Show DUTIES OF CATHOLICS I BISHOP FAULK TALKS ON INFLUENCE I IN-FLUENCE OF ORGANIZATION He Urged Appropriations for Catholic Indian Schools and Appealed for I More Catholic Chaplains in Army I Atlantic City N J Aug 4At i the I embarkation day reunion of the Knights of Columbus held here today the principal prin-cipal address was delivered by Right Rev James A McFaulk bishop of I I Trenton on The Influence of Organization I Organ-ization The bishop discussed at some length I the duties of dathplics in political affairs af-fairs and urged them to organize to the end that no American citizen should be discriminated against merely because he Is a Catholic or because he had favored fa-vored Catholics where there was ques lon of their rights as citizens Bishop McFaulk said he would not take up the time of his hearers to enter en-ter fully into the grievances of Catholics Cath-olics but ho asked lCnn any man for a moment suppose that if we were I united not a the senseless Americans Protective association for preventing I our fellow cOuntrymen from obtaining their rlghts as citizens under the Constitutions Con-stitutions of the States and the Nation but In defense of those rights and for the redress of grievances that we would have been obliged to listen to the I heartrending tales of desecration and pillage which Imavo come to us from the Philippines or that several Phl representative rep-resentative Catholics would not have jbeen selected to investigate and report I upon affairs sjjIntimately connected with the welfare of the Catholic religion In those countries over which the flag of our country has recently been unfurled un-furled 11sr Continuing the bishop said Among recent outrages upon the Catholic conscience con-science Is the civil marriage law in Cuba whereby It Is declared that only I civil marriages are legal The effect of I this decree of Gen Brooke is to degrade de-grade iharrlagc to make It n mere civil contract and the religious celebration cele-bration a mere ceremony without value in the eye of the civil law What possible pos-sible necessity could there be for a departure de-parture In Cuba from the law existing in the United States which recognizes the validity of the religious ceremony as regards civil effects This Is simply another oxamule of the disregard of Catholic rights against which we should most earnestly protest I Tho speaker urged the justice of State appropriations for Catholic Indian schools and closed with an appeal for moro Catholic chaplains In the army and navy |