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Show 1 j Clwrcb Universal 1 I CHURCH CALENDAR. I - . . I Sunday fi Eighth after Pentecost. I Transfiguration of Our Lord. I Monday, 7 St. Cattail. Tuesday, 8 St. Cyriacus. I Wednesday, 9 St. Romanus. Thursday 10 St. Lawrence. f Friday, 11 Saints' Tiburtius and Su- 5 Pa una. ,( .', i Saturday, 12 St. 'Clare, I Petitions for prayers from Associates i 14 League vf Sacred Heart: ! Sunday for directors, Monday for promoters, Tuesday for the departed, ! Wednesday for perseverance, Thursday lor the young, Friday for First Cora- , munions, Saturday fjr parents. i DEARTH OF. VOCATIONS. t ... Thousands of - Our . Growing Boys Await an Opportunity. I Washington, D. C, Aug. 1. ' Editor Intennountain Catholic: 1 I Bishop D said recently in conver- i f ration: "If 1 hud twenty Apostolic $ priests in my diocese I would make my I I Mate ring- with the claims of the Church. As it is.- I mupt content my- I nelf with giving Mass and the sacra- nients to the few Catholics I .have. 1 There is no better- class of people in I all the country than the American peo'-, pie that I have living in my diocese,' but what they do not know about the Catholic Church would fill a family Bible. Nor can I complain of my I priests. They are all good men, but ihey have inherited a tradition that their duty is done when the Catholics I have a Sunday Mass and the Sacra- ; j ments when they ask for them. . If I had twenty priests with carefully pre- t pared sermons on the fundamental top- I i of religion that all the people would j like to listen to. they could get audi- I ences every night in the week. I sup- pose there are three (hundred towns out ' i of the seven hundred in our state in I which the voice of a Catholic priest ; has never been heard above a whisper. ' j The difficulty is the lack of a spirit of aggressiveness and a proper training to make it effective, and yet there is ; ? not one of these towns that would not i I extend an official invitation to a priest I to talk from the front steps of the 1 I court house to all the citizens, if he I would only come. I wish 1 could send I every priest in my diocese to the Apos- 1 tolic Mission House for a year." I I , In my judgment, one of the most se- I 1 .' rious problems that are facing us is l; the dearth of vocations. There are : mough priests to meet the ordinary t; emergencies, but if we are content I merely to satisfy the ordinary emer- I gencies, the dry rot of lifelessness will i I soon set in and history will say of the t Church in the United States she has I lost her best opportunity. There is a S whole lot of truth in what this observ- I ing bishop says. It is not bo much the dearth f vocations as the failure on I J the part of many priests to cultivate j them. There are thousands of our I growing boys in our parochial schools who would gladly study for the priest- I hood if only the opportunity were giv- I . en to them. The priests who are do- . J itig their duty in this matter are the ' German priests. They make it a con-; con-; scientious duty to support one or more boys at college. They feel that their full duty is not done to the Church if I through a spiritual paternity they have not brought other priests to the altar. Put not so much with priests of other nationalities. They will spend as much on a summer trip to the seashore as would educate a boy at college for the : year. . There is. moreover, a great lack of appreciation of the needs of the country coun-try in some places. There is one dio- ese whore the' authorities are practically practi-cally turning boys away ,from the priesthood because just there there is for the time- being an over-supply- of pi icfts. There is no consideration of the needs of other dioceses where the bishops are crying for priests. If a general movement were inaugurated throughout the country having for its i purpose the cultivation of vocations j among the boys, and if the priests would undertake to pay the way at 1 e.iiege of needy boys, in a few years 1 the seminaries would have an adequate supply. Then it would be possible to f supply the necessitous dioceses, and 1 tjien the demands of such bishops as I Bishop D for twenty Apostolic j priests could easily be met. The Apos- lolic Mis-sion House is now thoroughly I quipped to train such priests. ' (Rev.)- A. P. DOYLE. j ABREAST OF THE TIMES. i Church Is Most Potent Force For Cr- j der in Philippines. - Washington, D. C Aug. 2. : L.iiior 1'itermountain Catholic: 4 ! R.H-rnt iidvices from Manila indicate j ' Th;.u the Church in the Philippine is-i is-i ' i is steadily keeping abreast of the I vim. Her strong and efficient organ- I ..Htien makes her the most potent force I h the islands for-law and order. With- e n her sympathy and her quiet yet ! p-'werful influence the administration vould have well nigh insurmountable ) riiflicultie to overcome. Another I I '-Sutherland'' mistake on the part of! I ih,. government would go far to create 1 -i satisfaction that would never be ! i. -r.M.ied. Sutherland and his wife I i to blame, and not the administra- but the Catholic people in the I : 4 i i.in.ls could not distinguish. l Smuio signs of progress may be found ff i , t ! i - fact that there are now 15') na- students preparing for the priest- 1 j the diocese of Manila. This u,-d .vjual.1 if it does not exceed, . ;. .liocese in the United Stdtes. Many : tii'.-e young men are bright, and, ' si.k-i ink the meagre - opportunities - . (unit of the disturbed times, very v i edueated. They are from the very II V--; !;inii!ies in the province. Another i ; ) -sting item is the passage of the .1 whieh will replace in the hands of I TV church all the property seized by I - Aslipavanos. It is good that Sec- " ' Taff is now on - the ground. v.-;t,' his usmal tact he will bring all v I iifstions to a happy solution. ' ,s ci iniarilv a very essential thing ' in the most unmistakeabie i .' i- that the American government antagonistic to the purposes of " 1 1 . r-li. If the Filipino people are :!.- li. .1 to make a choice between I 1 "i! in .-h an.l the stale, there is but 1 ' doubt as to which they would J :!..-. Tiiev should never be put in ' da rv. The Apostolic delegate. I - Aius". is a man of prudence and If liiie the bishops .are all men who H ' h.-art loyal Americans, so that I " -mid deplore such a possible an- 1 1 ' !:i jh up government officials, too, f i - i:,ie the 'value of an entente cor- ! it is. onlv fool fellows lower 1 ti.Ht make the mistakes.- -These II ' :; i..- killed off without any re- f I - - t-i .sensibilities. ! ! , the project of the Apostolic : I ' H,,.jse at Washington -was ! I I ' -..Hehed it included within its ; i- tl.e m.ining of priests for the : 1 - ii.. nosses.sions, and it still has "! r'- ' h-.se in view. It has. now come ; 1- i .:ie(. v-here it may do it 'very ; !y. Its position in Washington V. y-'" :i .- happv opportunity of famil- :.'; - uie brightest among the native , lergv with the genius and -! ',: '.r the American government.. ' "s i one way to cement the cordial ' ,:).,.s between the Church and the 2' -!! i.t in the Philippine relations ere ,, vital to the effectiveness I I of i. -1, ! ' "' I Church Was 1,000 Years Building-j A' Treye.. France, the other day was 4 " 'ail, iy dedicated a church which has 1 sixteen centuries to build, for it. I KU' in the third century, and was . I ,;i-l-ie- nlv recently. This is St.! I 1-n.an s church, built by order of Pope |