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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-11
THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPED|A
Great Cost of Production-Each Vol
ume Represents An Outlay OF
,o0o-Fifteen Volumes Completed
In Eight Years.

1t has taken eight years to com
plete the Catholic Encyclopedia, from
December 8, 1904, until now. To pub.
lish the first volume took over two
years; it appeared in March, 1907, SO
that every year since, three volumes
have been issued.
The cost of the work was neces'
sarily very large. 1t had to be original
comprehensive and authoritative. The
very selection of titles took several
months simply because there never
had been any work precisely like this
attempted before.
By the time the Index Volume is
completed, in the spring, the entire
cost of writing the Encyclopedia, and
putting it into type ready for printing
will amount to $650,00O. This amount
includes the expenses of writing all
the articles, supervision of the edi
tors, revision, proof reading, and
finally, the composition This means
then, that to write and produce each
volume ready for printing, it cost $40,
UUV per NO1uIu0, OIS do Lu0E0 are OVO
pages in each volume, each page cost
$50, and as there are about 1900
words to each page, each word cost
about four cents.
This plant cost of $3.50, 900, includes
the cost of illustrations and maps,
which are very select and very finely
executed, many of them having been
done in Paris by Goupil & Company.
To form some estimate of the vast
ness of the Encyclopedia as an edi-
torial enterprise, to complete the fif-
teen volumes required 1,342 contribu-
tors, representing 43 countries, Is lib
eral professions, among them 405
secular priests, sos members in 104
religious orders, 331 laymen and 81
women, besides 151 translators, re-
visers and indexers.
Meanwhile, as the work was in
course of publication, the sale of the
book has been carried on, in all Eng
1ish speaking countries of the world,
and already the sales have exceeded
100000, and now that the work is
completed the $3,O00,00O mark will
soon be reached.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-11
BISHOP BUSCH DEFENDS THE CHURCH

the Episcopal Church), the Roman
and the Greek Churches. There are
some smaller independent churches
which are equally Catholic in so far
as they have the 'Apostolical Success
sion.' There are also number Of
Catholics in Europe who are known
as old Catholics who maintain their
own succession through their own
Bishops.
"The American Church, commonly
called The Protestant Episcopal
Church in the United States of Amer
ica,' has a true priesthood traceable
with absolute certainty back to the
Apostles by lines of succession both
Independent of and intertwined with
the Bishops of both the Roman and
Greek Churches. It's priest has equal
power to declare and pronounce to his
people, being penitent, the Absolu-
ton and Remission of their SINS It
has not only the two sacraments or
dained by Christ as generally neces-
sary to salvation but also the other
five rites commonly called sacraments,
Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Matri-
mony and Extreme Unetion. 1t has
the beautiful ritual of a National
Catholic Church which may be used
in the simplest service or in extreme
ornateness as may be the more
beneficial to the temper and needs of
the people-for the Church was made
for man and not man for the Church.
AS the people of Lead are ready for
it, when it becomes helpful to make
better Christians and as the means
to do so are forthcoming, the Rector
of Christ Church stands ready to give
them all the help he can by still more
beautiful appointments in equipment
and ritual. He will always stand
ready to serve them as Priest of the
Catholic Church, according to the
use of the Protestant Episcopal
Church careless whether they call
him Father or not"
The Catholic Position Stated.
To this Bishop Busch made the fol-
lowing reply:
To the Editor of the Call:
May / be permitted a word in reply
to the remarks, called forth by my
objection to the "promiscuous use of
the terms: Catholic, Father, Priest
and Mass" as being misleading. Evi-
IDENTIFY the Rev. Mr.. Beatty, for whom
have the highest and sincerest
respect, does not consider the matter
'too trivial to deserve serious notice."
/ am sincerely sorry If my objection
gave pain to any one, but with st.
icontinued ON Page SD
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written for The Catholic Bulletin by
Rev. James Donahoe.)

True charity was never confined to
the giving of material relief nor
should it ever be divorced therefrom.
The study of stable Catholic organiza-
tions proves that some one of the
corporal works of mercy has always
been the starting point for those who
are our exemplars in the practice of
charity. Notwithstanding the power
of Catholicity to develop sympathy for
the needy it has unfortunately hap
pened that some of the deserving poor
have at times been neglected. This
will occur less frequently in the future
because organizations are everywhere
springing up composed of men and
women who command adequate relief
and are prompt in attending to
any case of want that is called to
their notice.
The ideal charity worker always has
ultimately in view the salvation of
souls. The first step is the relief of
bodily needs; the second and more
important is an effort to restore spir-
itual health to the individual. After
considerable experience with the poor,
lay people have begun to realize that
it is their duty to help their needy
neighbors spiritually as well as cor
porally. Those who relieve distress
are learning daily what an important
part each one can take in the saliva
tion of souls; and where there is a
capable leader to direct charitable ac-
tivity, there can easily be found lay
apostles to carry out soul-saving plans.
Lay Activity Needed.
There can be no question about the
need of Jealous men and women in
the work of uplifting the fallen,
strengthening the morally weak and
helping them to lead the supernatural
life. Priests recognize. the value OF
intelligent assistance from volunteer
charity workers. In all progressive
parishes, members of both sexes are
organized into societies which give
pastors both moral and material help
The most successful pastors have the
best organizations of lay people and
the greatest amount of cooperation
from influential and pious parish
toner's.
Of late, many public expressions OF
personal views have been made in
regard to the amount of soul-saving
work that can be done by the laity
A short time ago a writer discussed
the need of parish visitor who
/ oriv oil To hpafT10iV1o q
the "fallen-aways" back to church,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-11
SPANISH COLONY IN ST. LOUIS
1t Numbers 500 SouIs-Catechism
Taught Spanish Children by Coron-
deIet Priests-spanish Jesuits As
sist.

st. Louis has Spanish colony, real
Spanish, not Mexican. 1t is located
out in Corondelet; it numbers four or
five hundred souls; a bit of the Astu-
rias transplanted. They speak their
own speech, pretty nearly pure Cas-
tilian; they live altogether apart, with
their own little shops, places of
amusement, social gatherings. They
all WORK together in the big zinc
foundry, and their dwellings are all
grouped closely within four or five
squares.
The pastors down in Corondelet
have been trying to help out these
Spanish people. Father Furlong be-
gan Catechism class for Spanish
children at st. Columbkille's, with
some Spanish Jesuits from st. Louis
University to help out. Under his
kindly encouragement it grew in num-
bers. But his church was too far
away. Father Meters offered the lit
tie mission a home at st. Boniface's,
which was more conveniently situ-
ated. There some thirty-five or forty
little Spaniards are learning their
Catechism now, and some grown-ups
are getting fresh hold on their old
faith. Last Sunday, December 20, fif-
teen children received their first Holy
Communion, and a little crowd of
their elders timidly Joined them. The
work will grow. We shall have in
time a little community of good Cath
olics and of good Americans. The
solution for the immigrant problem is
just that-go out and help the immi-
grants. 1t is being done in some
places; it should be done everywhere.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-11
PRIESTS RECEIVE WAR MEDALS
Four Honored by French Government
for Services in 1870.

A list of the recent recipients of the
1870 French war medal contains no
fewer than four names of priests. The
Able Dangou, an army chaplain, went
through the whole campaign. The
Able Moisseron, pastor Of Mesnil
Thebault, is the sole survivor of six
seminarists sent to the theater of war
by a town of Avranches. These
young heroes rendered great services
with the ambulance of Mans, caring
for the wounded and the sufferers
from smallpox. The Able Dedou-
vile, of the Cathedral of Beauvais,
and chaplain of the Hotel Dieu, took
an active part in the war and went
through the siege of Paris; and the
Able Troucsues, pastor of Marsain,
volunteered for the ambulances of the
North as nurse.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-11
CATHOLICS WIN PRIZES
French Academy Awards Annual
Prizes to Catholic Priests and
Catholic Associations.

According to a ti1ne-honored Gus
tom, the French Academy has had an
annual distribution of s'prix de vertu,"
writes the Paris correspondent of the
London Catholic Times" These
prizes, which consist in sums of
money, more or less considerable,
were, as our readers probably know,
instituted by M. de Montyon and other
philanthropists in order to reward
acts of courage and self-sacrifice. This
year, as usual, Catholic priests and
nuns were we'll to the front. Among
prize winners was the Able Richard,
who last year, when an autobus and
it's living freight fell into the Seine,
saved the women and children by
swimming to- and fro at the peril of
his life. Other prizes were awarded
to a number of Catholic associations
in France and to several missionaries
in the East. That priests, nuns or
even practical Catholic laymen had SO
large a share of the rewards given by
the Academy is standing grievance
with the anti-clerical papers, which
deplore the fact that freethinking asso-
Citations seem to have. no part in the
favors; that they go to ''the enemies
of a State that is republican and sep
arated from the Church" The French
Academy is an independent body. 1t
numbers many members who are not
practical Catholics. If it chooses to
reward "clericals," it is Because real
self-sacrifice, persevering devotion to
a great cause, disinterestedness and
generosity are oftener to be found in
their ranks than among their
adversaries.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-11
ROMAN AMI" "ROMANIST'

What is a Romanist?' The late DIR.
Frederick George Lee, sometime An
glican vicar of All Saints, Lambeth, in
his Glossary of Ecclesiastical Terms, !"
answers the inquiry thus: "Romanist:
a vulgar word, used by the uneducated
to designate member of the vener-
able Church of Rome" "a Roman" is
less offensive, but more ambiguous.
Mr.. Britten tells story of a High
Church friend who, discussing with
him the vexed question of religious in
structions in public elementary
schools, asked: And what do the
Romans do in this matter?" To whom
Mr.. Britten answered: 'The fact is I've
lived SO little in Rome that cannot
undertake to say" ''You know what
/ mean," replied his friend. Perhaps
/ do" was the rejoinder, "but why not
say what you mean?"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-11
Social Life Among Catholics.

AS an excuse for their keeping aloof
from their co-religionists they remark
that there is not sufficient social life
among Catholics. Well, whose fault
is it? There never will be sufficient
Catholic social life if those who are in
a position to cultivate it fail to do so.
The fault lies in great measure in the
neglect, Indifference, snobbishness and
unsociableness of some of our Catho-
lie people who have climbed to plane
of Importance themselves, but who
have "scorned the base degrees by
which they did ascend"
If our Catholics of wealth and cul-
ture and influence and assured posi-
ton continue to regard it as greater
privilege to be tolerated as insignifi-
cant members of outside organizations
than to be active, leading, honored
members of Catholic society, our So
cial life will necessarily suffer and
develop slowly.
AS the Church has in it's member
ship all classes of men and women, it
excellent material for the very best
social circles in the land.
1t is the plain duty of our foremost
Catholics not to shun the social doings
of people of their own faith, but to en-
courage them and participate in them.
AS long as prominent Catholics train
their children to seek their compan-
ions among non-Catholics and unbe-
levers, they are not doing their full
duty toward their children, nor are
they helping to foster the growth of
an influential Catholic society, the
lack of which they so much deplore.
1t happens not infrequently that
some non-Catholic young men and
women who in all but their polished
manners and faultless appearances are
religious and moral non-entities, are
sought after and invited to some of
our best Catholic homes by ambitious
and worldly mothers, who fawn on
wealth while our own young men and
women of less means but of more
manhood and womanhcod, are not con-
sidered worthy to be invited. What
benefit do such mothers expect their
children to derive from such associ-
ates? Do they expect them to become
better, purer, nobler? Experience says
no. The mothers whose ambition it
is to marry their children into the
wealth of outsiders of this character
are ready to endanger the gift of faith
for mess of pottage, and remind one
of the query of Judas contemplating
the betrayal of his Master: What
will you give me and / will deliver
Him to you.' Let them have their
wretched bargain. Is there not greater
reason for just pride in having your
children's lives linked with families
whose heroic forefathers knew how to
suffer and die for their religion than
in having them allied with the des-
cendants of people who renounced
their faith for some worldly advan-
tage?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-11
PSALM TWO.
oUARE FREMUERUNT.
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
Helen Hughes HieIscher.)

Why have the angry Gentiles raved,
And kings and princes planned
Against the against His word
To raise wicked hand?
For He who dwelleth in the sky
Their councils shall deride;
And with the lightning of His glance
To dust will turn their pride.
The Lord has set me as king
Above His holy place,
And from Mount Sion bids me teach
His law unto the race.
He saith, '.Thou art My son: today
Have | begotten thee.
To rule the utmost bounds of earth,
Is thine to ask of Me-"
And rule thou with an iron rod;
And judge and king shall bow
With fear and trembling at My word,
Lest anger cloud My brow"
"But blessed are those who trust in
God,
They rest secure from harm;
For them His lightning striketh not,
His wrath brings no alarm"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-11
COSTLY GHAL|CE
Presented to st. Mary Seminary, Bal
timore.

Rev. James B. Troy, pastor of ST.
Vincent Church, Boston, has presented
to ST. Mary Seminary, Baltimore. Md,
a beautiful chalice of pure gold, set
with diamonds, emeralds, rubies and
other precious stones. The gift was
received several weeks ago by Very
Rev. Dr. e. R. Dyer, President of the
valuable chalice in the Archdiocese OF
Baltimore. On account of it's history
and association it's value to the
seminary is above price, but it has
been valued by a local jeweler at
$4,000.
The chalice first made it's appear
ance in America in 1893 at the Chi
cago Exposition 1t was shown there
by a firm of artifcers in church
requisites in Cologne, Germany.
Thousands of visitors to that great
fair saw and admired it. In the num-
Der was Father Troy and he is said to
have expressed the desire then to
purchase it. After the exposition the
chalice was shipped to Cologne and
was kept there for several years on
exhibition in the art room of the
manufacturer.
Several years ago Father Troy
visited Cologne and saw the chalice
which he recognized as the one he
had so greatly admired in Chicago. He
entered into negotiation with the
manufacturers and finally purchased it.
Bringing the chalice to America,
Father Troy set to work to collect
precious stones worthy to be mounted
in it. From various cities as the
opportunity offered, Father Troy gath
cred diamonds, emeralds, rubies and
pearls until he had enough to carry
out his plans. He then took the
chalice to the jeweler and had the
stones mounted thereon.
After the chalice was completed,
Father Troy decided to present it to
st. Mary Seminary, in which he
was ordained in 1875. He was also
influenced by affection and esteem for
DIR. Dyer. The presentation was wit
messed by a number of clergymen, all
devoted friends of Father Dyer.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-11
THE CATHOLIC HIERARCHY
1900 PreIates-ReneNed Every Fif-
teen Years.

There are 1,500 Catholic Bishops in
the world, 1850 ruling dioceses and
45O with episcopal titles" at the head
of vicariates, acting as coadjutors,
auxiliaries, representatives of the
Holy See, etc. In the consistory on
December 2, 103 Bishops were pre-
conized" to residential or titular sees.
Thus it would seem that the whole
hierarchy of the world is renewed
about every fifteen years.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-11
Protests Against the Use Of Dis
tinctively Catholic Terms in Con-
nection With the Episcopal Church
and Sets Forth the Teaching Of
the Catholic Church on the Question
of Anglican Orders.

Some time ago an announcement
was made in the public press that the
Rev. William Hicks, pastor of ALI
Saints Catholic Church, fashionable
place of worship in Spokane, had stop
ped his parishioners who were dancing
some of the new-fangled dances at a
church fair. The impression was con-
veyed that the Rev. William Hicks
was Catholic clergyman whereas, in
reality, he is Dean of ALI Saints Epis-
copal Church.
The report from Spokane was called
to the attention of the Right Reverend
Bishop Busch, of Lead, who wrote a
letter to the Lead Daily Call" in
which he objected to "the promiscuous
way in which the words Father, Cath
olic, Priest and Mass are being used
in connection with people for whose
sentiments and actions we do not care
to be held responsible"
This letter called forth a reply from
the Rev. David C. Beatty, Rector of
Christ Church, Lead, who maintained
that the words in question are as ap-
plicable to the Episcopal Church, it's
ministers and services as they are to
the Catholic Church.
The Anglican Position.
According to him, "The Anglican
Church (of which the Episcopal
Church in the United States is the sue
cessor) has an ancient and pure line
age in orders and jurisdiction. The
Roman Church and the Episcopal
Church derive their orders by direct
succession from the Apostles, without
which orders in true Apostolical Sue
cession, there is no Church The
Church of England was in existence
long before the Magma Charta, A. d.
1915, the opening words of which are:
The Church of England shall be free
and have her whole rights and liber-
ties invioIable'
'The Church of England and the
Church of Rome, equally Independent,
were once in more or less harmony,
mutually recognizing each other and
exchanging ecclesiastical courtesies.
There are these great Catholic
Churches; the English Church, the
American Church Commonly called
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-11

Intelligent Lay Activity Among the
Poor and Wayward-Gurd Of catho-
lie Women Sets High Standard in
This Regard-How the Work is Car
ried On.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-11
THE IDEAL CATHOLIC WOMAN

When calumnies against the Church
fly thick and fast our poorly instructed
Catholics are silent and powerless be-
cause they have no arrow in their
quiver of religious information to
pierce them In conditions like ours
in which the spirit of inquiry is so
pronounced, they who can only shrug
their shoulders and answer, l do not
know, to every request for informa-
ton, are not apt to be productive of
much enlightenment and edification to
the unbelievers around them. Blame
worthy are they, who reared under
different influences and perhaps in
other lands than this, thoughtlessly
claim that the same degree of religious
knowledge which was sufficient for
themselves, should also be sufficient
for their children
The True Faith-The Most Precious
Possession.
The Catholic woman should guard
the faith of her household as the most
precious thing in life. She esteems the
gift of faith above wealth, friendship,
honors, country, liberty and life it.
self because she knows that her fore
fathers pined in dungeons, starved by
the roadside, dragged miserable ex-
istence in exile and died on scaffolds
that it might be preserved unsullied
and transmitted to their descendants.
If the Catholic mothers of today
were to plan deliberately to rob their
posterity of this blessed heritage they
could not accomplish the result more
successfully than by sending their
children to institutions of learning
which are deficient in the most essen
tial element of true and complete edu-
cation, religious training; and by en-
couraging them to associate almost
exclusively with those of other relig-
ions or of no religion at all.
1t is vain to think that children will
retain the Catholic spirit in such COM
pany and under such instruction.
Experience proves that they do not
retain it, that their religious instincts
are dulled and that they return home
animated by an uncatholic spirit and
tainted with worldliness. They bland
ly assure their admiring parents that
they cannot but feel that one religion
is as good as another; that they can
not bring themselves to understand
why the Church insists so strongly on
this doctrine or on that practice dis
agreeable to the propensities of flesh
and blood, and that they have come
to think that after all one should make
earth ones heaven as much as posi-
BILE.
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FATHER DENIFLE H0NORED
Bust placed in. Vatican Library.

By order of the Holy Father, 9
bronze bust of the late Father Denifie
o. p, has been placed in the Vatican
library where for SO many years the
distinguished Dominican labored al
Papal Archivist and successor to the
historian, Cardinal Hergenroether.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-11-03
Social Club Meetings.

The Young Womans League will
meet, at 80 P. NJ, Monday, with Miss
Marguerite Brooks, : Spruce street.
The Claiming Guild will meet. at ?
p. NJ. Monday. with Mrs. s. j. Beach,
% Myrtle street
The Armitage Club will meet, at 80
this afternoon. With Mrs. Marston and
Miss Blackwell, ut the Parish house.
The Murray Alliance win meet at
go Monday afternoon, with Mrs.
John Dixon, Il Chapel street.
The DreXels will meet, at 7.3o p.
NJ, Monday, with Mrs. William Devine,
Green street.
The Woman's Board will meet, at 2
p. NJ, Monday, with Mrs Charles
Nash. No. Chestnut street.
The G. I. c. Club will meet. at 40 this
(Monday) evening. with Miss Grace
White, 10 Perham street.
a cabinet meeting of the Epworth
League of the Methodist church will
he held in the vestry. at Z p. NJ.
Monday. 4 full attendance is desired
The Ladies' Aid OF the Penney Me-
mortal church will meet. at $50 Mon
day afternoon. with Mrs Perkins at
the Ghildrens Home, Scwall street.
Come prepared to sew for tho children
of the Home.