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Show Hoffman's Catholic Directory for IPOO ! will be complete in a few days. It will show the Catholic population of the country to be over 10,000.000. An effort was made this year to obtain statistics regarding the Church in our new possesions, pos-sesions, the Philippines. Cuba and Puerto Rico, but Archbishop Chapelle and Bishop Blenk advised against it. as it wac impossible to obtain accurate statistics. Each year on the issuance of the Catholic Directory a dispute breaks out as to the accuracy of the statistics of the Ca tholic population. Inasmuch as these figures are all obtained from the Bishops of the diocese, the blame for errors must lie on them. The greatest pains are taken to secure accuracy. |