The Catholic bulletin., 1915-08-14
OLD WORLD NEWS.

OLD WORLD NEWS.
Catholics in ParIiament.-Ther
are now 81 Catholic members of Par
lament in the British House of Com
mons.
Japanese clergy.-The ordination of
a Japanese clergy is progressing.
Thirty-one native priests will soon be
ready to take us apostolic work.
cowIey Father convert.-Rev. Ber-
nard Moultrie, formerly Superior of
the Cowley Fathers, an Episcopalian
society, has become a Catholic. He
follows in the footsteps of Father
Maturin and Father Benson. Mr..
Moultrie is about fifty years of age,
the son of Rev. Gerald Moultrie, a
hymnologist of some note. His grand
father was the poet-vicar of Rugby
in the days of Arnold.
Lady Fielding.-Lady Dorothy
Fielding, daughter of the Catholic
Earl of Denbigh and Desmond, has
been decorated by the King of Bel
gium with the Royal Order of Leopold,
in recognition of her devoted service
to the wounded in Belgium.
ST. Vincent de PauI.-Since the out
break of the war, 1872 new Conferences
of the ST. Vincent de Paul Society
have been established in the world,
% of them in the United States, %
in Brazil, 21 in England, in France.
Four hundred members of the Society
have been killed in battles or have
died from wounds
AIsatian PreIates.-There are at
present fifteen missionary bishops
working in the foreign field, who come
| from the single Province of Alsace.
Besides these prelates, over 400 mis-
sionary priests, scattered all over the
world, are natives of the province.
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are many pious customs in Belgium
and one of them is to make what is
called the "Way of the Virgin" at
Malines on the night of the day pre-
ceding the feast of the Visitation,
in memory of Our Lady's journey over
the hills of Judea to her cousin, st.
Elizabeth. The tradition is that the
pilgrimage should take place at night.
Some two hundred pilgrims made the
sway" as usual at Malines this year.
| High Mass for Rossa.-Requiem
High Mass, attended by large con-
gregation, was celebrated in the Cath
olic Cathedral in Dublin, July %, over
the body of jeremiah O'Donovan
Rosa, the Irish patriot, who died on
Staten Island, N. Y, June 20. After the
ceremony the body was removed to
the city hall, where it will lie in state
before burial in Patriots Corner in
the Dublin suburb of Glasnaven. Mrs.
O'Donovan Rosa and her daughter
Eileen, were among the mourners at
the Cathedral.
Venice's New Patriarch.-The Vene-
tians have welcomed with great JOY
their new patriarch, Monsignor La
Fontaine. His father came from
French Switzerland, but married at
Viterbo a pious Italian girl. Ordained
priest in 1883, Dom Pietro La Fon-
taine became professor of Sacred
Eloquence, Holy Scripture and Lit.
urgy at the Grand Seminary of Viter
: bo. In 1905 he was appointed Canon
of the Cathedral by Plus x, and in
1907 was elected Bishop of Cassano
dIonio.
Dutch Priests in Army.-Many
: priests are leaving Holland these
days to serve with the German army
as chaplains. The Bishop of Roer
mond, Mgr. Schynen, ordained seven
priests few days ago in the chapel
attached to the Valkonburg Seminary
they are leaving Holland with &C
others in response to a call for Cath
olic chaplains by the German military
authorities.
Archaeological Discoveries.-Profes
sor Marucchi, the great Christian
archeologist, in lately written and
exhaustive article examines once
: more the proofs existent for the plac
ing of the spot of the martyrdom and
: first burial of ST. Peter on the ground
now covered by the central church
of Christendom, examining and refut
ing all that can be said for the Jani
} culum or other places. Simultane
ously Father Grossi-Gondi, S. J., con
tributes an article relating all the
i discoveries of recent years in the
Church of St. Sebastian on the Ap
plan Way, which go to prove ever
i more strongly than ever the later re
: moval of the bodies of the Princes
: of the Apostles in 26S when it became
! unsafe to leave them for fear of prof
] anation. He holds out hopes of still
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