The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-09-09
AMERICAN NEWS.

Redemptorist Seminary Dedicated.
The new 100000 seminary of the
Redemptorist Fathers at Lac La Belle,
Wis, was dedicated by Mgr. Rainier,
V. G., of Milwaukee on the feast of
St. Alphonsus. 1t is stories high
and 60 by 125 feet in dimensions.
Attend No Churcl.-An estimate
made by the Inter-Church Federation
of Baltimore shows that in that city
about Is per cent of the inhabitants,
or 8S,4S5 persons, belong to no re-
ligious denomination at all. They
have no religion. They attend no
church. They are practically heathens
in the midst of Christendom.
South American seminary.-Mgr.
Scapardini, Titular Archbishop of
Damas and Apostolic Delegate of
Peru, has made an appeal to the
Bishops of Peru urging them to found
a central Peruvian Seminary. The
Bishops have decided to establish the
Seminary at Lima and to confde the
direction of it to the Congregation of
Missionaries of the Saint-Coeur de
Marie.
Officiates at Marriage of Deaf
Mutes.-The Rev. Father Barth of
Escanaba performed a wedding
ceremony in an unusual manner re-
Gently when he united in marriage
two deaf mutes. Father Barth is an
adept in the deaf and dumb sign
language and instead of reading the
wedding service he communicated it
to the couple by using their own
language and received the responses
in the same manner
Change to Diocesan FacuIty.-The
Right Rev. Bishop Gallagher, of Gal
weston, has placed the Diocesan semi
nary in charge of secular priests, and
the Rev. James M. Kirwin, rector of
the Cathedral, has been appointed
president of the institution. Father
Kirwin is a native of Circleville, o.,
where he was born July l, 1872. He
was educated at st. Mary's College,
in Kentucky, and Mt. St. Mary Semi
nary, Cincinnati, and was ordained
June 10, 1895, by the late Archbishop
Elder He then entered the Catholic
University at Washington, u. c., and
went to Texas year later. At the
outbreak of the Spanish-American
war he was among the first to re-
spond He was elected chaplain Of
the Texas regiment. In the terrible
visitation that befell Galveston eleven
years ago, Father Kirwins heroic con-
duct won him widespread fame and
the love and admiration of the people.
Activities of ST. Louis Federation.
The St. Louis Federation has for
warded 200 copies of the Imitation
Of Christ to the Catholic prisoners of
the Missouri penitentiary. The Fed
Grafton is at present raising a fund
to support a Catholic juvenile court
officer. Steps are also being taken to
get the service of Catholic chaplain
at the penitentiary. The Federation
is very active in the crusade of sup
pressing indecent pictures and theat-
ricals.
Scranton Diocese Aids Bereaved
Miners.-Rt. Rev. M. J. Hoban, D. D..
Bishop of Scranton, sent check to
the Pancoast Relief Fund Committee
last week in the sum of $S,731.07
representing the collections taken III
in the various churches In the Dio
cese for the benefit of the survivors
of the Throop mine victims. More
than 100000 has been raised for this
fund.
Professor Monaghan Appointed Il
CoIumbiad Staff.-One of the gooC
things done at the knights of Colum
bus convention was the appointment
to the associate editorship of the
Columbiad, the official organ of the
order, of Professor James Monaghan
who owing to his recent illness, hal
been forced to retire from the lecture
field in which he did so much good TO
the knights. He will make the Colum
bad more interesting to the entir,
membership.
C. o. F. Bylaw Upheld by Court
Samuel Duszynski, formerly mem
Der of ST. Czeslava Court No. Gal
Catholic Order of Foresters, change
his occupation and engaged in tn
liquor business, as result of whic
he was expelled from the order. H
brought an action for damages agains
the G.. o. F. in the sum of 5000. Ate
the hearing the court decided that tn
bylaws of the G. o. F. prohibitin
members engaging in the liquor bus
ness were valid and binding and tina
any member who changed his occup;
ton from ordinary to prohibited en-
ployment ipso facto forfeited his men
bership.
Many Forms of Professionalism