The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21

represented, and there will be five rep IA
resentatives of the Irish labor inter
est The fifteen members to be nom
mated by the government will be
taken from among leading Irishmen of
all sections.
tant decree of the Sacred Consistorial j
Congregation lays down explicit laws
regarding preaching in accordance
with the rules prescribed by Pope /;
Benedict, in his recent Encyclical, for
the guidance of Bishops in selecting III
preachers. 1t orders, amongst other III
things, special instructions on preach
ing for students taking their theologi- II
cal course.
Japan Sends Envoy to Pope.-A
Japanese envoy to the Vatican is go
ing to Rome to return the visit of the /
Papal Mission to Japan last year to /
congratulate the Mikado on his aces |
| sion to the throne. Monsignor Petrelli |
at that time was received with hon |
ors in Tokyo by the court and the |
Emperor.
Cork Convent.-The Wide World |
tells of an ancient convent near Gin
tra Portugal called the Cork Convent,
because all the cells and other apart
ments are lined with cork to keep out
the damp. The Capuchins occupied
this convent from 1860 to 1884.
The Lord Mayor of London.-Two
out of the last three Lord Mayors OF
London have been Catholics. The
present Chief Magistrate of the City
of London is a particularly ardent
Catholic, Sir William Dunn, who was
made Baronet on the Kings birthday.
Sir Williams charitable and philan-
thropic work has known no limita-
tons of creed, although Catholic insti-
tutions have had special cause to feel
grateful for his sympathetic and
| friendly interest. He received his
knighthood in 1907; in 1909 he was
: created alderman of the ward OF
Cheap; and sat as Unionist M. P. for
: Southwark in 1910.
A Worthy Example.-Word has
reached this country of the sudden
death of Mrs. Margaret Jane McNeive,
in the town of Cloonakilla, County
: Roscommon, Ireland The deceased
} lady was known throughout that Sec
: ton for her activity in church affairs.
: In early times she erected a chapel in
her home where at certain periods
al -,,;r 81 ,1Ysn
brated Mass. In recognition of her
) sanity zeal the local church authori-
ties ordered her body to be laid in
state in her parish church, where her
countless friends paid her their last
respects. The preacher of the eulogy
, at her funeral Mass typified her as
an example of true Catholic woman
hood to which the Church owes such a
great debt.
Congregation of Rites.-In the light
of the number of interesting causes
for Qualification and canonization that
presently engage the attention of the
Sacred Congregation of Rites this in
1 stitution holds for the time being prob
: ably the first place in the public mind
e in Rome The children of St. Dominic
: take an interest (and with them the
: Republic of Peru in the cause of beat
4 ification of Anna of the Angels of Mon
teagudo, professed Dominican Nun
4 who died in 1886 in the City of Arequi-
. pa, Peru Mother Anna, as the people
4 affectionately called her, was born of
, noble and wealthy parents in 1902 and
: entered the Convent of st. Catherine,
e Arequipa, at the age of nineteen.
:. Here she lived until she had passed
I. the age of eighty-four years and here
|, she died with the reputation of sane
tity.
Holy See and Prisoner.-The Press
Bureau last week issued the following:
mr. Bonar Law has received official
;, confirmation from the Vatican of the
:, fact that his second son, Lieut.. c. J.
: Law, Kings Own Scottish Borderers,
= is a prisoner with the Turks" Later
:, Reuters Rome correspondent tele-
graphed that the Vatican took up the
quest for Mr.. Bonar Laws son at the
instance of an unofficial parsonage,
and prosecuted their inquiries with
the utmost diligence. Undeterred by
/ the announcement from Constantine
pie that Lieutenant Law had not been
captured by the Turks, and by the
later publication in England that he
had been killed, they continued their
Investigations, and finally succeeded
/ in locating the young officer. They
/ have further ascertained that he is
n being well treated, and there appears
J to be no cause whatever for apprehen-
l. cioo