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Show Hoffman's Catholic .Directory for 1300 will be complete in a few days. It will 3hov the Catholic population of the country to be over 10,000,000. An effort was made this year to obtain statistics regarding the Church in our new possessions, pos-sessions, . the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico, but Archbishop Chapelle and Bishop Blenk advised against it, . as it was impossible to obtain accurate s-tatistics. Each year on the issuance of the Catholic Directory a dispute breaks out aa to the accuracy of the statistics of the Catholic population. Inasmuch as those figures are all obtained from the Bishops of the dioce.se, the blame for errors must lie on them. The greatest pains are taken to secure accuracy. |