The Washington herald., 1913-08-02
RoMANCATHOLIC.

A body OF thirty American pilgrim
headed by Manager J. H. Then. Bisho
OF Lincoln, Nebr-, yesterday visited Car
dinal Falconio, former apostolic delegat
to the United States. and were after
ward received by the Pope in the con
sistorial hall.
At noon yesterday the great indulgence
of the Portiuncula was opened at tn
Franciscan Monastery In Brooklyn. II VII
continue until midnight tonight. Sol
emn high mass will be celebrated thii
morning at 9 o'clock by the Rev
Godfrey Schilling, commissary genera
of the Holy Land. He will be assisted
by others Of the community. Music a
the mass will be entirely Gregoriar
chant. sung by the monastery choir
Herbert G. Wells will preside at the or
gan. The church will be open TO the
public during the ceremony.
Catholic educational interests. divided
into general. college, and parochial, with
President Shahan OF the Catholic Uni
versity at the head of all, have just
adopted resolutions of importance. In
the general policy Catholics officially are
opposed to sex education as impaired at
present in some public and some private
schools. They are against the Carnegie
Foundation pensions for hospital service.
In the college department six-year
course in elementary work is urged. SO
as to admit of children getting into wage
earning positions. where they must do
so, at earlier ages. The department also
condemns the government classification
of colleges into A, B, and grades. Free
parish schools and free textbooks are
declared to be essentials IL Catholics are
TO compete with public schools.
The number Of men belonging to or
ganizations, general and local. which will
be represented in the convention of the
American Federation of Catholic Socie-
ties, meeting in Milwaukee. August 10
to Is. is 2,500.OOO At Louisville last year
representatives of 100000 Catholic wom-
en- took initial steps toward forming
women's federation. At Milwaukee this
federation will be completed and a con-
vtntion held. 1t is said to be likely that
the president of this new federation will
be the present president of the Foresters,
4 body of Catholic women strong in the
Middle West.
Archbishop ireland, of ST. Paul. will
be one of the speakers at the mems fed
GRAFTON convention. Questions that will
be pushed by him and by other speakers
at Milwaukee will be State aid for
parochial schools, how to lessen the di-
vorce evil. and social reform, the last
named with particular reference to trades
union!sm and the combating of organized
socialism. The federation holds that
Catholic schools ought to receive public
money for teaching secular studies.
lea wing out of consideration the time de-
voted in these schools to instruction in
religion.
Germans both here and In Germany are
taking the foremost place among Catho-
lies in fighting socialism. Bishop Null
doom. OF Rockford, is chairman of a So
cial reform committee named at Louis
Vile last year. He will preside at a con-
vention held at Milwaukee during the
federation meeting to. give emphasis to
this great matter. The federation is in
favor of the trades unions rs against the
I. W. W. Its aim is to keep constantly
before the people the position of the
Catholic church toward laboring people.
The president of the federation is Charles
Z. Denachaud. of New Orleans.
The Maine Catholic Historical Society /,
and their co-religionists throughout the
State. under the leadership of Bishop |
Wash. are making preparations to cele-
brate the third centenary of the church /,
in the Pine Tree State, marking the set !
ting up of the first cross of Mount Des- |
ert and the celebration Of the first
mass. Many distinguished churchmen.
i: cluding Most Rev. John Bonzano. of
papal delegate, and priests
from various parts of New England will
participate in the exercises. These will
begin on Wednesday. August s. when
the Church of the. Holy Redeemer, Bar
will be dedicated. a solemn
oontifcal mass will be celebrated and
historical sermon will be preached by
A Jesuit father. A banquet will follow.
at which addresses will be made by
prominent gentlemen. clerical and lay. In
the evening there will be solemn ves-
1ers and benediction. On Thursday, |
August 4. a trip by steamer will be made /
around Mount Desert Island and through |
Frenchman's Bay, stops being made at
the various places which are identified
with the labors of the early explorers. |
In Portland on September "a a religious |
celebration of the tercentenary will be !
held
The first attempt at founding a colony !
within the territory of Maine was made |
by Pierre du Quasi, Sieur De Monts, |
who was accompanied by Samuel de
cha mplain. They arrived in the spring |
Of 1904 De Monts sailed up the st. |
Croix River. which he named. to the
sland. to which he gave the same
name. but is now known as De Monts
iSiand- here. IN q small cndpel, In July, L
1904. mass was offered up for the first |
time on the soil of New England. the
Rev. Nicholas Aubry of Paris, officiating. |
Seven years later. Jean de Biencourt.
Sieur de Poutrincourt. having succeeded |
10 the title of De Monts. landed on the |
sland at the mouth OF Kennebec River. /
md here. it is believed that mass was
offered up for the second time. In 1913
mother attempt was made at founding |
catholic colony on the coast. Antoinette
lie Pons, Marchioness de Guercheville.
sent out under the command of Sieur de
a Sausage an expedition which sailed
from France on March IS, 1913. and
anded on the southern shore of Mount
Desert. Here the missionaries planted
he cross, celebrated mass and gave
he place the name Of St. Sauveur. Here
I is that the centenary exercises will
,egin next month.
1t is interesting to note that there is
leiher church nor chapel at either of the
Dlaces where mass was offered up in 1904
md 1911: while the mission of st. Sauveur
low has three houses of worship almost
within sight of the original point (now
Point. Somes Sound, the
;ranite Church of the Holy Redeemer.
Bar Harbor which is to be dedicated