The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-04-06
THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, APRIL s, 1912.

very heartily commends the project
of a convention to be held in Paris
Of all the Catechistic Works of France;
the said brief greatly extolls the fact
that 10000 Catholic ladies are en-
rolled in that country to teach Catho-
lie doctrine to the children, and con-
cludes by sending the Apostolic Bless.
ing to the members, to the children
and of his Eminence.
A Quarter Of Million Abstainers.-
The Catch-My-Pal Total Abstinence
Society of Ireland now has 100000
members. The Emerald Isle is expert
encing the greatest temperance revival
in all it's history.
Library Of irish College ut Sala-
manca-The Irish College at the
great University town of Salamanca,
Spain, founded in 1893 by the Jesuit
Thomas White, has valuable library
and collection of writings embracing
the centuries to this date. The Irish
Records Society is preparing to pub
fish the first volume of the Colleges
records.
Catholic University in Japan
Everybody is reading about conditions
in China, and it will doubtless surprise
many readers to learn that the Flow
cry Republic has a Catholic Univer-
sity. The Jesuit Fathers, who have
charge of the Vicariate Apostolic of
Nankin, or Kiang-Nang, which includes
the provinces of Kiang-Su and Ngan-
| Hal, opened this university nine years
ago. 1t is an institution already IA
nous among the educated classes of
China, and is known as the "Univer-
sity OF the Dawn of the Day" 1t num-
bers more than five hundred students
in it's three branches of Philosophy,
Sciences and Languages. Another
university, also to be conducted by the
Jesuits, is in the course of formation
at Hong-Kong.
New School of Church Music
Pope Plus KS passion for music is
we'll known. 1t is he who has encotlr-
aged Dom Perosi, the priest-composer,
to go forward with his work and
through his personal attention the mu-
sic of the church has been modified
and improved. Recently new school
of sacred music has been formed, with
headquarters in Rome, but extending
to the United States. 1t is under the
direction of the Society of ST. Cecilia.
Cardinal RampOlla is the patron of
this new society, and not long since
the Pope sent to him brief letter in
Latin expressing his satisfa ction at
the splendid success already attained
by the new organization.
To Make Easter a Fixed Date.-It is
said the Pope has charged Father
Vido, the superintendent of the Or
der of Clerks of St. Camillus de Lei
lis, to submit report on the question
of reforming the Calendar and making
Easter fixed date
Catholics in Vicariate of the Sahara.
The vast African Desert Sahara,
932 by 2,484 miles, is Vicariate Apos.
tolic. Its population is about 1000, 900.
With the Vicariate is attached the
Sudan. The European Catholics num-
Der 1000, negro Catholics 6O0 It
has 1000 catechumens, 40 missionar-
les, Is sisters, II churches, 10 schools
orphanages, hospitals of which 2
are for lepers.
A Lithuanian Church in London.-A
new Lithuanian Church was opened
by His Eminence, Cardinal Bourne
recently at Hackney, northeast sub
urb of London, densely populated by
varying nationalities. The occasion
was marked by very cosmopolitan
gathering which emphasized the two
facts of the universally of the Church,
and the position of London as clear
ing-house to the world. The Mass, at
which His Eminence preached, was
Immediately followed by Confirmation.
The choir of the German Church in
Whitechapel generously offered it's
services for the occasion, and the
whole ceremony was one of unusual
interest. The Lithuanians are very
fervent Catholics, and, being a poor
community, they deserve all honor
for their self-sacrifice, which has made
this new and mueh-needed church a
reality.