The Catholic bulletin., 1915-08-14

the bill authorizing railroads to grant
reduced rates to ministers of religion.
Holy childhood.-T Holy Father
desires that the work of the Holy
Childhood" be established in all the
schools and colleges of the United
States.
Riqotry Press.-It is said that there
are nearly forty publications in this
country whose main object is tol
SANDER our clergy and sisterhoods.
Mother DrexeI's Latest.-The latest
benefaction of Mother Katherine
Drexel to the negroes of this country
is the purchase of the Crescent City
University of New Orleans for the
purpose of making it scientific and
domestic training college fer colored
girls.
Church Extension.-By the death of
Archbishop Quigley of Chicago, Arch
bishop Messmer of Milwaukee be-
comes acting Chancellor of the Catho-
lie Church Extension Society until the
see of Chicago is filled by the Holy
Father.
National Shrine.-The fund for the
erection on the campus of the Catho-
lie University of America of ma
tional shrine of the Immaculate Con-
ception is reaching the $4,000 mark,
and contributions are being received
daily from every section of the coun-
try.
American Seminaries.-There are
eighty-five ecclesiastical seminaries
located in the United States, with
6,770 young men studying for the
priesthood. There are 229 colleges
for boys and $50 academies for girls.
There are also 284 Catholic orphan
-asylums sheltering 45,742 orphans.
Aged Indian Dead.-The death took
place recently of Leona Ardilla, an
Indian woman whose age was COM
puted to be 113 years. She was
Catholic and was buried in the old
Indian graveyard at Pechanga, CAL,
with the rites of the Church.
America Protestant?-What sign is
there of this being a Protestant coun-
try? Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbot, Prot
estant minister, owner and publisher
of The Outlook, answers: "The only
indication we have that America is a
Protestant country is the practically
universal state law granting divorce" ;"
Drowning of Paulist NoVice.-While
cruising in a sailboat at Rehoboth,
Del, on Tuesday, July 20, John j.
Cavanaugh, a novice of the Paulist
community, fell into the water and
was drowned, although heroic efforts
were made to save him. The body was
recovered two days later and con-
veyed to the Paulist Fathers house,
New York.
Father Fay is Director-Rev. Sig
Quincy Fay has accepted the director
ship of Newman School in Hacken-
sack, N. J. Father Fay is to replace
DR.. Jesse Locke, who was the founder
of this high grade Catholic school for
boys. Both are converts and former
ministers in the Protestant Episcopal
Church.
Archbishop Seton.-The Most Rev.
DR.. Robert Seton, Titular Archbishop
of Heliopohs, on August 8 observed
the seventy-sixth anniversary of his
birth. Having lived for many years
in Rome, he now resides at Mount St
Mary's, Emmitsburg, Md.
Freaksh Georeia.-A bill which
was passed by the Georgia state
senate recently and is likely to be
come law, forbids the employment
in public or private educational insti
tutions of any white person to teach
colored persons. The passage of this
bill into law will very materially in
terfere with the splendid work which
members of our Catholic orders
priests, Brothers and nuns-haye beer
doing in educating the children of the
negro race in Georgia.
New Sanitarium.-Ground has beer
broken for a new wing to St. Thoma:
Sanitarium, Nashville, Tenn, ant
work will be pushed forward rapidly
The cost of the new addition, made
necessary by the great demand fol
room at st. Thomas, which is con
: Quoted by the Sisters of Charity O.
Nazareth, KY, will be 100000 anC
will be unsurpassed for the purposes
designed. When the new wing i;
completed, the oldest building of tht
group will be utilized entirely for th'
st. Thomas School for Trained
Nurses.
Argentine epubIic.-Cardinal Gas
parri, Papal Secretary of State, ha
sent the following telegram to tht
President of the Argentine Republic
whilst almost the whole of Europt
is a prey to the flames of frightfu
war, His Holiness is happy to Sc,
that the republics of the Argentine
Brazil and Chile, mindful of Christian
teaching and recognizing the tru
sources of social welfare, have jus
united in the bonds of fraternal amt,
to assure themselves mutually o
lasting progress. In congratulatini
the three republics the Holy Fathe