The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-13

as those who give all their time to
church work are called, are $1,000 wom-
en-. showing that women outrank men
three to one, and more.
In education Catholics have co-ordi-
mated institutions and revised courses
of study within the last five to eight
years. Secondary schools now fit in with
colleges. and colleges. with the Catholic
University as they did not formerly.
There are 100000 scholars in all, in
Guiding the parochial schools. The new
directory puts Pope Plus x, the pres
ent occupant Of the Vatican. as seth in
line from st. Peter. He ranked until
this year as the 264th Five supposed
pontiffs were dropped on a revision of
the list, made during the past few
months.
Catholics built last year 37s new
churches, at an estimated cost of 1880,
900. To maintain their 1882 churches
already built keep up their parochial
schools, and carry on all Of their
churches, and all forms of church work,
a careful estimate declared, required
s1S5,50o,O00 which sum is little more
than a third Of the total one that Chris
tiaEs Of all nations pay for support and
extension of their churches in the United
States each year. The States having the
largest Catholic population in the United
States are New York. Pennsylvania.
Illinois. Massachusetts,, Ohio, Louisiana,
and Michigan. in the order named.
dining hall at Catholic University, Brook
land. authorized at a meeting of the
board of trustees of the university early
this week. Mgr. Shahan, rector of the
university. announced yesterday that
building operations will be carried on
through the summer in order to have
the dining hall completed by the open
ing of the university next fall.
The new hall will be large enough to
accommodate 400 students. and is planned
to be completely equipped. 1t will be
fitted up with kitchens and every mod
ern Improvement. The need for the hall
has been growing acute in recent years
because of the rapid growth of the uni
Versity. 1t will be architecturally har-
monious with the ether buildings on the
university campus.
correspondent writing to the Catholic
News from Rome predicts that when the
present commission at work on the Vui-
gate Bible has settled what 1t thinks to
be the real text translated by st. Jerome,
another commission will be appointed to
discover how accurately Jerome followed
the Greek and Hebrew originals of the
scriptures.
The College of the Propaganda in
Rome, known as the Urban College, was
called by Napoleon miniature of the
Catholic Church" The world is repre-
scented there. In ii the linguist, Cardinal
Mezzofanti, laid the foundation Of his
seventy or more acquired languages. In
that college today, as in past genera
tons. are students from the wilds of
Africa, Oceania; in 1t are Syrians, Chal-
deans, Japanese Chinese, Norwegians.
Armenians, Albanians, Australians. Span
iards, Greeks, Scotch, Swiss. Americans
Canadians, Irish, negroes, French, New
foundIanders-in a word. men from the
whole world. Another great institution
in Rome Is the Gregorian University
with its 1,500 students. In IL are students
from the Americas. Irish, Bohemans.
Austrians. Portuguese. Canadian. Hun
Sarian, French, Spaniards, Belgians,
Scots. &C, then come other institutions
of foreign lands with their students
Truly. Rome is the world in MINIATURE
1t is the one Catholic universal city.