. Three Catholic Afro-American congresses [electronic resource]: a short resume of the work that has been done since the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, letters of the hierarchy, clergy and prominent laymen to the congresses, the sermons of Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Elder, Archbishop Ryan and Father Mackey, speeches and portraits of prominent colored Catholics, their friends and institutions, the public addresses of the three most remarkable gatherings of Negroes in America : all nicely bound in cloth. The establishment of Churches for Colored Cath-olics was the title of a paper read by
. Three Catholic Afro-American congresses [electronic resource]: a short resume of the work that has been done since the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, letters of the hierarchy, clergy and prominent laymen to the congresses, the sermons of Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Elder, Archbishop Ryan and Father Mackey, speeches and portraits of prominent colored Catholics, their friends and institutions, the public addresses of the three most remarkable gatherings of Negroes in America : all nicely bound in cloth. The establishment of Churches for Colored Cath-olics was the title of a paper read by President Spen».cer. It spoke of the great good accomplished byconventions, instancing thoso held by the German andIrish Catholics and the more recent one held by theIndian Catholics. As thu Catholics of every nation-ality represented in the United States were buildingnumerous churches, wherein they each can listen tothe prieets who speak their own distinctive language,it was only proper that the Colored Catholics shoulderect churches for themselves, where they couldcome together, although they have the privilege ofworshiping in any Catholic church. 149 Mr. Spencer said directly : The Rev. Francis McCarthy, in his address at theopening of St. Benedicts Homo at -Kye, declaresThat the Citholic Church lias no greater workbefore it, no more Sicred mission from its ruler andits God than t > edueate this race and lift it to spiritualand social liberty, a:d that the Church must enlist itsbest D. L. MCLEOD, MO. The .Bishop of Erie, Re. Rev. Mullen, ia an openletter to the American Catholic Tribune, referring tothe Second Congress of Colored Catholics, says : With the tone and spirit of those resolutions, purposing as they do the social and religious elevationof an important and numerous class of our fellowcitizens meets my approval. That class has 150 already done much in the way of self-improvemenf,and would accomplish more in that direction if thosewho belong to it wo
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