SCOTLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 27 November 1913, Page 55

SCOTLAND

CATHOLICS IN GLASGOW. Father Bernard Vaughan, in his address recently under the 'auspices of the Glasgow'Catholic Institute, made special reference to the status of Catholics in the civic life of Glasgow, and he expressed the hope (says the Universe ) that the time would come when Glasgow would emulate Manchester and have a Lord Provost a Catholic. _ Glasgow has a long way to go to reach that goal. With a Catholic population of over 200,000 about a fifth of the entire population there is ’but a single Catholic on the City Council, ■ and he is a Socialist !

SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS. Piofessoi Phillimore, of Glasgow, in opening a Catholic bazaar in Clydebank recently, said that ever}' such Catholic function they heard of In Glasgow and its neighborhood marked another step forward of the definite, unbroken advance of the Catholic Church in the West of Scotland. The ranters on Glasgow Green continued to rant, and the ranters in the daily newspapers continued to write letters on the sins of the Catholic Church and on the general . inferiority of Catholics to

their fellow citizens ; but, somehow, the Catholic body kept on steadily year after year answering these polemics by opening a new church, a new school, doubling the accommodation of an old school, and so forth. That was the most satisfactory sort of controversy.