The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-03
DEAD PRIESTS
 IN THE LIST
Facts As Regards designations Since COnSecration of
 Bishop Milan
SADLY MISLEADING REPORT
Only About Three Clergymen
 Have Resigned-NO Friction $ Between Clergy and Bishop

l The statement published in a New York paper that priests and cfurct ] men in the Roman Catholic diocese
 of Hartford. which comprises the state
 of Connecticut, are stirred by the 1 restgnatiOns from pulpit after pulpit | that are taking place with increasing | frequency, until within the last three years they have numbered twenty one'' has been the subject Of consid- l erabIe comment, says the Hartford Times of last night. The New York paper gives the names of twenty pas tors '+who have resigned since June, 1910, thirteen of them in the Last year."
 In the list printed there are the names of a number of priests who
 the Passion1st order, another has new
 CT had a pastoral charge in this dio-
 cese, others are on vacations and will
 return, one, who the paper states is
 in California, is at the present time
 on duty in Waterbury and organized
 the large Holy Name parade in that
 city last week, one has gone to the
 diocese of Chicago, and a few are
 suffering from i'll health About three
 have resigned. There is absolutely no
 reason to think that the changes
 which have taken place in the loca-
 ton of priests in the diocese of Hart ford since Bishop Milan was appoint ed are to be taken in any way as an indication of friction between the bish- op and his clergy. The entire body bishop a cordial welcome when he came to this state and pledged their loyalty to him. This loyalty is una bated. The policy of the bishop for the continued success of the char1ta- ble religious and benevolent activities Of the diocese has been cordially sup ported by the priests.
 The clergy have carried out with de- voted enthusiasm the promise given in their name on the afternoon of the day of the bishops conservation, that they would follow his leadership. The rerna rkabfe success of the undertaking for the erection of St. Agnes home for infants in West Hartford is one of the substantial proofs of their loyalty. The bishop had hardly dared to hope that $100, 900 on the day the cornerstone was laid last week. They amoi1nted to about $105,OOO. The priests of the diocese were among the heaviest con tributors to this fund If the un- dertakfng had not their hearty CO., such substantial proofs of their sym pathy.
 But perhaps it is in their marvellous growth of the Holy Name societies the state that the loyal support given ito the policies of the 1
 
 The aim of these societies is to pre- vent profanity and cultivate cleanli- | ness of speech. He has shown a deep | in them and encourages their growth. One of the priests referred 1 to asthaving resigned is stated to, have 1 been transferred from one "of the l largest parishes in the diocese'' to small parish.'' AS A matter of fact i the parish is nearly three times as large as that which he left. So large | Is the new parish that he is obliged to have an assistant. The priest is | now in the Adirondacks recruiting his health.
 If the newspaper story that it is the intention of Cardinal OConneu, of l Boston, to ask Rome for a coadjutor, with the right of succession to the l of Boston is correct, the | news will be of particular interest to the Catholics of, the diocese of Hart ford. It would be the recognition of the success of Bishop Nf1an's work in he administration of the affairs of the diocese. But. happily. the health of Cardinal OtConneH continues good and here is nothing to show that the work of administering the affairs of the archdiocese arduous though it is, is ,er,iol1sIv affecting his health.