The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26

mentary Party in London is in the
biggest crisis of the many it has en-
countered and overcome in the past
thirty-five years. It's members regard
the result of the South Longford
election, in which the Sim Fem can
didate won, so direct blow at their
representative position that the strong
est action is being considered.
May Quit ParIiament-The impend-
ing retirement from Parliament OF
William O'Brien, who sits for the
City of Cork, Ireland, is reported in
Cork. Should this occur, Lord Mayor
Butterfield of Cork, an adherent OF
John Redmond, and ex-Mayor Meade,
Sim Feiner, will be candidates for
the vacancy.
Generous Gift BY the Holy Father.
An interesting event is the co-opera-
ton Of the Holy Father, to the extent
of 100000 lire, in the measures taken
to build votive church on the shore
of Ostia (the commercial port of the
ancient Romans), which Cardinal Van
nutelli, Dean of the Sacred College
and Bishop of Ostia, has undertaken
to erect under the title of Regina
Pacis," Queen Of Peace.
Diocese of Essex.-Cardinal Bourne
has written letter to the $4,000
Catholics and &c priests who form the
newly created Apostolic Vicariate OF
| Essex, England. In this letter he com
mends to them the new ruler who has
| been chosen to take their spiritual des-
| TIMES in his hands. He assures them
| that he has pondered deeply as to the
best thing to be done for the advance
ment Of the Church, expresses his
| grief at separating from them, and
| asks a remembrance in their prayers.
Bishop Ward has already departed
for the scene of his new labors. He
has been appointed Vicar-Apostolic I'M
der the title of Bishop Of LYDIA.
Easements observation-disclosures by
Mr.. Ginnell, NJ. p, in Parliament a
few days ago as to the stoppage Of
advertisements in Irish newspapers
relating to a portrait of Roger Case
ment Mr.. Duke said the Press Censor
| in Ireland had given warning as to
the publication of advertisements
which appeared to him to be contrary
to the Defense of the Realm ReSula-
tons Publication of portraits of
other patriot martyrs" he admitted,
had not been prohibited.
The Late Apostolic Nuncio to
Bavaria.-The Italian journals do not
eXaggerate in their remarks on the
profound loss which the death of the
Most. Rev. Archbishop Aversa, Apos-
tolic Nuncio to Bavaria, is to the Holy
See. He was considered one Of the
foremost diplomats in the Foreign
Diplomatic Service of the Vatican, as
his record in Vienna, Rome, Cuba,
| Brazil, and, lastly, Munich, conclusive
ly proves. Archbishop Aversa's active
career-he was only fifty-five years of
age-began in Naples, his native city,
with his work on the staff of La
Liberia Cattolica,'' which Monsignor
(now CardinaD Granite di Belmonte
purchased and reinvigorated some
twenty years ago. Even yet old jour
nalists speak with admiration of the
leader on politics which Don Giuseppe
Aversa wrote daily for the journal
Reopening of San Pietro in Mon.
toro.-After being close to the public
since January, 1915-when the great
earthquake injured this, like so many
thousands Of buildings over a radius
of fifty miles-the Church of San
Pietro in MontoriO, in Rome, has been
reopened. Thanks to the munificence
of Alphonso XIII of Spain, the famous
edifice on the Janiculum, which is un-
der the patronage of the Spanish
Crown, is restored in all it's old glory
and beauty to the Friars Minor, who
have tended it for centuries-long be-
fore it was made the sanctuary of the
tombS of the O'Neills and the O'DOn-
nellS. A slab commemorative of the
generosity of his Catholic Majesty
King Alphonso to the church was I'M
yelled on April 16, in presence of
Cardinal Rinaldini, the Spanish Am
bassador to the Holy See, his wife,
| the Minister of Monaco at the Vatican,
and the Spanish residents in Rome
Earl of Denbigh.-The Sultan of
Egypt has conferred upon the Earl
of Denbigh the Order of the Nile
Lord Denbigh is one of the senior
Catholic peers of England, and no
family among the aristocracy has done
more war work than the Fieldings of
which he is the head. He went out
to the Dardanelles with the Honorable
Artillery Company, of which he is COM
handing officer. His three sons were
on active service Immediately the war
broke out, and one of them lost his life
in the Jutland battle. His wife and
seven daughters have also been on war
work from the beginning Of the strug-
gle, and the family seat at Newman
Paddock is given over to wounded sol