CATHOLIC FEDERATION IN INDIA.

New Zealand Tablet, 28 August 1919, Page 17

CATHOLIC FEDERATION IN INDIA.

From a note in the Lahore Catholic News it looks as if another effort is to bo made to bring about some sort of federation of Catholic Associations in India (says the Madras Catholic Watchman). The Lahore Catholic Association itself is undergoing, reorganisation, and appears anxious to use the occasion for the formation of an “All-India Catholic Board.’’ Sympathy with the movement is expressed in the Friend, of the Indian Catholic Association of Burma. It is also likely that, with prospects of receiving a favorable .reception, several old friends of the federation idea will come to the front once more, to help and see the thing through. But the most promising of all signs is probably the little booklet on Combination and Union, of the 1.C.T.5., by Father Hull, whose powerful pen would now presumably work for this combination and union from which we all expect so much. The number of different Catholic Associations is no real argument against federation; on the contrary, it is the only way •of reaching any sort of concerted Catholic action whenever circumstances necessitate it. Besides, so many circumstances have changed since the last large effort at combination was made, that this fresh attempt is warranted and contains within it a reasonable promise of success.