The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-07
NEW WORLD ITEMS.

The Church in This Countrywide
London Tablet makes the following
remarks concerning the condition of
the church in the United States.
THE growth of Catholicity in Amer
lea is one of those facts no amount
of newspaper silence can conceal. If
the Catholic Church has lost any
ground in Europe-and that, when the
whole continent is considered may
certainly be questioned-she has more
than made it up in America
Letters Carriers Build and Furnish
Chapel.-A short time ago the chapel
in Webb County, Texas, erected
through the zeal and generosity of
the letter carriers of Boston, was SOL
EMMY dedicated by Bishop Nussbaum,
c.. p, of Corpus Christi. 1t is located
between Leyendecker and Islitas sta
tons on the Rio Grande and Eagle
Pass railroad. The edifce is con-
structed in the beam style and meas
ures twenty by forty-siX feet. Not
only did the letter carriers pay the
cost of the chapel, $500, but also do
mated funds to buy the altar, Stations
of the Cross and a statue of the Sacred
Heart.
Nuns Emerald Enthusiastically
the Sisters of the Convent of the In
carnate Word, Brownsville, Texas, and
the children of their schools assem-
bled to celebrate the emerald jubilee
of Rev. Mother Stanislaus, on the six
tieth anniversary of her profession
when she repeated the VOWS which
bound her to the religious order.
Right Reverend P J. Nussbaum, Bish-
OPP of Corpus Christi, officiated at the
Solemn High Mass. After the Bishop
had placed upon the head of the
venerable Mother the jubilee crown,
he gave the blessing concluding the
Benediction of the Blessed Sacra-
ment.
Priests MaItreated in Mexico
Among the passengers on the Ward
liner Esperanza, which arrived re-
Gently in New York City from Vera
Cruz and Havana was the Reverend
Father GonZalo Carrasco, Jesuit
priest, who with number of other
Jesuits, was obliged to leave Mexico
because of the hostility of the present
Carranza Government to the Catholic
Church. Father Carrasco told the
ship news reporters that he had been
connected with a Jesuit college in the
outskirts of Mexico City. When the
Carranza forces entered the capital,
he said, troops one day surrounded
the college and demanded money from
the priests. Having no money to give
them, Father Carrasco said, the
priests were dragged into the streets,
some with halters around their necks.
They were all taken to Mexico City
and later we're permitted to go to
Vera Cruz, so that they could get out
of the country.
Scranton's Holy Name Parade.-One
of the most notable and imposing
demonstrations that has ever occurred
in the city of Scranton, Pa, was the
parade of $4,000 Catholic men of the
county under the auspices of the Holy
Name Societies of the several par
ishes who came out and marched the
streets on a recent Sunday to do
honor to the Holy Name of Jesus.
Holy Name Parades in New Jersey.
I'm Hudson, Essex and Bergen
counties, New Jersey, 100000 men
paraded in the annual demonstration
of the Holy Name Society, organized
among Catholics as a protest against
blasphemy. Besides parades there
were special religious exercises in
many cities and towns. In Jersey City
10000 men marched in the parade
and similarly large numbers marched
in Newark, Bayonne, Hoboken and
other cities. Bishop O'Connor of
Newark reviewed the procession of
Newark, Harrison and Belleville So
cieties.
New Parish Hall in chicago.-St.
Sylvesters new parish Hail. Chicago,
which was dedicated recently by the
Most Rev. Archbishop Quigley, d. D.,
was commenced in August, 1913 1t is
a modern building in every particu-
lar. On the main floor there is a
hall capable of accommodating over
700 people, On the second floor, in
the rear, there is a lodge hall with
modern equipment, where the various
societies hold their meetings. The
front portion of the same floor will
be for the married ladies who meet
for social work, much of which they
are accomplishing. These ladies make
clothes for needy children and assist
the st. Vincent de Paul Society in
caring for the poor and sick of the
parish. On either side of a corridor
which runs through the building,
there are rooms for the young men
and the young ladies of the parish.
The young men will have a gymnasi-
UNI with billiard and pool rooms at
tached. The young ladies are fitting
up a splendid library. Adjoining the
library there is reception room, in
tended exclusively for the use of the
young ladies, and where they can in
wife their friends.
Omaha Cathedral School Opened