The Washington herald., 1911-05-28

Of the Pope. who considers that there is
need for Catholic newspapers. the MEM
bers Of the Alumni Sodality of the Jesuit
College of Brookland plan to establish a
daily newspaper.
The Rev. j. F. x. O'Conor. S. J., d.
rector of the fsodality and president of
the college, made the announcement in a
statement which proposed that. after the
plan had met with the appreciation of
the bishop, the clergy should suggest to
their parishioners that they subscribe to
the paper and advertise in 1t. He also
proposes that the paper be published In
German, italian, &c, for the benefit of
the foreign population Of the city. The
newspaper, he says, should contain all
the real news Of the daily press, with
outNthe scandalous doings of everyday
life and without the Misrepresentation
of daily cables. giving false, distorted,
and concocted news on questions of re-
ligion, morals. education. the Catholic
Church, right reading. plays. &c. 1t will
publish general news, cable news, ma
rine. financial. political, and social news.
the same as other papers,
Father O'Conor explains that there are
100000 Catholics in Brooklyn. II they
give a cent each, 5000 would be raised.
This amount. If contributed daily for
year, would yield about s2,5500O0. Even
cient to give the paper a good start He
foresees the establishment of Catholic
dailies all over the country.
Fourteen German Catholic churches in
Milwaukee have united and formed a
Catholic Social Union to investigate So
cial and economic problems and to fight
the progress of socialism. Meetings are
to be held and literature will be dstrib-
uted in the same way in which the So
cialists have spread their opaganda.
1t is expected that the Catholic churches
of other nationalities will join in the
movement.
The working plan of the organization
is so arranged that from time to time
every parish will receive information in
the way of pamphlets, on the various
phases of social work. Promoters are
appointed whose duty 1t Is to look after
twenty families each and from time to
time report their condition at the meet
ings Of the branch to which they belong.
The head of the organization is Rev. A.
B. Salick, of St AIMS Church.
Without regard to religious differences,
the citizens of Baltimore. in some degree
of all of Maryland are preparing to ten
der to Cardinal Gibbons a demonstration
jubilee. Washington will have a promi-
nent part in the occasion.
1t is just fifty years since he was Or
dained priest. and on June next 1t will
be twenty-five years since he was pro-
claimed cardinal In that quarter CEN
tury Cardinal Gibbons has come to rank
four in the list OF cardinal priests in the
College OF Cardinals and to outrank all
nff fha liy,o1 hic1a
nal Netto. lately retired from the patri-
archaic of Lisbon because of the Portu-
gal revolution: Cardinal Capeccelatro,
| the aged Archbishop of Capua, hale and
vigorous at nearly ninety, and Cardinal
Moran. of Sidney. Australia. are the
! three cardinal priests outranking Cardi-
| nal Gibbons in date OF creation as cardi-
| nails, and the venerable Camerlengo, car
| dinal oreglia, Is the ranking cardinal
bishop. President Taft, Gov. Crothers,
and Mayor Preston have promised to
| take part in the demonstration. now
| planned to be held on the exact anniver-
| sary of the proclamation as cardinal A
| demonstration later in the year will take
/ place at the Catholic University, Wash
| ington, when the corner stone will be
| laid of the Gibbons memorial building.
| Catholics should know that all the
faithful who honor the sacred heart of
Jesus during June by special prayers.
either publicly or privately, may gain
an indulgence of seven years and seven
guarantees once a day. They who prac-
tice this devotion in private every day
| of the month or attend public devotions
! at least ten times may gain a plenary
indulgence on any day during June or
the first week in July. The usual condi-
| tions, of course. are necessary for gain
ing this indulgence.