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12 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA this present year, our Catholic brethren in one of our leading Northern cities are spending two hundred thousand ($200,000.00) dollars to provide suitable accommodations and conveniences for the body of Teaching Brothers who are conducting their Catholic High School. This money is not for school purposes it is entirely devoted to the home for the Community of Brothers. This is a great object lesson at a time when a wail of discontent is being wafted throughout our broad land that our public school teachers are not decently provided for. The Catholic Church was never reactionary; it was ever in the forefront of every movement looking towards the alleviation of human ills or theimprovement of mankind, and al though she is doubly taxed to support public schools and her own schools, yet the people are ever ready to sacrifice their precious savings to supply the wants of the teachers who give up their all to educate boys and girls and bring them up such as their good par ents would desire to raise them. “CATHOLICS AND THE POPE” The pamphlet under the above title has been the best received of any publication of the Association. Since the last Bulletin 50,000 were printed and dis tributed.^ It was thought this number would supply Georgia needs and leave a few for extra-state distri bution, but the demand from outside has almost equalled that at home. With the entire edition ex hausted there are now in hand applications for thou sands, and a new lot will be printed just as soon as the copy can be prepared. In fact, its reception has exceeded the fondest hopes of the editors. Catholics in Georgia have found itt^good, and Catholics else where have found it better. Newspapers have printed it in entirety and editors have seemingly vied with each other in praising it. That this laudation has been discriminating is proved by the fact that several have suggested changes in verbiage, and the noted lay scholar, Mr. Arthur Preuss, has challenged the statements in two of the replies. However, even he speaks well of it, saying the answers for the most part are correct and to the point, and are typical in that they fairly cover the thought of the average non- Catholic inquirer, and he later speaks of “this useful pamphlet.” Father John L. Bedford, of Brooklyn, a scholarly and able priest, strongly approving, has pointed out several phrases he thinks could well be changed. America, the great Catholic weekly, calls the booklet “an excellent little catechism which should be widely scattered. The Philadelphia Cath olic Standard and Times printed the pamphlet in full, as did the Catholic Tribune of St. Joseph, Mo., and one or two others whose names escape us at this time. The^ Daily American Tribune, of Dubuque, Iowa, says: “What strikes us most forcibly about this pamphlet is the fact that it is a real ‘John the Un afraid.* It meets the objections of bigots and fair- minded seekers for the truth about the Papacy by fearlessly answering even the most ticklish and the latest doubts and objections about the Pope and the Papacy.*' Says The Guardian of Little Rock: “Catholics are constantly asked questions concern ing the Pope. The inquisition is world-wide. We have it here in Arkansas. Our well-meaning friends would have us enlighten them on matters pertaining to the Visible Head of the Catholic Church. Over in Georgia the safne questions are rife and the Lay men s Association of Georgia has issued a small and neat pamphlet, edited carefully by able theologians, giving the lay people the popular questions and answers. “The little pamphlet will fit in your vest pocket. Send for one and be ready to answer your non-Cath- olic friends, who frequently ask you questions, in all good will, and they expect you, as Catholics, to be able to answer them readily.” The Catholic Columbian, of August 6th, had the following about it: “The Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia is doing a work worthy of praise and emulation. They believe in printer’s ink to convert thousands of the misled and misguided followers of Tom Watson. They are gradually plucking out the roots of prejudice against Catholics fostered by the poison of The Menace type of papers and encouraged by the vaporings of Watson and his ilk. The latest booklet issued by the Catholic Laymen’s Association is entitled “Catholics and the Pope.” It is the result of four yea^s of study and observation and 50,000 copies are being distrib uted. “Under the leadership of the venerable Bishop Keiley and the militant Catholic Laymen’s Associa tion, the fine old Southern State of Georgia is giving all other States a plan that is proving effective and helping to make America Catholic. Our congratu lations to the Catholic Laymen who practice the doc trine that the pen is mightier than the sword.” The Belleville (111.) Messenger expresses itself thus: “The Publicity Department of Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia has issued a booklet, “Cath olics and the Pope.” After a careful perusal by non- Catholics it will be found to answer great, and to them perplexing, questions in a logical way, and thus have a tendency to reduce prejudice against Catholics. “The work done by the Catholic Laymen’s Associa tion of Georgia should not be confined to that State, but the propaganda on the same subject and other lines would do much to put an end to misrepresenta tions and engender bitter animosities with all people who are earnest seekers of Truth.” The Brooklyn Tablet phrases its opinion thus: It is unusual in its presentation, and in its sources. It is especially designed for the non-understanding mind. In question and answer form the work seems to cover all the ground. The history of the Papacy is frankly told. No attempt is made to deny historic facts, yet unfounded aspersions are severely dealt with. Certainly this little work should remove un just suspicion so maliciously spread by anti-Catholic influence in Georgia or anywhere else. In fact, there are few Catholics who might not improve their knowl edge of the subject from its pages. It is but another proof of the effectiveness of laymen’s activities, since all the questions taken from files, were submitted to the Association during four years of campaigning.”