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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
A ROMAN FUNCTION
GOLDEN JUBILEE OF CARDINAL
GASQUET -CELEBRATlON WAS
ATTENDED BY MANY NOTED
PERSONS.

On Thursday, May Is, the golden
jubilee of Cardinal Gasquet as men,
Der of the Benedictine Order was eele-
brated in the Palazzo di San Callisto,
Rome, the home of the commission
that is working on the big task of re-
pising the Vulgate version of the Bible,
In the afternoon a reception was held
for citizens of the British empire who
are residing in Rome, who presented
the Cardinal with a check for hand
some amount. He will use the money.
to buy massive candlesticks for the
altar of the chapel of the palazzo, thus
completing it's decorations. The re-
ception was followed by concert at
which twelve Cardinals and number
of other prominent ecclesiastics, to-
gether with members of the diplo-
matte corps, were present to honor the
distinguished Benedictine. The cele-
bration closed with the singing of the
'Te Deum'' in the adjoining Church Of
Santa Maria in Trastevere, the titular
church of Cardinal Gibbons of Balti-
more. Besides the check many other
gifts were presented to Cardinal Cas-
quet, among them being a beautiful
fourteenth century ivory holy-water
stoup from Pope Benedict, who ac-
companied it with an autograph letter
of congratulation.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
CATHEDRAL OF RHEIMS
PROTEST BY THE ARCHBISHOP
OF RHEIMS AGAINST CHARGES
OF ESPIONAGE.

Cardinal Lucon of Rheims has ad-
dressed touching protest to the
world, as he has seen yet more of the
precious stones of his Cathedral crum-
BILE away. He declares that neither
the Cathedral nor any other church of
his episcopal city has been used for
military purposes. This protest and
declaration ought to have all the more
effect that they come from Rheims it.
self, the doomed city now deserted by
nearly all, where the Archbishop still
remains. Since April l, more than 65,-
900 shells have fallen on Rheims, in
cendiary and asphyxiati1lg shells being
mingled with the rest. Yet the Cardi-
nal and the nursing Nuns of the As
sumption and the Infant Jesus remain
to tend the wounded and succor the
dying amidst all this desolation.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
MAY RAZE JERUSALEM
IT is REPORTED THAT THE
TURKS MAY DESTROY HOLY
CITY, IF FORCED TO RETREAT.

The Apostolic Delegate at Constan-
tinople has informed the Pope that the
Turks have gained the consent of
Germany to raze the city of Jerusalem
in case there is any danger of the
British occupying the Holy City. The
Pope inquired in Berlin and Vienna,
and was informed that military rea-
sons might justify the destruction of
the Holy City. The Teutonic excuse
for such an act would be that the AL
lies have announced the purpose to
dismember Turkey" Then the Pope
contemplated appealing to the Allies
to stop their advance toward Jerusa-
lem. 1t is feared there is the utmost
danger that the last vestige of the
Holy City will be lost, for the Turks
have long awaited a pretext to wipe it
out.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
RELieloN-MAKEs NO EFFORT
TO COMBAT VICE.

Following is a quotation from the
description of conditions in the little
Republic of Panama, which Cruz
Marion Garde contributes to "The.
Queens Work."
The relations between Church and
State are very much strained. At the
time of Panama's war of secession
the relations of Colombia with the
Holy See were very cordial, the Con-
cordat of 1887 was in force, and the
Catholic party was clearly victorious
at the end of the three years strug-
gle. None of the Panama leaders
thought of any change in the relig-
ious condition of the country. Senor
Guerrero assured the Bishop that the
political change would not alter the
cordial relations with the Pope, and
that the missions in particular would
receive all possible assistance. How
ever, the Assembly convened to draw
up the new Constitution, yielding to
the Liberal element, refused to recog-
nize the Concordat and the justice of
the claims of the Church to receive
support in part payment for the prop
erty confiscated by the Columbian
Government and now in the posses
sion of that of Panama 1t has gradu-
ally withdrawn all assistance, but, of
course, has retained the stolen prop
erty.
"The Government has also decreed,
in spite of universal protest, the
legality of divorce, the obligation OF
going through the farce of a civil be-
fore the ceremonies of the religious
marriage, has suppressed the name OF
God from the official oath, has taken
from the Christian Brothers their
Normal School to bolster up its own
discredited Institute, has taken from
the Salesian Fathers the Manual
| Training School, which they ha6
built with the assistance of the Gov
| ernment and brought up to a high de
gree of efficiency; ETC., etc.
"The Catholics see their mistake
| now, and are smarting under the con
sequence of their apathy at election
i time in allowing the Liberals to ge
| into power, in fact, of putting then
there themselves. Their denuncia
tions of the treason of the presen
legislators, printed in the four Catho
lie publications of the capital, ar
clear and strong, and the determine
| ton is firm and general to oust then
| from office at the next elections. TIL
| nation resents especially the atheisti
i tendencies of Congress and the bruta
q efforts to e-Christianize the Ian
i through the school, the degradation {
i marriage, and the legalization of col
cubinage by introducing divorce.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
AMERICA FIRST
HAVE DISTINGUISHED
THEMSELVES IN TIMES OF
PERIL AND OF NEED.

Catholics have ever served the land
nobly and we'll, observes DR.. John G.
Coyle. Neither of the historic trail
tors, Benedict Arnold nor Charles Lee,
was a Catholic. The first United
States flag to enter the captured city
of Mexico was borne by the division
commanded by the Catholic general,
in the surrender at Fort Sumter in
81 was a Catholic and many other
Catholics were in the garrison under
Major Anderson. The Catholic, Ralph
Inch, was at Manila with Dewey. The
Catholics, Francis Kelley, John Muir
ply and Daniel Montague, were at
Santiago in the desperate Merrimac
sinking under Lieutenant Hobson.
The Catholic boys, Denis Aloysius
Haggerty of Cambridge, and Dennis
Joseph Lane, of New York, were the
first to die at Vera Cruz three years
ago in defense of the honor of the
flag. And now, on April 6, 1917, Con
gress declared that we were at war
with Germany, and on April Z, the
first American to be wounded in the
present war was the Catholic, Private
John Mcnamara, Company G, First
Pennsylvania Regiment, shot from am.
bush at Reading, Pa, while guarding
bridge.
The last man to hold the rank of
general in the army was Philip H
Sheridan, a Catholic The man to
command the navy in this war is Ad
miral William Shepherd Benson, the
Catholic. In the recent demonstra
tions at the border were thousands
upon thousands of Catholics, includ
ing the regiments so overwhelmingly
Catholic as the 69th New York, the
9th Massachusetts, and the 7th Hi
| nois, the last with every man, from
| the colonel down, Catholic.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
Germany's Answer to Pope
TEXT or LETTER SENT TO HIS
HOLINESS REGARDING THE
QUESTIONS OF BELGIAN WORK.
MEN DEPoRTED.

The text of Gernlany's answer to the
Holy Fathers appeals for the deported
Belgians has become public. 1t takes
the form of letter from Count de
Hertling, president CT the Council and
Foreign Minister of Bavaria, to the
Papal Nunco at Munich and by him
sent to Cardinal Gasparri, the Papal
Secretary of State, and by him at once
communicated to the Belgian minis
ter to the Holy See:
In reply to your valued note have
the honor to inform your eycellency
that the Holy Sees endeavors on be-
half of a satisfactory solution of the
question of the Belgian Workmen have
not been unsuccessful. According to
undoubtedly reliable information which
i have just received from Berlin, the
competent authorities are disposed,
first Of all, to abstain from further
forced deportations Of workmen from
Belgium to Germany, and to allow to
return to their country all those who
through possible errors were unjustly
deported 1t gives me special pleas
ure that in this way the desire of his
Holiness, repeatedly put before me by
your excelleney. is fulfilled-a desire
which l have taken care to recon-
mend most warmly to the Imperial
authorities"
Cardinal Mercier has written to the
Pope thanking him for his work in
securing the cessation of Belgian de-
portations.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
ASSIMILATION VERSUS DIFFERENTIATION

faults. He is not as good Catholic
Catholic at any rate and, what is more
to the point, his mother is a Catholic
too, and his sisters, and I can tell
you he does not at all fancy hearing
the things that he hears echoed from
this land through the Press and from
much of his country and it's people
to be deceived, as some of us allow
ourselves to be, about the truth of
matters pertaining to his religion and
the civilization and education of his
country, and l can imagine he feels
of us felt few years back when a
distinguished visitor to our country
tried to spread the report back home
that We were nation of pumpkins,
cranks and pretenders.
We have very much in common
with the South American countries.
They are all Republics, very much
after the manner of our own Repub-
lie, which, considering the people as
more than $50 Catholic, is a stand
ing rebuke to the false notion being
induStriOusly canVasSed among us
that the Church is not friendly to re-
publican forms of government. They
all secure liberty of conscience and
freedom ef speech and press, much
the same as ourselves, which is living
proof to all except those who will not
believe, that free institutions flourish
another.
The history of their transition
from colonial dependence to Repub-
lican Independence is worthy paral-
General Bolivar is to South America
what the memory of Washington is
to us. San Martin is a figure scarcely
less heroic. Posadas, Alvear and Dom
Pedro were champions of liberty and
models of zeal and intelligence in con-
structive craftsmanship worthy to be
compared to our own Jefferson, Frank
lin and Hamilton. Even our Patrick
Henry has counterpart in the in
domitable O'Higgins, who lead Chile's
valiant hosts in their struggle for
liberty. Cartegena, Ayachuco, Pin
chincha, Guayaquil awaken memories
among the Latin Republics no less
dear to the people than the recollec-
tons conjured up among ourselves by
Lexington, Concord, Ticonderoga,
Bunker Hill. 1t is Il most significant
fact that in the Pan-American Union,
which our most enterprising business
men interested in international affairs
have in late years been active in weld
ing together, the South American
countries form twenty of the twenty
one units, all Catholic, all Republics,
all wide awake progressive forward
looking countries like our own.
We can confidently look forward to
a Greater America, both North and
South, only when we approach each
other on an understanding basis, in
spirit of sympathy and free our
selves of talking ill of our neighbors.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
ALLEGED PROPHECY OF MALA-
CHY Is BEING VERlFlED-THE
CHURCH WILL GAIN BY WAR
EXAMPLES OF TIE PAST.

Three years ago the Bombay Exam
iner and other Catholic journals made
adverse criticism anent this prophecy
of St. Malachy; aye, not only this one
but the whole list Of prophecies attrib-
uted to the saint, observes the Brook
lyn Tablet.
Putting aside the historical and mi
croscopic analysis pertaining to it's
origin, the "religio depopulata," depop-
ulated religion, seems to be verified by
statistics of the world war. In every
country the religious orders and the
secular clergy have been "depopulat-
ed directly and indirectly. Directly
for instance, as in France, where three
thousand priests are said to have fall
en- III battle The indirect depopula-
tion consists in a dearth Of postulants
and candidates. The semiharians
have been drawn, and such as would
by this time have entered novitates
and seminaries have, instead of fol-
lowing their vocation, been called to
the colors. German and Austrian pa
pers speak of an alarnlingly low per-
centage of candidates for the priest
hood However, it is hard to agree
with the conclusion drawn from the
present plight and disastrous state of
affairs pertaining especially to re-
ligious orders. 1t is hard to accept
the conclusion, namely, that the fu-
ture looks dark and hopeless.
On the contrary, the future, accord
ing to precedent instances of history,
will be bright and fruitful of voca-
tions. The candidates and postulants
Of religious orders shall be, in the
near future, not boys, but men, veter-
ans, young and old. After the Nap
oleonic wars even generals of merit
and glory retired to the monasteries
of France. In fact religious orders
were born in the throes of war. st.
Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the
Jesuits, wore the soldiers uniform,
was 'at the front" came back wound
ed, and in the hospital ward conceive
the idea of mobilizing division" an
. army corps spiritual conscription
which has developed into a standing
army of champions, the Society OF
Jesus.
The world must be made safe" for
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
Indian Mission Restored
WARMERS RANCH CHAPEL WILL
AGAIN BE USED FOR SERVICE.

The old, crumbling Indian chapel
at Warmers Ranch, near San Diego,
California, abandoned by the Palating-
we tribe when they were dispossessed
of their land at the sequestration of
the missions, generations ago, was re-
dedicated, Sunday, May 20. 1t has
been strengthened, retiled in roof and
floor, decorated within and without,
and practically rebuilt. But beneath
the modern garnishment there remain
the old adobe walls, forming the same
temple in which the PalatingWes wor-
shipped, and, in which their descend
ants will henceforth do homage to the
God of. their fathers. 1t is stated that
a tract of land near Warmers Ranch is
to be given the Indians.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
General of Redemptorists
VERY REV. MATTHIAS RAUS, c. IS.
r., DIED RECENTLY IN
SWITZERLAND.

Very Rev. Matthias Raus, c. IS. R.,
former superior general of the Re-
demptorist order, died in Bertigny,
Switzerland, May 8, 1917, at the ad-
vanced age of 81 years. He was born
in Luxembourg, August 8, 1929 Elected
March 1, 1894, as rector major and
superior general, he governed the Con-
gregation of the Most Holy Redeemer
with rare ability and brilliant success
till 1909, when, on account of old age
and infirmity, he resigned his arduous
position. Once more a simple subject,
he edited all by his piety, humility,
and child-like obedience to rule and
superiors.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
VARIOUS CITIES ARE PLANNING
THE ERECTION OF TEMPLES OF
PEAcE-oSTIA, ONCE A FAMOUS
SEAPORT, MAY BE RESTORED.

In several parts of Italy it has been
proposed to erect votive churches to
the Queen of Peace. In fact, promises
of the kind are about to be carried out
in the northern, central, and southern
parts of the peninsula. In the centre
of Turin such a church is to be erect
ed. A considerable space of time has
elapsed since Venice promised monu
mental church in honor of Our Lady
on the famous Lido; another is to be
built at the foot of Mount Etna. For
central Italy the site chosen was
Ostia, the ancient port of Rome, rich
in pagan and Christian memories. In
Dagan times it was a great mercantile
city, for into it's harbor was shipped
all the corn that went to feed the
population Of the Imperial city. His
torians estimate it's population in
those days of prosperity at about
10000. 1t continued to be an impor-
tant city as long as Rome held front
rank as capital of the empire. On the
decline of Rome after the time OF Con-
s,antine, Ostia also began to decline,
and it was almost completely abandon
ed at the time of the barbaric lnya-
sions. The excavations begun there
under Plus VII, and continued under
Plus TX, and later by the Italian Gov
eminent, have been fruitful of remark
able archaeological results. A whole
CITY with it's streets, temples, shops,
fora. theatres, porticoes, etc., has been
brought to light. 1t has been named
..the Pompei near Rome
It is impossible to visit the ruins OF
Ost,,, without thinking OF st. Monica
and her great son, observes the Irish
Catholic. Those acquainted with the
history Of early Christian literature
will connect an apologetical work OF
great interest with the ruins of Ostia
It is here the scene of the dialogue
"Octayius,'' work of the Christian
cicero, Minucius Felix, is laid. 1t i
the work of an acute and well-storet
mind. It's author is described as
LAWYER living in Rome. Probably
like st. Augustine, he, too, was al
african. His friend Octavius, Chris
tian like himself, comes to see hin
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
THE CHURCH IN PANAMA
Bowery and Barbary Coast in One.

"The other obstacles to the un-
checked progress of the Church's
work in Panama are climatic and
geographical. We know that seaport
towns are not precisely Gardens of
Eden in virtue. We are more or less
vaguely familiar with the moral con-
ditions of New York and San Fran
cisco, and we know that incoming
sailors and travellers are responsible
for the greater part of new vices and
for the support of old ones. Panama,
like San Francisco, is visited by ships
from countries bordering on the
western coast of the entire American
continent and from the far East; and
Colon, like New York, or Philadelphia,
or New Orleans, entertains, though
on a smaller scale, sailors and visitors
from Europe and the eastern portion
of North and South America San
Francisco and New York are thou
sands of miles apart, and so the vices
of one city affect only indirectly and
remotely the other; but Panama and
Colon are only few miles from each
other, and now very many of the ships
go through the canal, and so visit both
cities. The Church has to contend
with the evil influence of miniature
Barbary Coast and a Bowery placed
within easy access of each other.
And it is doing it, and doing it well.
Much of this work should be done by
the civil government, but it is not,
and so the Church must do it all sim
gle-handed. Of course, the casual, the
J interested and prejudiced observer
win blame the Church for abuses for
which she can no more be held re-
sponsible than in San Francisco or
New York. In the United States one
| sees at least honest efforts of the au-
thorities to eliminate or at least re-
duce vice in our cities. That is not
| done by the authorities in Panama"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26

1t is very much in vogue these days
to speak of the United States as the
Melting Pot Of America, said Colonel
Callahan, when recently at the
Knights of Columbus Hall in Louis
vile, Ky, he gave his views and
Impressions formed on a late visit
10 Panama and South America,
many places in the far South. We
are indeed, as our President has said,
"a composite and cosmopolitan peo-
pie and in respect to nationalities,
perhaps the only people to be COM
pared to ancient Rome in the number
Of Nations that mingle and commingle
in our midst.
But the original melting pot of
America, continued the speaker,
must be credited to our Latin neigh
bors of the South where not differ
Cnt nationalities only, but different
races as we'll, have been fused into a
great common people, having q com
mon aim, a common interest and a
common destiny not altogether unlike
our own.
One hears a great deal nowadays
about the civilization of the South
and Central American countries, not
all of it complimentary by any means,
especially when it comes from GER
tain class of people who have Il Pc
cuniary interest in exploiting the
worst features and ignoring the best
features of Latin society; but one
hears very little of the fundamental
difference between the Latin-Amer-
ican and English-American ideals Of
civilization as they have been stamped
into the social life and institutions
Of the people since pioneer times.
Speaking in general terms, We
transplanted our civilization; they
cultivated it from the lowest germ.
Our statesmen, soldiers, scientists,
men of letters and of art, descended
from ancestors who had thcusand
years of civilization back of them;
theirs for the most part have been
Indians. We destroyed our GerOni-
mos, our recumsehs, our Black
Hawks; they taught theirs to govern
and make laws and write books and
practice medicine and become priests.
Really, the civilization of the South
and Central American people is in
many respects much more remarkable
than our own, and one would think
we could be at better business than
making little of their virtues while
we make capital of their sins.
The Latin-American has his faults,
but he does not take it handsomely
to be told that he has nothing but
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
A Practical Memorial
PLAMONDoN FAMILY PRESENT
AN AMBULANCE TO FRANCE AS
A MEMORIAL TO PARENTS.

The sons and daughters of the late
Charles and Mary Plamondon of Chi.
cago have had an ambulance built and
equipped to send to the French front
as soon as possible, in memory of their
parents, who went down with the Lusi-
tania. The announcement was made
death of Mr.. and Mrs. Plamondon.
Those who have contributed the am
bulance and equipment are Miss Marie
Plamondon, Mrs. Allen B. Ripley, Mrs.
]. Henry Smith of Detroit, Charles
Ambrose Plamondon and Harold
Mackin Plamondon. The gift will be
known as The Charles and Mary Pla.
mondon Memorial Ambulance
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
Socialists and the Pope
TRIBUTE PAID TO HIS HOLINESS
AS TRUE FATHER OF MEN.

The International Catholic Truth
Society quotes the following words
from an editorial that appeared in the
English socialistic Labor Leader:
when all the terrible carnage is
over there are few men who will have
less reason to be ashamed of the part
they have played than the Pope. In
face Of all mother countries, or coun-
tries which call themselves mothers,
the Pope has shown himself today the
father of men. Holy Father,
you alone recall the laws of human
brotherhood. | ask you to accept all
the homage of my respect"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
Memorial to Archbishop
Blenk

The dominant note of the great con-
yention of the Federation of Catho-
lie Societies, held in New Orleans on
Sunday and Monday last, was the re-
storation of the St. Louis Cathedral,
New Orleans. as a sacred duty which
Catholics owento the memory of the
late great and beloved Archbishop,
Most Rev. James Hubert Blenk.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
School Of Church Music

A summer school Of church music,
under the auspices of the Society of
ST. Gregory of America, viii be con-
Quoted by Rev. Leo P. Manzetti, Musi-
cal Director, at st. Mary's Seminary,
Baltimore, Nd, from June "a to July
IA. Students are now being regis.
tered.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
Nuncio is Consecrated

Sunday morning. May 13, in the Sis
tine Chapel, Pope Benedict conse-
Grated Monsignor Pacelli, the newly
appointed Nuncio to Bavaria, titular
Archbishop of Cards. He will leave
for Munich in a few days.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
Sermons on Patriotism
DIScOURSES WERE DELIVERED
IN ALL THE CHURCHES OF
THE CAPITAL.

In all the Catholic churches of
washington, last Sunday, patriotic SER
mons were preached in cooperation
with the plans for the demonstration
of Catholic devotion to God and coun-
try which is being arranged for Memo
rial Day. All the Catholics of the cap
ital are being. encouraged by, their pas
tors to assist this celebration in every
way possible.