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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25
INVALID PRIEST DIES
BYRNE OF ROCKFORD,
ILL.,, WAS AN INVALID FOR
MANY YEARS.

The Rev. Patrick f. Az Byrne
passed away Saturday, September II,
at st. Anthony Hospital, Rockford,
ILL.,, where he had been a patient for
four years, suffered from a spinal
ailment with which he had been
afflicted for about six years.
The Right Reverend Bishop Null
doom of Rockford celebrated the
Requiem Mass and preached the ser
mon at the funeral in st. James Pro
Cathedral on September IA, after
which the remains were, borne to St.
James cemetery were burial took
place.
Father Byrne was born in Winnie
bago township, ILL.,, April 1, 1865. His
studies for the priesthood were made
at St. Francis Seminary, Milwaukee,
and ST. Johns Seminary, Boston. He
was ordained in 1891 by Archbishop
Williams of Boston for the Archdio-
cese of Chicago.
He was engaged in pastoral
work in several parishes in the Arch
diocese of Chicago and in the Diocese
of Rockford prior to 1911 when ILL
health forced him to retire to st.
Anthony's where he remained until
his death.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25
FATHER RYAN'S DEPARTURE

Maynooth College, Ireland, and
priest of the Diocese of Tuam.
Father Ryan was born in Vermil-
lion, Dakota County, Minnesota, May
rs, 1869. He was educated at Cretin
High School, the College of st.
Thomas and st. Paul Seminary, where
he was ordained on June 4, 1898. He
made a postgraduate course at the
Catholic University, Washington, and
was appointed member of the facul-
ty of st. Paul Seminary in 1902. Dur
ing these years DR.. Ryan has taken
great interest in social movements and
has made special study of ethics
in connection with industrial prob
lens. He is the author of number
of works on sociology, the best known
of which, "A Living Wage" written for
the doctorate at the Catholic Univer-
sity, is regarded as an authority on
the question with which it deals.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25

on December q, 1872 He served as
pastor Of the Church of the Sacred
Heart in Worcester from 1880 to 1896,
when he was appointed rector of the
Catholic University, Washington, d.
c., where he remained for seven
years. He was consecrated Titular
Bishop of Samos on November "a,
1901, and on March 27, 1903, was APP
pointed Bishop of Monterey and Los
Angeles in succession to the late
Bishop Montgomery, who had been
appointed coadiutor to the Archbishop
of San Francisco. During his resi-
dence in Los Angeles, Bishop Conaty
labored indefatigably for the advance
ment of the religious and temporal
welfare of his people. Many new
parishes were opened and diocesan in
stitutions established under his direc-
tion.
A few weeks ago he suffered an
acute. attack of liberation of the
stomach, from which he apparently re-
covered in as much as he felt able
to. take part in the celebration of
Catholic Day. last Sunday at the
San Diego Exposition. His death on
the preceding day caused a post
ponement of this celebration until
Sunday, October "a.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25
CATHOLIC BAN ON BELOIT COLLEGE

they must attend Bible classes and
chapel services on Sunday afternoon.
while l readily admit many Catho-
lies do not understand this part of
church discipline, and possibly in good
faith allow their children to attend
these services, they must be informed
regarding their sacred duty before God.
"It is evident that no Catholic boy
or girl can possibly attend such sec
tartan exercises and Bible classes, and
no Catholic parents can allow their
children to attend, without committing
grievous sin against their religion"
About twenty-five of the most prom
inent students at Beloit College are
Catholics and the priests of Beloit have
made every effort to have the faculty
modify the rule obliging all students
to attend chapel exercises in so far as
it applies to Catholic students, but the
faculty refused to grant the request, the
President of the College declaring that
the services were non-sectarian and
that there was no reason why Catho-
lies should not attend them.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25
FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY
HAS BEEN PLACED DIRECTLY
UNDER THE PRoPAGANDA-oF-
FlcIAL DOCUMENTS RECEIVED
FROM ROME.

The Catholic Foreign Mission So
ciety at Maryknoll, Ossining, N. Y,
has received from Rome it's Decretum
Laudis decree of Praise), and will
henceforward be directly under the
Sacred Congregation of Propaganda.
NE documents were forwarded to
His Eminence Cardinal Farley, in
whose Archdiocese the Society has
established it's centre, and delivered
personally to the superior of the
seminary.
Accompanying the documents, which
included the approved rule of this
young Society of secular priests, was
a letter from Cardinal Gotti to Car.
dinal Farley, remarking the gratifica.
tion of His Holiness and of the Con
gregation at the progress already
made by the American Society, which
seems to have been providentially
Instituted to meet the existing needs
The Catholic Foreign Mission So
ciety was approved by the Arch.
bishops of the United States four
years ago last April, and two months
later, at Rome, the organizers were
authorized by Pope Plus x to open a
seminary for the training of priests
destined for the heather missions. The
Society purchased land near Ossining
N. Y, in August, 1912, and received
six students the following month.
Maryknoll now registers thirty
eight students, eighteen of whom are
in the departments of Theology and
Philosophy. Within a year four OF
its aspirants will be priests.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25
BISHOP DECLINES GIFT
DIOCESE OF NEWARK CANNOT.
USE PROPERTY OFFERED
BY MRS. vERNAM.

The Right Reverend Bishop O'Con-
nor of Newark, N. j., has declined the
offer of Mrs. Florence G. Vernam,
widow of Remington Vernam, one
time prominent lawyer of New York
and sister of the late Governor
Black to present to the Diocese of
Newark, her handsome country estate
The Lilacs' at Oakland, near Pater-
son. Explaining his declination,
Bishop O'Connor commended Mrs.
vernam for her generous offer, but
stated that he believed the various
charities, orphanages, ETC., of his
diocese to be well equipped with suit
able buildings or so thoroughly estab-
lished in their respective locations
that a transfer to Oakland would be
impracticable; that he had not imme-
.diately in mind any charitable work
to which it could be devoted to advan,
tage. Consequently, il he took the
property he would not know what dis.
position to make of it.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25
NE MORTAL STATUE
"cHRIsT THE LIGHT OF THE
WORLD" PRESENTED TO DUN
WooDIE SEMINARY BY CAR
DlNAL FARLEY IN MEMORY or
ARCHBISHOP coRRleAN.

Cardinal Farley has purchased the
famous heroic bronze statue, Christ
the Light of the World" the sculptor
of which was the late Samuel J. Kit.
son, and presented it to St. Joseph's
Seminary, Dunwoodie, the theological
training school for priests of the Arch
diocese of New York.
The statue has been erected in the
center of the campus in front of the
seminary as a memorial to Arch
bishop Corrigan, the predecessor of
the Cardinal as head of the See of
New York, and will be unveiled on
September 20.
This is a personal gift of the Car
dinal to the seminary, and he is
making it for two reasons He wants
the young levites to receive in.
spiration from the statue, which has
already won admiration on two con
tinents, and he desires to honor the
memory Of Archbishop Corrigan, who
founded the seminary.
The statue is seven and one-hali
feet high and stands on a pedestal
of dark, polished Vermont granite siz
and one-half feet high.
The unwilling was to have taker
place May 5 last, the thirteenth ami
lversary of the death of Archbishop
Corrigan, but strike of the granite
workers caused a delay. Septembel
29 is the Feast of ST. Michael, th.
patron saint of the late Archbishop
Cardinal Farley will preside at tn,
ceremony, and it is expected that sey
eral Bishops and many priests vii
lattena.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25
GROWTH OF PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS

there are over 5000 parishes in which
there are no Catholic schools. Most
of the 5,488 Catholic parochial schools
are located in the large cities and
towns. There are thousands of small
towns were the Catholic population is
insufficient to build and maintain a
parochfal school. 1t is estimated that
as a consequence from twenty-five to
thirty per cent of Catholic children in
the United States attend the district
or public schools and here we have
one reason-and very potent one
why Catholics manifest so deep an in
terest in the public schools; it sex-
plains their insistence that the public
schools stay within certain limits and
that they remain strictly secular.
This, in fact, has been the inspira-
tion for the building-up Of parochial
school system in the United States.
Catholic parents realize the impor-
tance of religious training for their
children. To give them the benefit of
a Catholic education they have cheer
fully made whatever sacrifices were
necessary. In addition to helping to
maintain the public schools, they
have voluntarily taxed themselves to
build and maintain the Catholic
schools. While we may smart under
the inequality of double taxation, we
feel that the burden we have as
sumed in addition to that which the
State imposes, is at the same time a
labor of love-
If all the Catholic schools in the
United States were abolished tomor-
row, the State would be put to the
necessity of expending over 100000
600 for buildings alone, while the
salaries to additional teachers would
exceed $30,000,000 year. Just by SO
much do the Catholics Of the United
States tighten the burden of the tax
payers in the country; and if the
sacrifices they have made and are
making for conscience sake have not
earned for them the respect Of those
who dissent from their views, at least
the non-C Catholic public should be
grateful to them for the double burden
of public debt which they have car
ried unfiinchingly.
The establishment and maintenance
of parochial schools does not imply
the condemnation Of public schools or
Opposition of any kind, to the purpose
for which they we're established, but
Catholics insist upon teaching, to-
gether with the branches taught in
the public schools, religion and re-
ligious morality. Consequently, re-
garding the spiritual interests of the
child supreme, they have been willing
to make sacrifices to maintain their
lseparate schools. They are convinced
that, next to religion, morality is the
most important matter in the life of
a child, and that morality is best
taught when based on religion. They
know from experience that the curri-
culum Of the school Is best presented
when it is organized and unified, and
religion. appealing as it does to the
heart as well as to the head, offers
/ Continued on page Az
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THE STORY OF THE FOUNDING
AND DEVELOPMENT OF PARo-
cHIAL SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED
sTATEs-HoNoR TO OUR CATH
oLlc PEOPLE AND TEACHING
COMMUNITIES.

One of the most interesting stories
of achievement in the United States
is that of the growth and development
Of the Catholic parochial school-the
Flower of the Church, writes Rev. F.
A. Purcell, in Extension"
From an humble beginning it has
assumed the dimensions of wonder
full system whose influence for good is
felt throughout the length and breadth
of this our land Not only have Cath
olics themselves been benefited by the
Catholic school system, but also the
nation, for assuredly to develop the
youth of the land into Christian men
and women is no small contribution to
the country's welfare and integrity.
The first traces of an endeavor to
establish Catholic schools can be found
in the efforts of the early Franciscan
and Jesuit missionaries, who recog-
nized the need and usefulness of
schools in their missions. New Mex
leo seems to have been the first terri
tory i'm which we're established Cath
olic schools for the natives "a D..
1899. The Catholic educational work
in the Thirteen Colonies dates from
the arrival of Calvert in Maryland,
the first Catholic school being found
ed there in 1640 From that time for
ward history shows energetic attempts
in various sections Of the country to
establish Catholic schools.
But it was not until the beginning
Of the nineteenth century that the
Catholic school began to take aggres-
sive root in American soil. The first
authoritative declaration of the
Church in the United States on the
subject OF parochial schools emanated
from the First Provincial Council of
Baltimore in 1929, which declared it
to be absolutely necessary that
schools should be established in which
the young may be taught the principles
of faith and morality, while being in.
structed In letters" BY 1S40 there is
record Of two hundred parish schools
in the United States. During the fol
lowing two decades this number had
multiplied several times, the greatest
growth, of course, being in the more
denseIy populated sections Of the coun-
TRY. particularly the East.
The growth can best be judged by
comparative figures. In 1860 there
were probably less than eight hundred
4 parish schools in the United States;
lin 1915. or within period Of fifty
four years, the number of schools, to
tailed 1895
Il There are, according to the Catholic
Directory for 1915, total Of 1926
i Catholic churches in the United
Estates and 5,488 schools. Consequent!
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25
BIGO Try DEFEATED D.
MEASURES DESIGNED TO HARAss
THE CHURCH EXCLUDED FROM
THE NEW CONSTITUTION OF
NEW YORK STATE.

Five months labor on the part of
the New York State Constitutional
Convention came to close last week,
and the weighty document on which
the delegates have been laboring
since early in April is now ready for
submission to the voters on next cleo
tion day. The closing of the Con-
stitutional Convention also marks the
close of one of the greatest battles
between the Bigotss md the Catholics
that New York has ever witnessed,
says "The Tablet" of Brooklyn. The
battle was conducted quietly, and, in
large part, under cover. The COM
munity is fortunate that it ended as
well as it did
The forces of bigotry in the State,
in addition to the delegates whose
election they had obtained for the
purpose of having them introduce
measures that were designed to harass
the Church in her work, maintained
a powerful lobby during the whole
time of the convention. When public
hearings were held, they always had
strong advocates of their position.
But in every case they found that
their efforts were unsuccessful. The
Constitution as it will be offered to
the voters on November 2, contains
not single item on which the forces
of bigotry may claim to have made
an advance into the domain of the
Church. For the next twenty years
at least the present harmonious rela-
tions of Church and State in New
York are assured
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25
CARDINAL L0RENzELLI DEAD.
PREFEcT OF THE CONGREGATION
OF STUDIES PASSES AWAY IN
ROME AFTER A DISTINGUISHED
DIPLOMATIC cAREER-cREATED|
A CARDINAL IN 1907.

His Eminence Cardinal Benedetto
Lorenzelli, Prefect of the Congrega-
ton of Studies, died in Rome on Sep
tember 16. He was a native of Badi
in the Archdiocese of Bologna and
was born on May IL, 1853. On the
completion of his special sudies in
Canon and Civil Law in Rome he was
appointed Professor of Philosophy in
the Propaganda College by Pope Leo
XIII, and when the Bohemian College
was founded he was appointed rector.
In 1898 he was sent as Internuncio to
the court of Holland. Three years later
he was consecrated Titular Arch
bishop of Sardi and appointed Apostle
lie Nuncio to Bavaria, and in 1899 he
was sent in a similar capacity to
Paris, where he remained until the
breaking off of diplomatics relations
between the Holy See and France in
1904. On his return to Rome he was
appointed Archbishop of Lucca and
in the consistory of April Is, 1907,
His Holiness Pope Plus x created and
him member of the Sa-
cred College of Cardinals. He was
the author of textbook in philos-
ophy.
The death of Cardinal Lorenzelli re-.
duces the membership of the Sacred
College to fifty-five. He is the third
Cardinal who died during the past
month, the others being Cardinals
VannJto11i ond VaczorU
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\ LOYAL CATHOLIC AND A
DEVOTED PUBLIC OFFICIAL
succuMRs TO LONG ILLNESS
FUNERAL AT THE CATHEDRAL
a TRIBUTE TO HIS PERSONAL
WORTH.

When Henry G. Haas, pioneer citi-
zen of st. Paul, died suddenly at the
home of his daughter on Friday, Sep
tember II, the community lost an
upright and conscientious citizen of
the highest probity, the city public
official of spotless integrity and un-
selfish devotion to duty, and the
Church a loyal and devoted member
whose unostentatious piety was the
natural towering of deep-rooted faith.
He was respected by his fellow citi-
zens as a man of sterling character
who never allowed selfish considera-
tion to swerve him from the path OF
duty, who placed principle above
policy and exemplified in his own life
both private and public, the highest
ideals of American citizenship. He
was a practical Catholic who could
always be relied upon to do his full
duty towards the church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25

Sometimes we are very unlucky
about our terminology-the use OF
terms. We connect with one and the
same word several ideas, which,
though more or less related to each
other, are by no means identical.
Speaking about church music, people
in general, and but too often,. also
musical people dispute without under
standing each other. After listening
to a "Lauda Sion by Mendelssohn, or
some such composition, one will say:
THAT is perfectly beautiful; that is
true church music" Another begs to
differ: "That is not church music,
not by any means" Both are sub
iectively correct. But if third one
would venture to say: Both of you
cannot be correct, one of you is
wrong" he would certainly be correct.
A good many people imagine that
church music is that class of compo-
sitions, which by their text and char
acter are expressive of religious
thought and provoking religious senti-
ment. A sacred song, e. g., "The Holy
City," or Nearer My God To Thee"
many would at once declare good
church music, and in the minds of
many there is not the least doubt,
that the sacred Oratorios, such
as the "Messias" by Haendel belong
to that class of music.
Not to distinguish between religious
and ecclesiastical or church music, is
the fundamental error in the question
before us. The songs and compost
tions before mentioned may be relig-
ious. music, but they are far from be-
ing church music-liturgical music.
There is a vast difference between
the two. All church music is religious
music, but not vice versa.
The Role of Church Music.
What then is church music? The
church whose mission it is to raise
fallen man, ts draw hi y aMay rom
the unstable things of time, and lead
him to the contemplation of the spirit
ual, supernatural, and eternal, uses all
that is beautiful in art, and renders 1t
conducive to this end. This is the
reason for the external grandeur of
her worship; her magnificent Cathe-
drals and Churches, the elevated
dome, the beautiful arch, the master
pieces of painting and sculpture, the
lights of the altar, and the smoke of
incense, the vestments of the priests
and levites; all these are intended by
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25
70 nd BEtGIAAs
COLONIZATION COM
PANY WILL BRING BELGIAN
CHILDREN TO AMERICA.

Rev. Julius Devos, secretary of the
Catholic Colonization Company, Chi
cago, has sailed for Belgium. He is
on a special mission and il making
the trip under the auspices of the Bel
GUM American Alliance and the Chi
cago Tribune. Father Deyos has been
furnished with list Of ESQ names Of
children i'm Belgium, whose relatives
in this country have arranged to care
for them. The devoted priest will re
turn with them to the United States
Some Of the little ones win be accom-
panied by their mothers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25
R0VITIATE FOR BROTHERS
IRISH CHRISTIAN BROTHERS
OPEN NovITIATE IN NEW YORK.

In order to aid him in meeting the
urgent appeal for Brothers, the Super
ior-General of the Christian Brothers
of Ireland has decided to establish a
novitiate in this country. With the
sanction of the Holy See and the ap-
probation of His Eminence Cardinal
Farley, the novitiate will be located in
the Archdiocese of New York. A
house has been secured for the pur-
pose at 167 Winyah avenue, New Ro-
chelle, and the novitiate will be open.
ed on September 8, the feast Of Our
Lady's Nativity.
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The Right Reverend Thomas J..
Conaty, Bishop of Monterey and Los
Angeles, California, died suddenly on
September IS in Coronado, near San
Diego, whittier he had gone to recuper-
ate after an illness of some weeks
duration. The funeral services took
place from st. Vihian's Cathedral on
Friday Of this week and were attended
~ large number of prelates, priests
and people.
The late Bishop Conaty was a ma
tive of County Gavin, Ireland, where
he was born on August /, 1847. At an
early age he came to the United
States and after graduation from
Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass,
in 1859, entered the Grand Seminary
in Montreal, where he was ordained
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25
DEATH OF BISHOP CONATY

SUDDEN DEATH AFTER A FEW
WEEKS lLLNEss-A FORMER
RECTOR OF THE CATHOLIC uNI-
siTY-coNsEcRATED IN 1901
AND TRANSFERRED TO Los AN
GELEs IN fs03-FUNERAL FROM
ST. vlRlAN's CATHEDRAL ON
FRIDAY.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25
PIPE ORGAN DONATED
NoN-cATHoLlc GIVES $500 PIPE
ORGAN TO DENVER CHURCH.

Samuel L. Baxter of Denver, Colo,
proprietor of the Isis theatre, a non
Catholic, has presented the Holy
Ghost Church, of which the Rev. Gar
Hrett ]. Burke is rector, with pipe
organ valued at more than $500
The organ, which is one of the finest
instruments Of its kind in Denver, had
been used in the large moving picture
house owned by Mr.. Baxter but was
not needed after he installed the
largest HopesJones unit organ in the
world at an outlay OF $4,000.
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APPOINTED PROFESSOR AT THE
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, WASH
INGToN-AN AUTHORITY ON so.
cloLoGY-A NATIVE OF MINNIE
sofa AND A MEMBER OF THE
ST. PAUL SEMINARY STAFF
SINCE 1902.

Last Saturday evening the Rever-
end John A. Ryan, D. D., for the
past thirteen years Professor of Moral
Theology and Political Economy in
st. Paul Seminary, left for Washing
ton, d. c., where he will begin his
duties as Professor of Social Science
in the Catholic University next week.
His place at st. Paul Seminary has
been taken by the Reverend Father
Waldron, graduate of the Dunboyne,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25
ARCHBISHOP MEssMER OF MIL
WAuKEE FoRRIDs CATHOLIC
STUDENTS TO ATTEND BELoIT
COLLEGE UNLESS THEY ARE
EXCUSED FROM CHAPEL SERV-
ICES REFUSES TO
EXEMPT THEM.

A letter from the Most Reverend
Archbishop Messmer of Milwaukee,
prohibiting Catholic students from at
tending Beloit College, Beloit, Wis, un-
til the rule making it compulsory for
them to attend religious services in the
College chapel is changed, was read in
the Catholic Churches of Beloit last
Sunday. The Most Reverend Arch
bishop said in part:
Il have been credibly informed that
all students in the college are bound
10 attend services in the college chapel,
in which there is recitation of prayers
and singing of hymns, and further that