Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-07-17 | Page 5 | Poles Become Catholics

POLES BECOME CATHOLICS. Activity of the Church. Gives Anxiety to Russia. WARSAW. July IC There appears to bo no Httlo anxiety In reactionary Russian circles, owing to tho activity of the Catholic clergy in Poland lueo tho promulgation of tho Czar's i edict relating to religious tolerntlon. Slnco tho forclblo suppression of the Greek Catholic Catho-lic church tho situation In Lithuania, nnd especially es-pecially In tho provinces of Lublin and Sledlee. hns never been satisfactory. The- exceedingly ex-ceedingly harsh mensurcs by which tho Unl-ates Unl-ates wcro compelled to conform to tho ob-Rervnnco ob-Rervnnco of tho Orthodox church, met with a stubborn realstanco. and In eplto of wholesale whole-sale deportations to Siberia, and other oxom-plary oxom-plary punishments tho number of rr-calcilranta and "waverers" was recently estimated by tho Russian clergy at about 100.000. Tho Russians aro now apparently leaping tho results of this policy In tho rapid conversion con-version to Roman Catholicism of these, people. peo-ple. Tho Novoo Vromya. declares that the only question remaining at tho present moment mo-ment Is how many tens of thousands havo already formally joined tho Roman church, and how many may yet bo saved. Tho ques-' tlon. it Is affirmed, Is a national ns well as a religions one,, for thoso who Join tho Polish church may bo regarded as converts to tho Polish national movement, and as such, lost to Russia.