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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07
MARY PICKFORD
LITTLE CATHOLIC ARTIST is IN
TERESTED IN ORPHANS.

Maude Pilkington of the San Jose
Mercury chatted with Mary Pickford
over at Pleasanton in Alameda County,
CAL, last week and writes that she ask
ed her about the various institutions in
which she is interested. "There is the
Boyle Heights Orphanage in Los An
geles,' she said, Il don't do very much
for it, but they seem to think it lot
and one day one of the children asked
the Sister if Mary Pickford was not
their patron saint; so you see it is
very hard to have to live up to repu-
tation like that.
"Then, one day in New York l was
feeling a little melancholy and | went
over to st. Joseph's Home for the
Blind to a bazaar. First, l saw the old
ladies sitting about, quite happy and
chatting gaily; then 1 went down
stairs and there were the babies. Next
went out to the courtyard, it was
just the dusk of evening and there
were strong men, young and old, and
everyone of those people blind! And
l said to myself, Am l ever migrate
full enough to be unhappy? Here
have health and youth and devoted
| friends' And 1 felt cleansed and re-
proved, and whenever l feel unhappy
just think of that room in the dusk
| And it would do the majority of peo-
pie good who complain and rail
against God to go into one of these
homes
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07
THE DAILY MASS
LEAGUE TO PROMOTE THIS DEVO-
TON IN IRELAND is GRANTED
SPECIAL INDULGENCES

The characteristic love which has
always abounded among the people
of Ireland for the Holy Sacrifice of
the Mass has been further reward
ed in the granting of special indul-
gences by the Holy Father to the
members of the Daily Mass League"
in that country, observes the Catholic
Transcript The Pope mentions as a
special reason for establishing these
Leagues, that attendance at daily
Mass will easily lead to daily Com
munion. Who will organize similar
Leagues in the United States and have
the indulgences extended to this coun-
try? Despite the frequent appeals
that are made from every Altar, in
season and out of season, that the
laity be not content with the hear
ing of Mass on days of obligation,
but that whenever possible, they
come to Mass on other days as we'll,
the number to be seen in many of
our churches is far smaller than it
might be. To see the devotion mani
tested in this regard in some COM
munities, argues well for the spirit
uality that abounds there. A visitor
to a church Nin one of our larger
cities recently was led to believe
that he was observing holy-day,
without remembering it, so numerous
was the congregation and the line of
communicates. 1t was only the &C
customed daily devotion of self-sacri-
ficing Catholics. Why need this fer
vor be restricted to individual
churches? 1t ought to be universal.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07

hundreds of ships and thousands of
lives that might otherwise have been
lost in she down swoop of the cyclone.
The most unfair part of this report
is the fact that the successor of
Father Vines, Father Gangoiti, located
the Galveston storm eight days before
it's destructive work of September s,
1900, tracked it's trajectory, located
the cyclone day after day; and now
the Chief of the United States
Weather Bureau says in his annual
report that ''the issue of warnings of
hurricanes was a most radical
change" Yes, such issue as the Unit
ed States agent in Havana sent out.
Why, he reported that the Galveston
cyclone was moving north-northeast
of Cuba and would spend itself in the
Atlantic. If the United States
Weather Bureau had given heed to
Father Gangoiti's warnings, and not
to the absurdities of its own observer
in Havana, the people of Galveston
might have escaped their loss of life
and all.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07
THE REV. G. w. MCPHERSON, A
BAPTIST MINISTER, RECENTLY
SPOKE AS FOLLOWS AT A RE-
LIGIoUs MEETING IN NEW
YORK:

1.-The question before the Church
tProtestanD today is: Whom shall
we believe, the teachers of modern
evolution or the writer's of the Bible,
Herbert Spencer, or Jesus Christ, the
Apostle Paul or Union Seminary. This
is the issue. We cannot dodge it. The
fight is on"
What a sad commentary on the con-
fused mass of ideas which, taken col
lectively, make up the Protestant sys-
tenn of religious belief! For some
time, the present writer has insisted
that Professionalism is the highway to
infidelity by way of skepticism, says
F. A. G. in Truth. This is not to say
that the ordinary Protestant is an in
fidel, or, to any large extent, neces-
sarily skeptical; but it must be quite
evident to all who are able to read
the signs of the times, that rational
ism is on the throne and means to
remain there. Moreover, no sincere
Protestant can afford to be unmind-
full of the note of warming that is
oOuuu0u llOlll " LIulG ny CCIIdlu
of their own leaders.
Such fundamental doctrines of the
Christian religion as the Virgin Birth,
the bodily resurrection of Christ and
the reality of the miracles of Our Lord
are no longer looked upon with favor
by Protestant modernists At some of
their seminaries, such as Union, these
doctrines are openly denied. AS the
Rev. Mr.. Mcpherson puts it:
1T is rationalsm on the throne. 1t
teaches that all life must be interpret
ed from the standpoint of evolution.
1t rejects the infallibility of the Bible
and teaches that there are no revela-
tons to men, save what comes from
mems struggles and experiences
New Viewpoint.
AS DR.. Reiland, the modernist rec
tor of st. Georges Episcopal Church,
New York City, said recently-in the
initial copy of his new parish Monthly:
"The new way of looking at things is
not only certain to transform our prin-
Clpl6S DuI Oul pIdCClSC.j IlSISIOIOlC a
place in church has been assured to
the people of faith and fortune. Here
after we will give place to those who
have neither. The doubter, the sim
ner and the poor will find access and
free pews will be open to them. The
Church will say to everyone: Believe
what you can and leave the rest; give
what you can and let the rest go.
Questions of the Virgin Birth, the ma
ture of the Communion, Atonement,
and the ministerial authority will not
be essential to Church membership in
good standing.
DR.. Reiland dismisses the question
of the tenet of his Church regarding
the Apostolic ministry. as lone of the
most glittering specimens of bias,
phemy in the ecclesiastical field.''
For the information of certain OF
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07

for gain of any kind, but solely-to
quote the words of our able and pa
triotic President-'to yindicate the
principles of peace and justice in the
life of the world as against selfish and
autocfatic power, and to set up among
the really free and self-governed peo-
pie of the world such a concert of
purpose and of action as will ensure
the observance Of those principles
To work unselfishly for the triumph
of peace and of justice is to work in a
Christian spirit for the triumph of all
that Christianity represents.
Happy then are we to unite with.
your country, and with every other
nation, to ensure the loyal acceptance
by the governments of the world of
those principles of peace and justice.
which are the sole guarantees of the
permanence of our Christian civiliza-
tion.'' at, ...u..,.xs
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07
A FIRST COMMUNION
LITTLE PRINCESS MARIE JOSE OF
BELGIUM RECEIVES HER d.
VINE LORD FOR FIRST TIME.

The First Communion of the little
Princess Marie Jose, the only daugh-
ter of the royal house of Belgium,
took place within the little strip of
Belgian territory still held by the Bel
gian army, in which Queen Elizabeth
had erected temporary orphanage
for the destitute Belgian children. In
the humble chapel of this refuge, and
in company with some Of the orphan
children, the little Princess received
her First Communion at the hands of
the Bishop of the diocese. The small
space was densely crowded with or
phans, officers, and soldiers.
On prie-dieu in front of the altar
knelt King Albert in uniform and the
Queen in plain white coat and skirt
| The little princess, in traditional
white dress and veil, and wearing a
gold medal, knelt little in front. She
looked very lovely and very simple on
| this beautiful day, and at the close of
the Mass, after a pious thanksgiving
in which her royal parents, who had
also received Holy Communion, join
ed, she came forth in sunshine to
greet her companions of the hours OF
misfortune, the staff officers of hel
fathers encourage, the ladies of the
Queens tiny household, and then bus
| led herself the rest of the day with
the orphans.
The little Princess had made the
Tourney to Belgium from her English
convent school that she might there
in her own native land, receive fol
the first time her Divine King in the
Holy Sacrament. Her two brothers
were both present at this event.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07
Impaired First Scientific
knowledge of Hurricanes
PRIESTS AT JESUIT OBSERVA-
TORY IN HAVANA FORECAST
STORMS AND CYCLONES, THE
REV. WALTER DRUM, S. j., RE
LATES.

SPANS -American pioneers in me-
teorology were depicted by the Rev.
Walter Drum, S. j., of Woodstock
College, Md, in lecture delivered
before the Spanish-American Athene-
UNI in Philadelphia, on a recent date.
The lecturer told the audience how
his interest had been aroused in this
science of meteorology. In 1898 the
United States Weather Bureau estab-
lished a branch Office in Havana. In
connection with the work of that
Office, the annual report of Mr.. Willis
B. Moore, the Chief of the United
States Weather Bureau, commented
as follows
"At first it was difficult to interest
the neople in the warning service,
since they are by nature very con-
sentative and slow to adopt any
change in their accustomed methods
and mode of living. The issue of
warnings of hurricanes was most
radical change, the inhabitants being
accustomed to hear of these phenom-
ena only upon their near approach.
This report was most unfair to the
Jesuit Observatory of Belen, Havana
Father Drum said, for Father Vines
he added, was the first to discover the
laws by which cyclones move-the
very first to locate a. cyclone before
it's approach; he taught the world how
| to track the dreadful trajectory oil
the storm and to be foreWarned
against it's approach. From 1870 tx
1875 this painstaking meteorologis
took his observations on the declinom
eter, bifil:..7, thermometer, barometer
noted .ssle various meteorological ele
ments of the atmosphere and thu
clouds. And at last, after six years o
hard work. gave to the world its frs
lscientific knowledge about hurricanes
From 1875 till 1885,. Father Vines warn
| the people OF Cuba on time to. saw
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07
BUILDING OF CHURCHES
WORK MUST DEPEND ON WILLING
COOPERATION OF THE FAITH
Full.

Speaking before the members of the
Escanlante Club, of Salt Lake City,
Mr.. John T. Comes, of Pittsburgh,
noted authority on church art
and church architecture, pleaded
for a return to the wonderful build
ing and decoration standards that
characterize the church buildings
constructed during the Middle Ages.
There are many reasons why the ella
borate piles of past days should not
be initiated in land where con-
stantly changing conditions afford
such economic problems. But one
of the standards maintained by the
our own day,-the ambition of the
faithful to put into their church the
best they could afford, making it an
offering of love to Him Who was to
occupy the structure. 1T was often
the CUSTOM said the speaker, for
the faithful to go about the work
of building churches, chanting
hymns. Instead of using animals to
draw the materials to the points
where they were to be used, the
people very often joined together
and pulled them into place by their
own strength, doing this as an of.
fering, a sacrifice to God.'' It has
been due only to this same spirit OF
cheerful self-sacrifce that the
churches of which we boast in this
country have. been erected and
maintained. Unless those to whom
the pastors of the future must lool
for the continuation of this work, are
actuated by the same generous spirit
the task is to be a difficult one Mere
financial aid, sparingly and grudging
| ly given, will not suffice. And thi'
I seems to be what a great many o
1.-THE younger generation have to offe
to the Church, If indeed, they offe
4 anything.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07
ARCHDIOCESE of ST. PAUL
ST. PAUL

Confirmation Dates: The Most
Reverend Archbishop will administer
the Sacrament of Confirmation as
follows: Sunday, July s, in. the
Church of the Immaculate Conception,
Faribault. July 8, in the morning,
st. Lawrence, and in the afternoon at
the Church of the Sacred Heart, both
of Faribault. July 10, at Shieldsville.
Cathedral: The subject of the even
ing sermon for Sunday, July 8, will
be, The Catholic Church AS The True
Church.
Brothers Retreat: The Christian
Brothers will hold their annual retreat
at the College of ST. Thomas beginning
July 5, and ending July 13. The
Brothers from the various schools in
st. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, Roches
ter, Winona, and other places will be
present The exercises will be con-
Quoted by the Rev. Charles Cassidy,
C. P.
Convent of the Visitation: A re-
treat was given at the convent from
June % to July 1. The exercises were
conducted by Rev. Father Isidore, of
the Passionist Order.
Church of ST. Mary: The prelim-
mary arrangements have already been
made for the celebration of the golden
jubilee of the dedication of the Church
of st. Mary, Ninth and Locust Streets,
on Sunday, July 20. The religious OBJ
servance will open with Solemn High
Mass at eleven o'clock at which the
Most Reverend Archbishop will
preach Special services will be held
in the evening at a quarter of eight
o'clock at which there will also be a
sermon. On Monday, July 80, there
will be a Solemn Mass of Requiem for
the deceased pastors and people of
the parish.
On Monday and Tuesday evenings
jubilee festival and homecomers'
fete will be held on the church
grounds. The women of the parish
will serve refreshments. An effort
will be made to have as many of the
former members of the parish as pos
sible present at the celebration.
The Church of st. Mary is the old
est Catholic Church in st. Paul. 1t
was opened for divine service on Sun
day, July &c, 1867. The Most Rever-
end Archbishop, then Father Ireland,
preached the dedication sermon. Faith
er Calliet organized the parish and re-
tanned the pastorate until 1892. Full
er details regarding the celebration
will be given in the next issue.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07
DIOCESE OF ST. CLOUD
Diocesan Correspondent Rev. A 3
Preusser. the Cathedral St Cloud.

Waite Park: A Field-Mass celebrat-
mann, o. S. B., was the opening fea-
ture of picnic held there on the
Fourth, for the benefit of ST. Joseph's
parish, which is in charge of the Rev.
Chas. Gruenenwald. The patriotic SER
mon was preached by the Rt. Rev.
Joseph F. Busch, who is setting the
pace in civil and church affairs.
Staples: Wartime and high cost of
living are not sufficient to disturb the
hearty cooperation Rev. F. Zitur is re-
ceiving from the Sacred Heart Con-
gregation. The cornerstone of the
church, to be erected here this sum-
mer, was laid on Thursday last. The
Rt. Rev. Joseph F. Busch officiated
and preached the sermon
Melrose: Sunday, July /, large
and adults received the sacrament of
confirmation from the hands of the
Rt. Rev. Joseph F. Busch at the
Church of st. Boniface. The Bishop
preached the sermon and expressed
his appreciation for the loyalty shown
by the pastor and members of ST. Bon
iface parish, not only on one but on
many occasions. The Rt. Rev. Mgr.
B. Richter, and his able assistant Rev.
S. ]. Schirmers, may justly feel proud
of the tribute paid to their untiring
zeal and constant efforts for success.
Little Falls: The impressive cere-
mony of reception of new members
into the Order of st. Francis, and the
taking of vows by a number of the
Sisters, was witnessed by a large
gathering of relatives and friends of
the happy candidates last Tuesday
morning. The Rt. Rev. Joseph F..
Busch officiated at the ceremony.
Tuesday afternoon a meeting of the
Catholic Women of Little Falls was
held, at which a Woman's Guild was
organized. The scope of this organi-
zation is to comprise the same ideals,
which were planned and are being at
tanned by the Woman's Guild of the
st. Cloud Institute, at, ST. Cloud.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07
THE HIPPoDRoME, ST. PAUL.

A summer array of summer sur
prises, that is what the Hippodrome
has in store for it's patrons for the hot
months, featuring of spectacular acts,
each one calculated to surprise the
most fastidious, and also the Photo
Play serial supreme, 1.-THE Fatal Ring"
featuring Miss Pearl White, that fam
Gus and most daring of screen stars.
This lady has been unanimously
proclaimed the greatest single act in
vaudeville today, and it can be safely
said that she is positively the finest
artist of her type that has ever been
to st. Paul. Vanfield & Short & Co
have a comedy offering, "Pastimes at
the Club" which is something new and
original Beginning Sunday, July 8,
Manager Bower has arranged an ex-
|ceptional headline program and one of
wide variety, all of which include
The, Grace Twins, 'The' Comeback,
a four people comedy sketch.
Williams & Held, offering an original
idea in the comedy line. Grace Ayers
Duo, in novelty skating act, enact
ing seemingly impossible tricks. And
vaudeville's greatest and most sensa-
tional aerial and casting act, "The
Five Casting Campbells." There will
also be the second episode of Pathe's
serial supreme, THE Fatal Ring" fea-
turing Miss Pearl White, a new
Hearst-Pathe Weekly, and a comedy
in two reels. The usual prices will
prevail with a continuous performance
daily. p. m. until Ii D. m, and a
complete change of program Thursday
4 and Sundays.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07
DIOCESE OF WINONA

Winona: Owing to a typographical
error in the issue of last week the cold
type caused us to say that the Cotter
High school was mot on the ac-
credited list of the state university
while it should have read: lis now
on the accredited list" We take
great pleasure in correcting error,
made wonderful progress and gradu-
ates from the school can enter the
University with full credit and not
having to submit to an examination.
The summer school of the College
of Saint Teresa opened on Monday
July 2, and many students have been
enrolled.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07
CATHEDRAL BELLS
MANY ARE REPORTED TO HAVE
BEEN SEIZED IN FRANCE.


Inhabitants of Noyon no longer
have any doubt as to the fate of the
bells and chimes of Northern France.
Following those of Belgium, they
have taken the road to German mu-
milton factories. All the churches of
the region of the Disc and the Somme
were stripped of everything they con-
tanned in the form of copper and
brass before the occupying troops re-
tired. There is no. reason to suppose
that those still inside the German
lines have been spared These depre-
dations are acutely felt in this re-
gion, which has been the country OF
bells and chimes since Charlemagne
generalized their use throughout the
empire.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07
THE ASCENT OF RATIONALISM

our readers, we will say that ST.
Georges Church, if not the largest, is
one of the largest Episcopal parishes
in the United States, having com
municant list of five thousand five
hundred and sixty-four members, &C.
cording to the most recent report. One
can gather an idea of the scope of the
work from the fact that DR.. Reiland
has five assistant ministers on the
staff of co-workers. We give the sta
tistics in order that it may be clearly
understood that Mr.. Reiland is no
ordinary man, holding some insignifi-
cant charge somewhere in the back
woods. He is in the limelight, and
what he says and does must be reck-
oned with. The fact, then, that it is
DR.. Reiland that tells us that "Ques-
tions of the Virgin Birth, the nature
of the Communion, Atonement, and
ministerial authority will not be essen
tial to Church membership in good
standing" is significant. And we
would have our readers note this:
DIR. Reiland is not afraid to speak his
mind. In other words, he knows full
we'll that the Church, of which he is
a duly appointed representative, has
no alternative but to take a back seat
and let him have his say
Christianity in Question.
Evidently the words of Dr. Manning,
of Trinity, New York City, were most
opportune:
1T is the Christian faith, the Gospel
itself, which is in question, and which
is being undermined by the insidious
teaching that all matters of doctrine
and belief are of minor Importance.
On all hands, in our own communion,
as we'll as elsewhere, we see the de-
malls, more or less open, of the facts
contained in the Apostles Creed A
! well known layman of this Church de-
clares publicly that the article of
creed, | believe in the holy Catholic
Church, is known to be pious fraud.
The rector of a leading parish asserts
| that no one of intelligence longer &C
cepts seriously the ridiculous Apostles
Creed. Another declares at public
meeting that the sacraments are dead
-dead-dead."
There exists then, as we can well
see, a condition of things in the Prot
estant churches which sooner or later
must inevitably result in the utter dis
solution of the Protestant system. In
other words, Professionalism is on its
death-bed. The people are not going
to be hoodwinked indefinitely. II
Christ is not risen again, then is their
preaching vain, and the people are not
going to stand for it much longer
Much less are they going to be willing
to pay for it. If questions of the Vir
gin Birth, etc., are not to be essential
to Church membership in the future
it is but another way of saying that
there is not going to be any Protestant
| Church in the future. For they who
no longer believe in the Incarnation
and the Atonement can have no fur
Their need for any kind of Church mem
bership.
Truly, without the Catholic Church
| there is no salvation, even for Chris
tianity ITSELF.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07
Robert Emmet's Statue
MONUMENT TO IRISH PATRIOT
PLACED IN NATIONAL MUSEUM.

A bronze statue of Robert Emmett
the Irish patriot who was executed by
England, was presented to the United
States on Thursday, June %, by Irish
American citizens. 1t will be placed
in the rotunda of the National Muse
UNI. Judge Victor J. Bowling of New
York made the presentation speech
John Mccormack sang 1.-THE Star
Spangled Banner" and "A Nation
Once Again" The sculptor is Jerome
Conner.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07
Catholic Total Abstinence

The forty-seventh convention of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America will be held in Scranton, Pa,
On August Z, and g. The convention
meets in Scranton upon the invitation
of Rt. Rev. Michael j. Hoban, DID,,
bishop of that Diocese and a member
of the Advisory Board of the Union.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07
Priests Would Return

The Mexican government has receiv-
ed petitions from about eighty priests
now in the United States who fled
from Mexico during the revolutionary
The antecedents and past actions of
each will be considered carefully be-
fore permission is given or denied
Among the petitioners are several
archbishops and other high church
dignitaries.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-07
Visits ad Limina
BISHOPS PERMITTED TO POST
PoNE VISITS.

The present year is that fixed for
the Bishops of England to make their
lad limina'' visits to the Holy Father,
but His Holiness has signified his
willingness to allow postponement of
visits to those Bishops who are I'M
able to brave the difficulties of travel
ing under present conditions.