The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28
Catholic Activities
in Argentina

CHURCH is STRONG IN SOUTH.
ERN REPuBLlc-ALL KINDS OF
CATHOLIC ACTIVITIES ARE IN
A MOST FLouRlsHING coNDI-
ADMINISTRATIONS OF EVERY
KIND.
Let me say to begin with, that a
Jingle weeks residence in BuenoS
Fires should convince the stranger
that he has arrived in a land where
the Catholic tradition survives. Even
on week days, an any hour, or half
hour, from five to eleven in the morn
ing, he can find Mass being celebrated
before a devout congregation in some
one of the city's hundred-and-odd
churches. On Sundays the Masses
continue until ! p. m. The visitor
can see with his own eyes that the
daily communicates easily run into the
thousands, and he will be particu-
larly surprised to witness the large
number of men, many OF them manual
laborers, who receive the Bread of
Life each morning before rushing into
the struggle for their earthly bread.
To my mind, an excellent test of the
vitality of faith in any country is to
examine carefully the methods en-
| ployed to transmit religious belief to
| future generations. Hence, | will first
say something about Catholic educa-
ton as it exists here today, writes
| Juan Camarilla in the Tidings.
Colleges.
One of the sights that most i'm
| pressed me was the parade of the boys
from the Salvador College to salute
| the national flag on May 25, which is
Argentine Independence Day. Truly
worth watching were those young.
sters, about 500 of them, ranging from
| u to IS years, and fine they looked
in their neat, well-fitting black suits,
as they marched along, singing the
national anthem, "Oid Morales" in
style unsurpassed by the. college
boys of any other great nation. Anc
when l reflected that these youths, fl
for any inspection, who filed before
me with enthusiastic "vivas" for the
Sky-Blue and White, which, to them
, symbolizes freedom, were the hope o
the country, I felt certain that thu
Argentine aristOcracy had made M
mistake in entrusting it's sons to thu
care of the Jesuits. Grounded thus
deeply in patriotism and the civic viz
: | s,1 hot. ioin M
| the arts and sciences, these young pa
tricians may be expected to develo
into capable and honorable men, de
voted to God and loyal to the Reput
;, lie.
1 Now, have mentioned the Salvado
I College first, because came into cor
tact with it first, SO let no one thin
' that consider other colleges undeserN
. ing of like praise. / have very plea:
ant memories of how the Brothers il
}, struct and care for the LOO pupil
q under their care in the De La Sail
= schools, and / have admired the e.
y cellent training given to 600 boys !
! San Jose College by the good Frenc
n priests, known as the Bayonne Fail
$ ers, from the place of their found;
Z ton (Which is not Bayonne, New Je
sey). Similar and equally goo
ST. schools are conducted by Augustin
Y ans, Franciscans, Dominicans, Mere
a darios, etc. The Escolapios (whos
n founder st. Joseph Calasanctiu
re opened the first free school in til
E. world at Rome in 1877 have four CO
leges, with 1900 pupils, in this Repu
y lie, and share the work of educatio
9r with local teaching communities. TIL
of Society for the Preservation of tt
n. Faith employs 100 teachers to instru,
'r 5000 children in its fifteen day ar
n three night schools; in the twelN
years of it's working it has spent son
d, 100000 pesos and educated 1000
"a children.
= The Saiesians. 3
A few words must be said about II
- -Salesians, those worthy sons of Dc
= Bosco, whose apostolic zeal h;
= borne such splendid fruit in Soul
: America. They have now fifty esta
lishments in this country, and one
the most touching events of recel
date in Rome was the presentation
- Benedict XIV of $1,000 lire $4,000
:. subscribed. one at time, by the p
= pills and ex-pupils of Salesian scfoo
- here, and fittingly offered to his Ho
ness by the first Salesian missional
to the Republic. who is now Cardin
& Cagliero On June "a the Vice-Pres
dent of Argentine, DR.. Pelago Lun
and several of the National Minister
e, came to Pho Mono College to witne
e. a gymnastic tournament given
le 1000 pupils to celebrate the fortie
anniversary of the foundation of II
Arts and Crafts School. 1t would
OF hard to say which was the more int
esting-the performance OF the t
e. gymnastic teams and ten batallions
" Boy Scouts, or the subsequent Wis
to the workshops. The practic