The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-03-11

$4,000. with the exception of several
small requests to various churches,
is left to the direction of the Society
for the Propagation of Faith.
Catholic Congress. Preparations
are under way for the great Catholic
Congress to be held i'll New York
City from August 20 to 26 this year
The Central-Verein the German
Catholic State Federation, and the
American Federation of Catholic
Societies will take part in the Con-
gress. Various committees have been
appointed.
Mexican NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Con-
sui Lleguera of Monterey was evicted
from Mexico, because he refused to
deport Spanish priest, he announced
on his arrival in Laredo, Texas,
Monday, February q.
He says he protested to Carranza
against the priests deportation and
was promptly informed that he him.
self would be given "a hours in which
to leave Mexico.
K. of c. to the Front.-Over twenty
thousand dollars is said to have been
expended by the knights of Column
bus i'll Pittsburg, Pa, in protecting
| the faith of Catholic children who
appear before the Juvenile Court;
they have saved over 5000 poor
| children from proselytism and are
maintaining special probation officers
10 see that soul-snatchers are not al
lowed to trade on the poverty or
| ignorance of unfortunate Catholics.
Catholics and JeWs.-In response to
an appeal for the relief of Jewish war
sufferers, the Right Reverend E. J.
'O'Dea, d. d., Bishop of the diocese
of Seattle, ordered collections to be
taken up recently in all the Catholic
churches in Seattle. The Bishop
also made a personal contribution to
the Jewish relief fund.
Rare SpectacIe.-New Orleans late
| lS NlGuCSSCu CAIl SlSuL
for the Southland. At the funeral
of priest belonging to an old Louis
lana family who had devoted his life
to work among ColOred Catholics, a
Negro priest was celebrant at the
Mass and two white priests deacon
and sub-deacon. No such thing could
have happened in the Protestant belt
Of the South with its benighted ego
tism.
| Papal Honors.-Pope Benedict has
I bestowed upon three prominent Cath
Ollie laymen of Quebec City, Canada
Messrs. Amyot, Garneau, and Pinault
the honor of being Commanders OF
| the Order of st. Gregory the Great
and has made DR.. Fritz Holm of New
York Commander of the Order oil
st. Sylvester.
That BeIoit Affair.-The faculty oil
Beloit College has announced thai
next year Sunday afternoon services
and Freshman Bible study will most
| probably become compulsory fOl
Catholic students despite Archbishop
| Messmer's ruling that all Catholic
students would have to leave that Col
lege if forced to participate i'll those
exercises. For the present they arc
excused from attending them, so that
the present years study may be
ended
Large New SchooI.-The corner
stone of the new $135,OO0 paroehial
school of st. Demands parish, West
Fourteenth street, New York, was
laid last week. At the exercises in
the church, the sermon was by Mgr
Mooney, president of the Catholic
| School Board, who announced that
the funds for completion of the build
| ing, which would accommodate 1000
| children, has been raised entirely by
voluntary contribution.
The school building has a wide
frontage on West Thirteenth street
and an auditorium large enough to
accommodate 1000 people. The build
ing will be ready for occupancy about
September l.
Colonna Madonna-The collection
of objects of art presented to the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
by J. p. Morgan, is estimated by ex-
perts to be worth more than 81, 900 900.
The Colonna Madonna, Virgin and
Child Enthroned With Saints" by
Raphael, is the prize of the gift. The
value of the picture is estimated as
| high as 100000. 1t was ordered by
the nuns of the convent of st. Antho-
ny of Padua at Perugia and was paint
ed in that city. The figures Of the
Christ Child and OF the Little st.
John are represented as fully clothed.
From the Land of Snow.-Far away
in the SHOWS of Alaska five Ursuline
nuns are buried for the best part OF
the year. They have a school fol
the Esquimaux children, who are
delighted to have these gentle women
with them. The lives of both Sisters
and children are not filled with al
abundance of happiness, that is the
happiness that comes from creature
comforts, but from Mother Amadeus
We gather that there is q fund o
spiritual comfort that more than sup
plies the wants. 1t takes long time
for letter to reach us, which will
explain this tardy greeting. Mother
Amadeus, who, by the way, is closing
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