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". Meanwhile, in June that year, the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda of the Holy See approved of the Catholic Bureau, and in 1884, the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore confirmed it and added a board of directors composed of bishops. The council also created a Lenten collection for Native American and African American missions under a Commission for the Catholic Missions among the Colored People and the Indians with responsibilities to support the missions and the Catholic Bureau.