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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22
new APOSTOLIC SCHOOL
SITE FOR FOREIGN MISSION PRE-
PARATORY COLLEGE SECURED
AT cLARKs GREEN, PA.-WlLL
OPEN NEXT SEPTEMBER.

The Catholic Foreign Mission Semi
nary of America has secured q large
tract of land, more than 1870 acres
known as the Courtright Farm, in
Clark's Green, Pa, about five miles
west of Scranton, which will be used
as a site for it's first preparatory col
lege, to be known as the Venard
Apostolic School, being named after
the young French martyr, Blessed
Theophane Venard.
The property is finely situated, 1900
feet above sea-level, with an excellent
view, and is quite convenient to rail-
road centres and trolley lines.
The Apostolic School was opened
in Scranton, Pa, in 1913, occupying
a rented house not far from st.
Thomas College, which the students
attended. During the past year it
has been located at Maryknoll, where
teachers were provided for it. Begin
ming with next September, it will be
transferred to Clarks Green, Pa,
under it's own staff of professors.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22
FATHER MURPHY LEAVES la CROSSE
BECOMES PASTOR OF ST. GA
RRIEL'S CHURCH, PRAIRIE Du
CHEN - PROMINENT IN CIVIC
AFFAIRS.

The Reverend Ambrose Murphy, for
twenty-eight years pastor of st. James
Church, La Crosse, Wis, has been
transferred to the pastorate of st.
Gabriels parish, Prairie du Chen,
succeeding Rev. Peter Becker, who re.
signed because of i'll health.
Father Murphy has been a leader in
public affairs in La Crosse. He has
been connected with the Associated
Charities for many years and is an
active member of the Franklin Debat-
ing club and the North Side Progress
sive league. During his pastorate at
st. Jsmes -the Indebtedness of the
church has been greatly reduced and
his parish has become one of the
largest of the city. His successor is
the Rev. Edward P. O'Toole of Ellis
worth, Wis.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22
4 CATHOLIC ON PROHIBITION

themselves. Now I do not believe
that drink is so important to the well
fare of men in general, or of any man
in particular, that the assumed right
thereto may not disappear in the
face of the great social good that may
be effected by the abolition of the
opportunity to drink.
You perceive that l am putting the
desirability of prohibition almost en-
tirely upon economic grounds. The
thing is not worth while. The utility
does not counterbalance the disutility.
1t is this viewpoint more than any
conviction regarding the moral as
poets of the question that is so
potent in the present prohibition
movement. | have been frequently
surprised to hear hard-headed moder-
ate drinkers say that they would vote
for prohibition tomorrow if they were
assured that it would be fairly well
enforced. They believe that the
overwhelming majority of drinkers
would be better off without liquor,
even though the majority do not drink
to excess in any fair sense of the
term. That is the way l feel about
it myself, and l am not a total
abstainer.
OF course, the motives, the view
point, the undemocratic spirit, and
the false philosophy of the profes.
sional prohibitionists and the Anti.
Saloon Leaguers, are quite another
matter. For these features of the
prohibition movement / have nothing
but detestation and contempt But
do not believe that the enforcement
or the success of prohibition will be
determined by these men. Withot
the support of the great masses of
sensible people, these extremists
would not get anywhere in their cam
paign for the enactment of prohibition
legislation, and it is the sensible peo.
pie that will determine ultimately the
carrying out of the legislation.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22
CHRISTIAN FAITH. AND THE SECULAR UNIVERSITY

indulge the greater freedom to theor-
ize on domain wholly beyond their
competence-easily imbibe the loose
ideas that float around them; and be-
cause those notions are incompatible
with religious truth, not rarely doc
trine divinely revealed yields place to
fanciful theory humanity asserted.
Thus does faith suffer shipWreck. The
Church, taught by her deep insight
into human nature, and her long CEN
turies of experience among all sorts
of human conditions, beholds the dan
ger and as the vigilant custodian on
the watch-tower, sounds the alarm.
Many of her children with prudent and
becoming docility hearken to her
voice and obey her command. Some,
not so satisfied that her fears are not
the outcome of a medieval obscur-
antism, and somewhat conceited in
their own estimate of things, and not
seldom lured on by the siren voice of
the social distinction and the political
preferment that may ensue on patron
iSing secular, or even sO-called high
toned Protestant, colleges and univer-
stiles, are deaf to her appeals; or at
least hold their judgment in suspense
until they find confirmation of her
view from other sources. These per-
sons may be induced to recognize the
wisdom of the Church's attitude from
the proceedings of recent meeting
of the Minneapolis Presbytery. At
that meeting the ministers of the
Presbyterian Church issued a COM
plant and drafted a unanimous resolu-
tion to be forwarded to the General
Assembly which holds it's next meet
ing at Atlantic City in May. The COM
plaint runs: There is danger that
professors and instructors in our COL
leges will teach theories of the human
race, it's origin and development which
are atheistic and unchristian in their
tendencies and at their best only bear
ing the stamp of remote probability
from the scientific standpoint. There
also is danger that the Bible will be
taught by instructors in that depart
ment on the basis of literary, scien-
tific theory, thereby subverting the
very purpose and power of the sacred
book. This danger arises from choos-
ing professors from universities which
are not in harmony with the historical
faith on which our Church rests.
II snch things are done in the green
wood, what in the dry? If men
called to the office of ministers and
teachers of religion, and who enjoy
special advantages of religious educa-
tion are leavened by the liberalism
and rationalism of public universities
and who that glances over the
titles of and excerpts from the Sun.
day sermons of many ministers as
reported in the public press can doubt
it?-What are the chances of escape of
the ordinary lay students? And yet, are
some Catholic parents willing to take
unnecessary risks? Win they sell
their children's birthright for a mess
of pottage? If not, they should patron.
! ize Catholic educational institutions
wherever possible; and where i'm
possible, they should see that those
who attend secular colleges and uni
versities are surrounded with such
| safeguards of their Christian Faith as
to render innocuous the germs of
unbelief which infect the atmosphere
that they inhale.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22
DUTCH CATHOLIC REVIEW
NEW PUBLICATION TO BE START.
ED BY THE CATHOLICS OF
HOLLAND.

A new Dutch Catholic review is
about to appear. At the commence
ment it will be printed monthly and
it realizes the ambition of years for
the cultivated Catholics of Holland
to collect their scattered forces in a
large periodical. Religious questions
will alternate with art, literature and
history Each number is to contain
sketches and news and several ro-
mances will appear during the year.
The prominent articles will be occu-
pied with the political life of Hol-
land and and the Low Countries, with
foreign studies, social movements,
etc. Amongst the contributors are
Well-knoWn leaders of Catholic
thought in all departments. Van Can
welaert will give review of the poll
tical situation in the first number.
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McGinnis, Rev. c. F.; Waldron, Rev.
p; Ziskovsky, Rev. A. Melady, Mr..
and Mrs. S. j.; Horrigan, John c.;
Quincy, Mary; Simmons, Mrs. Ellen.
Woodbridge, Terence, $500.
Each of the following contributed
$500:
Gillen, Mrs. C. H.; Marx, Mrs. Chas.
L.; Danz, F. j.; Clarken, T. j.; Nc
Crumish, Mrs. J.; Campbell, Miss
Nellie; Froelingsdorf, John; Nc
Nevin, Mrs. c. F.; RoWles, Mrs.
Mary c.; Kehoe, ]. j.; Maloney, DR..
G. r.; Ward, Bridget and Nellie;
Rosenthal, Josephine; Ryan, Mrs.
Mary; Heck, Miss NJ; Simmer, Miss
K; Friedman, Mrs. A.; Friedman,
Mrs. NJ; Touer, Mrs. j.; Simmer, Miss
Elizabeth; Whitman, Mrs. Max;
Won der Weyer, Mrs. H., Lauer, Mrs.
Chas.; Haller, Mrs. M; Foley, Miss
Gertrude; Willwerscheid, Mrs. John;
Bender, Mrs. John; Cook, Miss Eliza
beth c.; Bemes, Miss Marie c.;
Brewer, Mrs. F. A; Brewer, Mrs. E.
"; Brewer, Mrs. w. W.; Cook, Miss
Nellie; Kelly, Mary A; Gaertner,
Mrs. Frank A.; Keane, Rev. T. A;
McGinn, Mrs. G., Foxhome, Mimi;
McGuffin, Miss Amy; Sullivan, Mrs.
Mary; O'Shaughnessy, Mrs. J. A;
Sullivan, Elizabeth M. Sullivan,
Alice; Barton, Miss Alberta; O'Con-
nell, Mrs. w. NJ; Feeney, Rev. B.;
Gruden, Rev. ]. c.; Dunphy, Rev.
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Killiher, Mrs Dan; Peters, Mrs. and
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Flanagan, Mrs. F. j.; Downey, Mrs.
Michael c.; Pleins, Mrs r. c.;
Stone, Mrs. Fl. A; Bork, Mr.. Paul;
Matthews, Mrs. VIM; Marzolf, Mrs.
James; Daggett, Mr.. and Mrs. Thos.
and daughter; Murphy, Anna; Nc
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Mathew; Quincy, Cornelius; Cahill,
Mrs. Jane; Smith, Mrs. ]. H.;
Flesch, Mrs. Anna; Flesch, Miss
Teresa; Edwards, Miss Mary A.;
Kennedy, Anna; Geib, Mrs. Phil;
w hlOOllJ WI W. W.s OldCc, MlSS
Lillian; Diamond, Misses; Reardon,
Rev. James M; Walsh, Miss Sarah
M; Crosby, Mrs. James; Winter,
Miss Margaret; Winter, Miss Emma;
Culligan, Anna v; Maher, Mrs. w.
j.; Young, Miss S. A.: Doyle, Mrs.
Andrew; Kelly, Martin j.. Duncan,
Abbie T.; Green, Mr.. e. V. and
family; Mitsch, Misses Marie and
Elizabeth; Rogers, Mrs. Logan c.;
McGougan, Mrs. w. j.; Widman, Mr..
William; Brennan, Mrs. P; Winter,
Mrs. Josephine; Stapleton, Miss
Hannah E.; Sullivan, Mrs. T.; East
wood, Mrs. Chas. H.; Rosenthal,
Josephine b., Graceville, Mimi;
Maloney Dr.. G. R., Belle Plaine,
Mimi; Clarkin, Mrs. T. J., Mime
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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22
EASTER.
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
Helen Hughes HieIscher.)

The King comes back to His own
again,
He comes through the crimson tide
OF His blood, that He poured for us
like rain;
May His grace with us ever abide.
Our fathers were led through the Red
Seas flood,
To fair and fertile plains,
But we, through the sea of His pre-
cious blood,
To where joy eternal reigns.
Let us lift up our voices in songs of
praise
To Christ, the conquering King,
A chorus loud to His honor raise,
Let the earths far borders ring.
For who is there Hike to Our Lord
and King,
Who draws us to His breast,
AS mother draws her little ones;
May His name be forever blest.
He gave up His life that we might
live,
And He rose from. death that we
Might rest in faith; oh. let us give
TO Him praise eternally.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22
REV. c. r. cREMlN OF ST. PAUL
SEMINARY POINTS OUT THE
DANGERS WHICH BESET CATH
OLIC STUDENTS IN NON-CATHO-
Lie EDUCATIONAL lNSTITU-
TlONS.

The Catholic Church, ever solicitous
about the highest spiritual interests of
her children, never ceases to warn
them of the menace that threatens the
faith Of those who unguardedly pur-
sue a course of studies in secular in
stitutions of learning. So convinced
is she, in her wisdom and experience,
Of the imminence of the danger, that
she rests not content with issuing
words of warning, but she is prepared
to assume the grayest financial bur-
dens to provide for the children of the
faithful such educational facilities as
will at once afford them perfect safety
and positive instruction in the vital
truths of religion and morality, while
at the same time supplying them with
such scientific and cultural training as
will enable them to compete even in
the battle of life with the graduates of
other schools. For the Church is not
so visionary as to be unmindful of
mans material needs, and of the i'm
portance of a solid practical course in
the arts and sciences to equip him for
success in the all too strenuous eco
nomic struggle for an earthly exist
ence. But while these should be Sc
cured, they are not the only, nor even
the chief consideration. Not by bread
alone does man live. The spiritual
life exceeds in Importance the material
life as much as does the immortal soul
the corruptible body, as does the end
less duration of eternity the brief span
of time, as does the all-satisfying joy
of Heaven, the wearisome, Elusive
pleasures of earth. Because this great
truth, too often ignored by man, who
so easily tends to degenerate into a
creature of sense obliVious of the de-
mands of the invisible and the spirit
ual is fully realized by the diVinely-
enlightened Church, she zealOusly
guards the deposit of faith on which
rests the entire spiritual edifice. She
fOreWarns her members not 10 expose
this priceless treasure 10 tla mRpy
dangers that assail it's security, and
she descries q most insidious foe Of
the faith in the secular spirit Of un-
belief and in the pseudo-science or
Vagaries and fancifnl theories that are
frequently paraded with such an air of
learned lore in the guise Of scientific
truth and under the attractive title of
modern enlightenment from profess
serial chairs of colleges and univer-
stiles. Very often the whole atmos-
phere of such centres of learning is
charged with a naturalism which is
the death of belief in the supernatural,
and a liberalism and religious indiffer-
ence more fatal than active hostility
to dogmatic faith. Susceptible stu
dents whose grounding in religious
truth is not of a high order, and who
regard with deep admiration their pro-
fessors-men perhaps quite learned in
their speciality but little skilled in
questions of religion, yet because OF
that limitation and because of an in
nate weakness in man to generaliZe,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22
DR.. RYAN OF THE CATHOLIC
UNIVERSITY DISCUSSES THE
SUBJECT IN THE FoRTNIGHTLY
REVIEW.

/ am in favor of prohibition wher-
ever it can be reasonably enforced
If the amount of iquor-consumption is
reduced by three-fourths, should call
that condition one of reasonable en-
forcement. The State of Kansas ex-
emplifies, think, that situation. To
be sure, there is a considerable
difference between rural and urban
observance of the law A State may
so enforce the law that only quite
exceptional persons get liquor in the
country and the small towns, the
great majority of the young growing
up without knowledge or thought of
intoxicating drink, while consider
able proportion of the city dwellers
get it, either from outside the State
or through illegal sellers within the
city. Even then, think the law may
be on the whole desirable and bene-
fetal. 1t will help greatly the class
that can least afford to drink. the
working people, and it will not greatly
hurt those who have more money to
spend, and who want to take the extra
trouble to obtain liquor. Even this
class will drink less on the whole than
if the traffic were legal, and the supply
places more convenient.
Assuming that the law is enforced
to the extent indicated, I cannot see
that anyone's moral rights are vic.
lated. The right to drink liquor is not
as important as the right to marry,
or to own property, or to enjoy free,
dom of speech, or any of the other
fundamental rights. For the public
good it may be annulled, just as the
right to carry concealed weapons, or
to play cards for money in public,
or to mingle with ones fellows when
afflicted with contagious disease.
OF course, there is or may be con.
siderable difference of degree be.
tween the right to sell, or buy, or
drink liquor and the last named
rights, but can see no difference
of essence or principle. Rights are
necessary and valid in proportion to
the importance to human welfare oi
the spheres of action which they
cover; they are not, with the excep
ton Of the right TO life ends iu
"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22
KNIGHTS VALIDATE INSURANCE
MEMBERS OF THE KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS, AT THE FRONT,
WILL NOT LOSE INSURANCE.

A decision to validate the insurance
of all present members of the Knights
of Columbus who may now be fighting
for the United States in Mexico or who
may in future be enrolled in that serv-
ice was arrived at by the board of di-
rectors of that organization, meeting
in quarterly session at the New Will
lard Hotel in Washington on April 8.
Action similar to this in regard to pol
icyholders who returned to their ma
tive European countries to take their
places in the war there was taken last
October by the board. In announcing
this action it was stated that those
in charge believe it to be the first
insurance validation by any insurance
company in respect to the punitive ex-
pedition in Mexico.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22
INDIAN MISSIONARY SUCCUMBS
FATHER KUPPENs, S. j., WAS A
COMPANION OF FATHER DE
sMET-LARoRED AMONG THE
INDIANS. ~

Rev. Francis X Kuppens, S. j., the
noted Indian missionary, one-time COM
panion of Father de Smet, the Rocky
Mountain missionary, died on April
8, 1916, at st. Stanislaus Seminary,
Florissant, Mo. He was the last sur
viving member of the band of Belgian
missionaries, who, under the direction
of Father De Smet, did such heroic
and efficient work for the spread of
the faith among the Indians of the
West and Northwest.
Father Kuppens was born June 18,
1888. In 1857 he left his native land,
Belgium, for the United States, and
entered the Jesuit novitiate at Flor
issant, Mo. Six years later he was or
dained to the priesthood at Boston.
Then began his life of incessant toll
and hardship. In one of his eXpedi-
tions with the Indians, he explored
Yellowstone Park, and struck by the
beauty and the marvellous grandeur
of the region, he suggested to the
government the idea of a national
park, strongly recommending this To-
cality. In 1868 he administered to
the spiritual wants of the inhabitants
of the then widely-scattered popula.
tion of st. Louis County until the
year 1870, when he again went among
the Sioux Indians. He spent a con.
siderable amount of time with this
warlike people prior to their massa
ere of Custer and troops.
Father Kuppens celebrated his
golden jubilee in 1913 at Florissant
Up to that time, he had been a con
tinued sufferer from rheumatism, the
result of his missionary life of ex
posure. His body was buried at the
novitiate cemetery, near the body Of
his brother-missionary, Father De
Smet.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22
CATHOLIC SOLDIERS
FIRST AMERICAN TO DIE AT CO.
LUM3Us, N. M, WAS THOMAS
BuTLER-EvIDENcEs OF CATH
OLIc PATRIOTISM.

The first American soldier to yield
up his life in the Villaista raid at
Columbus, New Mexico, was Thomas
Butler of Troop F., Thirteenth U. S.
Cavalry.
Under the colors for which he
died, with a guard of honor about
him, the body of Thomas F. Butler,
was borne to st. Agnes cemetery,
Syracuse, N. Y, where troopers fired
salute and bugler sounded taps.
A military funeral was held for
Private Butler at St Lucys Church
at Syracuse. The city formally paid
honor to the dead soldier through
its officials and Troop D escorted the
body from the home to the church.
So history repeats itself, AT Vera
Cruz, Haggerty, the Boston parochial
school lad; the Mexican border, Bnt-
Ter of st. Lncy's parish, Syracuse;
Josias King, OF this city. Cath.
olic, was the first to volunteer his
services at the beginning Of the Civil
War:
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22
SISTERS COLLEGE
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WILL
BE DEDICATED ON MAY a.

The Administration Building of the
Sisters College at the Catholic
University, Washington, D.. c., will
be dedicated on May 4. This
building has just been completed at
a cost of fifty thousand dollars and
is the gift of a generous Catholic lady
of New York.
The new building of the Sisters
College, known as the Administration
Building, is almost completed, and the
beautiful chapel was recently dedi-
Gated 1t will hold one hundred and
twenty, and is greatly appreciated by
all the student Sisters whose religious
lives will, in the future, center in this
large and elegant chapel.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22
THE HOLY FATHER WOULD RE.
PROVE EVERY VIOLATION OF
THE PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL
RIGHT IN THE CASE OF JEW OR
GENTLE.

The American Jewish Committee re-
Gently issued a booklet entitled THE
Jews in the Eastern War Zone" ;"
which undertook to depict the cruel
ties and indignitieS to which the Jews
have been subjected, especially in
Poland A copy was submitted to His
Holiness Pope Benedict XIV, with a
petition praying him to exert his pow
erful influence to ameliorate condi-
tions. This has called forth reply
from the Holy See, and has been fol-
lowed by directions to the Catholic
clergy of Poland to use their best en-
deavors to put an end to the persecu-
tion which has prevailed. The follow
ing is the Holy Fathers reply:
The Supreme Pontiff has with in
terest taken notice of the letter bear
ing date December so, 1915, which you
have been pleased to address to him
in the name of the three million Jew
ish citizens of the United States OF
America, in order to communicate to
him generally the treatment to which
your co-religionists complain that
they have been exposed in various
regions, and at the same time you
have requested him to interpose the
weight of his supreme moral and spir-
itual power in order that these suffer
ings may be terminated by an act OF
that humanity to which the Holy Faith
er is so passionately devoted.
"The Supreme Pontiff is unable tC
express himself concerning the special
facts referred to in the memorandum
submitted with your letter, but in
principle, as the head of the Catholic
Church, which, faithful to its divine
doctrine and to its most glorious ira
ditions, considers all men as brethren
and teaches them to love one another
he will not cease to inculcate the OBJ
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POPE BENEDICT AND THE JEWS

servance among individuals as among
nations of the principles of natural
right, and to reprove every violation
of them. This right should be observ-
ed and respected in relation to the
children of Israel as it should be as to
all men, for it would not conform to
justice and to religion itself to dero-
gate therefrom solely because of a
difference of religious faith.
Moreover, in his paternal heart,
panied by the spectacle of the exist
ing horrible war, the Supreme Pontiff
feels in this moment more deeply than
ever, the necessity that all men shall
recollect that they are brothers and
that their salvation lies in the return
to the law of love, which is the law
of the Gospels. He also desires to in.
terest to this noble end all who, es-
pecially by reason of the sacred attri.
butes of their pastoral ministrations
are able to bring efficient aid to this
important result
In the meantime His Holiness re
joices in the unity which in civil mat
ters exist in the United States oil
America among the members of diff
ferent faiths and which contributes SC
powerfully to the peaceful prosperity
of your great country. He prays tt
God that peace may at length appear
for the happiness of that humanity ol
which you truly say the Holy Father
is the guardian.
Accept, gentlemen, the assurance:
of my most distinguished and devoted
| sentiments.
CSigned) P. Cardinal Gasparri.