The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-07-04
NEW WORLD ITEMS.

Church for Washington Italians
A movement is now under way to
build a church for the Catholic Itali-
ans in Washington. They now meet
in the various churches of the city.
An Italian priest, Rev. Nicholas de
Carlo, has been placed in charge of
the work.
Knights of ST. John in Session.
The thirty-first International Confer
ence of the knights of ST. John
opened in Cincinnati, o., June p, with
business session and a monster par
ade in which 5000 knights took part.
More than 5000 visiting knights had
registered.
Ten Jubilarians.-The silver jubilee
of ten priests of the Archdiocese of
Philadelphia, took place June Is.
Franciscan Father Receives Doctor
ate.-ReV. Father Othmar Hellmann,
o. M. c., of Syracuse, n Y, has just
received the Doctorate of Sacred Scrip
ture from the Roman Biblical Com,
mission. He obtained the highest hon
ors in his examinations and the board
of examiners have declared that his
final thesis is the most brilliant that
has ever been presented to the Bibli.
cal Commission.
Priest Finds Observation-Disclosures Col
bacchini, missionary of the Salesian
Order, announces the discovery by him
of a great waterfall on the Rio das
Mortes, in the Malta Crosse, Brazil
Hartford's Catholic Mayor.-The
Georgetown College Journal is justly
proud of the new Mayor of Hartford
Conn, Mr.. Joseph H. Lawler, for he
was once an editor of that interest
ing college magazine. Mr.. LaWler is
only thirty years old.
To Beautify Monastery Chapel
William Laurel Harris, mural painter
of New York, has been commissioned
by John d. Crimmins of New York
and members of his family to decorate
the interior of the Corpus Christ
chapel, that city, built at Hunts Point
in memory of the late Mrs John D
Crimmins. The chapel is a conse
Grated monastery of the Dominican
Sisters of the Perpetual Alteration, ar
ancient order of clustered nuns. Al
elaborate scheme of decoration will
be carried out under the supervision
of Mr.. Harris who has been identified
for several years with the interior
decoration of the Church of the Paul
list Fathers in New York City.
New Knight of ST. Gregory-Mr
Thos. B. Fitzpatrick of Boston has
been appointed a Knight of st. Gre
CORY. Mr.. Fitzpatrick was the reel
pient of the Laetare medal about ter
years ago.
HiIaire BeIIoc coming.-TIilaire Bel
loo will come to the United States
for lecture tour next fall and win
ter. One of his addresses will be
on "The Possible Future of Industri
alism," in which he will present what
he believes to be an antidote for So
cialisM.
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Detroit Catholic Statistics.-Tht
estimated Catholic population of the
city of Detroit, according to Rev. Wal
ter Marion, the Chancellor, is 100000
and for the diocese, about 100000
Detroit now has forty-two Catholic
churches, and they are crowded tt
the doors at several Masses every
Sunday morning. These figures show
a gain of fifty thousand Catholics il
the city in the past two years.
Former Reservations New Church
The people of the former Spokane
Indian reservation are erecting Cath
Ollie church near the Joe La Fleu
ranch on the west end of the reserva
ton.
Printers Plead for Church.-Eigh
hundred printers and other nigh
workers held mass meeting in from
of st. Andrews Church, New York
recently to take action looking to thu
preservation of the old edifce, which
at present is included among tn,
buildings to be demolished for tn,
new Court House and civic center
st. Andrews is the Church at which
the night-workers' Mass was started
fourteen years ago by the Rev. LUX,
J. Evers, the rector, who is also
chaplain of the Tombs. 1t has beer
used as church building for ninety
seven years, and has been Catholic
church for the last seventy-four years
The men who attend the "midnigh
Mass" while not opposing any civi,
improvement, urged that the Board O
Estimate leave the old church out o
it's plans. A committee was appointed
to present the views of the nigh
workers to the Board of Estimate.
Catholic Deaf Mute Conference
There was a Catholic Deaf Mute Con
ference at Atlantic City, N. J., June 2
to July 2. The features were: Paper
twenty-five years with the Deaf,
the Rev. M. M. Gerend, president ST
Johns Institute for the Deaf, st. Fran
els, Wis.,; paper, Field Work for tn
Deaf" the Rev. Eugene Gehl, st. Fran
els, Wis; paper, Our Experience O
Methods" nv a Sister of CT Tosnnh