The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-09-05

SteinmetZ, is responsible for a number |
of vocations to the religious life, and
he expects to begin, the new seminary,
now in the course of construction,
with about twelve candidates for the
priesthood.
Catholic Imperial Guards.-In the
Imperial Guards of Germany there are
no less than 11,205 Catholics.
Paris Church Building .Fund.-Last
year 100000 was collected in Paris
to build new churches and chapels.
New Irish Bishop for Australia
in the Augustinian Church,
New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland
the Right Reverend DR.. Heavy, o. S.
A, who has been appointed Vicar
Apostolic of North Queensland, Aus
tralia, was consecrated to the Epis-
copacy. The consecrating prelate was
Right Reverend DR.. Browne, Bishop
of Ferns, Ireland; the assisting pre-
lates were the Right Reverend Thomas
Gilmartin, Bishop of Clonfert, Ireland,
and Right Rev. DR.. Higgins, Bishop of
Right Rev. DR.. Higgins, Bishop of
Bishop Phelan of Sale, Australia was
also present. The new Bishop is
about forty-six years of age. He is a
native of Ballyhaunis, County Mayo,
and entered the Novitiate in 1885.
Two years later he went to Rome, and
was ordained there in 1891. For some
time after ordination he continued to
teach at the Novitiate in Orlagh,
Rathfarnham, and was from there
sent to New Ross, being changed
after a short while to Dungarvan. In
1895 he was made Prior in his native
town, and, later, after a brief period
in Drogheda, he was again transferred
to New Ross, where he remained three
years. He was in Dungarvan in 1908,
and remained there until his trans
ference as Prior to New Ross in 1907.
No Decree Against the Labor
Unions.-Associated Press dispatches
recently declared that the Pope has
forbidden priests to join labor
unions" This is another wild canard.
The decree pertains to Syndicalist
Associations, which are as far re-
moved from the bona fide unions as
the l. W. w. is from the American
Federation of Labor.
Irish Vice-Rector's Good Work.-To
DR.. Hagan, Vice-Rector of the Irish
College in Rome, is largely due the
fact that the Italian papers show a
real grasp of the Irish claim to Home
Rule. 1t is now more than year
since he published in Italian his mag
nificent brochure on Home Rule, and
this has been guide-book to all
Italians seeking correct information.
Irishmen owe DR.. Hagan deep debt
of gratitude. For several years past
he has taken to task the importers of
anti-Irish news in Italy. He has shown
up their ignorance and their occa-
sional malice, and he has done this so
effectively that at present honest and
reliable information regarding Ireland
may be found in any of the first-class
journals.
The Pope an Independent Sovereign.
An interesting judgment has just
been reached in France regarding the
display of the Pontifcal flag, which
has been forbidden to Catholics by the
Government, on the ground that it is
not the flag of a sovereign. In honor
of the fetes of Jeanne dare, six nota-
BILE inhabitants of Carcassone dec.
grated their houses with flags, promi-
nent among which was the Papal
banner. Among them were merchant,
two bankers and a priest, and they
were hauled before the tribunal, but
NJ Castel, judge of the peace, before
whom the cases came, gave judgment
for the accused. He said the Pope's
flag is certainly that of a sovereign.
He enjoys all the prerogatives OF
sovereignty, commands thousands and
is ruled by none.
Aged Jesuits Driven out.-In Mou-
vauX, France, very recently, the two
aged, remaining Jesuits were violently
driven out of the Retreat House of
Notre Dame du Haut Mont, by 80
gendarmes on order of the Police Com
missioner.
Cardinal Bourne and the War.-Car-
dinal Bourne has given orders for the
Blessed Sacrament to be exposed daily
in Westminster Cathedral from l to
D. M, in order that the faithful may
have an opportunity of imploring
Gods mercy during the war. He also
ordered that on Friday, the twenty
first of August, in every church of the
diocese and in the chapels of com
munities the Votive Mass in time OF
war be celebrated "tanquam pro re
gravi," with as great solemnity as
possible, and that in the afternoon OF
evening the Litany of the Saints be
sung in Latin or recited in English
during the Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament.
4.
EnqIish Jesuit VoIunteers.-Seven
members of the Society of Jesus have
offered their services to the War
Office as chaplains, and have been
accepted. Most of the seven have Of
fered themselves to the Military Arm
but one, Rev. Sir VIM. Heathcote, will
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