The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17
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tory. Its Catholic population has
grown till it now numbers two mil
lions out of siX-and-a-half and Cath
Ollie influence has increased more than
proportionately There is an Apostolic
Intarnuncio stationed at The Hague,
and an envoy to the Holy See in
Rome. There are at present only five
Sees, but the number of parishes is
over a thousand, and the number of
Catholic journals and periodicals is
over a hundred. Holland is a great
sions, with no fewer than twenty
eight religious houses devoted to
training men and women for that
apostolic work.
Article Fifteen.-The "Osservatore
StanmOre's reply in the House of
Lords on the Papal Note and on Ar
ticle Fifteen of the Italian agreement.
1t acknowledges the correctness of the
Government, but notes with regard to
the first that the Holy See did not re-
ceive directly any notice of England s
adhesion to President Wilson's reply
TO the Pope, and with regard to the
second it repeats its comment of Feb
ruaTy last that the protest was against
the singing out OF the Holy See as
the only neutral Power to be excluded
from the Peace Congress"
For Prisoners Of War.-As three
and half years have elapsed since
Pope Benedict XIV established in the
Vatican the Bureau for Prisoners of
War, good deal Of interest has been
shown in the results of the work done
by the small army of priests Irregular
and diOcesan) and Iaymen who repair
to the Apostolic palace every morn
ing and evening Oh their charitable
mission. Up to the present something
like 100000 letters have been re,
ceived at the Vatican from parents
priests, bishops, and associations of
various kinds all over the world His
| Holiness has working in correspond
| ence with the Vatican Bureau sim.
! Hal OIllCSS SSldDl1SlISu IuSS6 I'LL ct
years at Vienna, PaderbOrn and Fri
| bOurg in Switzerland, this last for the
sake of German prisoners in France
| In addition to these central bureaus
there are offices in all the chief cit
les Of Europe.
Deserved Honor.-The Grand Coun
| Gil OF the Knights of Malta, which is
| historically the nOblest and most in
| fuential of all the knightly orders OF
! Europe, in order to show its apprecia
ton of the work Of Sister Maurice
SuperiOress-General of the Sisters OF
| Charity, in the Hospital of S. Martha
| Rome, nominated this nun an honor
| airy member of the order. Only scions
| of the most ancient families are ad
mitted as members of the Sovereign
! Order Of the Knights of Malta. An
English duke, very generous of his
wealth to every good purpose, was
net considered ancient and noble
enough to gain admittance to this
order.
Montmartre 5asiIica.-The big vo
tive church that rises above Paris has
! been since August, 1914, the scene Of
many gatherings, but seldom was il
| filed to OverfioWing as was the case
| on the feast of the Sacred Heart
During the whole of the night, devout
! WOrShipperS kept watch before the
| Blessed Sacrament, and both at High
Mass and at Vespers thousands o.
| pilgrims filed not only the church, bu
| the adjoining squares and streets
They came not from curiosity but
| from an ardent desire to win Gods
| blessings for our soldiers. Those who
remained outside prayed and sang as
| ferVently as the more favored people
who found places within the basilica
Among these the Government was, O.
| course, not officially represented, bu
members of the Senate, of the Cham
Der Of Deputies and Of the French
Academy, were there individually, be
sides thousands of officers, soldiers
and refugees; many of the fighting
men were wounded, and their halting
steps and pale faces bore witness t.
the sufferings they had undergone.
Origin of CapitaIism.-Says Carolina
Bourne: Capitalism began really with
the robbery of church property in the
sixteenth century, which threw the
economic and social advantage into
the hands of the land-oWning and trad
ing classes. The industrial revolution
in the eighteenth century found Eng
land already in the hands of the
Well-to-do classes. Since then the eff
feet of competition uncontrolled by
morals has been to segregate more
and more the capitalist from the
working classes, and to form the lat
| ter into 'proletariat,' a people own
ing but their labor power and tend
ing to shrink more and more from
the responsibilities of both owner.
snip and freedom. Hence, the increas
ing lack of self-reliance and the ten
dency to look to the State for the
performance of the ordinary family
duties
France Proud of Priests
French priests, who have been serv
ing both as chaplains and soldiers, are