The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-19
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Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, dled
recently In the world she was known
as Nora Otis. She was student in
Omaha when she heard about the plan
to establish new Sisterhood TO work
among the negroes and Indians. kath-
crime Drexel, wealthy girl, had been
asked to undertake this work by Leo
XIII. Mother Mary James and Mother
Drexel made their novitiate together
under the Sisters of Mercy and then
founded their own first convent.
Chaplain Joyce.-The Rev. Francis
Joyce, United States regular army
chaplain, has reached France, and eNs
poets to go into action soon alongside
the troops. He bears the rank of cap
tain and has been in the army fourteen
years. He was at Vera Cruz with
Funston, spent six months with Gen
eral Pershing on the chase of Villa,
and had the distinction of preparing
Huerta, the exiled president of Mex
leo, for death. Father Joyce was
named as an heir of the vast Huerta
estate, but the troubled conditions in
Mexico make it doubtful whether he
will ever come into his Inheritance.
Thieves are Regular Visitors.-For
the fifth time in two months, st. Fran
els Xavier's Church at Enid, Okla,
htyf MI nd
sells stolen The last robbery occur
| red the day before New Years, when
| the safe door of the altar was blown
| open by dynamite. Mgr. Depreitere
| said~the robberies always occurred at
an early hour in the morning, and
| by someone familiar with the edifice.
Little Sisters of Poor.-Four of the
Little Sisters of the Poor who will
| conduct the j. X. Mullen memorial
home for the aged are now in Denver
and are living in the new institution,
| which is close to st. Clara's orphan
age on the North Side They have fit
ted up temporary quarters in the laun.
| dry and attend religious services at
| the orphanage. The Sisters do not
know yet just when the home for the
aged can be opened, as the heating
plant is not ready yet for operation
But the preliminary arrangements are
now being pushed right ahead, and
Denver's newest community of Sisters
is in the city to remain permanently
Fatherless French children.-De
claring that he had been authorized
by seventy conferences of ST. Vincent
de Paul in the Philadelphia archdio
j cese, with the sanction and approva
of the Most Reverend Archbishop
Prendergast, to announce formally thai
each conference was prepared to sup
port at least one French war orphan
for a year, the Right Rev. Monsignol
Henry T. Drumgoole, d. D., Ii. D.
rector of Seminary of st. Charles Dor
romeo, Overlook, made an impassion
ed appeal for aid in this cause at {
mass meeting held on Thursday after
noon of last week in the Garrick The
atre, under the auspices of the Phila
delphia committee of the fatherless
children of France
Military Cross to Chaplain Major
(Rev. Father Thomas Mccarthy, Ca
tholic chaplain with the. Canadians il
Flanders, has been awarded the Mill
tary Cross for heroism at the battle
of Passchendaele. This news was con
tanned in a cable received by Bishol
Fallon from the British war offs 9
During the progress of the engage
ment Major Mccarthy was gassed, bu
continued in spite of this to carry
on" attending the wounded and dying
} Major Mccarthy, who was born a
! Logan, Perth County, Ontario, is {
graduate of st. Peters Seminary, ant
! was one of the young priests chosen
by Bishop Fallon to go overseas.