The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-21
OLD WORLD NEWS

OLD WORLD NEWS
China and Japan.-The Children of
| Mary have Il sodalty at Tintsin,
| China.
Catholic schools in Japan are
| crowded with non-C Christian pupils.
Society of Divine Word.-The Fa-
| theirs, or Society Of the Divine Word,
have eleven prosperous training col
| leges and seminareS-2 in Holland,
3 in Germany, in Austria, i'll the
United States, and / in Rome.
| Cardinal Tonti.-Cardinal TOnti, the
successor of Cardinal Falconio as
| Project of the S. Congr. of Religious
| is more than seventy-tWo years Of
age and is reputed q man of vast
| learning and experience.
Descendant of Saint Discount
! Paul Wolff-Metternich, German AM
bassador at Constantinople, who died
recently, was a direct descendant Of
| ST. Elizabeth Of Hungary.
| Carm eIites.-The Reformed Order
of the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel
is prospecting spiritually. Two mem
bers, the Ven. Anne of st. Bartholo-
new and the Servant of God Sister
| Therese, the Little Flower of Jesus,
are before the Church for Beatifica-
ton
Votive Churches.-Two noted Ital-
| ian cities, Venice and Turin, will
erect votive churches in honor of the
Immaculate Conception. The city of
Turin has purchased a splendid site
for its National Votive Church in
honour of the Imma culate Mother of
God.
WelI-known Lady Becomes Catho-
lic.-A few days since Lady Alfred
Douglas, the wife of Lord Alfred
| Douglas, was received into the
Church at st. Anne's, VauXhall, Eng
land, by the Right Rev. Provost w
F. Brown, d. d., V. G. Lord Alfred
1911, accompanied his wife at the
ceremony.
. Irish Dictionary Plates Destroyed
The Irish Texts Society has suffer
ed a severe loss in the destruction OF
its plates for reprinting the larger
{ dictionary in the fires of Dublin dur
ing Easter week. The council have
received from the Claims Compensa
ton Committee the sum of 1920 in
settlement of their claim.
Peace Conference and Ireland
: The Most Rev. DR.. FOgarty, Bishop
of Killaloe, having received a copy OF
, a resolution relative to the Peace
: Conference and Ireland's representa-
/ ton there, and being asked to for
[ ward it to his Holiness the Pope
, writes: Il agree with the resolution
myself, but think there is no use in
|
{ Father can do nothing in the matter
, Clerical Invalids in Rome.-At pres
ent there are several prominent in
validS in the ecclesiastical world OF
Rome, viz, the Very Rev. Father
Caterini, S. j., Rector Of the Gregori
an University; and the Very Rev. Fa
, how ID q
the reigning Pontiff. Father Caterini
was stricken with paralysis a few
days ago, while in the case of Father
J Rosa a similar affliction occurred a
good deal earlier The latter is sc
far recovered, notwithstanding his ad
: about.
: Use of the Term "catholic. Not
? only in Wales do Anglicans strive tC
r catch the unWary by the use or abuse
: of the term Catholic but we learn
t that in the far distant Orange Free
: State the same unworthy effort is EN-
S ployed. When Bishop Cox, o. NJ 1.
Y went last October to the native loca
e ton at Bloemfontein to open a church
e for the Catholic natives, he had te
t pass in the same location a church
r for natives with it's notice board out
+ side giving it's name as t'St Patrick's
S Catholic Church. The minister is 6
S white man having a black wife, Wha1
next,
:, Chaplans at the Front.-In a writ
/ ten reply to Mr.. Thomas-Stanford
. Mr. Macpherson states that the mum
j bers OF the chaplains serving abroad
4 authorized for the several denomina
r lions Excluding colonial chaplains
: Indian ecclesiastical establishment
e and chaplains engaged locally at for
r eign stations and not granted I'm
t perial commissioner are:-Church OF
Y England, 1887; Presbyterian, 1876;
: Roman Catholic SIS; Wesleyan, 157;
$ United Board, 161; Welsh Calvinist
2 o; Jewish, Z. These figures, un
;, fortunately, do not show the number
n L