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

OF COLORADO missionary priests Work |
ing in needy parishes, have been sent
out by members of the Tabernacle |
Society of Denver, Col, in recent
months.
Vineentian Home for Lepers.-The
Lepers' Home, Carville, La, is in
charge of six Daughters Of st. Vincent
de Paul. 1t has about ninety patients
Catholic Stage GuiId.-A Catholic
Stage Guild has been formed in
Toronto, the Rev. Thomas Burke, G. S.
P, chaplain. 1t is a branch of the
guild formed in England and extended
to America for the spiritual care of
Catholic actors.
Priests and Laity.-In the United
States there is one priest for about
every 900 Catholics.
Denver Converts CIass.-The Den
yer Cathedral priests, realizing that
many persons who attend the services
there are eager to inquire into the
Catholic Faith, now make it a weekly
custom to announce from the pulpit
when the class for converts meets in
the rectory.
Catholics in Canada-The religious
census of Canada shows that one
third of the Dominion is Catholic, and
Catholics are by far the largest indi-
vidual denomination. Their present
number is 2,S33,O41.
Priests Eucharistic League.-It is
stated that during the year 1913 TWEEN
ty bishops and $500 priests joined
the Priests Eucharistic League.
Catholic Editors Appointing nt.-Mr.
McGuaran, formerly editor of the Den
yer Catholic Register, has been ap-
pointed by President Wilson as Sur
veyor-General of the State of Colorado.
Denver Catholic HospitaFs.-With
the establishment of a Catholic tuber-
culosis sanatorium in Denver, now
determined upon, there will be seven
teen institutions in Colorado con-
Quoted by the Catholic Church for the
treatment of physical diseases. In
1913, according to the official reports,
they cared for almost 10000 sick and
injured persons of every denomina-
tfon.
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Catholic Press Convention.-The
fourth annual convention of the Cath
Ollie Press of America will be held in
Detroit, Mich, from September IL to
Is. Headquarters will be at Hotel
Cadillac. The convention will be
formally opened with Solemn Pontifi-
cal Mass at the Cathedral of SIS. Peter
and Paul. Sunday morning, September
13. Business sessions will be held on
Monday and Tuesday.
Philadelphia Chapel of Divine Love.
Archbishop Prendergast recently
laid the cornerstone of the Chapel of
Divine Love, the beautiful edifice be-
ing erected at Twenty-second and
Green Streets, Philadelphia, through
the munificence of the late Cornelius
A. Love. This chapel is intended for
the perpetual alteration of the Most
Blessed Sacrament, and when COM
pleted will rank among the most beau
tiful of the city's sacred edifces.
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Submarine Inventor Dead.-John p
Holland, inventor of the submarine
boat that bears his name, died Of
pneumonia at Newark N. j., a short
time ago. He was seventy-two years
old. Mr.. Holland sank his first sub
marine boat in the Passaic River
when he found it was a failure. The
vessel today lies on the PASSAGES
bottom. Subsequently he was success
full and the United States Government
took over his invention. Although a
builder of war vessels. Mr.. Holland
opposed war. His idea of the useful
ness of submarines was to have them
incapacitate hostile ships without
destroying them. Mr.. Holland was
born in Ireland.
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Cathollc municipal Judge Tor Boston.
Governor Walsh of Massachusetts
has appointed Mr.. Thomas H. Dowd of
Boston as Judge of the Boston Munic-
ipal Court. Judge Dowd is a gradu-
ate of Holy Cross College.
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Pastors Fifty-seventh Anniversary
Very Rev. Dean William McNulty,
rector of st. Johns Church, Paterson,
N. j., observed the fifty-seventh ami
versary of his ordination to the priest
hood on August 6. The venerable
priest is in excellent health. He has
been rector of st. Johns Church for
more than fifty years.
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Seminary Professor for French
Army.-Rev. John A. Nainfa, Profess
sor of Ecclesiastical History at the
Sulpician Seminary of ST. Mary in
Baltimore, has left to join the hospital
corps of the French Army to which he
belonged.
Indians Play as Well as Pray.-The
Bureau of Ethnology in Washington
receives many curious works about
Indians. One of the most interesting
is monthly paper, published in the
Micmac tongue by Father PacifQue
Quebec A,,o~- =