The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-14
NEW WORLD ITEMS

Growth of Priesthood.-In fifty
years, the priesthood in the Archdlo-
cese of New York has grown from zO5
to 1,117: in Philadelphia, from LOT to
779; in Chicago. from 125 to 923; in
Baltimore, from 1913 to 602; in Boston,
from 155 to 500; in st. Louis, from
165 to 563; in Cincinnati, from 10 TO
379.
Educational Report.-The proceed
ings and addresses of the annual
meeting of the Catholic Educational
Association held in San Francisco, last
July. have been published in stately
book of GAL pages. 1t is a most
valuable, weighty and far-reach1ng
publication, expressive of the higher
thought and mind Of the Church IN
America.
ChapIains' SchooI.-Louisville en-
joyed the distinction of having at its
nearby cantonment of Zachary Taylor
the only Chaplains' Military Training
School in the United States or world.
The priests of the School, during its
several terms, numbered generally
considerably over one hundred, and
they were a splendid body of priests,
learned, self-sacrificing and Jealous,
an honor to any army and country, and
an honor to the Church.
Mission Seminary.-At Rosaryvllle,
La, the Dominican Order has for
eign mission seminary, in which
members of the order are educated
and trained to labor for the CONVEX
sion of the heather. In Japan, also,
the Dominicans have missions. The
Catholic missions have suffered much
by and during the war. The aims OF
the Faithful in such countries as
France, Germany, Austria, Hungary
were cut off from them. But, the mis-
sionaries Iabored heroically in the
face of poverty and want.
Minister a ConVert.-Announcem
was made in a Cleveland newspaper
Monday of the resignation OF Rev. An
drew Chapman, who has been pastor
l.
Chapman had sent letter to Epis-
copal Bishop Leonard to that effect
and giving as the cause of his resig-
nation that he had made his profess
sion of obedience to the Catholic
Church and was now stationed at the
headquarters of the Society of the
Atonement, Greymoor, N. Y. 1t is not
known whether Mr.. Chapman will
study for the priesthood or not.
Cardinal Is Thanked.-Governor Nc
Call. of Massachusetts, and the Mayors
of cities addressed Cardinal O'Connell
letters of thanks and appreciation OF
the assistance and cooperation rem
dered by him and the clergy and re-
ngious of his Archdiocese in the re
cent epidemic. Your cooperation was
splendid" says Gov. Mccall, to Car
dinal OConnell. In a letter to the
Cardinal the Mayor of Lowell, Mass.
says: Il desire in behalf of the city
to express a profound and respectful
ice and untiring devotion of the Sis
ters of the various Catholic orders
who rendered such splendid and beau
tiful attention to those stricken with
the influenza
Growth of observation-disclosures
land has been secured for the actua
site of the American Foreign Mission
Seminary at Maryknoll, Ossining, N
Y. 1t adjoins and completes the
former holdings, giving to the Semi
nary one of the finest outlooks Over
the Hudson River, which is in full
view two miles distant and 600 fee
below. The property was bought a
a reasonable cost, as the Seminary
was its logical purchaser.
Reflect Judqe-The election O
Haslett P. Burke to the supreme
court of Colorado last week proves
that no man who stands by his con
science suffers for it. Judge Burke
a few years ago, when an anti-Catho
lie jury returned a verdict against {;
Catholic clergyman in a case where
the evidence clearly showed his in
nocence, threw out the verdict. 4
movement to recall Judge Burke be
gan, but the petition could not ge
enough signatures and some whC
signed it repudiated their signatures
as they had been misled regarding
the movement. Judge Burke is /;
Protestant.
Convent Schools and Uncle Remus
The convent school as an educa
tional factor receives appreciativ
treatment, which is no more than it
due, in the recently published Lift
and Letters of Joel Chandler Harris,
better known as Uncle Remus
Though possessing the relationship Q
"brother-in-law to the Catholic Churc
pending the time when he should fee
good enough to assume a closer one,
Uncle Remus had the highest opinio
of the devoted Sisters, who, he say
in one of his letters, have the powe
of developing the young mind. H
sent his daughters to st. Joseph
Academy, at Washington, and on
CLEANS from letter received fror
one of them that she "has fallen III
der some sweet yet powerful influence
and begun to learn how to think an
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