The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-02-05
OLD WORLD NEWS

ULD WUKLD NEWS
100000 Catholicism England and
Ireland there are 5,500,000 Catholics.
New Catecheticai Society. - In
Padua, Italy, there has been estab-
lished a catholic Academy for the
Study of Religion
Dominican General to Retire?-It is
stated that the Very Rev. Hyacinth
Cormier, General of the Order of
F'riars Preachers, is retiring from his
Office and will go to live at st. Gle
mente, Rome. Father Cormier has
passed his eightieth year.
Catholic Officers kiled.-The Lon
don Tablet gives detailed list of two
hundred and eighty-seyen Catholic Of
ficers of the British army known to
have been killed at the front up to
the end of November
Donation for War Orphans.-Cardi-
nal Gasparri has sent the Archbishop
of Rennes, France, in the name of the
Holy Father, the sum of five thousand
francs for the war orphans of the
diocese.
Convert to the Church.-Among the
converts of the year is Mr.. David De-
want, the celebrated illusionist. He
was received a few months ago by
Mgr Canon Johnston of Brighton,
England.
Bishops Son a Convert-A few
days before Christmas Edward Hicks,
| the youngest son of the Bishop of
Lincoln, Eng, was received into the
church. 1t is interesting to recall
that Mrs. Hicks was the daughter of
a clergyman, who was afterWard re-
4 ceived into the church.
/ Honor for French Bishops. = The
Holy Father has conferred on the
Episcopal See of Loretto the right and
| honor of the Pallium for Bishops pro
tempore, and on Mgr. Touchet, Bishop
of Orleans, and DR.. Korum, Bishop of
Treves, the personal privilege of the
| Pallium. His Holiness sent DR.. Kor-
UNI cordial letter of congratulation
on the occasion of the golden jubilee
of his priesthood.
WilIed to ReIigion.--AIiss Mary Lou
lisa Bastard of South Kensington,
Eng, bequeathed $4,000 and certain
jewels to the Superior of the Bromp-
ton Oratory, $4,000 in trust for the
church at Old Hall, and $4,000 to the
Little Sisters of the Poor. Portobello
Road, w.
irish Version of GospeIs.-The Gae.
lie scholar, Canon O'Leary, of Castle
Lyons, has brought out an Irish yer
sion of the Four Gospels. The list OF
subscribers to the work includes the
names of four Irish Archbishops and
twenty-five bishops.
Passionists at the Front. = The
Gross the magazine of the Passion
list Fathers in Ireland, draws attention
to the fact that the war has taken
heavy toll of the Congregation of the
Passion, as of most other religious in
situations. More than 400 protested
members of the congregation, priests
students and lay brothers, are at the
present moment engaged on the firing
line, on ambulance duty, or in some
other military capacity, while several
priests of various nationalities are do
ing duty as chaplains to the troops.
Altar for Historic church.-A hand.
| some new high altar has been erected
in the church at Kelso, Roxburgh-
shire, Eng. The altar, which was de-
signed by Mr.. Archibald Macpherson,
| the well-known Edinburgh Catholic
architect is built of Swinton stone,
/ with baldachino of Spanish mahog-
any. 1t may be recalled that the
/ church at Kelso was erected in 1858
at the cost of the Kelso municipality,
the earlier building having been de-
stroyed some time before as result
of an anti Catholic riot.
Catholic .sRoiI of Honor.v-The
English Catholic Who's Who" for
1916 includes in its contents "a roll
of honor of Catholic officers who have
died for their country. There are
more than three hundred, the average
age being under Is years. Sir Fran
els Burnand, whose grandson was
among the fallen, is the writer of the
preface.
Special Privilege for injured Priest.
"A victim of the war, Father Ber-
nard, a French Redemptorist, who was
wounded on board a troop ship on its
| way to Serbia, has received a notable
proof of the Holy Fathers solicitude
for his children. Father Bernard was
cured of his injuries at Bijerta, but it
| is doubtful if he will ever be able to
use again the first finger of his left
hand. He has now received from the
Sovereign Pontiff permission to. say
Mass, making use of the middle fin
ger in place of the first. The. gracious
letter is written by the Holy Fathers
own hand.
Pallium for Mgr. Touchet.In send
ing to the Bishop of Orleans, Monsig-
nor Touchet, the sacred PalIium,
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