The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-06

Gift to Bishop WaIsh.-Mr. Frank
w. Cunningham, a prominent builder
and contractor of Portland, Maine, has
given Right Reverend Bishop Walsh
$4,000 for the education of young
men in the priesthood.
"Catholic Week" at Exposition.-
The Catholics of San Francisco are
planning a Catholic week during the
international Exposition to be held
in their city in 1915. At present their
purpose is to begin the week Sunday,
June 6, 1915. 1t is proposed to hold
a great congress at which eminent
members of the clergy and laity will
make addresses. Rev. Joseph P. Nc
Quaide, who is a special commissioner
of the exposition, has the arrange
ments in hand.
Chapter of franciscan Nuns.-The
franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate
Conception, whose motherhouse in
America is at West Hoboken, New
Jersey, are at present holding their
triennial chapter at Rome for the
election of new superiors.
K. of c. Courtesies.-When the
Trainmen convened in San Francisco
recently 800 of the delegates who
were Knights of Columbus were enter
tanned in grand style at the local head
quarters. AS soon as the reports car
ried back East, New York Council
expressed it's formal appreciation of
the courtesies extended, and solicited
a similar reception for their members
who are delegates to the convention
of Letter Carriers which opened in
San Francisco on August 81 This is
one of the purposes for which knights
of Columbus are erecting homes in
every large city in the United States.
Holy Ghost Fathers.-The Holy
Ghost Fathers possess twenty-three
houses in the United States. To this
number they are adding another. The
new foundation is located at lie
Brevelle, Louisiana, and has for it's
aim the extension of the Faith among
the negroes who are existing there in
state of great moral degradation.
New Rector for Santa CIara.-The
Rev. James Peter Morrissey, S. j., at
his own request, has been retired as
president of the University of Santa
Clara, the largest Catholic University
in the entire West, and his place will
be filled by the Rev. Walter G. Thorn
ton, S. j., who has been rector of the
novitiate at Los Gatos since 1904.
Public Morals Crusade.-During the
coming fall and winter, the Holy Name
societies of the national capital will
actively participate in the morals cru
SADIE of the Washington Truth Society
and the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, which last season was directed
chiefly against stage indecency, and
accomplished so much good. The
women's societies will be asked to
make a determined protest against
certain styles of dress now in vogue
Justice McKenna May not Retire.
Justice Joseph McKenna of the Su-
preme Court of the United States on
August 10th, reached his SEVENTEEN
birthday and became eligible under
the law for retirement on full pay. He
is in excellent health, however, and
may choose to remain on the bench
for several years to come. After a
distinguished career before the bar
and on the bench and in the halls OF
Congress, he was appointed to the
United States Supreme Court by Presi
dent Mckinley on December 16, 1897
and took his seat January 26, 1898.
Gifts to Extensions Missions. a
board meeting held recently in the
Offices of The Catholic Church Exten
sion Society, Chicago, the executive
committee of the society voted $23,
$50 to be divided up between twenty.
seven dioceses.
In the City of st. Rose.-Lima, Peru
was the first city in the western
hemisphere to have a newspaper, and
the first, after Mexico, to possess a
printing press More remarkable still
this famed City of the Kings sent a
printing press to the little town OF
JUL, in the heart of the Andes, several
years before the first press was intro
duced into the United States.
First Diocese in America.-That the
Catholic Church was established in
this Western Continent nearly 1000
years ago may be news to many of our
readers. Search is being made in the
Vatican archives for the reports of the
Bishops who governed the Diocese oil
Gardar in Greenland from 900 A. D. to
1900 A. D.
Nuns Diamond JubiIee.-At the
Ursuline Convent, Cleveland, Mother
Mary of the Immaculate Conception
celebrated last month her diamond re
ligious jubilee.
Nuns at Summer SchooI.-At the
Catholic University Summer School
Washington, S47 Sisters passed the
examinations successfully this year.
Dominican Appointed 8ishop.-Rev
erend Raymond Zubieta, the Domini
can, has been made Titular Bishop