The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-05

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the civil, military and naval author
tiles were present. sign of changed
times-together with the consuls of
| the Allied Powers, whose flags and
| banners and tapestries Of the old
| Florentine Guilds were displayed.
Nuncio at Erussels.-Mgr. NicOtra,
| new Papal Nuncio at Brussels, has ar
| rived in the Belgian capital and pre-
scented his credentials at the royal
palace. On his reception by the king,
| he stated that it was a great honor
to be accredited to the Belgian court.
| The Holy Father had charged him to
| renew to the king Benedict XV's SEN
| timents of paternal benev0lence and
| his lively desire that the relations OF
good understanding, existing between
| the Belgian government and the Holy
| See, should become closer by cordial
| friendship and perfect intelligence.
The Pope wished to tell the king the
| joy he felt at the liberation of the
| Belgian people.
Church in Alsace.-Alsace-Lo
is going to present considerable diff
| culties to the anti-clerical, and will be
bulwark to Catholic France in re-
sisting further prosecutions. The first
party to be reconstructed in Alsace is
| the Centre. Three hundred members
have met and voted an order of the
day, in which they formulated their
wishes. These include the mainte-
nance of the confessional or religious
schools; maintenance of the tradi-
tional rights of the Church; bilingual
teaching, local administration, and
maintenance of the social and work
ers' laws.
Church and State Are Separated
The new Hungarian government, says
a dispatch from Budapest to Amster
dam, has decided to abolish all titles
| of rank, to separate the church and
state and dismiss all commissioners
Of the Karolyi government, while in
viting workmen's councils to select
| directorates of four members each to
| replace them The formation of rev.
| dictionary courts was decided upon,
and the council ordered the peoples
commissioners to take over all homes,
businesses and art treasures in pri-
vate hands.
War Chaplain a Jubiarian.-In the
presence of a large military and
civilian congregation at st. Joseph's
| Church, Aldershot, England, the Rev.
James Dey, D. S. o., principal Cath
Ollie chaplain to the Royal Air Force,
and Vicar-General of the Rt. Rev.
Bishop Keatinge, Catholic Chaplain.
General, celebrated his silver jubilee
in the priesthood by singing High
Mass recently. Father Dey won the
D. S. O. in the present war for gallant
services, but as army chaplain he has
also done fine work in South Africa
and Egypt He endured great hard
ship and privation in the retreat from
Mons and subsequently served with
the expeditionary force in German
East Africa.
Arrest Story Is colored.-A short
time ago publicity was given to a re-
port that the Roumanians had arrest
ed the Catholic Bishop of Transyl
vania. The statement was made in
good faith by one of the most reliable
news agencies. A mission from the
Roumanian government has arrived
in Berne, and the members deny EN-
phatically that the incident ever hap
pened. They state that the rumor
was spread in Switzerland by a sec
ton of the Hungarian government
which is trying to cause trouble to
the Roumanian, Czecho-Slovak and
Jugo-Slav governments. The denial
of the statement is supported by Off
GERS of the French, American and
British missions at present in Tran
sylvania.
Italian Popular Party. - Of the
Italian Popular Party it is only neces
sary to say that meetings are being
held by organized Catholic associa
tons throughout the country, and that
adhesion to the party is general. Al
the same time there will be an impor
!. tant meeting of the direction of Cath
Ollie Action in Rome, that is, the Pop
: ular Union among Italian Catholics
and other organizations, which re
main under the immediate direction
of the Holy See, to establish lines fol
development of their socio-religious
action. Of the prospects of the pc
litical party it is as yet too soon tC
: speak. 1t has done we'll in getting its
. programme before the public first Of
, all political parties; and, if at the
elections, which are being prophesie6
for June, it can collect into a homo
geneous whole and urge to united &C
ton all shades of thought among
Italian Catholics, it may begin a ca
reer Of usefulness in Italian politics
7 PaIestrina MSS. Found.-Don Ra
faele Casimiri, director of the choir
! of st. John Lateran, Rome, has made
/ wonderful discovery-that of the
/ original manuscript of Pier Luigi d
Palestrina, the announcement of the
loss of which in 1902 created a sensa
f ton in the musical world. Suspicion
: at that time fell on all sorts of pee
f pie; police inquiries were made, bu
5 with no result; and the MSS. was re