'A New Life'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 47, 21 November 1907, Page 23

'A New Life'

' A new life ', says the Paris correspondent of the Dublin ' Freeman ', 'is growing even here in Paris. As a result, Cardinal • Richard has had to establish 'nineteen new parishes in this city. At some of the Masses in the "city, the churches, numerous and huge as they are, cannot accommodate the worshippers. Many visitors haive noticed and commented on -the paucity 'of men attending Mass as compared with women, and drawn unwarranted deductions therefrom. But they have not attended the five o'clock Mass in the morning. That Mass is entirely for men — women are excluded — and it is packed to the church door and beyond it ! So muchi has the religious spirit in Paris developed th^t one" cure, a man of large private means, is erecting, in the Rue Malakoff, not very far from the parish church, a new one for the accommodation of his people.'

In another direction, the official campaign against religion in and .out of the schools is producing its natural and calculable results. The Paris correspondent of the ' Birmingham Daily Post ' (quoted by the ' Catholic Times') states, that the law-abiding citizens of the Republic are seriously concerned at the torrent of young ruffianism which is spreading terror in all directions. He points out that during the last six months 133 murders and attempts at murder . have been recorded in J*aris alone, as well as 31 murders and attempts at. murder of police agents. In the light of these and other crimes, he doubts (says our Liverpool contemporary) whether the Government , Bill for the suppression of capital punishment will be passed. -