The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-11-01

the whole Catholic world contributes
a voluntary offering for the spread of
the gospel of only $5,0000O0.
The afternoon meeting on Monday
was devoted to the work of the
Propa cation of the Faith. It was pre-
sided over by the Right Reverend
Thomas Cusack, Auxiliary Bishop of
New York, who represented His
Eminence Cardinal Farley The prin-
cipal address was delivered by the
Rev. Joseph F. McGlinchey, Diocesan
Director for the Propagation of the
Faith in Boston.
Monday night reception was given
at the Copley-Plaza Hotel by His
Eminence Cardinal O'Connell to the
visiting prelates, priests and lay dele
gates. Addresses were delivered by
His Eminence and by Mayor Fitz-
Gerald
Home Missions and immigration.
The meetings on Tuesday were de-
voted to Home Missions and to Immi-
grafton. The former was presided
over by the Most Reverend Arch
bishop Christie of Portland, Ore, and
the principal address was delivered
by DR.. Kelley, President of the Church
Extension Society, who declared that
the three things necessary for the sue
cess of any army-supplies, men and
weapons-Was equally necessary for
the success of our missionary efforts.
He declared that the most necessary
of these is supplies, that is to say,
funds for the support of the mission
aries of all kinds who are on the
firing line. He deplored the lack of
recruits to the missionary ranks which
he said was due not to dearth of
vocations but to inability to maintain
recruiting stations and training
schools to supply the priests needed
for the work.
At this meeting the Most Reverend
Archbishop Pitaval of Sante Fe, de-
scribed the missionary conditions in
the United States and especially in
the Southwest.
At the afternoon session over which
the Most Reverend Archbishop Blenk,
of New Orleans, presided, the princi-
pal address was delivered by Bishop
Muldoon, of Rockford, who dwelt on
the necessity of an immigration
Bureau for obtaining information in
looking after their interests as soon
as they reached this country.
Our Colonial Possessions.
Wednesdays meetings were de-
voted to the missionary work in our
colonial possessions and the consid-
Grafton of plans by which the Exten-
sion Society may secure more general
interest in it's work and, ultimately, a
more generous revenue. AS one of
the members of a committee appointed
year ago for this purpose the Right
Reverend Bishop Canevin, of Pitts
burgh, outlined the result of their
study of the missionary situation in
the following statement:
1.-THE committee studied all the diff
ferent missionary works in this coun-
try-the Church Extension Society,
The Society for the Propagation of the
Faith, The Holy Childhood, The Cath
Ole Missionary Union, the Negro
Board, the Indian and Negro Bureau,
the Catholic Foreign Missionary
| Society and the various religious or
ders, like the Josephite Fathers and
! the Society of the Divine Word and
could not fail to notice that many of
these organizations overlapped each
other in their work.
"The committee came to the conclu-
Fsion that it would be better to have a
single missionary society Board or
Bureau, as one might wish to call it,
operating in the United States, taking
the charter of one of the present so
cieties as foundation, and changing
it's name to The American Board of
Catholic Missions Such a Bureau
or Board should be considered a gen
eral missionary collecting agency hav.
ing authority to gather funds and
have a foothold in every diocese and
in every parish. The Board formed
by the bishops, and approved by
Rome, should be wide enough in its
scope to cover all missionary activi
ties of the Church of America so far
as collecting for them is concerned
except special efforts made by re
ligious orders for their own missions
Mass Meetings.
The Congress was brought to g
close on Wednesday night by the
holding of number of mass meetings
in Boston and the neighboring cities
The principal one was held in Sym
phony Hall at which His Eminenct
Cardinal O'Connell presided and ad
dresses were delivered by Archbishop
Pitaval, the Honorable Joseph Scott
of Los Angeles, and ]. e. Burke, Su
pervisor of the Boston public schools
All the meetings were well attended
an indication that the people of Boston
are evidently interested in the mis-
sionary work of the Church.
Bishop Busch Speaks.
At the mass meeting in Boston Col
lege the Right Reverend Bishop Busch
4 Of Lead gave a vivid picture Of the
missionary difficulties in his diocese
and declared that the Missionary Con
gress was a wonderful expression OF
the latent missionary sentiment In
the country. We have, he said, in this
country the piety and zeal to carry
on this great work, we need only the