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

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Catholic Chaplain for Liners.-Priest
chaplains are stationed on the ships
of the North German Lloyd, the Lloyd
Sabando and the Sicula-Americana
Line to administer to the spiritual
wants of the Catholic immigrants on
their voyages to or from Italy, to
North and South America. The lines
give the priests free passage. There
| is a Mass on deck every Sunday for
steerage passengers and in the second
class dining room for cabin passengers.
Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli is pro-
tector of the society of priests who
devote themselves to this work, and
Mgr. Cocculo is superior. When in
New York the priests have their head
quarters at the rectory of the Sacred
Hearts of Jesus and Mary, 500 Hicks
Street, Brooklyn.
Italian orphanage for Paris.-Donna
Bice Tittoni, the wife of the Italian
Ambassador in Paris, has recently
opened an italian orphanage in that
city.
italian Hospice in JerusaIem.-Tn
Jerusalem handsome and imposing
Italian Hospice is nearing completion.
Twenty-Five Sisters of the Congrega-
ton of the Ven. Cottolengo are in
charge of it. The Hospice is about
| 600 feet front and three stories high.
Italian Catholics are increasing in the
Holy Land.
Don Rosco Monument.-The Town
Council of Turin, Italy, has voted
| $4,000 toward The erection of the pro-
posed monument to Don Bosco in that
city. The Socialists opposed the mo-
ton, but it was carried by an enor-
nous majority and amid general ap-
plause.
The Military Mass.-The open-air
Military Mass originated with the
armies of CASTLE and Aragon in the
conflict with the Moslems. Militant
priests of the great orders that were
trying to defend Christendom from the
Eastern hordes celebrated the Field
Mass with splendor, if campaign con-
ditions permitted, on every Sunday.
The Church in ceyIon.- is
famous for more than it's tea; it is one
of the places where st. Francis Xavier
preached. The Apostle of the Indies
established the faith in Ceylon in 1914
Until 1886 the Island of Ceylon was
part of the Bishopric of Cochin. BY a
strange coincidence the last Superior
of the mission before Colombo was
erected into a separate vicariate was
a namesake OF tie great st. Francis,
the Reverend Francis Xavier who died
in 1885. There are now five dioceses
in Ceylon with Catholic population
of nearly $4,000 souls according to the
latest government census.
Ancient BaptismaI Font.-In the
Church of Notre Dame de Poissy,
France, stands the Baptismal font at
which ST. Louis TX, King of France,
was baptized. st. Louis was born there
on the 25th of April, 1915.
Vienna's Patron Saint.-Pope Plus
has declared st. Clement Hoffbauer,
| the recently canonized Redemptorist,
| the special patron of the city of
Vienna In that city the saint lived
and labored less than century ago.
CathoIicity in Paris.-There is at
present in the Archdiocese of Paris a
population of 4,150,000 souls; 173, par
ishes are served by S72 priests. Since
the break with Rome, eight years ago,
| % new parishes have been founded to
supply the overcrowded and growing
suburbs with the spiritual resources
that alone will keep them from re-
lapsing into heathenism. This is a
magnificent result when we remember
that the separation of Church and
State in France deprived the former
of her possessions which were iniq-
uitously seized by the latter.
New Bishop of Osnabrueck.-Rev.
DR.. William Berning has been elected
| Bishop of Osnabrueck by the Cathe-
dral chapter of that see. He was
born in Meppen on March &c, 1877,
and studied theology and philosophy
in the Universities of Breslau and
Muenster, finishing his ecclesiastical
course in the seminary of Osnabrueck.
He was ordained on March 16, 1900,
and took the degree of Doctor of
! Theology at Muenster on March IA,
1901.
Catholics in Australian Government.
Catholics are splendidly represented
in the new government of New South
Wales. There are already nineteen
Catholics in the new Labor party.
There are also mber of non-Catho
lies pledged to t! 9 questions of the
Catholic Federation.
Requests to charities.-The late Mr..
J. Cunningham, of Kilkeel, Co. Down,
and formerly of Jagersfontein, South
Africa, who left a personal estate of
the value of $4,000, has made the
following requests: $4,000 to the
Nazareth Home, Belfast; $4,000 to the
Nazareth Home, Port Elizabeth, South
Africa; $4,000 for bell for the Cath
Ole church of Massforth, Kilkeel, and
$4,000 for repairs to the Catholic
Church at Atticall, Kilkeel.
Al H.