The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-07-29
AMERICAN NEWS.

by Canon Gauthier, pastor OF the
Cathedral. The new parish is called
Notre Dame Della Difesa, and it in
cludes nearly six hundred Italian fam
lilies.
Recreation for Poor ChiIdren.-The
summer fresh air work for the chill
dren of the poor was begun by the
St. Vincent de Paul Society OF the
Diocese of Brooklyn, N. Y, last week.
The society has home at Woodcleft,
L. l., and will endeavor, during the
summer months, to provide over 1900
children with two weeks vacation.
Fund for Cardinal Gibbons Me-
mortal HaIl.-Bishop Corrigan has an
nounced that the contributions to the
Cardinal Gibbons Memorial Hall fund
now on hand amount to 100000 The
hall will cost about $250,000. Work
on it has already been started and
the cornerstone will be laid in Octo-
Der.
Eucharistic Congress at Cincinnati.
Bishop Macs, of Covington, KY,
President of Eucharistic Congress in
the United States, has issued a call
for the fifth national congress, to be
held at Cincinnati from September 20
to October /.
Bohemian Catholic AIiance.-The
newly organized Bohemian Catholic
Alliance of Chicago, the first central
lied organization of Bohemian socie-
ties to be established in America, held
it's first public meeting in Bohemian
Catholic Hall in that city recently.
The principal address was made by
Bishop Koudelka of Cleveland, who
asked the members of the alliance to
remain true to the precepts of the
Church and not be led astray by the
many new cults and creeds.
American Foreign Missionary Sem
inary.-It is rumored that the Jesuits
will eventually donate their House of
Studies at Woodstock, Md, to the
cause of foreign missions, and it will
become the American Foreign Mis-
sion Seminary.
Doctorate TO Chaplain Reaney of
the Navy.-The first doctorate-that
of LII. D.-to be conferred by the
newly incorporated University of De-
troit was bestowed upon an alumnus
of old Detroit College, Rev. William
|. Reaney, at present chaplain in the
United States navy.
Request to Church Extension So
ciety.-The Catholic Church Exten-
sion Society has received, in memory
of the late Rev. J. A. Wagner, a gift
designated for the purchase of
church building at Elk Park, N. c.,
one of the purchase of a Church site
at Warren, Ark, and for the repairs
of two schools.
Free Scholarships for Catholic Stu
dents.-Free scholarships in sociology
at Fordham College and in Munich,
Germany, will be opened to Catholic
students if the recommendations of
the sixteenth annual convention of the
German Catholic State Union, which
was held in Williamsburg, Pa, are
carried out.
Cost of Catholic Education in New
York.-Dr. James J. Walsh, the we'll
known historian, called attention to
the general lack of information among
nonCatholics concerning the magni-
tude of the Catholic school system at
the celebration in honor of Monsignor
Mooney, under whose direction there
has been built up in Sacred Heart
Parish, Manhattan, great parochial
school which houses 5000 pupils. DR..
Walsh said the Sacred Heart Catholic
Public School, as he preferred to call
it, is one of the largest in the world
and one of the best organized 1t
has over 5000 pupils. There are, he
said, $1,000 pupils in the parochial
schools in the Archdiocese of New
York, buildings worth nearly $14,O00,-
900, and 100000 a year is spent on
education.
Catholic Chaplains in the Army
There are now 66 chaplains, of whom
16 are Catholics, IA Protestant Episco
palians, Presbyterians, Methodists
Baptists, 3 Congregationalists, Z
Methodists South, 2 Unitarians, Afri
can Methodists, 2 Lutherans, 1 Chris
tian, United Brethren and 1 Colore6
Baptist. There is belief that there
is a mucn larger number of Jews in
the army than of many of the denomi
nations which are represented BY
chaplains. Representative Sulzer, O
New York, has introduced in Congress!
a bill providing for two additional
chaplains in the army, who may, il
the discretion of the Secretary o
War, be rabbis.
Five Cardinals Have Been American
citlzens.-Five American citizens S,