The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-05
NEW WORLD ITEMS


Chaplains. Father Lawrence Costello
and Father Brady, both OF New YORK.
and Father Bapst, of Denver, nave re-
ceived honors for heroism on the
battlefield.
City churches.-Chicago, up to TINS
year, had 2S3 parish churches ana
parishes; New York city has 10y;
Brooklyn city III; Philadelphia III
Boston GA; ST. Louis 90.
Louisville Famous.-Louisville, the
metropolis of Kentucky, is celebrated
in the Church in North America lor
its first and original religious founda-
tions-Loretto, Nazareth, Domlnlcans'
Trappists, Good Shepherd, and AaVer-
ian Brothers.
Christian Democracy.--In CinclnnaIi
there was recently dedicated Inc
Academy of Christian Democracy
the first institution of its kind in our
country It is to be devoted "eXclu-
sivelv to the teachings of social ser'-
ice under Catholic auspices
New churches.-St. Aloysius Church'
Elmwood Place, Cincinnati, was deo-
icated by the Archbishop last week
on Monday. It is handsome, solid ana
snacious. The Archbishop OF Clnch-
natl also dedicated a new HOLY no
sarv Church at Dayton, O., last week.
Priests for Loan.-The Archbishop
of st. Louis has appointed Rev. J. j.
McGlynn, Rev. H. s. Kister and Rev
Patrick D. O'Connor, as committee
of his Driests to serve in promoting
the coming Fourth Liberty Loan IN
the churches of his Archdiocese.
Juvenile DeIinquents.-In an otf1clal
letter on the subject of juvenile de-
linouents or dependent children. the
Bishop of Pittsburg says: 1T is gen
uine work and duty of Christian char'
itv TO rescue and save the boys and
girls and young men and women who
come before courts for youthful
offenders"
Society Divine Word.-The. Society
of the Divine Word was 43 years Ole
on September 8, and numbers now
more than 700 priests, 70 novices and
approximately 200 scholastics in minor
orders, 1900 students studying the
classics, 800 lay brothers, II mission
& colleges in various countries, and Is
otherwise extending. ... ....
Passionist Jubilee.-The monastery
of the Passionist Fathers at Baltimore
was blessed and dedicated on Septem
Der 10, 1968-now just so years ago
by Bishop, now Cardinal Gibbons. Il
was his first episcopal act On re
cent Sunday he presided at the cele
bration of its golden jubilee. Mgr
Fletcher preached the sermon.
Comparing Rishops.-The Indiana
Catholic, fifty says: Those who have
studied the lives of the saints will hnt
a remarkable likeness in the life O
Bishop Chatard to the great Bishop o
d.,
name he bore, whose ideals he emu
lated and many of whose characters
tics he possessed in no small degree.
Priest. Editors.-The Rev. John
Finn. chaplain with the Sixteenth In
fantry in France, though injured by
fall. secured the permission of thu
authorities to go to the front. An
other chaplain of the regiment is Rev
Ward Meeham. Both priests Wer
formerly co-editors of the Tablet o
Brooklyn.
A Marian Church.-One of the mos
distinctive Marian cathedrals in tn
whole Catholic world is the Cathedra
of st. Mary of the Assumption il
Louisville, KY, consecrated sixty-si
years ago. 1t was begun under tn
holy Bishop Flaget, erected and com
pleted and consecrated under Arch
bishop Martin John Spalding, of Bal
timore, and at the time the illustriou
Bishop of Louisville. The subscrir
ton for it's erection was opened Of
the feast of the Annunciation of tn
Blessed Virgin Mary; the excavation
for it's foundation was begun on tn
feast of the Visitation of the B. V. M.
its cornerstone was laid on the feas
of the Assumption, and its dedication
or conservation took place on the feas
of the Holy Rosary, in 1852. And eve
since it has been Mary's Cathedral.
A Bit of 5igotry.-A suit to enjoi
the payment of public school fund
for the maintenance of parochis
school was filed in Waterloo, low;
last week. Property owners in Eagl
township obtained temporary injun
ton against T. L. Schaefer, treasure
of district No. and County Treasure
w. J. Burbank from paying $500
the treasurer of district No. 6, whel
the parochial school is conducted b
the Catholic Church. The none
which the directors would pay over
for the tuition of the pupils in di
trict No. 5, where the public scho
has been closed for the past fiN
wears, in the parochial school. TIL
is the first suit of this nature in tn
r>ort of tho state although the nra