The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-05-27
OLD WORLD NEWS

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Tertiaries Build Hospital.-In Rot
terdam, Holland, the franciscan
tertiaries built a handsome four story
hospital, with monthly assessments of
ten cents.
Anglican Convert - Father Esk-
rigge, o. S. c., recently received into
the Church the Rev. Richard owen,
M A., of Kings College, Cambridge,
England, and for the last ten years
Vicar of st. Giles, Cambridge.
Irish Domestic PreIates-Pope Bene-
dict XIV has appointed the Very Rev.
Dean Walsh, P. P, V. F., Lismore,
and the Very Rev. Archdeacon Flayin,
P. p, v. r., SIS. Peter and Paul's,
Clonmel, Domestic Prelates.
Little Sisters in Tunis.-The Little
Sisters of the Poor shelter $50 aged
poor in their home at Tunis, North
Africa.
Russian Minister Honored.-The
Pope has conferred the Grand Cross
of ST. Gregory on Baron NelidoW,
formerly Russian minister to the
Holy See and at present Russian min
lister to the liking of the Belgians.
Dukes Chaplain a canon.-The
Holy Father has appointed the Rev.
Archibald MacCall a Canon of the
Diocese of Southwark, England
Canon MaoGall has been chaplain to
the Duke of Norfolk at Arundel for
the past eighteen years.
Former Abbot Dead.-The Rev.
Dominic Schercousse, formerly abbot
of the Catacombs of St. Calixtus,
Rome, and Definitor of the Reformed
Cistercians, died recently at the Gaia:
combs of st. Calixtus, after long i'll
ness.
PapaI Appointment.-His Holiness
has appointed Cardinal Serafini, Pre-.
feet of Propaganda, President of the
Pontifical College of IS. Peter and St,
Paul for Foreign Missions, succeed
ing Cardinal Gotti.
TWO Dublin Priest KiIIed.-It is re-
ported that two Dublin priests were
killed in an attempt to bring peace
between the insurgents and the mill
tary during the Irish uprising.
Jubilee of EncycIical-Twenty-five
years have passed since Pope Leo
XIII gave to the world his great
encyclical letter "Rerum novarum.' .
1t is the magma charta of labor. 1t
brings Christian principles to the
solution of the social problem.
Pope lntercedes for Archbishop
| The Overseas News Agency states
! that according to the Zeitung Am
| Miitag, Pope Benedict has written to
Car Nicholas requesting the release
of the Rev. Andreas Szeptycki, Arch
bishop of Lemberg, who has been
informed in Russia for the past eigh-
teen months.
Salesian Institute Proposed.-The
Superior General of the Salesians has
decided to open an institute in Italy
for boys between the ages of eight
and twelve who have been rendered
homeless by the war, and this not
withstanding the fact that % per cent
of the masters and assistants in the
Salesian Houses in Italy have been
called to the colors.
Statue of Sister Terese.-Some OF
the brave soldiers fighting in Flanders
found themselves recently at the
front in such grave danger that death
i appeared to them inevitable. They
appeared to Sister Terese, the Little
Flower of Jesus, and in answer, I'm
expected help came to them; they
escaped their peril. In gratitude they
have promised to erect the frs
statue of Little Terese in France ir
town named Looberghe.
Calcutta Semlnary.-The Archbishop
of Calcutta, India, has opened {
seminary for the training of diocesan
/, clergy. The building was begun jus
before the war, and carried to com
: pletion by the aid of Belgian bene
i factors, Notwithstanding the financia
troubles incident to the outbreak o
Il hostilities. In this first year, nine
Il teen students are enrolled, of whom
Il fourteen are in theology. On Feb
ruary 6 nine of these received Mino
/, Orders, and five, the tonsure. Th'
| first ordinations to the priesthood ar
looked for in 1918.
Combating Bad Literature.-Th
bill for the suppression of pornog
raphy the clearing of Rome AM
! Italy of the foul literature still to b,
seen on book-stalls, poisoning tn,
minds of the growing generation
has been drafted. printed and dis
J tributed to the Senate, ready for in
PRODUCTION. 1t has been favorably re
ceiVed by the Catholic and moderat,
) press; and not noticed in infide
papers. It is a comprehensive meas
! ure including much that is not strict,