The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-07-18

Ohio; supreme treasurer, w. T. Hon.
horst, Covington, KY; supreme trus-
tees, J. J. Grebbs, Detroit, and f. w.
Kleinhaus, Rochester, N. Y.
Catholic Chaplain on Atlantic Trip.
Secretary Daniels of the Navy De-
partment has requested Father Alex
ander Brodman to accompany the mid
shipmen on the summers trans
Atlantic trip, on board the battleship
Missouri. Father Brodman is one of
the five Catholic chaplains now in the
navy, and has of late been on duty at
the naval training station, Great
Lakes, North Chicago.
Extraordinary PapaI PriviIege.-The
Holy See has granted to the Sisters
of Providence the extraordinary privi-
lege of perpetual exposition of the
Blessed Sacrament at their Mother
house, at st. Mary-of-the- Woods, Ind.
New Missionaries for CoIored Peo-
pIe.-Three workers have been added
to the few who are laboring for the
negro in the Southland, Rev. Law
renee Schaefer, S. S. j.; Rev. Hector
| A. Gilman, S. S. j., and Rev. James P.
H. Gookin, S. S. J. They are mem
bers of the Society of the Sacred
Heart, congregation of missionary
priests devoted exclusively to the con-
version and salvation of the negro
race. After their ordination in EN-
mittsburg, Md, by Right Reverend
Owen A. Corrigan, D. D., Auxiliary
Bishop of Baltimore, they returned
to the Motherhouse of the Society,
st. Joseph's Seminary, Baltimore,
where they received their mission
crosses and renewed their VOW to be,
as st. Peter Claver vowed himself to
be, 'the father and slave of the negro
forever"
Archbishop GIennon Honored.-The
| freedom of Drogheda, Ireland, has
been conferred on Archbishop John
Joseph Glennon of ST. Louis by the
mayor and corporation. The last per.
son on whom it was bestowed was
Charles Stewart Parnell, the late Irish
Nationalist leader.
Novitiate for UrsuIines of Alaska
Far away on the coast of Alaska the
Ursuline Sisters are doing Gods holy
work and are laboring with such sue.
cess that the Very Rev. Project Apos.
tolic, Father Crimont, S.. j., has di.
rected the Superioress, Mother Mary
Amadeus, to establish a novitiate.
Home for Working GirIs.-In Mil
waukee, the Sisters of Mercy have
been conducting Home for Working
Girls now for sixteen years. They
now expect to raise 100000 for a new
home. Recently 100000 was raised
in Pittsburgh, Pa, for a similar home
and 100000 for one at Aurora, Ill.
Colored Folks Charitable Organize
tion.-Thirty-five colored men and
women of the Assumption parish, To
| peka, Kan, recently organized a St
| Augustine Society, the object of which
is to foster education and to look
after the sick and needy members OF
the colored race.
Sisters in Leper CoIony.-The Sis
! ters of st. Francis, from Syracuse
New York, are in charge of the lepe1
colony at Molokai, Hawaii, and are
doing wonderful work.
Redemptorists' New Home. - The
| Congregation of the Most Holy Re
| deemer has secured an option on the
beautiful Clare Point estate, near
Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pa, and
as soon as a clear title is issued the
| Order will inhabit the mansion and
it's magnificent surroundings as a
home for the missionaries.
Students at Catholic Universities
Last year the Catholic University had
1,153 students; Georgetown Univer
sity, 1888 students; University oil
Notre Dame, 1000; st. Louis Univer
sity, 1,43S; Fordham, 1924; Creighton
University, 1912; Marquette, 1906.
Catholic Educational Association
Headquarters of the Catholic Educa
tional Association are maintained al
Columbus, Ohio, under direction oil
Rev. Francis Howard. Included
among the members of the associa
ton, in addition to the parochials
schools, are Is seminaries, IS colleges
for men, 6 colleges for women, 81
academies, with a total membership
of LAP institutions.
Catholic Summer Schools. = The
summer school movement recently in
augurated has resulted in establish
ments of this character at the Cath
olic University, at Washington, the
De Paul School, Chicago; the Mar
quette School, at Milwaukee,; the
Creighton School, at Omaha; Du
buque College, at Dubuque, Iowa
There are also six medical colleges
under Catholic control.