The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-29
OLD WORLD NEWS

OLD WORLD NEWS
Religious Congress.-On August Fl
and %, the third Sacred Heart of
Jesus Congress will be held at the
great shrine of Maria Einsiedeln, in
Switzerland. 4
Immoral Plays Ranned.-Thanks to
the efforts of the "Corriere d'Italia,"
Catholic daily of Rome, the Met
astatasio Theatre has been closed by
the civil authorities and legal pro-
ceedings are being taken against its
chief actor Immoral scenes do not
pay in war time.
Gift From Genoa to Benedict XIV
| The ladies of Genoa have presented
magnificent painting to the Holy
Father, in which he is represented as
engaged in fervent prayer for peace
| before a statue of the Regina Pacis."
Bishop HedIeys Biography
literary executors of the late Bishop
Hedley of the Diocese of Newport,
England, have assigned to the Rev.
| Cuthbert Almond, o. S. B., the work
of writing the Bishops biography.
Chaplai0 Decorated.-Two other
Catholic chaplains have been deco
rated for conspicuous bravery and
services in the field. Father Gill, S.
j., receives the military cross as does
Canon Kelly, o. S. B., the successor
of Father Gwynn, as chaplain to the
Irish Guards.
Noted 5enedictine Writer.-Dom
Maternus Spitz, o. S. B., of Erding-
ton Abbey, the well known Alsatian
| authority on foreign missions, has
contributed an important article on
Catholic Missions from 1917 to the
Present Time to the Encyclopedia of
Religion and Ethics.
Missionary Contracts Leprosy.-
Rev. Jose Tarrago, member of the
Society of Jesus, who for the last five
years has served as chaplain of the
leper colony on the island of Cullion,
P. l., has contracted that dreadful
malady.
carthauinian PiIgrimage.-A pill
grimage was organized by the White
Fathers in Carthage to the ancient
amphitheatre, the scene of st. Per
petua's martyrdom, on the feast day
of the Saint, large crowds gathering
from the surrounding districts. The
pilgrims assisted in service round
the cross in the amphitheatre, whilst
the choir of the White Fathers sung
appropriate hymns, the panegyric OF
the Saint following, with solemn bene
diction from an improvised altar.
i Catholics Protest Indecent Plays
The Committee on Catholic Action OF
Rome sent to the project protest
against the immortality allowed by the
authorities to run rampant in certain
minor theatres of the city. In addi
ton to their strongly worded protest
Commentators Folchi visited the pre-
feet personally and was courteously
received. The result is that a visit
4 was paid to one of the small variety
theatres; the show Cor at any rate
part of IT'D was considered disgusting,
and the theatre was ordered to be
closed. It is an interesting sign OF
the times; of what Catholic action is
able to do nowadays; and it is only
Il ~ IF 40 ofi
is doing, another and most effective
! part being the Good Press organiza.
tion-with the corollary of bad press
demolishment, so strongly supported
by His Holiness.
j Noted Musical Authority.-John B.
J Cain died at Bournemouth, England
! recently in his seventy-seventh year
A native of Brighouse, Mr.. Cain, after
a successful career at Oxford Univer.
sity, was Anglican rector of Monk.
ton Wylde, Dorset, for twenty-five
: years. Afterwards he became Cath
: Ollie. He was a keen music lover, and
among his many gifts to Bournemouth
] was complete musical reference Ii
!, brary, which cost $4,000.
Missions in do-China.-The his
tory of the missions in Indo- China is
long series of vexations and persecu.
tions. More than 10000 Catholics
have shed their blood for Christ. An
edict issued in 1888 was the signal
for a persecution that lasted with
short intermissions for fifty years
Peace has reigned for the past thirty
years and progress has been made
but our missionaries are struggling
, against the Incidence of the people
and religious Indifference, introduced
. by natives educated in European
schools.
Catholic Killed In Action.-Among
those killed in the naval battle in the
: North Sea was the second son of the
Earl of Denbigh, Lieutenant Com.
mander the Hon. Hugh C. r. Fielding
R. N, of H. M. S. Defence" The
Feildings are reckoned among Eng.
lands Catholic peers.
An Unusual Sight.-For more than
a year the great gilded statue of the
Virgin and the Holy Child, displaced
J by German shell, has hung suspend
! ed from the Cathedral of Notre Dame
de Ste Brebieres over the town of
] Albert, France. There is a local belief
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