives many
hundreds of these apostles OF various
creeds. This spiritual stock-taking
has revealed the great work which
the Catholic Church is accomplishing
in India. While she only possesses
one-fifth of the European population
of 100000 this is largely due to the
fact that of these 74,481 are troops,
while of the rest it is openly said
that those who have no religion at
all put themselves down as Anglicans!
Next to the purely European popula-
ton comes the Eurasian, sons and
daughters of marriages between Eur
opeans and Indian natives, who are
largely employed in the stores and
warehouses of such great cities as
Calcutta and Bombay, and who num-
ber in all 100000. Of +hese, more
than half, $1,000, are now members
of the Catholic Church, the product
of the fine schools and colleges which
the Jesuits and the Irish Christian
Brothers have established throughout
British India with such wonderful
results.
Nine Ecclesiastical Provinces.
But it is naturally to the natives
of the country that the message of
Christianity is directed, and here,
while the sects have to acknowledge
almost complete failure, the Church
is making great progress. Ten years
ago there were 2,923,241 native Catho-
lies in India; today there are 1876, 1876,
an increase of just under a million,
and these figures do not take into &C
count the thousands of catechumens
under instruction. AS for the Protest
ant bodies they have made little
or no headway despite the equipment
and advantages which wealth can
give in spreading their cause. The
Catholic Church in India comprises
nine Provinces, each governed by
an Archbishop, i. e. Simla, Agra,
Bombay, Goa, which is still under
Portuguese Jurisdiction, and where
the "Padroado" Or patronage of the
King of Portugal established by the
Concordat of 1886, still prevails, and
about which the Portuguese Govern
ment is just now feeling nervous.
Pondicherry is in French territory
and governed by French Archbish-
op, Mgr. E. J. Morel, who has four
Suffragans. Then come Madras, Ver-
apoli, Ceylon, and Calcutta. The
Apostolic Delegate, Monsignor Ladis-
las Zaleski, Archbishop of Thebes,
has his residence at Handy in Ceylon.
The part that the religious Orders
have played in the evangelisation OF
the Indies since the time of st.
Francis Xavier is testified to by the
number of Franciscans, Jesuits and
Oblates who adorn the Hierarchy to-
day. OF the thirty-nine Bishops elev-
en- are Franciscans, Carmelites, OBJ
lates of Mary, and members of other
Orders and eight of the remainder
are Jesuits. There are three Bish-
OPS of the Syro-Malabar rite, those
of Eernakulam, Changanacherry and
Trichur in the Province of Verapoli,
and this Church, which is under the
Jurisdiction of Rome numbers three
quarters of a million subjects.
Jesuits and Education.
The Jesuits who have done so much
for the education of India have charge
of the provinces of Calcutta and OF
Bombay, two of the most important
European centres. 1t is noteworthy
that amidst upwards of forty mis-
sions and Churches established in
and around Calutta, every one is
equipped with its school. In the city
itself there is a Cathedral of fine
proportions, and Catholic Orphan
age is attached which is partly sup
ported by the work carried on as
printers. Indeed, the esteem which
the work of the Fathers meets with
from the non-Catholics population is
we'll evidenced by the response made
to recent appeals for certain orphan
ages and good works, which were
made voluntarily by "The English
man." one of the leading papers OF
Calcutta, and another journal of like
standing. Neither is it only for the
poor and the ignorant that the Faith.
ers of the Society labor. Their splen
did College of st. Joseph at Darheel
ing, over which bend the eternal
SHOWS of the mountains, and their
other fine establishment of St. Mary
at Kurseong, are extensively patron
ised, not only for the education Of
Catholic boys of European mercan