The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-01-24

Tie OulLSu 0IdIOSS Will pOul1uCdL0 Oh
the patronal feast of the Paulist
Fathers, January %, in their Church
of ST. Paul the Apostle, New York
city.
Convent Cancels Dance.-As a pro-
test against the vulgar forms of
modern dancing, the Visitation Con-
vent Alumnae of Brooklyn, has voted
to cancel for this year. it's annual
dance, which is one of the social
events of Catholic Brooklyn.
Governor GIynn Admires New Law.
The workmen's compensation bill,
drafted and signed by Governor Glynn
of New York, went into effect on
January 1. In performing what he
considers the browning act of his ad-
ministration, Governor Glynn said that
New York has at last placed itself
in the front of humanitarian States.
Four Thousand Take Pledge
About four thousand members of ST.
Monica's congregation were pledged to
total abstinence by the Rev. Hugh
Garvey at the Masses on New Years
Day and the last two Masses on Sun
day, January 4th.
A Timely ConVersion.-Rev. D. j.
O'Shea writes in the Pittsburg Catho-
lie, January 8, of a remarkable CONVEX
sion, that of Alfred Isaacs, Jew who
married a Catholic, thirty years ago.
His six children were brought up as
Catholics and Mr.. Isaacs always at
tended the Catholic church with his
family; but never by word or sign
manifested belief in the divinity of
Christ or His church. Last October
he asked to be instructed and was
baptized the Sunday before Christmas.
Two days dater he was fatally hurt
in an explosion. Father O'Shea attri-
butes the conversion to the prayers
of one of the children who on his
death bed five years ago promised
that he would pray that his father
might receive the gift Of faith before
his death.
CarmeIites of the Divine Heart
Mother Maria Theresa, the Mother
General of the Carmelite Sisters of
the Divine Heart of Jesus, and two of
the Sisters of her congregation ar
rived in San. Antonio, Texas, Sunday,
January 4, for the purpose Of found
ing a house of their order in that
city. Although only fifteen months in
America this congregation has estab-
lished five houses in the United States
and Canada. 1t is new order,
founded in 1891 at Berlin, and now
numbers 400 members having houses
in many parts of Europe, besides
those on this side of the Atlantic.
The motherhouse is in Rome.
An Aged Missionary Dead.-One of
the oldest Oblate missionaries in the
world, Reverend 2. Gascon, o. M. l.,
died at the Juniorate in st. Boniface,
Canada, Saturday, Jan. 8, at the age
of eighty-seven. He had labored
among the Indians of Western Canada
since 1867. On the morning of jan
uary 8, he finished saying his Mass at
seven o'clock and within an hour he
was dead.
A SANDER Simply Refuted.-A GER
tain Bishop Kinsloving of the Episco-
pal church speaking in Kansas City
recently attacked the Catholic Church
for depriving the people of the Bible
in the vernacular. To refute him,
the Kansas City Register quotes from
the letter of Pope Plus vi written in
177S to the Italian translator of the
Bible, the following passage: cat a
time when vast number of bad books
are circulated among the unlearned
you have judged excellently that the
faithful should be excited to the daily
reading of the sacred Scriptures, for
these are the abundant sources which
ought to be left open to everyone to
draw from them purity of doctrine and
morals and to eradicate errors. This
you have reasonably effected by pub
fishing the sacred writings in the Ian
SudSS OIL your COuuLIy.
Gaelic in the Universities.-Har-
ward University, the Catholic Univer-
sity of Washington, Columbia Univer,
sity, and other well-known colleges
have now Celtic departments. DR.
Robinson, of Harvard, and Dr. Dunno
of the Catholic University of Wash
ington, both have Gaelic books in the
press and soon to be issued.
Mrs. Young Abandons. Policy
Though Mrs. Ella Flagg Young has
been re-appointed Superintendent OF
Chicago schools her constructive
policy of sex hygiene in the schools
will be abandoned owing to the
strong opposition developed in the
public mind and in the school board
itself.
No 6igotry in Sioux city.-The Ma
tional Protestant Alliance, with loca
headquarters in the Davidson build
ing, Sioux City, Iowa, engaged PRO
fessor' Walter Sims to deliver series
of six lectures against the Catholic
Church. When the nature of the lee
lures were discovered every large hal
in the city was closed against hin
and he was forced to deliver his lee
lures in some small church building!
on the outskirts of Sioux City. The
Catholics did nothing to prevent the