The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27

iSh schools OF PnllduelpHld 10 'o'NoR'
Their enrolment is 92,07S.
Hebrew Helps Catholicism the
will of Mr.. Nathan Schloss, Hebrew
citizen of Kansas City, four Cathollc
institutions were remembered TO the
amount of S6,OOO.
Episcopalian Helps Catholics.
Society for the Propagation OF the
Faith recently received $15 with the
following lines: Il am a member OF
the Episcopal Church, but l admire
the grand work your CHURCH is DONG,
and want to help some.
Fine New HospitaI-The fine new
st. Elizabeth's hospital, built by the
Franciscan Sisters at Utica, n. Y,
at a cost of approximately S5OO,O0O,
was formally opened October 4-St.
Francis Day The hospital was placed
at the disposal of the government for
service during the war.
Oruanist Forty-one Years.-Forty-
one years of continuous service as or
ganist is the record just attained by
Prof. A. Menkhaus of Fremont, Ohio,
where he directs the choir OF St.
Joseph's Church.
Green Triumphant. - st. Patrick
NAV feel an especial pride in the
church that bears his name at Scran-
ton, Kan, for the edifice is to be con-
structed Of green tapestry brick with
green trimmings. Even the corner
stone. which was laid on Tuesday of
last week by Bishop Ward, is of green
marble.
President of VilIanoVa.-R James
]. Dean. O. S. A., of Tompkinsville,
Staten Island, n. Y, has been appoint
ed president of Villanova college, Vii
Ianova. Pa. where he received part of
his education.
Oldest Dominican House.-St Roses
Priory in Kentucky and Diocese OF
Louisville, is about 100 years old 1t is
the oldest and first Dominican estab-
lishment in the United States. After
a lapse of a few years it has again
become the sacred novitiate of the
Dominican Order.
Shortage of Priests.-It is recog-
nized that one of the consequences OF
the war will be a marked shortage in
the United States of seminarists and
priests. So far, seminarists have been
exempt from military service, but not
f students in colleges, who are prepar-
ing for the seminary. The Catholic
University has lost nearly 80 per cent
in enrollments.
New High School.-Four bishops
and twelve other dignitaries of the
Church, together with an assembly of
people which taxed the seating ca
pacity of the Cathedral of the I'm
maculate Conception, assisted at the
formal dedication of the new Cathedral
high school in Burlington, VT, last
Sunday afternoon.
Patriotic Diocese.-At a quarterly
conference of the clergy of the Arch
diocese of Philadelphia last week,
Archbishop Prendergast announced in
substance that he will place the en-
tire available spiritual and financial
resources of the diocese at the dis
posal of the government and the army
and navy" He urged priests and con-
gregations to subscribe to the Second
Liberty Bond issue, and invited all
his priests under forty years of age
TO volunteer as chaplains.
Eminent Negro Convertible list
of converts in recent issue of the
missionary organ of the Apostolic
Mission House, Washington, d. c.,
recorded the reception into the Church
of DR.. William Henry Johnson of Al.
bany, n. Y, one of the most promi
nent colored men in America. He
helped to buy the freedom of Freder.
lex c. Douglas, and he was a friend
of Abraham Lincoln.
'SiSNS . 'SS' 49, = liz oOO VI l. "
ledo, Ohio, is but little more than
seven years old. 1t was prior to 1910
a part of the Cleveland diocese 1t is
today a distinctly growing diocese
and its growth, plainly speaking, is
due to the indefatigable labors of that
Apostolic Bishop, Monsignor Schrembs
Just one item will bear testimony tc
its phenomenal growth; the establish
ment of sixteen new parishes anC
twenty new parochial schools, with
about 1000 new pupils, besides an in
crease in that time of 173 religious.
Viatorians Answer CaII.-Reveren(
Father Stephens of ST. Viator College
Bourbonnais, ILL.,, has gone to Chi
cage, thence to France, as chap
lain in the army. Sixty priests
brothers and students from st. Viatol
college have answered to the call O
their country and are now in the serv
ice of the United States. Out of thu
graduating class of twenty-five for THU
year only eight remain at the college
the others responding to Rev. ]. P
,O'Mahoney's injunctions to go to thei
country's aid.