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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
CARDINAL AND GENERAL
WARM GREETING BETWEEN SOL.
DIERs OF CROSS AND SWORD
IN NEW YORK.

New York's recent welcome to Gen
eral Pershing and his victorious First
Division, was one of the greatest
|spectacles ever seen in that city. Be-
tween lines of two million men,
women and children General Pershing
lied his men down Fifth avenue,
receiving continuous ovation. Many
unusual incidents marked the trium-
phant march of Americas leading
military figure, but the most pleasing
and the most colorful occurred when
the head of the line reached St.
Patrick's Cathedral, where Cardinal
Mercier, Archbishop Hayes and other
prelates and laymen were reviewing
the parade from a stand erected by
the Knights of Columbus.
Before the Cardinal was seated Miss
Helen Mckinley, daughter of William
]. Mckinley, presented large bouquet
of white roses to him. He accepted
them graciously.
The General had just dismounted
for the first ten minute rest of the
parade and flower girls were besieg-
ing him, when he looked up and saw
Cardinal Mercier and Archbishop
Hayes sitting with Brand Whitlock,
American Minister to Belgium, in the
middle of the front row of the grand
stand.
Instantly the General wheeled and
ploughed through the throng on the
sidewalk The two dignitaries of the
Church, quickly realizing that General
Pershing was heading for them, leaned
over the rail- Coming up under the
stand, General Pershing, his lancelike
figure never showing to better advan-
tage, stretched up both hands and
said:
Cardinal Mercier, I am mighty
glad to see YOU
The Cardinal, his lips trembling,
said:
/ am delighted to be here. I thank
you for all the services which you
rendered us on the other side. 1t is
splendid, splendid"
The great throng was quick to
realize that an historic incident was
taking place before their eyes, and
they cheered thunderously as the
great soldier Of the sword and the
soldier of the cross greeted each other
SO warmly.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
DESTRUCTION OF PAPAL STATES

the very men against whom 1t turned
it's weapons. The philosophy" of
Voltaire, of Rousseau, of Diderot, the
Deism of Tyndal, the materialism Of
Helvetius and D'Holbach, found some
Of their most ardent supporters at the
courts of Louis XIV and Louis XVI, of
Frederick the Great, of Joseph II, and
in the aristocratic circles of London
and Paris. 1t was impossible that the
Popes should escape attack. De-
spoiled Of temporal power, the Church,
so reasoned her enemies, would soon
disappear The Church gone, the bar
rier of revealed, supernatural religion
would be removed, politics would be
independent of religion, the path of
the revolution would be unimpeded,
it's victory certain.
The Congress of Vienna in 1915
performed at least one statesmanlike
act. Thanks to the brilliant diplo-
macy of Cardinal Consalvi, the man
who had withstood Napoleon, and who
in the congress was a match for Met
ternich, Hardenberg, Castlereagh and
Talleyrand, the Papal States were re-
stored practically in their entirety to
the venerable Plus VII, long the vic
tim of the imperial jailer of France.
But the congress had no plan for the
unification of the Italian peninsula. 1t
left Italy as it found it, divided. 1t
created in the North the Kingdom of
Sardinia under the House of Savoy,
in the South the two Sicilies under the
Bourbons, and left in the central re-
gions the Papal States. There were
besides these, the Grand Duchy of
Tuscany, and the Duchies of Modena
and Parma. But the congress still re-
tanned the foreigner in power on the
soil of Italy, for it had handed over
the ombardo-Venetian territory to
Austria 1t was thus perpetuating old
| hatreds and opening the way for rev.
olution. For some time Austrian bay
onets and Austrian prisons kept the
Ombardo-VenetianS in subsection,
and the Austrian victory at Novara
over Charles Albert of Sardinia
seemed to rivet Italy's chains more
firmly. Nevertheless the patriots OF
young Italy, secret societies like the
Carbonari, the writings of Giuseppe
Mazzini, the political pamphlets OF
Massimo d'Azeglio and Count Cesare
Balbo, famed the flame of opposition
against the House of Hapsburg. That
the Austrian government blundered
that its coercive measures were harsh
oppressive, and at times cruel, cannot
be denied. On the other hand, that
opposition to it from the Mazzini and
Garibaldi school came from the fact
that Austria was a Catholic power is
just as certain. Austria had to be got
rid of because she was the support oil
the Papacy just as much as for the
treason that she was reminder te
italian patriots that they were still
under the oppressive rule of the
lstranger.
/ Continued on page 81
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
THE new M|SSAL
WILL BE OFF THE PRESS IN
NOVEMBER.

Ecclesiastics all over the world will
be glad to hear that by next Novem-
Der the new Missal will be ready. This
is boon to them, inasmuch as the
Missal as it stands this moment does
not correspond with the Breviary as
reformed by Plus X
Owing to the actual fluctuations in
the price of leather and the cost of
labor the Vatican Printing Press is
unable to quote for bound copies of
the new Missal. But for unbound
copies it quotes twenty-eight francs
each. When prices settle down to
fixed rates, it will quote for bound
copies. In the meantime it receives
orders.
In October the 'Missale Defunctor-
um" will be ready, bound in black
linen at the rate of twelve francs a
copy.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
FOR De VALERA
COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO PLAN
RECEPTION HERE TO IRISH
LEADER.

Plans for the visit of Eamonn de
Valera, Irish leader, due to speak in
St. Paul in October, took definite form
last Monday with the organization of
a committee of citizens to arrange for
his reception.
The call for the meeting was issued
by J. P. Kyle and Rev. C. F. Cremin
in behalf of a provisional committee.
ITO organize reception and take
such other steps as may be deemed
advisable for the promotion of the
cause of Irish Liberty" read the in
vitations to a luncheon, which was
held at The Saint Paul
A permanent organization is ex-
pected to spring from the committee,
but only preliminary steps, confined
chiefly to preparation for the Valera
visit, were taken at this meeting. Mr..
Kyle was elected chairman of the
committee and authorized to appoint
an executive committee of five to work
out details.
De Valera will be in st. Paul the
first week in October. The definite
date will be announced later.
Mr.. Kyle announced the personnel
of general committee of more than
fifty members, which is to have
charge of arrangements for the visit.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
CATHOLIC BOY SCOUTS
FIVE HUNDRED TROOPS ALREADY
RGANlZED-TOTAL WILL
REACH 1000.

No more important step looking to
the future welfare of the United
States has been taken than that just
announced by officials of the Boy
Scouts of America.
This is the news that hundreds of
new troops are now being organized
in Catholic parishes throughout the
country. The total already formed ap-
proximates 500, and 1000 or more are
predicted within a year.
The National Catholic War Council
and other church bodies and high &C.
clesiastics have given their unquali-
fed approval to the extension of Boy
Scout organizations throughout the
land This means that practically all
the youth in the country will be
trained in good citizenship, patriot
ism and loyalty and have their char
acters developed SO that when they
grow to mans estate they will be the
bulwark Of the nation.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
PAGE ONE

The dedication of the new st. Dun
stan's Cathedral, the Mother Church
of the Diocese of Charlottetown, P. E.
Island, Canada, will take place on
Wednesday of next week, September
"a, with impressive ceremony. The
Bishop of the Diocese, Right Reverend
Henry J. O'Leary, D. D., will oficiate
at the dedication, following which His
Excellency, the Most Reverend Peter
Di Maria, D. D., Apostolic Delegate to
Canada, will celebrate Pontif1cal High
Mass. The dedicatory sermon will be
preached by the Right Reverend John
T. McNally, Bishop of Calgary, Alta,
Canada.
The occasion will be made memor-
able by the presence of many mem
bers of the Canadian Hierarchy and
a large concourse of priests from the
neighboring provinces.
The Apostolic Delegate will arrive
on September %, and be met by the
societies of the Cathedral parish, the
Bishop and clergy of the Diocese, and
escorted to the Episcopal residence
This will be the Delegates first visit
to Prince Edward Island since he
came to Canada.
On September 25 Dalton Hall, ar
addition to st. Dunstan's University
erected through the generosity of Sil
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
THE BISHOPS PROGRAM

2. A Department of Education, to
protect, foster and extend Catholic
education in the United States and to
spread true ideas of education. 1t
shall be directly under Board OF
Bishops and have, as all the depart
ments, a permanent location and staff.
8. Department of Catholic Press
and Literature, to aid our Catholic
papers by collecting and distributing
Catholic news, by preparing special
articles, by introducing the best meth
ods of increasing circulation, etc.; to
repel attacks in the secular press,
to correct it's most harmful errors and
to advocate in it true ideas and prin-
ciples; to publish pamphlets and
books for the spread of the Catholic
truth and spirit, etc.
Social Service.
4. A Department of Social Service,
to respond to the urgent deed of the
times, which shall spread the knowl-
edge of Catholic social principles, and
of the best methods of social work,
shall note and study present condi-
tions and movements, and, in general,
promote Catholic social and charitable
activities.
5. A Department of Catholic So
cieties and Lay Activities, which shall
aid and guide our societies, shall warn
the faithful against condemned and
dangerous societies, and shall organ
ize the lay apostolate.
It is proposed that these depart
ments be under the immediate direc-
ton, supervision and control of men,
bers of the Hierarchy. A plan for
financing them and for obtaining other
needed funds will be submitted.
For planning the scope and work of
these departments, we called into con-
sultation men we'll qualified in each
particular field and have had the bene-
fit of their knowledge and experience.
The New Code.
Another important matter we shall
present to you is careful study, un-
dertaken at our suggestion, of the new
code in relation to special conditions
in this country. This document will,
we expect, be referred to a committee
of Bishops and may have farreach-
ing res Llts.
Other matters of Importance will be
brought to your attention, but the
chief question proposed to the meet
ing will be: Whether and how we
shall organize nationally?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
CENTRAL VEREIN
GERMAN SOCIETIES MET A
CHICAGO.

Adoption of resolution urging Con-
gress to modify the treaty of peace
which the Allies have prepared
against the Central powers" was
urged by Michael F. Girten at Chi
cago at last Tuesdays session Of the
sixty-third annual convention of the
Central German Catholic Societies of
the United States.
: Girten also asserted that members
sof the Central verein were opposed to
the Smith-Towner education bill now
pending in Congress.
Congratulatory letters were read
from Cardinal O'Connell of Boston,
Archbishop Giennon of ST. Louis,
Archbishop Bowling of st. Paul, and
Bishop Muldoon of Rockford, ILL.,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
MOTHER CECILIA DEAD
WAS SUPERIOR GENERAL OF Sis.
2 TIERS OF CHARITY B. v. M.

Mother Mary Cecilia, Superior Gen
eral of the Sisters of Charity of the
Blessed Virgin Mary, died at the
Mother House Of sthe Congregation,
Mt. Carmel, Dubuque, Iowa, on Sun
day, September 7.
Mother Cecilia had been in failing
health for some time prior to her
death. On Saturday, August 80, her
condition became alarming, and for
over a week her death was mOmen-
tarily expected. After the arrival of
the Papal Blessing, she seemed to
rally for a while. The end came
peacefully Sunday evening.
At the suggestion of the Most Rev.
erend James ]. Keane, D. D., solemn
funeral services were held at st. Ra-
phaels Cathedral, Dubuque, Iowa,
Thursday morning, September IL.
The Most Reverend Archbishop was
the celebrant of the Solemn High
Mass of Requiem. Interment was
made in Mount Carmel cemetery.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
At M0NTMARTRE
SOLEMN CONSIDERATION OF FA-
NOUS SHRINE.

His Eminence, Cardinal Annette,
Archbishop of Paris, announces Octo-
Der 16 as the date for the conservation
of the votive Basilica of the Sacred
Heart at Montmartre. This date is
peculiarly appropriate, as it is the oc-
tave of the Feast of st. Denys, the an
niversay of the ,apparition of st. Mich
ael On the mount named after him,
and the eve of the Feast of Blessed
Margaret Mary, so closely associated
with the devotion to the Sacred Heart
His Holiness, Pope Benedict XIV, will
send Cardinal Vico to Paris as his
apostolic legate for the occasion.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
LETTER OF AN ENGLISH PRIEST
TO AN AMERICAN JESUIT-A
STARTLING SURVEY - IRRELlG-
ION AMONG NON-CATHOLIC SOL
DIERS.

An English priest writing to Father
Wynne, S. j., makes the following OBJ
servations:
A few months ago a committee of
Protestant clergymen, working under
the Craftsmanship of DR.. Charles Gore,
the former Anglican Bishop of Oxford,
set about compiling a substantial re-
port as to the effects of the war on
religion. Their idea was to issue a
comprehensive statement which would
apply generally to all creeds.
They had not carried their inves-
LEGATIONS very far before they real
lied that although they could gener-
alize in a satisfactory way concern
ing the Church of England, and the
many and various forms of Noncon-
formity, they could not deal in the
same way with regard to the men who
are officially labelled "R. c." (Roman
Catholic.)
Among other facts established one
stands out painfully conspicuous:
among non-Catholic soldiers as many
as from 80 to 80 per cent had but the
haziest notions of things supernat-
ural; their ignorance on such definite
points as God, the Incarnation, the
Church and the sacraments, was un-
speakably depressing; and of course,
one has to bear in mind that the SOL
dier of today is not the same class of
q in
more such a thing as a typical SOL
dier at the present time in England
than there is in America.
The Protestant committee was of
the opinion that the information they
had collected concerning Catholic SOL
diers warranted their believing that
except for about five per cent, all the
men classified "R. c." were well in
formed as to the fundamentals of
Christianity ca, and even those who
had neglected their faith, and in con
sequence were rather rusty" could
soon be put right, and needed but lit
tie preparation to fit them to receive
the sacraments.
A Catholic Inquiry Started.
The decision of Bishop Cores com
mittee not to include Catholic sol
diers in their report led Cardinal
Bourne to authorize direct investiga
tions to be made among our Catholic
chaplains.
A number of suitable questions was
drawn up and copy of these was
sent to each chaplain inviting him tc
answer from his personal experience
The report is not likely to be pub
| lished for few months as the chap
| lains' replies are still being dealt with
and their answers classified. When
it is ready it will certainly make most
interesting reading, although it will
not be altogether pleasant.
We shall hear for instance, of young
men who have had several years
| training in the seminary losing all de
sire to persevere with their vocation
On the other hand, there will be in
stances of men in the prime of life
becoming filled with an ardent desire
to attain to the priesthood and new
set of problems seems likely to arise
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20

Charles Dalton, the fox king. of P. E.
Island, will be blessed by Bishop
O'Leary. The sermon will be
preached by the Right Reverend
James Morrison, Bishop of Antigonish,
N. S., former Rector of the Uni
versity.
The new st. Dunstan's Cathedral is
erected on one of the finest sites in
the city. 1t is Gothic structure built
of grey stone at a cost of about $780,
600. 1t takes the place of the Cath
edral destroyed by fire in 1913, six
years after its dedication.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND

Thursday, September 25, will be the
first anniversary of the death of the
Most Reverend John Ireland, late
Archbishop of st. Paul.
On that day Most Reverend Arch
bishop Bowling will be in Washing
ton, D. c., in attendance at the meet
ing of the American hierarchy. For
this reason the Solemn Requiem
Anniversary Mass for Archbishop Ire
land has been postponed until We'd
nesday, October 8.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
HONORS COME ERRED UPON
AMERICAN PRIESTS.

The Acta Apostolicae Sedis makes
the following official announcements:
Cardinal Sbarretti has been appointed
Protector of the Sisters of Charity OF
Halifax; Rev. Peter M. Cauley, Rec
tor of st. Patrick's Church, Erie, Pa,
and Rev. Joseph F. Stillemans, Rec
tor of st. Albert's Church (Belgian),
New York City, have been made do
mestic prelates, with the title of Mon
signor; Rev. John Rogers, Rector of
st. Patrick's Church, and Rev. Philip
Organ, Rector of Star of the Sea
Church, both of San Francisco, have
been raised to the dignity of private
Echamberlains supernumerary.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20

The idea of Italian unity is of COM
paratively recent growth. Before the
last years of the eighteenth century,
the political unification of the Italian
peninsula in the modern sense OF the
word, does not seem to have pre-
sented itself in permanent form to
any of the great men Italy produced.
Macchiavelli perhaps had visions of
such a union under Cesare BOrgia,
writes Father Reville in America. 1t
is true that Dante and Petrarch, and
Pope after Pope longed for Italian in
dependence of foreign power, but they
were satisfied with the motto Italy
for the Italians" Provided that their
republics such as Florence, Pisa,
Genoa and Venice, the Papal States
and the various duchies and princi-
palities were self-governing and free
from the strangers grasp, Italian pa
triots do not appear to have made any
concerted attempt to have them con-
solidated into one state.
Towards the end of the eighteenth
century the dream of politically
united Italy began to take definite
shape. That dream might have is
sued in a situation in which the rights
Of the Papacy would have been safe
guarded, one in which the preserva-
tion of these rights would even have
furthered the plan of a consolidated
peninsula. But unfortunately the no.
BILE dream was cencretized into fact
by men hostile to revealed religion,
enemies of Catholicism and the Papacy
and all that they represented. To the
spiritual prerogatives of the Popes, in
which of course, these men did not
believe, they saw that the temporal
power added an immense prestige; il
was, they imagined, the only bulwark
of the Popes, the cause of their posi-
tion of honor in the world. That tenn
poral power destroyed, the Papacy
and the Church would disappear.
InfideIity Rampant.
Nor is it astonishing that in an age
when the principle of authority was
violently opposed, the representatives
of the highest spiritual authority
should find their adversaries. For. as
Joseph de Maistre writes, it was dur
inc the eighteenth century that inf
deity became a real power, and by ar
almost inconceiyable fascination, de
ceiyed kings and princes themselves
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
BECOMES RELIGIOUS

An Associated Press dispatch from
Berne, reports that Prince George of
Bavaria, oldest son of Prince Leopold,
who was the German commander-in-
chief of the Northern front in Russia,
has entered a Jesuit novitiate at Inns
bruck
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
FORMER EDITOR DEAD

News has been received of the
death in Switzerland of Mr.. Hugo
Klapproth, former editor of Der Wan
derer, in this city. The deceased was
prominent citizen here for many
years. His son-in-law, Mr.. Joseph
Matt, is the present editor of the
German weekly.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
SUBJECTS TO BE CONSIDERED AT
MEETING OF THE HIERARCHY
THIS MoNTH-MIssioNs, PRESS,
SCHOOLS AND SOCIAL SERVICE
TO BE DISCUSSED.

In a letter to the Hierarchy of the
country the General Committee on
Catholic Affairs and Interests outlines
the subject matters to be acted upon
at the coming meeting of the Bishops
in Washington on September "a.
The letter, which is dated August
30, is as follows:
We beg to state that we have not
yet completed the report which, as
the Bishops of the General Commit
tee appointed by Cardinal Gibbons
last spring, we were asked to prepare
for the meeting of the Hierarchy in
September Our program, however, is
practically completed, and as the time
of the meeting is drawing near and
Bishops will before long be leaving
their dioceses, we think it well to in
dicate to the Hierarchy the main out
lines of the program we shall submit.
If we can obtain the complete report
in time from the printer we will send
a copy Of it to each Bishop.
Our guiding idea has been the
thought expressed by so many Bish-
ops at the gathering last spring that
we have urgent need now of organic
ing on broad national lines for the
welfare of the whole Church, and that
the organization to be formed should
have the authority and support Of the
whole Hierarchy and be subject to it's
direction and control. The depart
ments of the organization follow the
broad lines of the Church's work and
needs in this country, practically as
suggested in His Eminence'S letter of
May 5 last.
Recommendations.
We recommend, therefore, that
there be established:
l. A Department of Missions, un-
der episcopal direction and control,
for the coordination of all agencies
in the United States for home and
foreign missions and for the promo
ton of missionary spirit and en-
deavor. The plan We present was
formed in consultation with the heads
of all missionary societies and agen-
cies in this country and expresses
their own unanimous desire and judg-
ment.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
FATHER O'DAN|EL, 0. ?.

Very Rev. Victor f. O'Daniel, o. P,
of the Dominican House of Studies,
at the Catholic University, Washing
ton, d. c., has been elected associate
editor of the Catholic Historical Re-
view. He succeeds Right Reverend
Bishop Turner, of Buffalo.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20
A. 0. H. CONVENTION
MINNESOTA DELEGATES GATHER
AT DULUTH.

The Minnesota State convention of
the Ancient Order. of Hibernians and
the Ladies' Auxiliary met in opening
session at Duluth last Tuesday. The
speakers lauded the efforts of the Irish
leaders in the cause of freedom, and
at the same time strongly proclaimed
their adherence to the ideals of
America.