The Catholic bulletin., 1918-03-09

College In HonoIuIu.-In the center
of Honolulu is the great College of ST.
Louis in charge of the Brothers of
Mary from Dayton, Ohio. The College
has 900 students.
College Rector Dead.-Very Rev.
Canon Wigmore, former President of
St. Coleman's College, Fermoy, Ire
land, died recently at his home in NAL
low, County Cork, at the age of sew
enty-siX years. He was distinguish
ed scholar and after retiring from the
charge of st. Coleman's, became par
ish priest at Mallow, where he had
been for nearly forty years when death
claimed him.
Portable Altars.-The Association of
Our Lady de Salut in Paris has fur
nished the soldier-priests of France to
date with SPAS portable altars, with
975 more to be sent. The Paris Catho-
lie paper "CroiX" is doing splendid
work for the Catholics of the French
army. 1t furnished 1,161,O0O francs
($232 ,200) alone for portable affairs.
Australian Monsignori. - Announce
ment is made of the dignity of Domes-
tic Prelate having been conferred upon
three well known priests of the Arch
diocese of Sydney, at the instance of
the Most Rev. DR.. Kelly, Archbishop of
Sydney: viz, Right Rev. Mgr. Thomas
O'Reilly, Right Rev. Mgr. Patrick Law
renee Coonan. Right Rev. Mgr. John
Patrick Moynagh.
PaIIium for 8ishop.-At the request
of Cardinal Dubois the Pope has been
pleased to give the pallium by personal
right to the Bishop of st. Die, in the
invaded regions of France, on the oc.
casion of the silver jubilee of his con-
secration. The Bishop, Mgr. Foucault,
has played a conspicuous part in the
troublous times of the last three years,
remaining always at the disposition of
his people whom he has considerably
sustained.
Holy Father Receives Japanese.-On
January Is, the Holy Father received
Captain Yamamoto, Japanese naval at
tache at Rome, in private audience
| This officer, who is a Catholic, has
| been three years in Rome. His Holi-
ness presented two artistically en-
bossed medals to Captain Yamamoto,
and expressed the deep interest he
takes in the progress of Catholicism in
the empire of the extreme East
ChapIains for Interned.-For intern
ed soldiers in Switzerland Cardinal
Annette, Archbishop of Paris, and the
Organization Mission Catholique Suisse,
have established many chapels with
chaplains. In the Bernese Oberland,
II chapels, and in the Canton Vaud,
| II have been established.
The Law of conscription.-Dur
the past week the board of ecclesias-
tics and laymen of London, appointed
to examine into individual cases OF
British subjects in Italy claiming ex
emption from the regulations of the
talo-English agreement concerning the
obligations for military service, has
held its sessions. The Board, besides
officials of the British Consulate, in
cludes Mgr. Prior, Auditor of the Rota
Rev. DR.. Gray, Minister of the Presby
terian Church; Archdeacon Synott
Minister of the Church, of England
and Mr.. Wall, chemist.
Japanese Prests.-One of the most
interesting features of the Church in
japan is the presence in that country
of many Christians whose forefathers
were converted in the sixteenth cen
tury and whose families retained the
faith in spite of prosecutions which
prevented the presence of Catholic
priests in Japan. In the diocese ot
Nagasaki twenty-nine priests are now
laboring who are descended from these
old Christian families.
The Delegate In Australia.-A gooG
deal of satisfaction is felt in Roman
circles at the accounts received of the
magnificence which characterized the
welcome given to the Most Rev. Arch
bishop Cattaneo, Apostolic Delegate tt
Australia, on his arrival in Sydney
Both Church and city authorities com
bined to give the Popes representative
a worthy reception. 1t is felt that the
success of Archbishop Cerretti's admin
istration as Apostolic Delegate has had
no small influence on the excellent re
lations that prevail between Church
and State under the Southern Cross.
| Women's Study Courses.-The Lon
don Branch of the Catholic Women's
| T,e9pro of En0IoDd hold a., ;,~.n,~4.