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

Catholic M. P's.-There are ten
Catholic members OF Parliament rep
resenting constituencies in England,
and seventy-eight representing Irish
constituencies. The Catholic peers
number forty-four.
Palliums Conferred.-In addition to
the Bishop of Orleans, His Holiness
has conferred the sacred Pallium on
the Bishops of LOretto, Italy, and
Trier, Germany. The Palliums thus
conferred are protempore personal
privileges.
PreIate Escapes.-Mgr. Haggear,
| Graeco-Melchite Archbishop OF st.
Jean d'Acre and Galilee, who was
| reported some time ago to have been
put to death by the Turks, has reach
ed Cairo, Egypt.
FIR. Cormier.-The very Rev. Father
Cormier, general of the Dominicans,
| is about to retire from the chief post
of his illustrious Order. He will
spend the evening of his days in the
monastery of st. Clemente, which be-
longs to the Irish Dominicans.
Bishop Clark Dead.-Rt. Rev. DIR.
Bernard Thomas Clark, o. M. Cap,
Bishop of the Seychelles Islands in
the Indian Ocean, is dead. Born in
1856, he joined the Capuchin Order
in 1874, and was consecrated Bishop
i'll 1902.
John Ayscough.-John Ayscough
| (the Right Rev. Monsignor Drew,
who has been on active service in
France since the beginning of the
war, is in the Liverpool Merchants
Hospital, at Etaples, and has under
gone serious operation. He is
happily doing well and recovering
| strength.
Succeeds FIR. Conrardy.-The place
of Father Conrardy, the heroic priest
who gave his life to the lepers on
Leper Island, Sheklung, China, and
whose death was recorded recently,
has been supplied by Father George
Des Nazieres, who will continue the
good and merciful work commenced
by the, heroic Conrardy.
italian Fiasco.-The Italian govern
ment has just made known that it's
exposition in Rome in 1911 ended
with a deficit Of $2,460,000. That
exposition was held to commemorate
the 50th year of Rome as the capital
of United Italy. or in other words,
of the spoliation of the Holy See.
Oxford Prize.-The Charles Oldham
| prize at Oxford University has been
won by the Rev. Martin Cyril Darcy,
S. j., of Pope's Hall. This prize,
which is of the value of about $500,
is awarded annually for a disserta-
ton or essay on subject connected
with Greek or Latin literature. The
prize is open to graduates as we'll as
undergraduates.
A Noble Stand.-The "koelnische
Volkszeitung" says it can state au-
thoritatively that the German Catholic
Bishops will not make reply to
the joint letter of the Bishops Of
Belgium which recited instances of
atrocities alleged to have been COM
mitted in Belgium. The "Volks-
zeitung" adds: I'VE are convinced
that this refusal on the part of the
German episcopate is to be attributed
primarily to the desire of Pope Bene-
dict that controversies of the kind
between Bishops of different nation
alities be avoided"
Church in ScotIand.-The Scottish
Catholic directory for the current
year, which has now appeared, is the
eighty-eighth annual edition, and has
been complied as in former years,
by Canon Welsh, M. r., st. Johns,
| Perth. The statistics given compare
| favorab1y with those of last year.
The number of missions is unchanged
at 252, but the number of churches,
stations, ETC., is now 434, an increase
of five. The total number of priests
now resident in Scotland is given at
$50, and the Catholic population at
over $4,000.
Priests With Russian Army
There are $500 priests with the
Russian army at the present time.
They do not fight. They go to the
battlefield, to the firing line, to take
the consolation of religion to the
soldiers, dress wounds and succor the
men in every way. Ii, during an at
tack, any wavering is shown the
Russian priest does not hesitate to
carry the crucifix in his hands at the
head of the combatants. Twelve of
these priests have been killed, twenty
have died from exposure and over
work, fifty have been wounded, and
forty have been taken prisoners.
No Hatred There.-The seeds of
| hatred SO lavishly sown in Europe as
an accompaniment of the war will
remain unfruitful in Catholic Hun
gary, thanks to memorandum issued
to the school teachers of that half
of the Austrian empire, which reads
as folloWs:l
] ''The royal Hungarian minister for