The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-09-07
EUROPEAN NEWS.

Catholic Educational Congress-
Under the patronage of the Archduke
Francis Ferdinand, congress has
been arranged by the International AS
sociation of Catholic Teachers, to take
place in Vienna on September 9, 10
and II. Cardinal MERCER, Archbishop
of Malines, will deliver an address on
PHILOSOPHY and the Christian Educa-
ton of Youth" and eminent speakers
will report on the state of education
in Spain, Italy, England, Belgium, Hol-
land and North America.
Reject Catholic Donation.-It would
be difficult, says ''The Catholic Uni
verse and Weekly" of London, to cite
more glazing instance of bigotry and
intolerance on the part of a professed-
ly learned body than that afforded by
the action of majority of the Senate
of Queens University, Belfast, in hand
ing back a check to the Gaelic League
for $1,000, generously collected in the
province of Ulster for the purpose of
raising the status of the lectureship
held by Canon O'Connell, himself a
Protestant, to a professorship in the
university. The original objection to
the proposed professorship was based
on the cost it would entail. When the
money was subscribed by all creeds
and classes the Senate declined to re-
open the question. 1t is not difficult
to see where the real objection lay
New Zealand Bishops JubiIee.-The
Right Rev. DR.. Grimes, Bishop Of
Christchurch, New Zealand, has reached
the silver jubilee of his episcopate
and various enthusiastic celebrations
of the event have been held in the
Diocese. The Bishop is very popular,
and representative citizens of all de-
nominations joined in the reJoicings.
His Lordship was presented with
cheque for $1,000 by the clergy and
laity.
A Venerable Priest.-Last month in
Lille, France, in the basilica of Notre
Dame de la Treble, an old priest, Mgr.
Henri Delassus, Protonotary Apostolic,
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary Of
his ordination, and the fortieth ami
versary of his assuming the editorship
of the Semaine Religieuse de Cambria,
Catholic paper which under his direc-
tion has striven to keep the sacred
cause of the Church before the minds
of the people.
Vicar Apostolic of Solomon Islands.
The Very Rev. John Ephrem Ber-
treaux, S. NJ, has been appointed Vicar
Apostolic of the Southern Solomon
Islands. These islands have since
1898 been grouped in Prefecture
Apostolic, of which the new Bishop
was the administrator His jurisdic-
ton embraces the main islands of Isa-
bella, New Georgia, Guadalancan, with
adjacent islands, Malaita and San
Christoval likewise, with adjacent
islands, all of which are under British
protectorate.
st. Peter CIaver society.-The Afrf-
can Aid Society of St. Peter Claver
founded by the niece of the late Car
dinal Ledochowski, numbers 100000,
with houses all over Europe. It's pub
LEGATION, Echoes From Africa" ap-
pears monthly in eight languages.
Last year it distributed about $4,000,
and ransomed 282 negro slaves.
Cardinal VannutelIi, Art Critic
Cardinal Vannutelli has been deputed
by Pope Plus to report upon paintings
in churches and converts which His
Eminence regards as travesties upon
the subjects treated and unworthy OF
a place in religious buildings. The
/ Cardinal, who is noted art critic, has
expressed the opinion that censor
u shin should he exercised over the