The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-09-28
AMERICAN NEWS.

Chicago Parish to Build Large
Church.-Archbishop Quigley approved
the plans for the new st. Mary of the
Angels Church, Chicago, thus marking
the beginning of work on one of the
largest churches in that city The
building is to be 230 feet long and
125 feet wide. 1t will seat 1900. I'm
der the auditorium will be an assem-
bly, hall. The construction will be of
iron, cement and pressed brick. Rev.
Francis Gordon, the pastor, will SUI
pervise the building. The congrega-
ton was organized thirteen years ago
and has grown to be one of the larg-
est parishes in the city, including
1900 families.
Care for Canadian Immisrants.-The
Rev. P. H. D. Casgrain, secretary of
the Catholic immigration Association
of Canada, has been called upon by
Archbishop Begin of Quebec to take up
active work of looking after immi-
grants on their arrival in port. His
duties will consist in meeting Catho-
liz 1L1IIhAS4 oACO anu oCCAhS IAoI CAOy
begin their land journey in safety.
Art School for Nuns.-A plan is I'M
der advisement by the Diocesan School
Board of Denver under which weekly
instruction in art will be given by one
of the most competent instructors in
the West, for the benefit of all the
teaching sisterhoods of the city, and
any in the state who care to arrange
for enrolment
Memorial to John Culinary Shea
The unwilling of the memorial tablet
to commemorate the life and services
of the Catholic Church in the United
States, will take place in Newark, N.
J., on October IL. The occasion will
be made memorable by a great assem-
blage of the Catholics of New Jersey
and of many noted men as well as
large numbers OF the Catholic clergy.
Ten New ParochiaI schooIs.-All the
Catholic schools of the New York
Archdiocese reopened on Monday,
September 9, with an enrolment of
over $4,000 children. Of this number
$4,000 are taught in the schools of
Manhattan, Bronx and Richmond. Ten
new schools are to be opened this
year. Seven of these are in Manhattan
and three in the Bronx. st. Joseph's
and st. Peters schools in Kingston are
being replaced with magnificent new
schools.
Catholic Labor Commissioners Rec
ord.-Statistics were recently pub
that Charles P. Neill, the Catholic
United States Labor Commissioner, in
six years, through mediation, had set
tied At railroad strikes, involving 1884,
$50 men and 5O5,8S0 miles of railroad
Diocese of Baker City.-During the
nine years since Bishop O'Reilly took
charge of the Diocese of Baker City,
Ore, the following institutions have
been erected: The st. Francis Acad-
envy at a cost of 100000, and the new
Cathedral at an expenditure of $780,
900. The Bishop now lives in resi-
dence costing $4,000, and new hos
pital is being erected that will total
an outlay of more than 100000.
Memorial to Pioneer Priest.-The
first resident Catholic priest in Kansas
City, the Rev. Benedict Roux, has been
honored by window to his memory
in the Cathedral. Father Roux went
to what is now Kansas City, Mo-, Feb
ruary %, 1884. He received from the
government a patent to ten acres OF
land on the present site of st. Teresa
Academy and the Cathedral. He built
a small log church on the site of the
academy, measuring 20 by 30 feet, for
the benefit of the few settlers there.
EARLY in April of the next year he
left for Kaskaskia, ILL.,, after deciding
the church property to the Rt Rev.
Joseph Rosati. He later went to st.
Louis, and after some years returned
to France, where he died.
Seminary for Altoona, Pa.-The Do
cese of Altoona, Pa, is to have a
seminary of it's own for the education
of priests. The school was opened in
connection with st. Francis College at
Loretta, on Thursday, the 18th in
slant Very Rev. Angelus Laughlin,
T. o. R., is president of the college.
r I'D,
ward D. Boone, S. J., of Loyola Col.
lege, Baltimore, on Sunday, September
5, celebrated the sixtieth anniversary
of his entrance into the Jesuit Order
At his own request no public cere
monies were held, the occasion being
privately observed by the clergy OF
the college and of st. Ignatius Church
Father Boone was graduated from
Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass.
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