AMERICA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 36, 3 January 1874, Page 10

AMERICA.

The ' Catholic Review ' represents that the mission founded for tho conversion of the southern negroes to Catholicity is in a growing aud healthy condition. "At present there are six American students at the College of St. Joseph, at Mill Hill, Middlesex, England, making the preparatory studies for this mission, besides five Englishmen, six Irishmen, three Germans, two Hollanders, and oae Belgian. Like all other priests, these young men bind themselves to chastity and obedience to their ecclesiastical superiors ; but they add another obligation, which binds them for life to the negro mission, where they will be ' the fathers and the servants of the blacks.' " The German Catholics of America are much ahead of their English speaking brethren in the number of newspapers they support. While the latter have not yet succeeded in establishing a daily paper, even in New York, the former have prosperous dailies printed in the German language in Buffalo, Philadelphia, and St. Louis They have also successful weeklies ; one in Baltimore circulating 25,000, in Cincinnati 16.0U0, Long Island 14,000, and two in Buffalo, besides many others. The 'Catholic Telegraph,' of Cincinnati, siys the Catholics of America are ahead of all others in attending their religious duties, not even excepting Ireland. It says thar, during the past year there were 43,000 communions at the Cathedral of Cincinnati, the parish containing only 1 1,00 J souls. The 'San Francisco Guardian' says: "A single church in this city — where thero are eleven regular churches, besides the various chapels connected with schools, etc., where communion is given — has given during the year 1872, nearly eighty thousand communions ! An average of over fifteen hundred a week." This is religious rivalry truly. — The ' Bombay Catholic Examiner.'