German Catholic Press.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 14, 3 April 1902, Page 29

German Catholic Press.

A correspondent writing to the ' Catholic Sentinel ' of Portland, Oregon, says that the success of the Catholic Congiess at Ijlm. where 25,000 subjects of the King of Wurtemberg met to make pubdie profession of faith and to take measures to oppose the Los-Von-Uome propnganrla, was a significant demonstration of the \italit> of the Catholic Church in that two-third Protestant country. The great hit of the solemn Ulm assizes was made by Mr Groebcr, a fearless defender of Catholic interests in the Wurtemburg Centrum. IJis was the .closing speech of the comention, its subiect being the new ' KulturkamplV in which the Masonic fraternities of Austria, Germany, France, and Italy lately embarked. Let us not forget, he said, that in this universal campaign of lies and calumnies the gieat means of resistance is the Catholic press — powerful and vigilant. We need a press which will signal attack, will denounce plots, will enlighten men of good laith and confound otheis To you it belongs, dear friends, to make the role of this press easier and more efficacious. . . Let us thank God for hiumg renewed Catholic enthusiasm in us during these contention days and for having gathered us, 2,1,000 strong, at Ulm And to thank him in a smceie and practical w.ia, that is wh.it I propose Back m \our homes, take up a pen and subscribe at once to a paper t hoi oughlv Ca tholic l<j\ery > e.ir at the Genet al German Catholic congress held in August, one of the pi mcipal speeches is de\ote<l to the woik ot Catholic journalism, and it is always one of the most, populai orators who pleads its cause — very often a Catholic priest Indeed, the German clergy ha\e evei been the first to discharge the three fold duty which they seek to inculcate on the people 'with regard to their pi ess— sulisci ibe, iidAeiti.se, correspond On e\ei\ huge and small dail\, on almost e\ery weekly, there is a pi lest whom the hostile press has nicknamed the ' Press (Jurat.' To-day Catholic Germany is proud of us press. Four hundred and se\ente<n new spapei s, with two million subscribers, foim the \anguard of the faithful Catholic body ' that lights for truth, justice, and liberty.