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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12
CATHEDRAL IS RUINED
EARTHQUAKES IN CENTRAL
AMERICA PROVE MOST
DISASTROUS.

Guatemala City has been complete
ly destroyed by earthquake shocks
last week which followed those late
in December. Messages received by
the State Department said the loss of
life last week is estimated to be great
er than that resulting from the earlier
shocks.
A dispatch from the Central Amer
ican Telegraph company said:
what is left of Guatemala City is
wiped out. Shocks at 1875 p. M,
January fourth, finished everything.
Steam is coming up in the streets,
Cathedral fallen. Las Vacas bridge to
Barrits now down. Slides on the rail
road between San Jose and city. No
lines or trains reported. Further 800
killed.
Dispatches received by the Navy
department from a warship in Guate-
malan waters also told of severe earth
quakes in Guatemala at the same time,
with many deaths. Railroads were
reported in bad condition and a town
near the railroad was damaged.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12
THE PROPAGATION OF The FAITH

hood Association, Juvenile Mission Aid
Society, ends on February 10. Pres
ent indications are that the twelve
months ending on that date will show
returns from the children far in ex-
cess of those of any similar period
since the establishment of the work
within the Diocese.
The above record of Catholic Char
ity speaks for itself. 1t proclaims, as
only figures can, that the faithful in
this section have a genuinely Jealous
interest in the success of Gods army
in Foreign Fields. The past year has
been one of heavy demands upon the
memory of none perhaps, have ap-
pealS for assistance been so numerous
and so urgent. With our country at
war, we have been called upon to rise
in its defense, and, be it said to the
undying glory of the Catholics of the
land, they have acquitted themselves
admirably in the matter of offering
men and money to the government.
Truly patriotic as citizens of their
country, they have been none the less
so as citizens of the Republic of God.
Their interest in the country's repre-
sentatives on European soil, far from
diminishing their interests in mission
ary works of the East, has served to
intensity it, as the returns for the
year indicate. This fact becomes espe-
cially significant when we reflect that
the vastly greater part of missionary
contributions is made by Catholics of
moderate circumstances. Offerings to
the Missions have, for the most part,
been representative of sacrifice.
What the year 1918 will mean for the
Missions remains to be seen. AS the
great world war continues, the needs
of the Church in foreign lands grow
in intensity. Against overwhelming
odds Gods soldiers continue their
Holy warfare against the forces of the
Prince of darkness.
The cause of Catholic Foreign Mis-
sions is eminently worthy of contin-
ued patriotic support.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12
President Greets Hibernians
cOMMENDS LOYAL AND PATRI-
oTIc DECLARATION OF AMER
ICAN IRISH SOCIETY.

Acknowledging the loyal and spir-
tied declaration of absolute devotion
and sacrifice to Americas cause made
in the name of $4,000 members by the
officers of the Ladies' Auxiliary to the
Ancient Order of Hibernians at re-
cent board meeting in Washington,
d. c., President Wilson has directed
the following message to the national
president of the organization:
The White House,
Washington, Dec. IL, 1917.
My Dear Madam: l was greatly
cheered and gratified by the generous
message sent me on Dec. Is by tele-
gram by yourself and the other Of
ficers of the Ladies' Auxiliary, An
cient Order of Hibernians, and beg
that as opportunity offers you will
express to the ladies of the Auxiliary
my very profound appreciation of their
generous and patriotic action.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON,
Mrs Mary F. McWhorter, National
President, Ladies Auxiliary, An
cient Order of Hibernians.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12
LETTER OF THE MOST REVEREND ARCHBISHOP


ranks of the children of the Church
the sacred learning required that we
have among our people true soldiers
of the Cross.
The Catholic University is the home
of many students selected among the
choicest talent of our several colleges
and schools. In the University these
are lifted into the highest sphere of
study, and they return to their homes
fitted to acquit themselves in the
most honorable manner, of the duties
of the apostolate.
Each year the University is widen
ing it's field of nf1uence-increasing
the number of it's students and pro-
fessors, and putting itself well into
the front ranks of the best institutions
of the country. The Catholic Univer-
sity deserves the approval and the
gracious assistance of the Catholics
of America.
\ JOHN IRELAND,
Archbishop of st. Paul.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12
Spanish and Roman Affairs
SPIRIT OF UNREST IN SPAIN AF-
FEcTS CHURCH AND STATE
REAL REASON FOR SPANISH
CARDINALS PROLONGED STAY
IN ROME.

The Archbishop of Seville, Car
dinal Almarez, is returning to Spain
after a lengthy stay in Rome which
has excited many comments and dur.
ing which he has had frequent inter-
views with the Cardinal Secretary of
State and audiences with the Pope.
One of the subjects of these audi
ences has been the new situation
created for the Church in Spain by
the influence exercised by republican
and revolutionary interests. The Ia
mentable economic conditions pre-
vailing have emboldened certain So
cialistic classes to debate the ques,
ton of what they call the concen-
tration of riches in the hands of the
clergy, particularly the religious or.
ders.
This, of course, applies to the treas.
ures of art in every form which have
gathered in the churches during the
centuries by reason of pious bequests,
and not to floating wealth in the form
of money. Nevertheless the strikers
threaten the Government unless
wealth, movable or immovable, is more
equitably distributed according to
their lights, and Canelejas had already
thought of a modification of the Con-
cordat between the Spanish Govern
ment and the Holy See. But after he
was killed things remained as they
were, save for the murmurs of the ap-
;o4 MI, Gs
can, in the hope of rendering service
to the Spanish dynasty and the gov
ernment, has now itself proposed a. re-
vision of the Concordat, in particular
those clauses too onerous for Spain,
and it is on these matters, and not on
any proposed departure of the Pope
for Spain, that the Archbishop Of Sc
vile has been delayed SO long in the
Eternal City.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12
REAL CATHOLIC FAMILY
WILL OF MARY {. BOYCE MAKES
REQUESTS TO CATHOLIC
CHARITIES.

In the recently filed will of Miss
Mary E. Boyce, of st. Louis, Mo-, be-
quests amounting to $125,O0O were
made to various Catholic organiza-
tions. Among other donations were
$4,000 to st. Louis University for the
benefit of Catholic parochial schools,
and $4,000 to the Archbishop of st.
Louis for the education of young men
for the priesthood.
Miss Boyce was the granddaughter
of John Mullanphy, a name which has
been in benediction in st. Louis for
many years, owing to the generosity
of it's owner toward religious estab-
lishments. About the year 1920, Mr..
Mullanphy brought the Sisters OF
Charity to the city; his son, Bryan
established there the first conference
of the st. Vincent de Paul Society in
America; and his daughter, Mrs. Bid
die, is the foundress of st. Anne Or
phan Asylum.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12

some will work at the Pro-Cathedral
center and others will gather in their
own parishes. According to the pres
ent outlook there will probably be a
Red Cross unit in every parish by
February 1. The officers of the gen.
eral organization, Mrs. Donaldson,
Mrs. Mahoney, Mrs. Daley and Mrs.
Larpenteur, contemplate the visiting
of the various parish units with the
idea of gathering information on how
best to increase the number of work
ers in each district.
In the parish of st. Thomas and
also in that of st. Stephen the units
have been doing valuable work at
their own centers for several months
past, and the numbers engaged are
steadily increasing. In the Incarna-
ton parish there are two centers; the
parish center proper at the Incarna-
tion hall whose first months record is
not completed, and the Liberty Red
Cross center maintained by Mrs. C.
N. Gram in her home at 1929 Colfax
Avenue South, to give evening work
to the girls and women who for vari-
Gus reasons can not work during the
day in the parish hall.
This garnering of the spare time of
working girls and women in the Lib
erty unit has proved to be of real
value, and no doubt, other auxiliary
units of this nature will be organized
as the pressure for Red Cross sup
plies increases. Mrs. Gram began the
work in her home, November II, ap-
pointing Thursday evening for the
young women and Friday evening for
the married women About twenty
five of the former and twelve of the
latter are registered for the work. In
two months they have completed 72
garments and 130 triangular and soul
petus bandages, besides raising $45,
for the Red Cross.
Mrs. Gram, herself jealous con-
vert to the Catholic faith, has well
coined both Catholic and non-Catholic
women into the Liberty unit.
The Catholic Red Cross officers
have met with such encouraging sue
cess in their efforts SO far, such will
ing sacrifices of time on the part of
the women and such cooperation
from the priests, that they feel more
confident than ever that soon every
Catholic home in the city will be lend
ing it's aid, directly or indirectly to
speed this work of Christian charity.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12
CREDIT FOR IRISH
AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL So
GETTY OF ILLINOIS TO FIGURE
in STATE CENTENNIAL.

In order that future historians may
give Irishmen full credit for the part
they played in the early history of
Illinois, the American-Irish Historical
Society is planning to send research
worker to every county seat in the
state to search the records for typi-
cally Irish names. The Historical So
ciety is taking an active interest in
preparations for the Illinois state Gen.
tennial in 1918.
Plans are being made to bring out
from Massachusetts Michael O'Brien,
New England historian and tracer of
records. Mr.. O'Brien is the man who
proved, by an examination of early
muster roles, that thirty-eight per cent
of Washington's revolutionary army
were Irishmen. It is expected he may
perform a similar service for Illinois.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12
UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS DUR
ING THE PAST YEAR-ST. PAUL
DIOCESE MAKES A NEW RECORD
-TWENTY- FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLARS is TOTAL FOR THE
CAUSE OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.

That the Catholics of the Diocese
of ST. Paul are responding magnifi-
Gently to the appeal which Foreign
Missionary Priests and Sisters have
addressed to them is attested by the
fact that their offerings to the Mission
cause during the year just closed to-
tailed several thousand dollars above
those of any previous year. Although
complete figures, for the period will
not be available for some weeks, the
Diocesan Director of Foreign Mission
Work gives assurance at this time
that the records will show a total of
fering of nearly twenty-five thousand
dollars. This sum represents an in
crease Of approximately ten thousand
dollars over the returns for the year
1916 The major portion of the above
amount has been received at the local
Office of the Society for the Propaga-
ton of the Faith and The Holy Child
hood Association.
According to the books of the So
ciety for the Propagation of the Faith
over $4,000 was received in designat-
ed and undesignated offerings, pay
ments for ordinary, special and per-
petual membership, and returns from
dime banks. The Society also re-
ceived $4,000 as its portion of the an
nual Diocesan collection for the Home
and Foreign Missions. "A third sum
to be. credited to the diocese is that of
offerings made directly to the national
offices of the Propagation of the Faith,
New York These offerings aggre-
gated about $4,000 for the year 1916; a
report on the year just closed will be
made by the national directorate with
= in the course of a few weeks.
The fiscal year of the Holy Child
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12

The parish units of the Catholic Red
Cross in Minneapolis have entered
into the work with an energy and
enthusiasm that promises to reach
every Catholic home in the city. Mrs.
L. S. Donaldson, president of the gen.
eral organization, is gratified at the
progress already made within four
weeks. A general headquarters has
been established in the Pro-Cathedral
school building for the Pro-Cathedral
unit, and for all other parish units
that have no place of their own prop
there are several local centers where
the women of the parishes work one
or two days a week under the direc-
tion of authorized supervisors. Such
are the centers at the Church of St.
Stephen, of st. Thomas and of the
Incarnation. Other local centers will
soon be equipped; while seven par
ishes have already made arrange
ments to have the women, work in
the Pro-Cathedral headquarters. The
record of each parish is being kept by
the general organization and will be
published from time to time.
The workers have come in such
numbers to the Pro-Cathedral center
that the auditorium has become too
small to accommodate them, and two
additional rooms in the school build
ing, Numbers IL and 13, have been
given over to the work. Even with
this additional space the women of
the various parishes will have to take
their appointed days for work to
avoid overcrowding. To date the or
der fixed for the several parish units
working at the headquarters is as fol
lows:
Tuesdays, the Pro-Cathedral and ST.
Helena's; Wednesdays, Our Lady of
Lourdes, st. Joseph's, st. AIMS, and
ST. Elizabeth's; Thursdays, st. Brid-
gets, (after February -; Fridays, the
Pro-Cathedral and st. Clements. Sew
eral other parishes are not yet fully
organized for the work and of these,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12
Italian Prevarications
PETTY PROSECUTIONS AIMED AT
THE VATICAN.

Malicious attacks on the Church
continue in the Italian infidel press.
One of them is based upon allegations
arising from evidence given in Paris
concerning Caillaux's visit to Rome,
and repeats the falsehood that he was
received in audience by the Pope.
Another is founded upon the second
hand evidence of an American 'busi-
ness man" named Lesprestre, who is
enormously described as a Canadian
priest, who claims that his statements
can be corroborated by the American
embassy in Rome. Ambassador Page,
however, declares emphatically that
Leprestre is unknown at the embassy,
and that his story is a fabrication
from beginning to end.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12
THE DIVORCE MENACE

said it was the worm that was slowly
but surely destroying the fair fruitage
of our democracy. Mrs. Humphrey
Ward, the great English authoress,
has written a novel to demonstrate
that the lax divorce laws of America
indicate state of social anarchy
which threatens to disintegrate the
very foundations of the republic"
Other foreign writer's, less respect
full, have fiouted our moral weakness
with sarcastic filings. They have said
that we change our life partners as
easily as our dance partners; that our
aristocracy is based on alimony; that
we have changed matrimony from
sacrament to a sacrilege; that we
have two kinds of polygamists, legal
and Mormon, the difference being
that the one drives his wives abreast
and supports them all at once, while
the other drives his wives tandem
file, and supports only one at a time;
that we believe in long engagements
and short marriages; that we in
vented the 'installment plan" and
apply it even to marriage; that our
marriage licenses, for convenience,
should be equipped with divorce
coupons; that in American Romances
and Dramas, the hero and heroine are
married and divorced and live hap
PLY ever after" that we have discov-
cred not only easy divorce" but
painless divorce and "noiseless. di-
vorce"; that to be consistent, our
marriage vow should read, Il solemn.
ly promise to love, honor and be gay
until divorce does us part" that a
young society woman from Newport
1 was asked on the stand if she was
4 unmarried, and she replied, yes
many times; and that New York
/ actress gave dinner to her ex
husbands and was very much EN-
barrassed to find thirteen at the table
Census Figures.
! We may reply that this is the Ian
| guage of levity and exaggeration
There is no humor in statutes ant
census reports; let us examine then
! and get the official facts. Ever.
Estate in the Union. except South Caro-
@t44
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12
Extensive Charity
BALTIMORE SOCIETIES ACTIVE IN
HELP.

In Baltimore the st. Camillus AS
sociation, in the course of the year,
made 44,S62 visits to hospitals and in
stitutions and gave 5,214 religious in
structions; the st. Raphael's Institute
gave nursing care for 20,345 children,
77,031 meals to them and 1895 nights
care; the Mission helpers instructed
9,841 negro children, visited the hos.
pitfalls 11,434 times; the Gibbons Guild
gave 2,2O6 days care to children in
nursery, 4,75S meals; and the Cathe-
dral Christ Child Society distributed
1892 garments.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12
Bomb Padua Cathedral
FAMOUS CHURCH OF ST. AN
THoNY ALSO SUFFERS.


The facade of the Padua Cathedral,
Italy, has been torn by bombs dropped
by enemy airmen, the Italian war
office announces. The basilica of the
Santo and the municipal museum have
been damaged.
Padua was raided for a second time
recently, three persons being killed
and three wounded. The ancient
Carmini Church, the Church of st.
Valentine and the palace, monuments
and private dwellings were damaged.
The SAINT Antonio Church, commonly
called the Santo, is the sepulchral
church of st. Anthony Of Padua. It
has two campanili and seven domes
in the oriental style.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12

which Theophane Venard wrote with
his blood. Chains, ropes, knives and
swords, clothing saturated with blood,
priestly ornaments, books, letters, and
thousand other objects all apper-
tanning to the martyrs. Everything
speaks to the heart. UnconsciOusly
we fell on our knees, and prayed:
May we pour forth our blood to the
last drop: from this moment may a
martyrdom of love prepare us for this
great favor"
He sailed from Marseilles, and after
peaceful voyage arrived at Shang-
hal. From Shanghai he sailed up the
Blue river to Ichang, the capitol of
Houpe, and the ecclesiastical centre
of the Belgian Vicariate. At once
he commenced serious study of the
Chinese language, language particu-
larly difficult, very complicated, and
of mechanism just the opposite to
that of the European languages.
Impressed by the high intellectual
attainments and the noble piety of
the new missionary, Mgr. Christiaens,
the Bishop, sent him to the seminary
of Ichang, there to prepare to be its
future director. However, the ever
increasing labors of the mission de-
manded more workers. And Father
Theotime was sent into the field Of
actual missionary work.
Southwest Houpe.
| The Vicariate of Southwest Houpe
is divided naturally into two parts,
the low country along the Blue river
and the mountainous country to the
i west. In this mountainous region,
i fully as large as Belgium, there were
only two organized groups of Chris
tians, comprising all told only 200
souls. The mountains are inhabited
by a wild and uncivilized people, ig-
norant and superstitious. TO this
/ region Father Theotime was delegated
to one of the Christian communities
called Si-cha-ho.
Peris of Starvation.
The year 1S96-1897 was a terrible
year for Father Theotime For that
year the harvest fields failed com
pletely and famine with all its aw-
full consequences fell upon the inhabi-
tants of the mountains. Father Theo-
time gave all he had to his poor flock
until as his biographer says. he had
nothing left but God alone. Thanks,
+ however, to his tireless efforts, he
was able to save his flock from star
| vation.
g. Now that a new life was animating
t his parish, Father Theotime began to
look abroad The pagans of the dis
I trict were attracted by the goodness
: of the jealous missionary Many put
i themselves under instruction. The
0 number of Christians at Si-cha-ho in
d creased rapidly. Father Theotime be
/ gan to push out into the mountains
' to found new communities. This EN-
8 tailed untold hardships. For the roads
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12
Catholic Succeeds Himself
ADMIRAL GRIFFIN RETAINED AS
CHIEF OF BUREAU.

President Wilson has nominated
Rear Admiral Robert Stanislaus Grif-
fin to succeed himself as Chief of the
Navys Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Ordinarily the bureau chiefs do not
succeed themselves, but the war is
breaking department precedents. 1t
is pointed out that the reappointment
of Rear Admiral Griffin is high COM
mendation of his efficiency in the ad-
ministration of the important bureau
over which he has been in charge.
The admiral was born in Virginia
on September 27, 1858, and has been
in the service since October 1, 1874.
He is a Catholic.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12
FOR WORLD PEACE
CARDINAL GIBBONS PRAYs FOR
DIVINE AID IN WAR.

In the presence Of a great throng
Cardinal Gibbons preached in the
Cathedral last Sunday morning on
"The Perpetuity of the Christian Re
public and declared that the people
of the country have an abiding faith
in President Wilson.
He said. Let us pray that divine
assistance guide, direct, mold and
fashion the actions of the President OF
the United States, and that the way
will be shown to speedy, permanent
and honorable peace.
"The most violent opponents of re
ligion have been the princes Of the
world, even so-called Christian
princes.
"The Church saw the rise and fall
of European nations in the past. Per
haps it will yet see the decay 81
others and chant their reQufem.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12
EMPHASIZES DUTY
CARDINAL URGES NECESSITY OF
WoMEN'S WAR WORK.

Patriotic service was urged as the
chief duty of women by Cardinal Glib
bons at the annual conference in Bal
timore, on January 5, of the Maryland
chapter, International Federation of
Catholic Alumnae
''The work of support and coop
GRAFTON that falls upon the women of
a country in time of war cannot be
over-emphasized," said the Cardinal,
"and the great duty of our Catholic
women in these days of stress is to
rally their best talents, their time,
their energy and their labor in the
service of our government and the
cause of our allies"