The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-06-07

uscript of the New Testament discov-
cred in Egypt and purchased by c. l..
Freer. 1t dates either from the fourth
or the fifth century. The text of the
18th chapter Of ST. Mark contains,
after verse IA, verses which occur in
no other manuscript of the New Tesla
ment, and include as the words of
Christ: "The limit of the years of
the power of Satan is (not) fulfilled,
but it draweth near: for the sake of
those that have sinned was given up
unto death, that they may return
unto the truth and sin no more, but
may inherit the spiritual and incor-
ruptible glory of righteouness in
heaven"
More Honors for DR.. Aveling.-
Among the recipients of degrees at
the Presentation Day of the London
University on May 7th, was the Rev..
Francis Arthur Powell Aveling, who
was presented for the degree of Disc.
in Psychology. This mark Of distinc-
ton is the first of it's kind ever con-
ferred on a Catholic priest by the
university, and is moreover unique
in being the only one presented in
this department of science this year.
It is fitting sequence to the Degree
of Fellowship of the University of
Louvain recently conferred on DR..
Aveling, the only Englishman who has
been thus honored by the great Bel
gian University.
Fifteenth Century Trade Unions
At the beginning of the sixteenth cen
fury there were thirty thousand trade
guilds in England alone, most of them
we'll endowed with lands and homes.
There were eighty in the city of Col
ogne, Germany, seventy at Lubbock
and over hundred at Hamburg.
, Requests to Irish Charities.-Mr.
Edmund Sweetman, of Longtown, Sal
Inns, County Kildare, who died aged
eighty-one, bequeathed sums amount
ing to $3.50 to charities in Dublin
and Kildare
u
: "Oldenburgische Landsverein fur In
mere Mission" in an article headed
"a National Danger" says that the
birthrate figures are falling consider
J ably, not only in the towns, but also
in the villages. what is particularly
, painful" says this Evangelical paper,
, ''is the fact that the Evangelical strata
| 0f Sc OF +hor
, the Catholic population. If this con-
tinues the year 1925 will see the num-
Der of Catholic school children in
Germany equal that of the Evangeli-
Gals. At present there are 100000
Evangelical children against 2,000,O 900
Catholics. There is no doubt that the
reason for the fall in the birthrate is
the intentional restriction of families"
Memorial to Dom Bosco.-Accord-
ing to "The Salesian Bulletin" the
movement to the Venerable Dom
Bosco is making good progress, and
the centenary of the sanity founder
of the Salesian Order will see a
worthy statue of him dominating the
great Piazza of Turin. The centenary
will be kept on August 16, 1915.
Some Great Dioceses.-Among the
great dioceses of the Church are: the
Archdiocese of Breslau with 3,253,777
Catholics and 1882 priests; the Arch
diocese of Cologne, with 3,152,034
Catholics and 2,269 priests; the Do
cese of Paderborn, with 1,566,914
Catholics and 1,484 priests.
Innsbruck nstitutions.-Innsbruc
in Tyrol, is a city of $4,000 souls; it's
: university, one of the foremost in the
: world, whose theological department
| is mostly under the charge of the
} Jesuits, has today 1850 students. At
Innsbruck is a magnificent convent of
the Perpetual Alteration whose Sisters
are mostly of the nobility.
Nuremberg and the Franciscans.-
7 In Nuremberg, an ancient city of
Bavaria, whose population is about
100000, the authorities are debating
the question of allowing the Fran
ciscans to be re-established there.
| Archbishop DR.. Won Hauck, of BAN
berg, under whose jurisdiction Nurem-
: berg is, recently received a pilgrim
| age from Nuremberg to whom he said
that this is a question for the Church
| authorities to settle.
) Decision for Joan of Archie Con
r gregation of Rites has decided in
/ favor of the three miracles alleged to
have been wrought through the inter.
cession of the Blessed Joan of Arc
: and proposed for her canonization
e The documents on which the decision
: is based form a quarto volume OF
, 1000 pages. This evidence was col
f lected by tribunal under Bishop
t Touchet of Orleans during the sum
t mer and autumn of 1911. Since that
D time the evidence has been examined
;, in Rome by doctors, advocates, con
r sultors and others and their decision
/ has been favorable. This is the first
of three examinations, all of which
must be favorable. On each occasion
o doctors, for and against, will be en-
9 gagged to assist the theologians with
! their lights. All this the Church in
a her prudence demands.