Rome at the Capital

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 4, 1903

Rome at the Capital

Another effort is being made by Rome to make the United States seat of government a central point from which to radiate her dogmas and ecclesiastical influence. An Apostolic Mission House is soon to be erected on the grounds of the Catholic University, the purpose of which will be to give diocesan priests a normal training in the methods of missionary work among non-Catholics. In announcing this proposed enterprise, the Catholic Mirror says:—

“The mission movement has not secured its best results, because it is difficult to take priests, talented tho they be, out from ordinary parochial work, and ask them to give missions, and to expect that they will do this work in the most efficient way. To give a mission is an art, and it requires special training. To answer questions from the question box requires a preparation that one does not ordinarily get, except from a wide reading in polemical theology. The Apostolic Mission House gives this adequate training to a diocesan priest, and sends him back to his diocese to work in the diocesan mission band.”