The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-17
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NEW WORLD ITEMS

New Costly Church, very hand
some church, in the Italian style, cost
ing about $4,000, will be built at
Irwin, Pa.
FeIician Sisters.-The Felician Sis
tiers, whose Mother House is in Pitts
burg, have purchased property in that
city valued at 100000.
Catholic Boy Scouts.-Bishop Nc
RAUL of Trenton approves OF Cathollc
Boy Scouts organization i'll schools
and parishes, conditioned that the
bows also belong to the Junior Holy
Name Society or Sodality.
To Teach JournaIism.-Joyce Kill
mer, convert and lecturer, poetry
editor of the Literary Digest and con-
tributor 10 the Sunday Magazine Sec
ton of the New York Times, will
teach class in the present session III
the School of Journalism of New York
University.
Friend of the Poor.-Col Patrick
Hagan, of Bristol, Va, lawyer and
capitalist, whose estate is valued at
S5,OOO,00O, and known for his chart
ties in relief of poor mountain
families, died last week at the age OF
ninety years. He owned 10000 acres
of coal and timber lands.
An Actor Becomes Priest.-Rev
Dawson Byrne, who used to be an
actor and could now earn 5000 week
on the vaudeville stage, has been or
dained a priest and is with the Paul
list Fathers at the Catholic University,
intending to devote himself to the
missions in the Dakotas.
Recent Requests.-Some thirty be-
quests ranging i'll amount from one
thousand to five thousand dollars
were left to Catholic educational and
charitable institutions by the late
Miss Catherine A. Sullivan of RoX-
bury, Mass. Most of the institutions
remembered are in the Boston arch
diocese.
A Great Docese.-The dioceses of
New York and Brooklyn, which
practically constitute Catholic New
York City, contain two million Catho-
lies, 1000 priests 400 churches, 800
schools and 100000 Catholic children.
"Veronica's VeI."-Under the di-
rection of the Passionist Fathers of
st. MichaeIs Monastery, West Ho-
boken, n. j., the Passion Play,
"Veronica's Veil" that attracted
thousands of people last Lenten
season, is being repeated in St.
Joseph's Auditorium, West Hoboken,
on Tuesday and Thursday evenings
during Lent.
Dependent ChiIdren.-Eighty or
phan and dependent children placed
in family homes where they will
have a chance to develop into self
supporting, self-respecting, God-fear-
ing and God-loving citizens is the
record for the Catholic Home Finding
Association of Illinois for the year
ending March /.
Mrs. Guggenheim Joins.-Word has
been received in Denver that Mrs.
Olga Hirsch Guggenheim, wife of
Hon. Simon Guggenheim, former
United States Senator from Colorado,
and snelter magnate, has been re-
ceived into the Church in New York
City.
Jubilee of Notrc Dame.--Cardinals
Gibbons of Baltimore, O'Connell of
Boston and Farley of New York, as
we'll as virtually every member of the
hierarchy of the Catholic Church in
the United States, will attend the
celebration of the diamond jubilee of
Notre Dame University, June | to Is.
S. PauIo, BraziI.--In the Arch
diocese of S. Paulo, Brazil, are about
100000 Catholics, with sol diocesan
and 80 regular priests, 651 Sisters, So
churches, 120 chapels, and 352 relig-
ious buildings, IL hospitals, Is char
liable institutions, asylums. In one
year there were 1,433,59 Holy Com
muniOns.
Is
Venerable Pastor Dead.-Rt. Rev.
Mgr. John Baptiste Victor Millette,
Oldest Catholic clergyman in New
Hampshire and rector of the largest
French parish in the state, died Feb
% from heart failure at the parochial
residence, Nashua, N. H., aged seven.
ty-five years. He founded st. Aloysius
parish in Nashua in 1871 and remain.
ed rector until his death.
Successful Social Center. = The
Catholic Social Center, established
three years ago. by the Rev. William
J. McNamee, rector of st. Patrick's
Churcn, Chicago, served 110,O11 meals
either free or at cost, during the year
1916, sent 1927 baskets of provi
sions TO the homes of needy, and
cared for .15,411 children in the day
nursery, according to report sub
mitted recently. The center is free
of debt.