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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-01
HOLY FATHER MISQUOTED

and misinterpreted, their scope altered
and their salutary effects neutralized.
Instead of an interview, Won Wiegand
was granted an audience in which the
Holy Father, alluding to peace, "ex-
pressed his repeated most ardent wish
for peace and referred to his daily
prayers for peace, and further, that
when the neutral Powers, including
the United States of America, which
undoubtedly occupies the first place
among them, considered the moment
opportune to initiate action toward
peace, he would most gladly use his
entire influence toward such a noble
cause" The "Osservatore Romano
insists that the Pope said nothing
more than this and blames Won Vie
gand for altering the Popes words
The editorial concludes by deploring
the lack of respect for the Pope's
magnanimous intentions shown by the
unfaithful Interpretation of his words.
On more than one occasion the Holy
See has declared it's absolute neutral
ity in regard to the war and one may
be sure that the Pope will never give
expression to views at variance with
that position. He deplores the war and
is doing all he can to promote peace;
and it is unfair on the part of any cor
respondent to try to drag him over to
one side or the other.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-01
PRELATE's GOLDEN JUBILEE
BISHOP CUNNINGHAM OF CON-
coRDlA WAS ORDAINED FIFTY
YEARS Aeo-coNsEcRATED IN
1898.

The Right Reverend Bishop Gun
ningham of Concordia Kans,, will
celebrate his golden 1uBAee US a priest
on August of this year. Born in
County Kerry, Ireland, in 1912, John
F. Cunningham came to the United
States in his early years. His educa.
tion was obtained at Saint Benedict's,
Atchison, Kans., and Saint Francis
Seminary, Milwaukee, Wis. He was
ordained priest August s, 1865, and
began his ministry under Bishop
Miege of LeavenWorth. Those were
the pioneer days in Kansas and Father
Cunningham was in every respect a
pioneer. He experienced in full the
work of upbuilding. state and his
work was to upbuild religion with the
state. The field of his labors extended
from Paola to Fort Smith and from
Usage Mission to. Deepwater in Mis-
souri,. He was for several years
Vicar General of the Diocese of Leav.
enworth and was rector of the Cathe
dral in that city when he was ap.
pointed Bishop of Concordia in 1898
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-01
THE PROBLEM OF DIVORCE

lion from bed and board without the
right to remarry.
Perhaps as much as can be expected
in this line of legislation, would be
the enactment in each State of a law
prohibiting, under penalty of nullity,
the remarriage of divorced person,
unless permitted by the law of the
State where the divorce was granted.
Such law would prevent great
many divorces, for the desire to marry
someone else is the moving cause in
most cases, and the more difficult we
can make it for the divorces to marry
again, the fewer will be the number of
marriages dissolved. A striking in
stance in point that would have been
prevented by such law and one which
shocked public decency throughout the
Union, was that of the New York
multimillionaire, who married again in
another State shortly after his first
wife had obtained divorce in New
York dissolving their marriage, and
forbidding him to marry again, because
of his unfaithfulness. The best of this
mans life seemed to have been its
close on the ill-fated Titanic, when he
cheerfully met death in order that his
new wife and other women might be
saved.
Nearly everyone who has given the
divorce problem the slightest study ad-
mits that it is one which must be
solved and that promptly. In the
United States divorce is spreading
with alarming rapidity. 1t has per.
meated every walk of life, and is prev
alent among every class Of people.
America Leads the World in Divorce
The total number of divorces
granted in 1867 was 9.937. or 81 pei
100000 population. Forty years later
in 1906, there were 1902 divorces, OF
Sc per 100000: thus, in actual mum
bers, there were more than seven
times as many divorces granted in
1906 as in 1867, or, allowing for the in
creased population, divorce has in
creased 319 per cent. To put it iI
another way, in 1867 there was one
divorce for every 1866 people, while
in 1906 there was one for every 1,162
If divorces multiply at the same rate
in the future as in the past and ther,
is every indication that they win in
crease faster then, before the middle
| 1COntinued on page 81
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come from the working classes nor
is it expressive of their hopes and
aspirations. None of the recognized
leaders and authorities on Socialism
belong to the laboring class. He point
ed out the difference between Social
ism and other movements, such as
Social Reform and Government Own
ership, with which it is too often con-
founded. BY quoting from the recog-
nized authorities on the subject, Mr.
Collins showed that Socialism not only
never put dollar in the pay envelope
of the working man, but that it's doc
trines are diametrically opposed to
Trade-Unionism in as much as it is a
destructive movement which would rob
the workingman of living wage and
OF private property of all kinds, while
Trade Ullionism is constructive
movement, the sole purpose of which
is the betterment of the working class.
He admitted the existence of indus
trial evils in the world and showed
that a cure for them could be found
not in Socialism, but in the application
of Christian principles of justice and
right to the conditions tna5 prevail in
society today.
There was large number of social
lists present at the meeting and at the
close of his lecture Mr.. Collins ans
wered all the questions they asked
and showed very clearly that the ordi-
nary Socialist knows very little about
the principles and philosophy of So
cialism and that he is the best exhibit
that can he produced to show the alb
surdities Of the socialistic propaganda.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-01
"ossERVAToRE ROMANO" SAYS
AMERICAN JOURNALIST DIS
ToRTED HIS INTERVIEW WITH
POPE BENEDICT xV-WHAT THE
POPE REALLY SAID.

There was published in the New
York World" of April II what pur
ported to be notable interview given
by Pope Benedict XIV to Karl Won Vie,
gand, an American journalist, in which
the Holy Father was supposed to have
appealed to the United States to aid in
bringing about peace, or rather to
avoid prolonging the war by refusing
to supply munitions OF war to the
Allies.
- AS soon as the interview printed in
the World" reached Rome it brought
forth an immediate denial published in
the "Osservatore Romano" the official
organ of the Vatican. At the same
time the Cardinal Secretary of State
assured the British, Russian, and Bel
gian ENJOYS that no appeal was made
to America on the subject of discon-
tinuing the supply of war munitions
to the Allies and similar assurances
were cabled to Washington.
The "Osservatore Romano" deplores
in strong terms the fact that the mean
ing of the Pope's words were distorted
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-01
SISTERS ACQUIRE SCHOOL
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY WILL BE
USED FOR EDUCATION OF
coLoRED CHILDREN.

Great interest was aroused in re-
ligious and educational circles in New
Orleans recently when it was learned
that the Southern University build
ings and grounds on Magazine Street
were bought by Mr.. McEnerny for the
Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for
Indians and Colored People, who will
carry on the work of, the Southern
University under Catholic auspices.
Mother Katharine Drexel, who is
the founder and head of the order,
established in the interests of the Col
ored and Indian races went to New
Orleans for the transaction of this
important piece of business. She was
accompanied by Mother Mercedes,
from the Motherhouse of the Order,
which is located at Cornwells, Pa.
In regard to the Southern Univer.
sity, the Sisters have not fully devel.
oped their plans, but they mean to
carry on most of their educational
work along the same lines as those
formerly conducted in the University
The Sisters will assume charge of
their new buildings in September, and
their college will be opened in the be
ginning of October, with the com
mencement of the school term. The
college will include a training school
for teachers, and will combine, with
its academic work, courses in domes
tic science and domestic art-scien
tific training in the preparation OF
food and the making of garments.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-01
BISHOP D0RAN CONsECRATED
CEREMONY TOOK PLACE IN THE
PROVIDENCE CATHEDRAL ON
APRIL 2s-BlsHoP HARkINs OF
FlcIATED.

The conservation of the Right Rev
erend Thomas F. Doran, Titular Bish-
op of Halicarnassus, and Auxiliary to
Bishop Harkins of Providence, r. L.,
took place in the Cathedral of SIS.
Peter and Paul in that city, on We'd
nesday morning, April %. Right Rev.
erend Bishop Harkins was the conse-
Grating prelate, and the Right Rever-
end Louis S. Walsh, Bishop of Port
land, Me-, and the Right Reverend
Austin Dowling, Bishop of Des Moines,
Ia, were the assistant consecrators
The Very Rev. P. l.. Duffy, LII. D.,
Vicar General of the Diocese of Char
lesion, S. c., preached the sermon.
The first public reception rendered
to Bishop Doran after his con-
secration took place Thursday evening
in Infantry hall, when the people of
his parish and of st. Sebastian's, for
merly a part of st. Joseph's, presented
a testimonial to him. The gathering
was presided over by Thomas F. Mona
han, chairman of the reception COM
mittee, and addresses were delivered
by Rev. James A. Craig, pastor of ST.
Sebastian's, Mr.. George Hurley of St.
Joseph's and Michael J. Dooley. The
presentation address was made by Dr.
William F. Flanagan.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-01
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY JUBILEE

of the appreciation and support of
your fellow-citizens, especially Of your
Catholic people and particularly of
your clergy.
j In this connection We will not with
\ hold Our praise from the Knights of
Columbus, who, as you lately inform
ed Us, by their splendid contribution
to the funds of the university, have
carried into effect their wisely con-
ceived design of extending to young
men less favored by fortune the ad-
vantages of a solid and at the same
time a Christian education. This no
BILE example of beneficence, which all
good men approve, We hold up for
imitation and generous emulation to
all who are blessed with means, and
We heartily wish that you yourselves,
beloved sons and venerable brethren,
will advance the cause of the univer-
sity by sending to it students whose
superior qualities of mind and disposi-
tion give promise of the best results.
In addition to other advantages
which are thence to be expected, the
clergy of the Church in America will
receive one and the same culture and
training, and this-We speak to those
who know by experience-means
without doubt clergy whose piety
will bear richer fruit because of their
more active and more harmonious CO.
operation for common purpose.
This blessing We implore with
prayerful instance from God, and as
an earnest of heavenly favors and
token of Our good will, We most low
ingly in the Lord bestow upon you
all, beloved sons and venerable breth-
rem, upon the rector, the professors
and the students of the university.
and upon the knights Of Columbus as
well, Our Apostolic Benediction.
Given at st. Peters, Rome, this 18th
day of March, 1915.
In the first year of Our pontificate.
BENEDICT XIV, Pope.
| On the evening of the Jubilee day
the Alumni of the University held a
banquet in the New Willard Hotel
which was attended by several hun
dred members of the Association and
the guests of honor, the Rectors of
the University present at the cele-
bration, namely, the Most Reverend
John j. Keane, retired Archbishop Of
Dubuque, the organizer and first Rec
tor of the University; the Right Rev
erend D. J. O'Connell, Bishop of Rich
mond, the third Rector; and the Right
Reverend Thomas ]. Shahan, who
now occupies that important position
at the head of the institution. The
Rev. VIM. T. Fletcher of Baltimore,
retiring President of the Association,
presided at the banquet and addresses
we're made. by the Right Reverend
Bishop Hayes of New York, Right Rev
erend Bishop Rodriguez Of Pinar del
Rio, Cuba, Right Reverend Mgr. Has
sett of Harrisburg, and Clarence L.
Martin of New York.
CONTINUED on page ~
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-01
LAETARE MEDAL BESTOWED
FORMAL PRESENTATION TO MISS
MERRIck BY DR.. cAvANAueH
OF NoTRE DAME UNIVERSITY.

In the presence of Chief Justice
White of the Supreme Court of the
United States, number of distin
.guished clergymen and laymen, the
board of the Christ Child Society OF
Washington, and relatives and friends
of the family, the Very Reverend John
Cavanaugh, president of the Univer.
sity of Notre Dame, presented the
Laetare Medal to Miss Mary v. Mer.
rick at her residence on S Street, on
Sunday afternoon, April Is.
Mgr James F.. Mackin, pastor OF
Saint Paul's Church, Washington, in
a few we'll chosen words received the
medal for Miss Merrick, after which
addresses were made by Rev VIM. J.
Kerby of the Catholic University, and
Mr.. George E. Hamilton, dean of the
Georgetown University Law School.
The medal is round and of gold,
beautifully wrought, with the emblem
of the Christ Child on blue ground
adorning the front, while on the re-
verse side is engraved Mary Virginia
Merrick,'' Presented by the Univer-
sity of Notre Dame" Above is a cross,
with the words ''Laetare Medal in
scribed on it.
Miss Merrick is the daughter of the
late Richard V. Merrick, one of the
ablest jurists of his time, and the
founder of the Christ Child Society.
The society began it's life in Wash
ington, but has rapidly developed un-
til now it has fourteen branches in
various cities throughout the United
States; membership in Washington
of 1,175, and a total membership Of
3,454.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-01
RELICS OF THE TRUE CROSS
ALL THE FRAGMENTS IN EXIST.
ENcE WOULD MAKE BUT A
SMALL CROSS.

The silly statement is still repeated.
says the Ave Maria," that there are
enough relics of the True Cross to
build ship-even enough for the con-
struction of whole fleet, according to
some sneering wiseacres. AS matter
of fact, however, all the attested frag-
ments in existence-most of them are
the merest splinters-would not make
a cross too large for a child to bear.
The learned M. de Fleury estimated
that cross of the size used for execu-
tion would contain, say about 178,000,-
900 cubic milIimetres, whereas the to-
tai of the pieces Of the True Cross
preserved amount to only 3,942,000
cubic millimetres. How far this would
go toward building a ship, not to speak
of an entire fleet, is too absurd to be
considered. Not only was M. de
Fleury's estimate very conservative
one, but he made allowance for relics
destroyed In fires or otherwise lost.
1t is well known that all the old
Cathedrals of Europe preserved inven-
tories of their sacred relics and works
of art.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-01

Last Tuesday evening about eight
hundred people attended the lecture on
Socialism given in the knights of Co
lumbus Auditorium under the auspices
of st. Paul Council by Mr.. Peter w
Collins, of Chelsea, Mass, who is tour.
ing the country under the direction OF
the Supreme Council of the Order for
the purpose of discussing the relation
between Socialism and Trade-Union
ism.
Mr. Collins lecture was listened to
with the greatest attention. He began
by pointing out the difference between
the academic language in which the
doctrines of Socialism are clothed in
the schools and by its recognized lead
ers and that used by the ordinary soap
box orator to arouse illegitimate dis
content among workingmen. Social
ism pretends to be of and from the
working people and makes special
appeal to them. In reality it does moi
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-01
ORDAINED ON BAT TTLEF|ELD
THE coADJUToR BISHOP OF NAN.
cY, ORDAINED SIX DEACoNs ON
A BELGIAN BATTLEFIELD TO
FILL THE GAPS MADE BY THE
WAR.

How the life of the Church goes on
in the midst of the death and destruc-
tion caused by the most terrible war
in history is shown by a touching
ceremony which took place on Belgian
soil some time ago. In fold of the
sand dunes, not far from La Panne
and within sound of the sea, there is
small chapel served by the Oblates
of Mary which has so far escaped the
furies of the human tempest. At
seven o'clock in the morning a long
procession of priests and seminarians,
with Bishop bringing up the rear,
left the neighboring convent for the
little chapel. The latter building was
filled with officers of all grades, sol
diers, and some poor refugee civilians.
1t was an ordination. Six young dea-
cons were to be raised to the priest
hood by the Coadjutor Bishop of
Nancy, himself a soldier, to fill the
gaps made by the war in the diocese
of Namur. Six young priests are all
brancardiers, the assistant to the
French Bishop is the divisional chap
lain of the fourth section of the Bel
gian army, the acolytes are all sol
diers also The Mass is celebrated to
the accompaniment of military
band After the imposition of hands
the six young priests, filled with emo
ton, continue with the Bishop the
celebration of Mass. In a beautiful
address at the close of this elevating
ceremony the Bishop recalled the
memory of the martyred clergy of
Namur whose souls seemed present to
encourage the young priests who were
to take their place. The service con-
cluded with the strains of the Mar
seillaise' and the "Brabanconne."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-01
NO TED EDITOR DEAD
FATHER cHlAUDANo, EDITOR OF
"LA civILTA cATToLIcA," Sue
cUMBED AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS.

BY the death of the Rev. Father
Chiaudano, s. j., editor of La Civilta
Cattolica,' Rome, the Church and the
Society of Jesus have lost a jealous
priest and Journalism an intrepid
champion of the Catholic cause. a.
few days illness of bronchial pneu-
monia ended busy career at sixty
seven Father Chiaudano was born
in Turin in 1858, and entered the So
ciety of Jesus in 1877, making his
studies in the Gregorian University,
Rome, in Philosophy and Theology,
subjects which later on he taught as
a professor for several years in the
College of Citeri, Turin. In 1913 the
late Pontiff. Plus x, summoned Father
Chiaudano to Rome to take the edi-
torial chair of the "Civilta Cattolica, Z
which Father Brandt, s. j., (who, by
the way, is still living at Naples in a
weak state of health), had just re
signed through illness. Father Chiau.
dano may be said to have died pen in
hand.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-01
MAYNOOTH ALU NJ Nj
ANNUAL REUNION IN NEW YORK
ATTENDED BY FORTY
MEMBERS.

The alumni of the College of May
nooth, Ireland, held their annual re-
union in New York on Wednesday,
April Ia. The proceedings opened
with a Solemn High Mass for the
repose of the soul of Monsignor Nc
Cready in Holy Cross Church, who for
twenty years was president of the
Maynooth Reunion in this country.
The meeting concluded with banquet
in the Hotel Astor.
Among the forty alumni, who as
sembled from practically all the East
ern dioceses to represent their be-
loved Alma Mater, were the Rev. DR..
Layery, st. Louis, president; the Rev.
Father Fitzgerald, Boston, vice presi-
dent; the Rev. Father Duggan, New
Jersey, treasurer; the Rev. Father
Kelly, New York, secretary, and the
Rev. Fathers O'Shea and Franklin,
Philadelphia.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-01
DIOCESAN OFFICIAL DEAD
WILLIAM J. POWER, FINANCIAL
SECRETARY OF THE ARcHDIo-
cEsE OF PHILADELPHIA, WAS
HoNoRED BY THE HOLY IA
Their.

William J. Power who for nearly
half century was in charge of the
Cathedral Office and filled the position
of Financial Secretary of the Arch
diocese of Philadelphia, died on April
10, in his eighty-fifth year. The
funeral took place from the Cathedral,
the Pontifical Mass OF Requiem being
celebrated by the Most Reverend
Archbishop Prendergast, and the SER
mon preached by the Right Reverend
Mgr. McDevitt, Superintendent of
parochial schools.
Mr.. Power was native of Liver
pool, where he was born in 1880. At
the age of twenty-three he came to
Philadelphia, and nine years later en-
tered the Cathedral Office where he
remained until three years ago. He
was a member of the boards of many
diocesan institutions. In February,
1912, in recognition of his long and
efficient service, the Holy Father Pope
Plus x, conferred on him the dignity
of a knight of the Cape and Sword.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-01
POPE BENEDICT XIV HoNoRs THE
OCCASION WITH AN AUTO
GRAPH LETTER-REcEPTIoN AT
THE UNIvERsITY-ALUMNlB BAN
oUET-ExTRAcTs FROM AD-
DRESSES.

In last weeks issue we gave an
account of the religious and academic
functions commemorative of the TWEEN,
ty-fifth anniversary of the Catholic
University of America which took
place in Washington on April Is.
The occasion was made memorable
by the reception of the following auto.
graph from His Holiness Pope Bene.
dict XIV.
To Our Beloved Sons, James Cardinal
Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore;
John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop
of New York; William Cardinal
O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston
and to Our Other Venerable Breth.
ren, the Archbishops and Bishops
of the United States of America.
BENEDICT XIV, POPE.
Beloved Sons and Venerable Breth.
rem:
Greeting and Apostolic Benediction.
We have recently learned that
preparations we're being made at
Washington for observing with due
solemnity the twenty-fifth anniver.
sary of the founding of the Catholic
University, and that the celebration
graced by your presence and by that
of distinguished members of the laity
would be quite in keeping with the
singularly happy character of the oc.
casion. That you, beloved sons and
venerable brethren, should above all
rejoice at the prosperity of the univer
sity is obvious to every one who real
ICES that the beginnings and the graft
flying progress of this seat of learning
are owing especially to your wise and
timely care. And yet this joy of yours
is not SO peculiar to you but that We
also may in somewise share it. Fol-
We love, nay, We dearly cherish the
American people, forceful as they are
with the yigor of youth and second
to none in efficiency of action and
thought. And as We earnestly desire
that an overwhelming path to the high
est level of human achievement may
open before them, so We cannot but
feel the deepest pleasure at everything
that furthers their progress.
STILL your tireless endeavors you
aimed not merely at enriching the
mind with learning; what you chiefly
sought was to imbue it with that heav
enly wisdom whose Tight cannot be
put out" and with which all good
things" shall come to your focks
These proofs indeed of your pastoral
solicitude must appeal to every fair.
minded observer as worthy of the
highest commentator and deserving