 While addressing the Catholic mission concerns with the government, the new Office of Catholic Commissioner also built its support within the Catholic Church.It solicited aid from the bishops and laity through various appeals and through allied fundraising organizations, such as the "Catholic Indian Missionary Association".The weak initial responses prompted James McMaster, editor of the New York "Freeman's Journal and Catholic Register", to call for the Office’s closure, which in 1879, led to its reorganizing and renaming as the "Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions".