The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-04

The Tyburn Novena.-The annual
Tyburn novena for the conversion Of
England ended Thursday, March -,
with Catholics in all parts of the island
receiving Communion for that inten-
ton. The increasing interest in this
novena is indicated by the number of
names sent to the Tyburn Convent,
whose conversion is prayed for. Last
year the number was about 5000.
| This year it was over 1900.
i Anglican Year Book.-The Official
Year Book of the Church of England
for 1913 shows that it has slipped back
in several respects. With two excep-
tions, all down the line of "Baptisms,
Communicates at Easter, Sunday
Scholars, Bible Classes, Combinations
and Sunday School Teachers" there
is the ominous minus instead of the
encouraging plus. Only Combinations
and Sunday School Teachers went
up in 1928; all the rest have
gone down. And the most significant
minus is this, decrease of 100,226 in
ter.
Rome's Leadership ExtoIIed.-A re-
markable tribute to the strength of
the Pope's claims as head of the
Church established by Christ is given
by the Anglican minister, Rev. c. H.
Sharpe, diocesan missionary of Glou-
cester, England, in his recent book,
Catholicism and Life" In fact, the
book is replete with such tributes; but
in his chapter on personal faith in it's
relation to the Catholic Church, he
ends one forceful paragraph with this
eloquent climax: 20 wonderful unity
in plurality, o vision at last upon earth
of Him whom we worship in heaven!
o greater glory of st. Peters See,
when it at length presides over coun-
ellis which are Oecumenical and not
only Vatican; when the Church is not
solely ST. Peter, but st. Peter, the
faith-preserving President of the
Church; when the U.S. and the WE
of encyclicals, not only represent the
ceremonious royalty of single indi-
vidual, but his own and the collective
mind of the Church, whereby his dig
nifty is UNNECESSARILY increased"
Birmingham's New Chancellor
The Archbishop of Birmingham has
appointed Mgr. Cronin, who has for
many years been vice-rector of the
| Eno1ich To11ooo IN Dome DC CbonoolJor
of the Archdiocese. Mgr. Cronin will
also act as chief personal secretary to
the Archbishop.
Priests Coming to America.-The
Holy See requires that henceforth all
Italian priests coming to America
must bear letter Of authorization
from the Consistorial Congregation
An Old Hospital CIosed.-Rome has
hospitals founded by the Popes many
centuries ago. One of them, st. Cha
comos, founded in 1926, was closed
on the 22nd of February. 1t was as
ISOLATED with St. Camillus of Lellis
War on Indecent Fashions.-The Ne
apolitan Committee of Pie Signore,
who labor on behalf of Italian working
girls, has addressed an urgent circu-
lar to the Catholic women of Naples,
and the modistes of that city, implor-
ing them to boycott indecent fashions
in dress, which they assert are becom-
ing more and more blatant; they like
wise point out that Catholic women
ought to forbear to employ the houses
whence these Objectionable modes are
furthered.
The Pope's Nephew.-Mgr. Parolin,
the nephew of the Holy Father, has
just been made arch-priest of Treviso
"a town which it will be remembered
was closely associated with the early
years and studies of Piux x. The ap-
pointment has given much satisfac-
ton to the former flock of Mgr. Paro-
lin at Possagno, where the professors
and pupils of the college warmly feted
him at his departure to take up his
new duties.
Catholics in UIster.-The religious
census figures for the nine counties of
Ulster show that in five of these Cath
olics constitute the majority of the
population. The following is the per-
centage of Catholics in each county:
Antrim, 20.5; Down, 31.6; Armagh,
45.3; Derry, 45.S; Cavan, 81.5; Done
gal, 1873; Monaghan, TAT; Fermanagh,
56.2; Tyrone, 55.4. Antrim and Down,
which are the only counties over
whelmingly Protestant, include Bel
fast, and returned 587,635 Professionals
to 2O7,635 Catholics. In the other
seven counties there were 433,337 Cath
olics to 303,245 Protestants.
Second Catholic Appointed.-Miss
Mary ODonnell, of Maryhill, Glasgow,
who has been appointed Probation Of
II ficer nv the Glasgow magistrates ia