The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-11-29

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posed to Catholic doctrines in regard
to the veneration due to the Holy See.
New Rector Gregorian University
His Holiness the Pope, has appointed
the Very Rev. Father Caterini, S. j.,
nephew of the late Cardinal Caterini,
rector of the Gregorian University,
Rome.
Old Priests in Japan.-In Japan
there are fourteen missionaries be-
longing to the Paris Foreign Missions,
who have spent over forty years of
their life in that country laboring for
the Faith. Father Kiggen has no less
than 100000 heathens under his care
in his African mission. He finds the
$50 boys and girls who are preparing
for baptism very clever and we'll
disposed.
Diocese of Nagasaki.-A recent let
ter from Mgr. J. C. Combaz, Bishop
of Nagasaki, Japan, tells of the
progress of that far-off diocese.
While hampered financially, the work
of winning souls has continued I'M
interruptedly, and the number of
Catholics is now 5O,04O. This is an
increase of 1,149 over last year.
While the figures are encouraging,
they seem very small when we are
told that the total population of the
diocese of Nagasaki is 100000.
Protestant Witness to Catholic
GroWth.-"During the last decade, y
says the christian World" of Lon
don, Roman Catholics increased by
5000 among the Europeans and Eura-
slams in India (who with the army,
number 300,00O), while the Anglicans
decreased by 1000, and the other
Protestant bodies decreased proper
tionately."
The Housing of DubIin's Poor.-In
Dublin last year there were $1,000
single room tenements and in nearly
5000 of these there were four or more
occupants to a room. The death rate
among the poorest of these tenants
reached as high as 30.6 per 1000.
These conditions are rapidly changing
as was shown by J. R. O'Connell, LII.
D., in his paper, "The Catholic Church
and the Problem of Housing the Poor, .
read at the meeting of the Catholic
Truth Society in Dublin. More than
1000 sanitary dwellings have been pro-
vided in the city by municipal, com
mercial and philanthropic agencies,
and more than $4,000 individuals are
housed in these dwellings now.
Public Prayers for IreIand.-In view
of the near approach of "a critical
period in the history of Ireland and
the Irish Church. the Most Rev. DR..
Sheehan has ordered the recital of a
special prayer to the Holy Ghost at
the Masses in every part of his do
cese, that the Almighty may en-
tighten and direct our public men so
that they may do what is best for the
spiritual and temporal interests of our
people,"
Catholics Win Burses.-John Con
nors and Gilbert Dee, Catholic stu
dents of Stockton, England, both of
whom recently passed the Senior Ok
ford Local Examination, have been
appointed bursars by the Durham
County Council. The bursary entities
them to attend the Stockton Second
airy School for one year, with free
education, free books, and small en-
dowment
Lord Ashbourne Opens Gaelic Elk
hibit.-The President of the London
Gaelic League, Lord Ashbourne, on
Tuesday, November II, formally
opened this years exhibition and sale
of Irish goods and produce, the an
nual Aonoch. The exhibit closed, No.
vember Is.
New Converts in WaIes.-The fol.
lowing persons have lately been re.
ceived into the Church at Galley
Abbey, South Wales: Rev. w. Swim
stead, curate of All Souls Church,
Clapton; Rev. Mr.. Pickering, Mr.. H
Burnell Hudson, of Wick House, Per-
shore, now monk there; Miss E. NJ
James, a well known author of Car.
narvon, Wales, and twenty-four of the
islanders at Galley.
Anglican Church in AustraIia.-In
the Australian Commonwealth the An.
glicans have been complaining, as they
have had to complain in England, OF
slackness in church attendance. At a
Congress held in Brisbane, Mr. L. v
Briggs contributed a, paper in which
he described the present unsatisfac-
tory attendance at the religious serv.
ices as a menace to the future of the
Anglican Church in Australia.
A Thirteenth Century Cathedral
The Gothic Cathedral of Chartres
France, was consecrated in the year
of Our Lord 1860. ST. Louis TX, King
of France, is said to have attended the
conservation. It's stained-glass win
dows, containing 1889 figures are said
to be the finest in the world.
italy Suppresses Holy Days.-The
Italian Government has suppressed as
holidays the feasts of Corpus Christi