Catholic Church Extension Society

New Zealand Tablet, 11 January 1912, Page 45

Catholic Church Extension Society

The board of governors .of the Catholic Church Extension Society of the United States held; their annual meeting in Chicago on November 8. The president's report showed that the .':; financial receipts for the past year " amounted to over. 300,000 dollars, or about one-half of the total receipts-for the entire first five years of the Society's existence". '" Very Rev. Dr. Kelley stated that in the six years of the Society's work a total of 537 little chapels had been built through the efforts of the Society, or an average of about two a week. Aside from this, and not included in the financial report at all, owing to the nature of the donations, approximately 63,000 dollars' worth' of church goods, both old and new, had been distributed in six years to needy places. Another noteworthy fact which was reported, by the -board was the offer and acceptance of another chapel car; but at the request of the donor his name was withheld ;*:.