The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-26
NEW WORLD ITEMS


general of Colorado. Mr.. McGauran
was for some years editor of the Den
yer Catholic Register. 4
Priest Pneumonia Victim.-Rev. Sill
mon A. O'Rourke, chaplain OF the,l
Charlestown Navy Yard, died at MIS-
home as result of pneumonia, con-
tracted while attending to his duties
at the navy yard.
MONDAY Mass.-Every Friday,
MONDAY Mass is celebrated on 12:ZO
Monday for all our boys who have died
in France or on the sea during the
time of the war. The old Church OF
st. AIMS. New York City, is crowded
at this Mass. Congregation singing
is most inspiring.
Omen Air Masses.-The Polish Cath
olic Church in Ware, Mass, celebrated
Masses on the church grounds in the
open on Sunday. Other churches were
closed. There have been about 800
cases of influenza there.
Soldier Students.-There are more
than 500 soldier students at the Cath
olic University and about 500 at
GEORGETOWN. They began their mill
tary life on October 1. They pledged
to the Government their allegiance us
soldiers. An inspiring letter from
President Wilson was read by Rev.
Aching
Secretary of War Crowell and Gen.
Peyton c. March.
coadiutor Abbot.-The Right Rev.
Aurelius Stehle, co-adjutor to the
Right Rev. Archabbot Leander, OF the
Benedictine Fathers, was blessed and
enthroned as an abbot in st. Vim
cents archabbey, Beatty, Pa, with
magnificent ceremony on Wednesday
of last week Abbot Aurelius is over
the Colorado Benedictines and visited
them a few weeks ago.
Influenza Stops Masses.-Due to or
der of the War Department forbidding
grouping of soldiers, there were no
Masses celebrated at Camp Zachary
TAYLOR, KY. on last Sunday. This
order was necessary to prevent the
spread of Spanish influenza which has
unexpectedly developed at the camp.
Sisters Salaries Observation-Disclosures
perintendent of Diocesan Schools of
Cleveland, Ohio, Rev. w. A. Kane,
had recently recommended that the
seven hundred Catholic Sisters of this
Diocese receive an increase in the
meagre salary heretofore paid them
for their work in the schools. The
increase will make the monthly COM
pensation for many of the Sisters
about $35 month.
Priest Loan Speaker.-Rev. Joseph
H. Steinhrunner, chaplain at the K.
of c. main building, at Camp Sher-
man, O., was drafted by J. E. Works,
general director of the Speakers Bu-
reau, for the Fourth Federal Reserve
District, and will give the Liberty
Loan drive his entire time and ora,
torical ability. He spent last week
making addresses in Mercer county
after which his tour will take him to
various places throughout the Federal
Reserve District
Chaplain Waring.-Chaplain George
Warning has overcharge of the eastern
vicariate-one of four districts under
Bishop Hayes, who is Bishop Ordinary
of all Catholic chaplains of the United
States. Father George Warning was
for a time chaplain at the disciplinary
barracks, Fort Leavenworth. There
are now about 2,400 soldiers in the
disciplinary barracks. They have one
chaplain at the present time, and he
is a Protestant. 1t, is hoped the Gov
eminent will appoint in addition g
Catholic chaplain, as a good many
Catholics there need his services.
priest from the Cathedral. now says
Mass for them. Is
Little Sisters of Poor.-Fifty years
ago Friday, September 13, the first
Little Sisters of the Poor, seven il
number, arrived in New York from
La Seur st. Joseph, Illeet-Vilaine
France (the motherhouse). On the
twentieth of September they admitted
the first two old people into their little
frame house on the corner of Bush
wick and Dekalb avenues, Brooklyn
N. Y. Since then they have estab
lished 80 homes in the United States
which have sheltered $3.50 old PEG
pie, of whom 44,S90 have died will
them, and at present they have 9,04'
men and women in their institution,
in this country.
Priest Stricken.-The Rev. Pete
Cattori, S. c., co-founder and spiritua
director of the Don Bosco Institute
Philadelphia, died on Thursday morn
W lug in st. Joseph's Hospital, Reading
. Pa, after few days illness of infiu
ID enza.. In addition to his work at tn
institute, Father Cattoriz had been min
istering to the Italian congregation o
the Immaculate Conception at Birds
boro. He was apparently in goo
health when he left the city last Sal
urday, in order to offer the Hol
Sacrifice at Birdsboro on Sunday, an
the word of his death on Thursda
vos a severe shock to the man