The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-25

the portuguese clergy will be i'm
measurably strengthened.
The Pope and the Jugo-SIavs.-Ac-
cording to the Slovene press, the Holy
Father has made the following state
ment to Mgr. Jeglitch, Archbishop Of
Ljubljana: Il have nothing against
the new kingdom of the Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes, but l dare not and can
not officially recognize the new state
before it's frontiers have been fixed,
before knowing which Bishoprics will
be situated in the new kingdom, and
before peace is signed. / will recog-
nize it with the greatest pleasure as
soon as everything is settled. / beg
you to make my views known. Say in
your country that 1 shall do what you
desire as soon as the Belgrade govern
ment, after the conclusion of peace,
makes it's wish known to me to settle
matters relating to the Catholic
Church by means of a Concordat with
the Holy See. l shall do my utmost
in order to arrive at this Concordat.
am of opinion that the Concordat
signed with the kingdom of Serbia in
1914 might easily be applied also to
the new kingdom. | intend to COM
mission a representative to Belgrade
to establish friendly relations with the
government.
A Catholic Daily for india.-Many
people will be helped in understand
ing what the Catholic Church in In
dia actually is when they realize that
it possesses laity willing to under
take the floating Of Catholic daily
paper. True, the scheme remains as
yet a project, but it has been outlined
in detail by the Catholic Board of In
dia, Burma, Ceylon and Malaga. The
provisional committee of the board,
whose president is the Archbishop of
Simla, propose to promote a joint
stock company to run press to print
the paper in question: and undertake
other job work connected with Cath
Ole publications. The hope is en-
tertained by the committee that
enough guaranteed subscribers will be
found to make the daily paper and
press self-supporting from the start
Arrangements would be made, should
the number of subscribers permit, for
local editions with daily wires at such
centers as Madras, Bombay, etc. The
scheme originated with the Catholic
| Federation of Northern India, acting
on specific recommendation of the
Reorganization Committee of the La
hore Catholic Association. Delhi was
then proposed as a center.
Bishop Guillibert Aids His People,
I The terrible forest fires, which have
been devastating the Riviera in Italy,
are source of the deepest concern
to the authorities. Vast tracts of
beautiful country have been destroyed,
| villages have been surrounded and cut
Off by the flames, and serious want has
been caused. Such thing has never
been known along the Mediterranean
coast before; and it is believed the
| fires are the work of incendiaries.
The Bishop of Frejus, Mgr. Guillibert,
has spent the month, visiting all the
most tried villages in the region of
Les Maures. He was welcomed every
where with the greatest demonstra-
| lions of gratitude; and the people
f1ocked to the churches to hear him.
The Bishop was greatly touched by
the praise, lavished by the villages on
their priests, and the efforts of the lat
| ter to fight the flames and to sustain
! the courage of the inhabitants when
cut off by the fires for two days and
two nights, with great braziers, caused
by the burning forests, all about
them. At some points the Bishop &C
tually dashed his auto through the
fringe of flames at break-neck speed
! to reach his threatened people,
Pope Expresses Love for Louvain.
"A Papal letter has been addressed
to the rector magnifcus and the pro-
fessors of the University of Louvain,
in which the Pope expresses his warm
est sympathy, and his hopes that the
university will arise once more in it's
former glory and with all it's rights re-
stored. The senate of the university
had offered to the Pontiff it's respect
full homage, and it is in his reply to
this communication that the Holy Fa-
Their gave expression to his deep feel
ings on the subject of Louvain. Ma
leVolent men, the Pope said, had tried
by all sorts of devices to separate the
university from the Pope The Papal
letter has in it an echo of that mis-
understood and misconstrued neu-
trality which the Supreme Pontiff, as
the common father of Catholics on
both sides in the war, was obliged to
adopt. But even so, the Pope repeats
once again his special care for Bel
GUM: I'VE have interceded for Bel
GUM continually, that before all else
she must be restored to her former
condition" The Pope points out that
the University of Louvain, as the glory
and honor of Belgium, must be re-
stored to it's former magnificence.
Temperance Reform every
point of view, the proceedings at the
second triennial Congress of the Cath
ollc Total Abstinence Federation of