The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-01-10
NEW WORLD ITEMS.

1918 Wnll6 S6VordI OLn0rS were COIL
pleted and enlarged During the cur
rent year fifteen new churches will be
built, among them one at Havre to
cost $50,000 and another of equal cost
at Lewistown. The Sisters of Humility
at Great Falls have added a novitiate
to ST. Mary's Institute and Mother
house. Rt Rev. Bishop Lenihan, dur
ing his ad limina visit to Rome in
June will head a pilgrimage from the
diocese to the Eternal City.
Paulist Bazaar SuccessfuI.-The
Paulist festival, Chicago, Melted $13,-
600. The proceeds will be used to
lift the indebtedness of the church.
First Communion of Convicts.-
Several of the convicts at the State
penitentiary at Fort Madison, Iowa,
who during the past year were re-
ceived into the Catholic Church by
Rev. A. J. Zaiser, pastor of st. Jo-
seph's Church, received their First
Holy Communion during High Mass,
celebrated in the prison chapel, Christ
mas morning.
Catholic Law School Wins Honors.
st. Louis University this year car
ried off the highest honors with it's
Law Department, in the examinations
held before the State Board of Bar
Examiners in Jefferson City, Mo-, last
month. Of the % students from the
st. Louis University every one was
successful, and of the 116 who took
the tests, the highest and second
highest honors were awarded to the
st. Louis University class.
Governor DUNES Decided Stand
81 would not permit my young and
innocent daughters to be sent to
either public or private school where
sex hygiene is discussed in public"
wrote Gov. Dunno recently. II honest
ly fear that if sex hygiene be taught in
schools and young boys and girls in
the open class room are made aware
of things which may be taught in the
line of sex hygiene, it probably will
create in their young minds prur-
lent curiosity which will induce, rather
than suppress, immortality and un-
chastity"
DR.. Zahm Honored.-Very Rev.
John Augustus Zahm, G. S. c., the
scientist and educator, was the guest
of honor at a banquet in Buenos Ayres
recently. About one hundred guests
attended and amongst them was Col.
Theodore Roosevelt. The Ecclesiasti-
cal Governor of Buenos Ayres, Right
Rev. Monsignor Duprat, was the host
at the banquet.
Our Lady in Patagonia.-A fine
monument to Our Lady Help of Chris
tians has been erected at Punta
Arenas in Southern Patagonia to COM
memorate the twenty-fifth year of the
foundation of the Central House of the
Salesian Missions in Patagonia. The
monument is thirty-eight feet high.
The figure of Our Lady is of white
Carrara marble.
Priest Social Worker.-Right Rev.
Monsignor Mackel, rector of st. Pat
rick's Church in Elizabeth, N. j., has
been waging a vigorous campaign
against the evils of intemperance in
that city, and he is receiving the ear
nest support of the police authorities
and the majority of the citizens.
Mayor Fitzgerald Withdraws.-Hon
John Fitzgerald, Mayor of Boston, has
withdrawn from the race for re-elec-
ton as Mayor because of continued
ill-health 1t was only few weeks
ago that he tainted while personally
investigating conditions in the cheap
hotels of Boston. His physicians
attributed his collapse to lack of sleep
CathoIicity in Cuba.-Following the
recent nomination by Pope Plus x.
of Monsignor Nouel, Archbishop of
San Domingo, as Apostolic Delegate
to Cuba, the Vatican has given out
statistics on which the elevation of
Cuba to the dignity of having a
diplomatic representative from the
Vatican is based. The three dioceses
lQLO WHICH Tie 1S1duu 10 uINluOu OIL q
said to have a Catholic population of
100000, of which 275,O0O are colored.
This has resulted in the province of
Santiago being raised to the rank of
metropolitan see.
New Work by K. of Cat the last
meeting of Angelus Council, No. $40,
Knights of Columbus, Brooklyn, new
feature was inaugurated when the civil
service committee was formed. This
committee is comprised of five mem
bers, all experts in civil service mat
tiers. The particular purpose of this
committee is to prepare and fit pros
pective candidates for entrance into
the various examinations in the COM
petitive branch of the civil service,
municipal, state and federal.
Portrait of Philip II.-Titian's por-
trait of Philip H., of Spain, has been
purchased by Mrs. T. ]. Emery of Gin
cinnati for $350,00O. 1t is reported she
is making a collection of master
pieces for presentation to the city OF
Cincinnati.
Home for German Artisans.-The
Catholic Journeymen's society of New
York City, a German society modelled
aftor tho Kolning societies of Ger.