The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1917-06-09
LATEST CHURCH NEWS OF
EUROPE.
Wars Heavy Casualties Among Chap.
Iains Ministering to Allies Cause
Ecclesiastical Authorities
Deep Concern.

| IalnS MinIstering to Allies Cause
Ecclesiastical Authorities
Deep Concern.
| (By c. P. A. Service to The Catholic
Standard and Times.)
London, June 9.-The heavy casual
the removal of the hospitals to France
are giving serious thought to the Cath
Ollie authorities. Two more chaplains
| have been killed this week in the
| West, making five since the COM
mencement of the big offensive last
month, while nine have been seriously
wounded. Amongst the latest casual
ties are Father Bardass and Father
Lesson, of Liverpool both killed.
There will be Solemn Requiem at
Westminster Cathedral on Wednesday
next for Father Collins, killed while
attending the wounded and dying of
| the Black Watch. The removal of
the hospitals means that priests who
have hitherto acted as chaplains to
these great military institutions while
| continuing their mission work can no
longer do so, and fresh chaplains
! must be found for France somehow
| The fact that so many ecclesiastical
students are serving in the firing line
causes dearth of candidates for ordi-
nation, and the spiritual position in
the near future and more especially
after the war is becoming serious.
| Bigots Attack on "Alien Monks" Fail.
An attempt made by bigots to get
up a scare about "alien enemy" monks
ended disastrously in the House of
Commons the other day. Mr.. John
son Hicks said that the special con-
stables of Buckfast, told off to watch
the alien monks of the abbey, did not
like their task and the urban council
called for the internment of all these
men. The reply of the Home Secre-
tary was that the recent commission
sent down to the abbey was satisfied
that all was we'll there; and it was
better to leave the alien monks where
they were. The Home Office commits
sion, be it noted, snubbed the local
council bigots pretty severely at the
time. On pressure from Hicks the
were informed they could claim I'M
mediate repatriation because they
were priests. Several members de-
manded to know why they should not
be got rid of in this way. The reply
was that the forty monks were doing
most useful work here and were just
the sort Of men whom Germany would
hn rIo +0 loo nj
again!
"Father of the Orphans" Dies.
News has reached France of the
death of Father Anathese Prun,
founder of the French Salesian house
at Nazareth, and sometimes called the
father of the orphans" of Palestine.
He spent twenty-five years of his life
personal fortune. A priest who served
with him for five years and is now in
the French ar1hy gives some interest
ing notes regarding Father Prun. They
saw their orphanage at Nazareth oc-
cupied by the Turkish forces, and
spent a month of imprisonment in
their own house surrounded by thou
driven forth and had to seek refuge
in Egypt, where they devoted them
selves to the sick and wounded in the
hospitals of Alexandria. In personal
sketch Of the late superior his COM
panion in labor says: "To rare good
sense and excellent qualities as ad.
ministrator, Father Prun Joined pater.
nal lxindnocc and ,,nwoor io1 dovOtion
to his orphans. His dying wish was
that those -benefactors and others
would join together to restore the or.
phanage of Nazareth when Syria is
cleared of Turks"
Raising Of French OrifIamme.
The raising of the orifamme OF
France at the Basilica of st. Denys
referred to last week. was magnifi
) cent ceremony. On this ancient
standard has been placed the image
of the Sacred Heart, as a national act
, of religious devotion and supplication
to take the place of that denied by
the Government, who will not allow
soldiers to wear that image. After a
fine discourse by Cardinal Annette re
calling how the old Laborum of Con
stantine was given by Pope Leo to
Charlemagne as symbol of Christian
civilization, a great procession defiled
through the basilica, and the intention
was expressed, after peace is declared
Of carrying the oriflamme from St
Denys to Montmartre in public pro
cession.