The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-12-02

emn High Mass in the Basilica of Val
lie Pompeii, followed by concert and
lecture on ''the periods in the history
of Vesuvius in relation to scientific
Investigations"
Church Census in Canada.-Canada
had, in 1900, but a single Diocese with
16O,O 900 Catholics; now it counts 1885,
900, 20 Bishops, 8 Archbishops, 8
Catholic universities and 80 semi
naries There are % religious Con-
gregations of men and go Of women.
French General Enters Order.-The
Congregation of Religious by a re-
script of Cardinal Wives y Tuto, has
authorized the Superior General of
the French Carthusians to accept the
petition of a French General of divi-
sion, who, having retired, has asked
to be admitted to the Order of Car
thusians of Taragona as postulant,
and to be vested in the habit of the
Order of st. Bruno. The name of
the General is for the present kept
secret.
Code of Canon Law.-Pius X has
issued instructions for the speedy
completion of the new code of laws
by which the Catholic Church through
out the world is to be governed for
the future. Forty of the Church's
most learned canonists, besides a
commission of Cardinals, have been
working on this colossal task for the
last eight years. They have already
occupied three years beyond the time
originally allotted to them, but owing
to the stimulus now given by Plus
x, it is expected that the code will
be at last ready for production during
the coming year.
Priest Issues ChaIIenge.-TheA Able
Duplessy, of the Church of st. Francis
de Sales, at Paris, France, and editor
of 'La Response" a weekly paper,
devoted to the defense of Catholic
truth, has agreed to forfeit 5000 francs
($1,000) to any person who can prove
that any miracle performed at Lourdes
recently was not genuine.
Earliest Missionaries in China
The earliest missionaries that reached
China were two Franciscans and
Benedictine who were sent by Pope
Innocent w as early as 1915. They
reached the court of Kuyuk Khan in
1247 but remained only few months.
This was during the Mongol dynasty
which was succeeded by the Ming
family. In 1914 this family was over
powered by the Manchu rulers who
have held the throne up to the present
time.
journalism in BeIgium.-In Belgium
there are eighty-six daily papers. The
most influential Catholic journal in
Belgium is The Patriotic. It has a
circulation of 10000. There are also
more than 900 Catholic weekly papers
Justin Mccarthy an octogenarian.-:
Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, the famous Irish
statesman, historian and novelist,
rounded out eighty-one years of use
full life on November 81. Mr.. McCar-
thy, who has long been regarded as
one of the foremost living men of let
ters, was born in Cork in 1880, and at
an early age began his career as a
reporter in the gallery of the House of
Commons. He is regarded as the
greatest novelist Ireland has produced
since Charles Lever, but the work by
which he will be longest remembered
is his History of Our Own Times"
Mr. Mccarthy is in good health and
continues actively at work.
The Church in the HimaIayas.-In
the highest, most inaccessible and
least-known mountains of the earth,
the Himalayas, three Irish Sisters of
st. Joseph, are winning souls for
Christ, and a Capuchin, Father John,
has pastoral charge. They belong to
the Bhagulpore mission.
Salesian INSTRUMENTATION lbera
second successor to Don Bosco as
General of the Salesians, is determined
to continue the traditions of the
founder in sending missionaries to
foreign parts. A band of fifty priests
and lay brothers are setting out from
Turin for the Salesian missions in the
West Indies and the Philippine
Islands. The expedition is the forty
fifth that has gone forth from this
congregation since 1875. In all, up
wards of two thousand Salesians have
left for missionary countries to
spread the Gospel, without taking into
account as many Sisters of s. Maria
Auxiliatrice, another institution oil
, Don Bosco.
Catholics in India.-Tn the Catholic
, missions of India are 2,313,600 Cath
olics out of total population oil
, hundreds of millions