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Show THE CARDINAL 'lS INDIGNANT, Gllibona 8y th WanU of rriEn Horn CatltuUc KroulT ttinliom la Auirlc. Baltimoui:, Juno t!0. Cardinal Gibbous Gib-bous has returui'd from Washington Where he olliciated at the dedication of St. Mary's CathoSio church. The cardinal took oo3asion to refute the statements made to the Holy See that the spiritual condition and needs of foreign speaking speak-ing Catholics in tho United States was not properly provided for. He said in part: "l venture to say that the hierarchy of no country in the world aro paying more attention to the spiritual wants of foreign born Catholio people than are the prtdates of the L'uitHd States, They are earnestly endeavoring to have the gonpol greached to them In thoir native na-tive tongue during the transition period pe-riod which occult. ,';ro they aro absorbed ab-sorbed it, u i n ri!.i'' : ngbiiU speaking -world arouud thnnC "Paris hns lung had a eoiuuy of (ler-m.i'i (ler-m.i'i and K'r.glisii speaking Catholic; Vienna and Ji'iriiH also have largo populations pop-ulations -of i'rMub and Kngiish and other .nationalities; tho city of Kio, in Hrit7.il, contains also a large population of Catholics who do not speak l'ortu-giiese, l'ortu-giiese, tho lauguage of the country, and yet in ihese great cities, If 1 am correctly cor-rectly informed,, little or no provision is made for the foreigu Catholic population. popula-tion. ' "With these facts before us we cannot can-not view, without astonishment and iu. diguatiou, the number of self consti-1 tutrtd and oliicious gentlemen in Europe complaining of tho alleged inattention which is paid to the spiritual wants of tho foreign ' population, and to the means ot redress which they have thought proper to submit to. the Holy See." |