he headquarters of the C.T.S. of India are in Trichinopoly. They
have already their own publications.

[5] Although the Halifax branch of the C.T.S. does not form a unit of the
C.T.S. of Canada yet it is one of the most active branches in our Country.

CHAPTER XV.

A SUGGESTION[1]

_Importance of the Catholic Press--Requisites for its Success in the
West._

Nowadays the Press is assuredly the greatest factor of the public mind.
For, if public opinion is "King" and "Master" of the modern world, the
"Press" is his "Prime Minister." Between these two great forces there
is a continuous action and reaction; the Press is at the same time the
moulder and mirror of public opinion.

We all know how the world has turned this mighty weapon against the
Catholic Church. To create an anti-Catholic opinion, to surround the
Church--its authority, its practices--with an atmosphere of prejudice
and antagonism has always been the aim of the non-Catholic press. Of
late this campaign has become so universal and so violent "that were
St. Paul to live among us, he would become a journalist," said
Archbishop Ireland. Repeatedly the Pontiffs of Rome have urged the
faithful to contribute to the support of the Catholic Press. "In vain
you will build churches," said Pius X, "give missions, found schools;
all your works, all your efforts will be destroyed if you are not able
to wield the defensive and offensive weapon of a loyal and sincere
Catholic Press."

The Catholics of Western Canada should have these words of the beloved
Pontiff continually before their minds. There is no place in Canada
where this vital factor, the Catholic Press, is of such an absolute
necessity. In our sparsely settled Provinces the Catholic paper is the
greatest help of the priest. It prepares, keeps, and perfects his work
and very often is the only silent messenger of the Church's teachings
on the lonely prairie. Isolation from all Catholic life, from its
teachings, its authority, its sacraments, has created through Western
Canada a tremendous leakage in the Church. This leakage can be stopped
to a certain extent by the active service of a good Press. The
Catholic paper, indeed, reacts as an antitoxin against the virus of
unbelief and indifferentism which a non-Catholic atmosphere is bound to
spread. In its columns we find the answers to the misrepresentations
and slanders which bigotry is ever throwing at the Church. But above
all it is t