The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-01-21
EUROPEAN NEWS.

EUROPEAN NEWS.
First Archbishop of SimIa, India
The new Archdiocese of Simla, in
India, recently created by the Holy
See, has been filled by the appoint
ment of the Rev. Anselm Keneally, a
Capuchin and one of the Council of
Definitors of the General of the Or
der. This appointment indicates, it is
said, that in the future this new center
of Church organization will be pre-
sided over by English-speaking pre-
lates. The new Archbishop was con-
secrated by Cardinal Gotti on New
Years Day.
New Vicar Apostolic of Arabia
Father Philip of Meerut, Capuchin,
has been appointed Vicar Apostolic of
Arabia, in succession to the Rt. Rev.
Bishop Clark, who has been trans
ferred to Port Victoria in the Sey-
chelles.
Catholic Writer Honored.-The we'll
known Catholic writer, John Maori
banks Egerton, has been made the re-
cipient of the Sovereign Order of the
Knights of Malta. He and his sister,
Miss Ruth Egerton, are converts to
the Faith; and he is one of the Cham
berlains to the Holy Father.
New Superior General for SaIesans.
The Rev. Father Paul Albera at the
general chapter of the Salesian Con-
gregation held at Turin, Italy, was
elected to the Office of Superior-Gen-
eral of the Order. He succeeds the
late Don Michael Rua, and before be-
ing elected to the Office of Superior
General he was spiritual director of
the congregation. The Rev. Paul AL
bera was born at None, near Turin, in
June, 1916. In 1900 he was chosen
visitor extraordinary to the Salesian
houses in the United States, Mexico,
South and Central America.
Noted Priests Golden Jubilee
Father F. Stanfield, the priest-compos-
er, author of 20 Sacrament Divine is
living in retirement at Clapton, Lon
don, and has just celebrated his gold
en- jubilee. At the time of the defni-
ton of the Immaculate Conception, he
wrote the ooh Mother, Welcome Is the
Feast"
Christian Brothers School in Congo.
The Christian Brothers have opened
school in the Belgian Congo, Africa.
English CathoIics.-It is strange
when one comes to look over the
hict0rinc of 0f tho nrnn1in +
Catholics of England to find what diff
among them. Take, for instance, the
heir-presumptive to the earldom of
Marlborough, the Honorable John Sa-
vile, a Catholic who will succeed his
Buddhist brother, the present earl
Then there is the Bishop of Emmaus,
the Right Reverend and Right Honor.
able Algernon Stanley, whose brother,
Lord Stanley, of Alderley, is Uni.
tartan, while his sister, the Countess
of Carlisle, is a devout Anglican.
Again, we find Popery sitting at the
freside of that doughty opponent OF
"Romanism," Lady Wimborne, in the
person of the infant son of Mr.. John
Spencer Churchill, who married the
Catholic daughter of the Catholic Earl
| OF Abingdon.
Noted German Catholic Dead
Count Ballestrem, a former President
of the German Reichstag, died on Fri
day at Plawniowitz Castle, Silesia, al
the age of seventy-six. He was q
member of the Centre Party, and fol
the prominent part he took in the de
fence of the Church during the Kul
turkampf was appointed by the Pope
a Private Chamberlain 'di spada {
cappa." From 1890 till 1893 he was
leader of the Centre Party. AS g
cavalry officer he took part in the cam
paign of 1901.
English Catholic Statistics.-Accord
ing to the Catholic Directory for 1911
which has just appeared, the clergy
of England, Scotland and Wales now
total 1902, an advance of sixty-foul
on their number a tweIvemonth ago
Of these, 1,544, or rather more thar
third, are regulars, and the increase
on last years total is made up o.
thirty regular and thirty-four secular
priests. The total number of churches
chapels, and stations in Great Britain
has risen by seventeen, Westminster
leading the way with five. The tota
number of Catholics in the British
Empire is estimated at 12,155,000, an(
for their ecclesiastical government
there are 100 Sees, including those
provisional ones known as vicariate'
and procedures. British America, will
a Catholic population estimated a
over 100000, contains forty-four o
these Sees; British, Asia, with it's 2,
100000, contains forty-nine; British
i Australasia, with nearly million, ha!
thirty-one; and British Africa, will
357, 900, has twenty-five, of which
twenty are provisional.
Fortune will call at the smilin;
gate runs the Japanese proverb. T,
be popular, to be loved, to be happy
i there is no better reciDe than to carr,