Show Cardinal Gibbons Pastoral BALTIMORE Oct 2Cardinal Gibbons has prepared a long pastoral letter on the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary anniver-sary of the establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States He dwells on the growth of the country and the Catholic religion There is now embraced within the territory of the United States a Catholic population of about nine millions There are 1050 churches and chapel 27 seminaries exclusively devoted to candidates for the ministry COO colleges and academies for the higher education of the youth of both sexes 3100 parish schools and 520 hospitals hos-pitals and orphan asylums The church says tho cardinal exhibits a vigorous activity and sturdy growth which afford wellfounded hope of unlimited expansion in the future |