The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-06-29

Holiness has ordered that no change
| is to be made in the present state of
the episcopal see and residence or of
the episcopal curia and the cathedral
chapter.
Limerick Church a cathedral.-The
Sacred Consistorial Congregation has
raised the Church of St. John the
Baptist in Limerick, Ireland, to the
rank and dignity of a Cathedral, CIV
ing it all the rights and privileges of
the ST. Mary Cathedral confiscated by
the Protestants of the sixteenth cen
fury.
In Charge of Zambes Missions
At the urgent request of the Holy
See, the Congregation of the Divine
Word, Steyl, has taken over the
Lower Zambesi Mission, in Mozam-
bique, Africa, which has been in the
charge of German and Austrian Jesu-
it's When the Jesuits were expelled
from Mozambique by order of the
Portuguese Government, they applied
to Germany and Austria for protec-
ton under the Congo Act, whereby
all missionaries in the territories
mentioned in the Act are promised
protection. The Portuguese Govern
ment, however, gave in only so far
as to allow members of another relig-
ious order of German nationality to
take over the missions to be vacated
by the Jesuits in Mozambique
Inventor of Stenography Dead.-The
death is announced from Paris of NJ
IAbbe Duploye, at the age of 80 years,
inventor of the ingenious system of
stenography which bears his name
The Church in Nagasaki.-The an
nual statement of the march of Chris
tianity in the Diocese of Nagaski
Japan, is very interesting. In this
diocese the Church counts $4,000
Catholics out of eighty millions of
people. There are thirty-three Euro
pean and twenty-six Japanese priests.
The Brothers of Mary have charge Of
an apostolic school and college, and
there are three orders of Sisters-the
Sisters of the Holy Child, the Francis
cans and the Sisters of st. Paul of
Charters, who are in charge of orphan
asylums, hospitals, and schools. With
in a year 666 adults and 773 children
of pagan parents were baptized.
CampaniIe of Venice.-One thousand
years ago the Doge of Venice, amid
great state and pomp, laid the founda-
| ton for Venice's great tower, the
Campanile. One thousand years after
wards, less ten years, that Tower
crumbled and fell. A few weeks ago
that Tower was again raised and
blessed.
Foreign Mission CONFERENCE.-THE
Right Rev. DR.. Vismara, Bishop of
Hyderabad, and his Vicar-General, M.
Civatti, have come to Europe to attend
the General Council of the Foreign
Missions of the Milan Society.
Catholic Revival in Norway.-Cath-
Ollie Norway has been en- fete recently,
the occasion being the celebrations at
tendant on the jubilee anniversary of
the enforcement of Bishop Fallise,
the first Catholic Bishop of the coun-
try since the Reformation. Monsignor
Fallise comes from Belgium, where he
| had a brilliant scholastic career at
Louvain University, afterwards taking
his doctors degree in Rome. He has
done wonderful work since his ap-
pointment to the northern land by the
difficulties and disappointments which
would have discouraged most men and
now has the felicity of seeing eight
new centers of Catholicity fourishing
and we'll equipped with churches,
schools and presbyteries. His pro-
gressive and charitable spirit is shown
by his foundation of twelve hospitals
in various parts of the country, all
of which are we'll stated by Catholic
Nursing Sisters. And in addition to
all these good works, he has pro-
vided Norway with a Catholic press.
Catholic Children Win Scholarships.
Fourteen out of fifty junior scholar
ships, offered by the Liverpool City
Council, have been secured by the
Catholic school children in Liverpool
Catholic and Protestant Suicides
A German review, Der Alte CLAUDE, -
publishes the statistics of M. Dark
helm, Professor of the Sorbonne.
They show the difference between
Catholic and Protestant countries in
the matter of suicides. The Professor
gives an average in Catholic countries
of So suicides for every million; in
countries where the religion is mixed,
SO; in purely Protestant countries,
100.