The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-29

Five years ago the first American
Catholic Missionary Congress was
held in Chicago under the auspices of
the Catholic Church Extension Society,
for the consideration of the problems
presented by our Home and Foreign
missions. The success of the Congress
was such as to postulate the holding
of similar meetings at stated times
in order to place before the Catho-
lies of America the missionary needs
of the Church at home and abroad.
The purpose of the first Congress
was to marshall the facts in the case
and lay them before those interested
in this phase of the Church's work,
rather than to afford an opportunity
for a premature discussion of them
The intervening years, however, have
been years of progress and it is now
believed that the time is ripe for the
discussion of the ways and means by
which the Church in America may
most advantageously provide for the
needs of the missionary field.
With this object in view plans have
been made for the second American
Catholic Missionary Congress which
will assemble in Boston in the latter
part of next October. The religious
opening will take place on Sunday,
October 10, at the Cathedral of Bos-
ton where Pontifical Mass will be
celebrated by His Excellency the
Apostolic Delegate, and a sermon
preached by His Eminence Cardinal
O'Connell. In the evening Pontifical
Vespers and Benediction will be given
in many churches of the Diocese of
Boston and sermons will be preached
on missionary subjects by the most
distinguished preachers in the Church
in the United States and Canada.
The opening business session will
take place on the following day and
will be presided over by His Eminence
Cardinal O'Connell. The keynote
address will be delivered by the Most
Reverend Archbishop Quigley of Chi,
cago, Chancellor of the Catholic
Church Extension Society of the
United States. 1t will be followed by
an address on "The Spirit of the Con-
gress" by the Right Reverend Bishop
Schrembs of Toledo. The afternoon
session will be given up to the Foreign
Missions and an address will be de-
| livered by the Reverend Joseph
McGlinchey, D. D., Director of the
Propagation of the Faith in the Arch
diocese of Boston. On Tuesday morn
| ing the session will be devoted to
Home Missions and paper will be
read by one of the directors of the
missionary societies. In the after
noon immigration Problems" will be
dealt with in an address by the Right
Reverend Bishop Muldoon of Rock,
| ford
Both the morning and afternoon ses-
sions on Wednesday will be given to
the discussion of the Solutions Pre-
scented For Our Missionary Difficult
ties" in paper by the Right Reverend
Bishop Canevin of Pittsburg. At all
the sessions fullest opportunity will be
afforded for discussion by those inter
ested in the various questions under
consideration with view to arriving
at some definite line of action for the
future direction of missionary work
both at home and abroad.
Every Catholic priest of the United
States and Canada is an accredited
delegate to this Congress and has a
right to apply for a badge admitting
him to all the sessions. Moreover
parishes have right to send two lay
delegates and one extra for every
hundred families over and above the
first hundred. If the number of dele
gates exceeds the capacity of the hail.
as they did in Chicago, the Congress
will be prepared to secure neighbor.
ing hall and repeat the papers therein
After the first of August the head.
quarters of the Congress will be trans.
ferred from Chicago to Boston.
1t is confidently believed that this
Congress win be productive of great
results and go down in history as the
largest and most successful Catholic
gathering ever held in the United
States.