The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-13


port of palm branches for the Jews of
Germany, Poland and .Lithuania, but
the Italian Government declined. Now
the Union has addressed request to
the Pope to use his influence with the
Italian Government.
Louvain University.-The world
famed Belgian Catholic University of
Louyain is to be split into Walloon
and Flemish parts, according to re-
ports in the, Dutch and German press.
Lectures in French will continue to be
given at Louvain, while Flemish
courses will be given at Malines. The
scientific institutions and collections
will remain at the disposal of both,
while the professors will travel to and
fro between Louvain and Malines.
The South American College.-The
finest of all foreign colleges in Rome
are the buildings comprising the South
American College. They stand right on
the edge of the Tiber and hold aspi-
rants for the priesthood from the vari-
GUS republics of the southern world.
Like the North American, the South
American College was founded by
Plus TX in 1860. From 1860 to 1888
they shared the Jesuit Novitiate of S.
Andrea in Quirinale, and when the
Jesuits were driven from this in 1872,
the South Americans were permitted
| to retain the. place until such time as
| the present building on the Via Gioac-
chino Belli was erected for them by
| their Bishops 1t was here the First
Plenary Council of the Bishops of
| South America and of Mexico was held
| in 1899 under the presidency of Car
dinal Di Pietro.
| On Banks of Tiber.-One of these
| days the Irish Province of the Order
of Calced Carmelites will enter upon
it's new foundation in the Eternal City
thanks mainly to the energy of the
Very Rev. Father Magennis, Assistant
| General of this Order All the proxi-
mate arrangements for the establish.
ment of an Irish novitiate by the
banks of the Tiber were made by Fa-
| Their O'Dwyer of the Carmelite Order
| AS if fate would have it, the church
| and residence made over to the Car
| melites for the use of their Irish nov.
ices are right worthy in point of an
cient history and glory of the time
honored Carmelite order. The Church
of SIS. Celso and Giuliano stands neal
the River Tiber, close to the old fort
ress of Castel S. Angelo. that huge
structure which for 1000 years has
not been without armed men night
and day
Magma Charta Won In Catholic
Days.-When an Englishman thinks
of liberty he naturally thinks abou
the Magma Charta. That great charter
was the fountain of his liberty. Tha
charter was not the work of Prot
estant, or an atheist or a free-thinker
1T was won in Catholic days, whe1
England was Catholic nation. TIL,
first meeting held by the barons to de
cided upon a plan to secure liberty from
King John was held in a Catholi,
church-St. Paul's Cathedral in Lon
don, England. There was no Anglican
church in those days. All over Eng
land there were Catholic churches, AM
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was
fact in the life of every Englishman
1t was the Catholic Archbishp, Stephel
Langton, who addressed the barons a
that meeting, and produced befor'
them the charter of Henry l. 1t wa
. this same Catholic Archbishop VIII,
threatened King John with eXcom
munication if he assailed his subject
: by any but due process of the law
St: Vincent de Paul at Front
! Conference of the st. Vincent de Pau
, Society has been formed anon;
This Conference was begun on FeL
, ruary 25, 1916, with four members
: Since that date it has had fifty-eigh
{ members, fifty of whom are still pres
ent. The eight missing have beef
, killed or wounded or invalided home
or have been changed into othe
drafts. The Conference has assiste,
: forty-four cases, thirty eight of which
are still on the books Relief wa
given both to the neglected soldier
and to the families of different ind
, viduals in need of it, in the latte
case by sending money orders to tn
, men. The Conference has supple,
good reading to the men-mag gaines
books and religious papers. 1t keen
| up correspondence with men who hav
removed to other parts and with tn
: relatives of deceased soldiers, and i
| has endeavored to keep the graves o
t deceased soldiers of the regiment nea
j and cared for The charitable bod
has named itself, est Michaels Cor
, ference at the Front