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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25
CATHOLIC POPULATION OF
THE BRITISH EMPIRE
The Official Directory Places the
Number at Nearly Thirteen
Millions.

In England and Wales there are 20
Archbishops and Bishops, 1888
priests, and 1897 churches, chapels,
and stations. Last year there were
10 Archbishops and Bishops, 1890
priests, and 1876 churches. In Scot
land there are Z Archbishops and Bish-
ops, 563 priests, and 385 churches,
etc. For Great Britain, there are 27
Archbishops and Bishops, 4,401 priests,
and 2,182 stations. Compared with
last year this shows an increase of
two Archbishops and Bishops, a de-
crease of 148 priests; while the
churches are exactly the same in num-
Der.
These figures are published by the
Catholic Directory Burns and Oates,
Ltd, which states: "This attempt
to state accurately the number of
Catholics in the British Empire is
made now for the first time When
ever possible the figures have been
taken from State-made census reports.
Where there are none such to rely
upon, we take the figures as published
by the missionaries or other Church
authorities" The figures in brackets
show the estimated Catholic popula-
ton of last year. England and Wales,
1,793,038; Scotland, SAT 1886: total for
Great Britain, 2,340,374 (2,269 ,00O) !;
Ireland, 9,242,670 1921, ,010); Gibral-
tar (civil port and harbor), 1898;
Cyprus, 815; and Malta, 2o0,899. In
Scotland Catholics number 115 per
1000 of the population, and in Malta
95 per cent. The total number of
Catholics in the British Empire in
Europe is 5,SoO,526. In India (includ-
ing Burmah) there are 1884, 900 native
Catholics of the Latin rite, 413,142 of
the Syrian rite, and 97,144 Anglo-In-
dian and European Catholics; all max
ing a total of 1,904,286. In Ceylon
there are 322,163 Catholics; in the
Federated Malay States 22,950; in the
Straits Settlements, 30,912; in Hong
Kong, 6,397; and in Labuan and Brit
ish North Borneo, 2,190; making a
total for the British Empire in Asia
of 2,288, ,989, as compared with 1876
305 of last year. In Sierra Leone there
are 1,472 Catholics; in the East Afri-
can Protectorate 125 Catholics; in the
Uganda Protectorate 230,568; in the
Nyassaland Protectorate about $4,000;
in the South African Colony 67,601 !;
in Southern Rhodesia 4,618; in Mauri-
thus, 122,424; in Seychelles, 19,460;
st. Helena 81; Gold Cost, about II, 1927; !;
and South and North Nigeria, 1888;
making a total for Africa under Brit
ish rule of 489,965, as compared with
3S0, ,105 last year. British America has
3,195,916 Catholics, and of these Can
ada has 2,S24,558 Catholics. Austral-
asia has 1,1S4,509, compared with
1,113,656. The total number of Catho-
lies in the British Empire is therefore,
12,96S,814, as compared with 1856.
225, or an increase in twelve months
of 392,5S9. The Catholic population OF
the world is estimated at 292, ,7S7, ,0S5.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25
CHURCH AS A TAXPAYER
Some Interesting Points for Political
Economists.

No subject today is more frequently
forced upon public attention than that
of the taxation of church property. "A
law has been passed in this state re-
quiring the publication every year of
list of the property exempted. One
of the features of the publication in
it's city has been the exhorbitant val
uation placed upon church property,
in comparison, for instance, with that
exempt for educational purposes.
Is it fact that churches are exempt
from taxation? asks the Immaculate
Conception Magazine, Rochester.
Taxes may be direct or indirect.
Thoughtful persons know that indirect
taxation is just as much of burden
as direct, though most people do not
advert to the fact. The payment of
taxes may also be direct or indirect,
and one is just as beneficial to the
community as the other. Our conten-
tion is that the churches and particu-
larly the Catholic Church is paying
more than its share of taxation. 1t
is doing it by the indirect method, but
that does not make the payment any
the less valuable. Look at the valu-
able charitable institutions that have
been erected by the churches, without
a dollar of contribution from the pub
lie treasury, for the care of the af-
f1icted and dependent Admitting that
the county and the city make appro-
priations for some of the inmates, yet
every one knows that it is not sufi-
cient for their food and clothing, and
that the churches make up the def
cheney.
Take the question of education. Our
parishioners have an object-lesson be-
fore their eyes every Sunday, when
they came to attend Mass. Across
from their parochial school, the city
is erecting the new public schoolhouse
to replace the one that was recently
destroyed by fire. An appropriation
of $125,000 was made for the erection
thereto the value of the site which
was already in the possession of the
city, it may be conservatively said that
the cost of this school will be $175, 900.
There are one hundred and fifty more
pupils in our school than attend this
public school, No. 3, and If we had a
kindergarten, like this public school,
our number in excess would be nearly
two hundred. If the city, therefore,
would have to provide a schoolhouse
for the pupils attending our parochial
school, it would mean an increase in
the tax budget of 100000. Ifit had to
build schoolhouses for the accommoda-
tion of the twelve thousand pupils in
the parochial schools of this city, and
would expend therefore as much per
pupil as it is in the erection of a
building for the pupils of No. 3, it
would mean an addition to the tax bud
get of $2,625,OO0. This does not in
clude the additional sum that would be
necessary If we had kindergartens
connected with the parochial schools.
This, however, is not all. It costs
$500 per pupil each year for the edu.
cation of the children in the public
school, outside of what is received
from the state for this purpose. If
the city, therefore, had to defray the
expense of the education of the pupils
I'm the parochia1 schools, IL would be
an addition Of 100000 to the tax bud
get Of this city.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25
THE CHURCH IN maine.
Bishop Walsh Makes Formal An
nouncement of the Celebration of
the Tercentenary of the Founding
of the Church in Maine.

1t has already been announced in
The Catholic Bulletin that, during the
coming summer, the Catholics of
Maine will celebrate the tercentenary
of the founding of the Church in that
State Already preparations are well
advanced for this interesting COM
memoration, and letter has been
addressed by the Right Reverend
Louis S. Walsh, d. D., Bishop of Port
land, to the clergy OF the diocese
dwelling on the Importance. of the
event, and calling for the cooperation
of priests and people.
Bishop Walsh says that it is his
conviction that long before Mass was
said at Holy Cross Island in the st.
Croix river in 1904, on the Kennebec
river in 1911, and at Castine in 1913,
the same supreme and august sacri-
fee was offered up on lake and river
Or seashore, wherever an heroic mis-
sionary accompanied the hardy ex-
plorers and knights of discovery from
1892 to 1900 Perhaps even far back
in the tenth century the Christian
Norsemen knelt before the Cross and
altar and chanted the "Kyrie Eleison'
or the "Agnus Del" Nevertheless,
until archives reveal the secrets of
those years, We may claim only the
300 years, and this gives our diocese
high place in the history of the
North Atlantic shores of the United
States.
Although no mission chapel tells
it's silent story at any of the above
named sites, the memorable Mission
of st. Sauveur on Mt. Desert island
May-September, 1912, has now one
stately granite church and two beauti.
full chapels, almost within sight OF
the original point (now Fernald's
| Point, Somes sound, namely the
Church of the Most Holy RedeemeI
at Bar Harbor, st, Ignatius' Chapel
at North East Harbor and the Holy
Family Chapel at Seal Harbor. The
granite church at Bar Harbor, built
in 1908-09, to be dedicated to the
Most Holy Redeemer,' in honor OF
the first Mission of Saint Sauveur
win be blessed on Wednesday, August
| 6, 1913, feast of the TRANSPORTATION
Our Lord, and all possible solemnity
will be given to the occasion. II
is hoped that the Maine Catholic His
torical Society will hold it's meeting al
the same time in Bar Harbor. The
same event, in the sense that the
Cross of Christ has exalted and like
wise blessed and honored our State BY
this mission, will be solemnly com
memorated in the Cathedral of the
Immaculate Conception, Portland, or
Sunday, September IA, the Feast ot
the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Or
this Sunday, therefore, there will be
a solemn pontifical Mass of thanks
giving in every parish church of the
diocese. The reverend rectors are
respectfully urged and the Sisters
teaching in our Catholic schools are
hereby instructed to have this FRS
Nilsson of ST. Sauveur' as the chief OF
central part in their graduation exer
cises of schools and academies.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25
YEARS A PRIEST
Father Fowler, o. P, of Kansas City,
Celebrates Silver Jubilee of Ordin-
ation-FormerIy Prior of Holy Ro-
sary Church, Minneapolis.

On January 18th the Rev. ]. D.
Fowler, o. P, pastor of the Church
of the Holy Name, Kansas City, cele-
brated the silver jubilee of his ordina-
ton to the priesthood. Solemn High
Mass was offered up by the Reverend
Jubilarian in presence of the Right
Reverend Thomas F. Lillis, Coadjutor
Bishop of Kansas City, large num-
Der of the Reverend Clergy of the Dio-
cese, and great concourse of the
laity. The sermon was preached by
the Rev. w. ]. Dalton, pastor of the
Church of the Annunciation. 1t was a
beautiful tribute to the character and
dignity of the priesthood and pic
ture of the glorious work wrought by
Father Fowler during the twenty-five
years of his priestly career.
After Mass the clergy were enter
tanned at dinner by the ladies of the
parish and a number of presentations
were made by the different societies
of the parish, as we'll as by the priests
of the Diocese.
Father Fowler was ordained by the
Right Reverend Bishop Watterson of
Columbus in the Dominican Convent
at Somerset, Ohio. His first assignment
was to the Dominican parish, Wash
ington, D. c., whence he was trans
ferred to the Holy Name parish, Kan
sas City in 1890, remaining for two
years. During the following eight
years he exercised the ministry in
New York and New Haven and re-
turned to Kansas City in 1898 as pas
tor of the parish. In 1900 he became
Prior of the Holy Rosary Convent,
Minneapolis, and during hs pastorate
the new Church of the Holy Rosary
was built.
Five years ago he returned to his
former pastorate in Kansas City and
during that time has built new rec
tory and the basement of a church
which win cost $15O.O0O and in which
services are now held. He has plans
made for a new school building and
Sisters residence which are needed to
complete the equipment of the parish.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25
Friendly Attitude.

With the opening of the new year,
Fathers Rouviere and LIE Roux
set out for their territory, and will
see what can be done towards max
ing them Christians. At the present
time, it is quite probable that they
are learning the language, as they
had by the last accounts, induced a
couple of families to come and stay
amongst the Rabbit-skin Indians, at
their mission on Great Bear Lake.
Father Rouviere reports that these
Eskimos are light-complexioned, but
as far as stature is concerned, they
are about the same size as the aver
age Eskimo. They seem to be very
gentle and not in the least afraid of
the whites. There is an old-tfme
enmity between the Indians and the
Eskimos, and one is afraid of the
other. Father Rouviere went alone
amongst them, and was rather i'm
pressed by their gentle characteristics
and by their friendly attitude towards
the whites. The benefit we may ex-
pect to hear is that these two devoted
missionaries are having success in
making them Christians. If they be
the 1ong-lost descendants of Catholic
Norsemen who settled in Greenland it
is but right and fitting that they should
be brought back to the faith of their
fathers. In any case, there is little
probability that Stefansson's idea of
quarantining them and keeping them
apart from the rest of the world will
ever be carried out along the line
suggested.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25
HOME OF ST. BENEDICT
The Cell in Which 1.-THE Rule" Was
Written.

The ancient Benedictine Monastery
at Mount Casino, Italy, has many
grand souvenirs of monastic history.
The mountain upon which it stands
has been justly called the Sinai of
Monasteries. 1t is from this spot that
there went forth with st. Benedict,
the founder of the Abbey, the Patri-
arch of the Monks of the West, all
the monastic spirit of the Middle Ages,
which had such a large part in the his
tory of the Church and exercised such
a great influence upon European civili-
zation.
The Arch-Abbey of Mount Casino
is situated on the top of high rock,
upon which there still remains the
ruins of prehistoric acropolis. On
the mountain-path which leads up to
the Abbey, chapels and crosses have
been erected, recalling events in the
past history of the monastery. One
of these is in memory of the farewell
of St. Maur to st. Benedict when he
left to introduce the Benedictine Order
into France.
The Abbey was rebuilt in the 18th
century. The cell in which st. Bene-
dict wrote his rule for his monks and
his oratory have been converted into
chapels, and these have recently been
re-decorated. The subjects selected
for the decoration of the walls repre-
sent the principal episodes in the life
of st. Benedict.
The same system of decoration and
the same art is displayed in the vast
crypt cut in the rock, under which is
the tomb of St. Benedict, and in the
two chapels dedicated to ST. Maur and
ST. Plaudus
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25
CATHOLIC GOVERNOR
OF THE PUNJAUB B
Governor o'Dwyer Receives Important
Appointment.

Michael Francis O'Dwyer has been
appointed to the important governor
ship of the Punjaub, in British India
A native of Tipperary, he led the
Irish intermediate school contestants
while student at st. Stanislaus' Col
lege, Tullabeg, and won first place in
the Indian civil service examinations,
1882. He rose steadily till he now
fills the first place in his immense
province He is a brother of Rev.
James O'Dwyer, S. j., president of
st. Patrick's College, Melbourne, and
of Rev. Thomas O'Dwyer, S. J.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25
4 HISTORIC SHIP
The Frigate that Brought Supplies
to FamIne-StrIcken ireland.

The old frigate jamestown, mysteri-
ously burned a few weeks ago near
the Norfolk Navy Yard, was one Of the
historic crafts of the old navy. She
was built by the Navy Department at
Norfolk in 1S45, and two years later
sprung into worldwide fame when
she sailed from Boston with load of
supplies for sufferers from the Irish
famine. Deeds of philanthropy were
less common in those days and the
arrival of the jamestown in Cork har-
Dor was widely heralded. After serv-
ing through the Civil War, the James
town made a famous trip around the
world, known az the Jamestown hori-
zon." Some of the most famous COM
manders in the Navy served aboard
her. She had been sold by the De-
partment two months ago.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25
PSALM FOUR.
CUM INVoCAREM.
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
Helen Hughes HieIscher.)

HeIen 7ughes HIeIscher.)
When have called, the God of Truth
Hath lent an ear to me;
And when distresses grid me round.
to His mercy fee.
Oh! sons of men how long will ye
Be vain and dull of heart;
And follow foolish things of earth,
And seek the lying art?
Know We that wonderous the Lord
Hath made His Holy One;
And. He shall hear me when | pray
That justice may be done.
Be angry, but not unto sin;
If in your hearts be said
Some idle, vain and foolish thing,
Repent ye in your bed.
The light from out Thy countenance
Is signed upon my face,
Thou giveth gladness to the heart
And peace and hope and grace.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25
BISHOP OPENS SENATE
Bishop Bowling of Des Moines Offers
Prayer at Opening Of Iowa
Legislature.

For the first time in the history of
Iowa, the legislature was opened this
year by a Catholic bishop On Mon
day, January 13, the senate opened
with prayer by Right Reverend Bishop
Dowling of Des Moines. The attend
ance at the opening session was one
of the largest ever held at a IegisIa-
tive opening.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25
ESKIMOS OF CATHOLIC DESCENT

Their DiscoVerer Visits Minneapolis
New Tribe Probably Descended
From Lost Morse coIony-Faith to
be Restored-ObIate Fathers Begin
Work of Conversion at Opening of
New Year.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25

During the week DR.. Vilhjalmar
Steffansson who discovered a hither-
to unknown race of blonde Eskimos
during his exploration in the Arctic
regions lectured in Minneapolis on his
expedition to the Far North. In the
course of his lecture he described the
new race of Eskimos and character
lied their religion as "a series of pro-
hibitions." He declared that the ma
tive medicine man has almost unlim-
tied power over them.
DR.. Steffansson came from Grand
Forks where he lectured at the Uni
versity of North Dakota of which he
was formerly a student He leaves
for Europe in February to fill lecture
engagements in Rome and London
and in the spring will start ,On three
year exploring tour in the Arctic re-
giOns.
His discovery of blonde race of
Eskimos has given rise to many con-
lectures concerning their probable
origin and descent. DR.. Frederic A.
Lucas, Director of the American Mu-
scum of Natural History, has issued a
statement in the course of which he
says:
."Of the various explanations that
have so far been suggested it seems
to Mr.. Steffansson that the one
open to the fewest serious objections
is that of the admixture of a large
amount of European blood at some
fairly remote period. In this connec-
tfon the disappearance in the fifteenth
or sixteenth centuries of the Morse
colony from Greenland suggests itself
as a possible source of the European
like character Many things initiate
against the supposition that they can
be derived from any of the Franklin
expeditions of the middle of the last
century. One of these is that the
only Eskimo of this district seen at
close quarters by Franklin himself
is described by him in terms which
fit very wen the blonde type found to-
day"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25
Missionaries Go to Them.

During the past year two Oblates,
Fathers Rouviere and lie Roux, went
to the northeast shore of the Great
Bear Lake and whilst there they got
in close touch with the white Eskimos
of the Coronation Gulf. These Fathers
are at the present time within three
hundred miles of the place where
Steffansson discovered these strange
white Eskimos. These Eskimos are
nomads, and move about from place
to place. They came as far as the
shores of Great Bear Lake and Father
Rouviere met them and spent three
weeks amongst them. They are not
afraid of the white men. Since Stef-
fansson discovered them, an English
man, Mr.. Hornby, has visited them
and spent quite while amongst them.
He wrote Bishop Breynat, asked him
to send a missionary, and expressed
the belief that he could do great
deal Of good amongst these people.
Three or four other white men have
since visited them, amongst them be-
ing two Canadian brothers by the
name of Douglas, so there is little
probability that Mr.. Steffansson's
wishes to keep them isolated will be
respected. 1t is a very childish view
after all, because there are always ex-
plorers and adventurers coming and
going through the North country, and
as the white Eskimos are constantly
moving around from place to place in
their own territory, the Canadian Gov
ernment would be forced to put a
Gordon Oe mounted police around them
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25
The Morse Colony.

The Catholic period of the history
of Greenland extends from the year
1000 to 1850. Lief the Happy of that
country visited Norway in $50, where
he was won over to Christianity by
King Olaf Tuygvesson, who sent
some missionaries to accompany him
to his country. I'm a remarkably short
time these missionaries succeeded in
converting the Morse colonists and
establishing an organized church.
Sixteen parishes were founded sue
cessively and a few monastr1es. The
country was formed into the diocese
of Gardar, and it seems certain that
sixteen or eighteen Bishops either
occupied the see or were nominated
to it. The accounts of the sending
to Rome of the Peters Pence and con-
stributions to help meet the expense
of the crusade are beyond doubt. After
the beginning of the fifteenth century
It appears that no Bishop visited
Greenland. The succession closes with
Vincenz Kampi (1537). After that time
the Catholics either perished or were
assimilated by the pagan Eskimos. In
1866 the first Arctic exploration was
undertaken by Catholic priests and
numerous stone monuments and ruins
give evidence of the early Morse Chris
tian period. Documents also are ex'
tant to which the seal of the Bishop
of Gardar is attached. If the explana'
ton suggested be true, namely that
the strange race of blonde Eskimos
derives it's European like character
from the Morse colony of Greenland, it
may be inferred that it is composed OF
the descendants of these early Chris.
tians who composed the Catholic col.
ony of Greenland during the Middle
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25

in order to make Steffanssons dream
possible.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-05-22
Major Doesn't Read Papers.

jefferson City.-"I do not read the
newspapers. because ! must be unin-
flucnccd in my effort to carry out the
trust the people have placed In my
hands" said Gov. Elliott W. Major
addressing newspaper men and others
attending journalism week at the Uni
yersity of Missouri at Columbia.
The insurance companies maintain
press agent publicity bureau, and
they are sending much matter to Mis-
papers mold public opinion, and In
the hope that some at least, OF tho
things that they send the papers will
be printed. Newspapers are not sol.
idly behind the insurance companies,
and even now the insurance com.
panies are breaking ranks. | have
ignored newspapers and gone ahead
in an effort to act on my own optn-
ions, rather than those of the news-
papers. Newspapers are inconsistent.
They praise one day and deHounce
the next"
Gov Major declared himself a
friend OF education. and said he would
rather serve the state four years in
the field OF education than as gov
ernor, so far as honor was concerned.
At noon he raised the United States
flag On the rev lo0.foot fagpole near
the S. S. Laws observatory.
THE making Of humorous columns
IS an important industry in the United
States" said s f.. Kiscr. humorist on
a Chicago paper, in an address to the
editors. AN you have to do is 10
write down what you see and tell
what you think about It. The humor.
Gus column is put on the editorial
page to attract attention and thus on.
able the editors to mold opinion
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-05-22
CONFESSED FoRGER. HELD AT
KANSAS CITY, TELLS OF HIS
OEcEPTIONS.
WAS WIFE" OF AN ATTORNEY
Conducted Idaho School Whole Term
Without Detection, Prisoner De.
cIares-Exehansed Bogus Bill
fol- Gold in Japan.

Kansas City. Mo.-James Arthur
Baker, arrested here charged with
theft at Summerland. Cal, in a signed
confession to the police said that
during much Of his life he had posed
as a woman and that he had been in
yolved in intricate couuterfeiting and
forgery schemes
He early adopted the profession OF
school teacher. he said. After teach.
ing few years in Iowa. Missouri.
Kansas and Oklahoma, he went to tho
Pacific Coast. where he found that
men teachers were not in demand.
He then disguised himself as 4
woman and obtained a position in an
Idaho village. under the name Of
alice Baker" No one suspected his
secret, although he taught one entire
season.