Gifts to Catholics

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 30, 1913

Gifts to Catholics

STATISTICS just issued show that the Catholic Church in the United States received during the year 1912 personal contributions aggregating $500,000,000. Among the donors were twenty-seven Protestants. One member of the Hebrew church, Max Pam, a millionaire, not only established a school of journalism at Notre Dame University, Indiana, but also gave $25,000 to the Catholic University for a chair of antisocialist studies.

Secretary of State Philander C. Knox gave $500 to St. Regis's Home, in Pittsburgh.

Archbishop Ireland recently received a check for $100,000 from J. J. Hill, founder of St. Paul's Seminary, to be used for that institution. His daughter, Miss Clara Hill, of St. Paul, gave $110,000 to the Visitation Sisters.

Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., donated a Catholic day-home for children in San Francisco, at a cost of $100,000.

Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan recently gave the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus property worth over $250,000. Her husband made the largest donation the Catholic Church has ever received in this country — $1,000,000 for the Church of St. Jean Baptiste.

The late Michael Cudahy's executors gave $50,000 to the Apostolic Mission House at the Catholic University.—Selected.