A German Example

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 17, 30 April 1908, Page 22

A German Example

German 1 Catholics are- the best-knit, best organised, and (for their number) the strongest and, -most energising body of our co-religionists on Continental Europe. And they owe this proud . position in part to the spirit that has been infused into them by a strong, able^ and vigorous, religious newspaper press. l Statistics, as in terest/ing as they are instructive ', says ' Rome ',' have just been published by the " Zeitungswesen " concerning the Catholic papers of Germany and their readers. In 1880 the number of readers of Catholic papers in Germany was 596,000, a, figure that probably surpasses the readers of Catholic papers throughout the whole English-speaking world at present. But ten, years later it had risen to a million, in 1900 to a million and~ a half, and at present it is over two millions. Is it any wonder that the Catholics of Germany, are ' solidly united, or that the" Centre party (which, although not exclusively Catholic, is almost entirely so) should have come to be known as the Tower of Ivory ?