The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-11-22
OLD WORLD NEWS.

Scholarships Won by Catholics.
Out of the eleven successful candi-
dates for the Dublin Corporation
scholarships of forty pounds $4,000 al
year, tenable for three years, no less
than nine are pupils of the Christian
Brothers schools. The Kilkenny
County Council has awarded a schoI-
arship, value fifty pounds ($25O), ten
able for three years at the National
University, to Miss Mary Ellen Keen
an, Graiguenamanagh pupil of the
Dominican nuns, Sion Hill, Dublin.
Social Study in Irish University
At the meeting of the Catholic Truth
Society in Dublin, the Reverend Pro-
lessor Corcoran, s. j., suggested that
the National University should pro-
mote organized social study among
Irish Catholics. The University has
an opportunity of which it should
avail to the fullest possible extent. Of
it's one thousand eight hundred stu
dents all except one hundred are Cath
olics. Professor Corcoran advises
that diploma in social study be pro-
vided.
A New Gaelic coIIege.-A new
Gaelic College has been opened in
Dublin Canon Peter O'Leary, one of
the most popular Gaelic writer's, deliv-
cred memorable address at its in
auguration.
Archbishop Walsh Aids Strikers
The second letter of Most Reverend
Archbishop Walsh of Dublin dealing
with the strike situation laid down
the lines along which the employers
and the representatives of the work
ers might be expected to approach one
another. The Archbishop has also
taken measures to relieve the fami-
/ lies of the strikers He has enlisted
the activities of the Christian Brothers
and the Society of st. Vincent de
Paul in the work of supplying food,
clothing and necessary shelter for the
women and children. In the parish
of st. Andrew alone 1000 meals have
been provided every day for the chill
dren of poor workers.
Clergyman Convertible Reverend
4 w. Anderson, B. A., curate of St.
Cyprian's, Cardiff, has been received
into the Church at Tunbridge Wells,
England. He left his charge at St.
Cyprian's in August last.
Catholic Student Barred from Burse.
Miss Lomax, Catholic student of
Glasgow University, Scotland, who
recently won $50 bursary, has been
debarred from securing the prize by
her religion, one of the conditions of
the bursary being that it is available
for Protestants only. This is prob
ably the only bursary establishment,
in connection with Glasgow Univer-
sity, to which such condition is
attached.
italian Madonna Found in London.
The picture of the Madonna and
Child by Pinturrichio, which was re-
Gently stolen from Spello, in Italy, has
been found at Charing Cross Railway
Station. 1t has been handed over to
the Italian Consul General in London.
Vienna Clergy Aid the Press.-The
clergy of Vienna have adopted an
energetic campaign for the press.
They have decided to give every Sun
day, in a different church in the city,
sermon explaining the good done by
the circulation of Catholic journals,
and the opposite evil wrought by the
, anti-religious press. Preachers are
chosen who do not hesitate to name
the journals which need rebuff from
Catholics, or those which deserve sup
port. Thus, not only the Catholic
! journals are mentioned but any honest
newspaper which treats Catholics and
their affairs with decency and fair
ness.
In Seminary of coIogne.-Arch-
bishop Hartmann, of Cologne, Ger
| many has decided to erect in the
f Seminary of Cologne chair of cate
getical and homiletical pedagogy for
} the clergy of the diocese.
| Catholic King of Bavaria.-Afte1
/ the upper and lower Houses of the
Bavarian Diet had passed bill au.
thorizing the aged Prince Regent Lud
. wig of Bavaria to proclaim himself
: King of Bavaria, he succeeded the
: hopelessly insane King Otto. The
: Prince Regent has been governing
J Bavaria for many years, and is a
5 devout Catholic.
Sorbonne Honors 5enedictine.-A
Benedictine monk, p Columbian Juret
in the quiet, out-of-the-way monastery
of st. Gall, near Bregenz, has just had
> conferred upon him his third degree
of Doctor by Frances greatest Uni
!, versity, the Sorbonne.
Birth Rate in Socialist Town.
There is an extraordinary social phen
. omenon at Montreaux-les-M Mines
where the birth rate has fallen lower
in the last three years than in one
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