The Catholic bulletin., 1919-02-22


minister to their men the power that
preserves them from moral contagion
and corruption"
Cardinal Bourne on the Vatican.--
Cardinal Bourne has delivered impor-
tant addresses in Cairo and at Alex
andria, Egypt, urging that the lessons
of war be not thrown away. 1t was un-
thinkable, for instance, he is reported
to have said, that France should turn
away again from her shores those
who had fastened to her aid in her
hour of trouble, in spite of all the
memories of the past, and it was in
conceivable that the laws against the
latter should continue to exist. Re-
ferring to Italy, the Cardinal said 1t
would be of even greater advantage
to Italy than to the Vatican if real
and complete understanding were ar
rived at between the Quirinal and the
Holy See.
Marseilles and the Sacred Heart
Mgr. Fabre, Bishop of Marseilles,
France, has published a pastoral let
ter ordering the erection of church
in honor of the Sacred Heart, as an
act of thanksgiving to God for vic
tory and to perpetuate the memory
of the soldiers who have given their
seilles that the first church in the
world dedicated to the Sacred Heart
was erected in 1888 by Mgr. de Bel
zane. This church disappeared en-
tirely during the French Revolution
consequently in 1920 the Mayor OF
Marseilles decided to erect another
but the project failed of accomplish
ment. Now, however, the present
Bishop has decided to carry this OBJ
ject out by the building of church
in thanksgiving, where Mass will be
said daily for those who died during
the war.
Famous Catholic Manuscripts.-TwC
famous manuscripts-Whi take a
high rank among the artistic and his
torical treasures of Great Britain
and which, moreover, are of extreme
interest to Catholics-have just been
presented by Mr.. H. Yates Thompson
of Trinity College, Cambridge-onet tC
the Fitzwilliam Museum, and the
other to the British Museum. The gift
to the former institution is the great
work of art known as the Metz POntif
ical, having been produced for Ray
maud de Bar, Bishop of Metz, and is
recognized by connoisseurs as the
most sumptuous French liturgica
manuscript of the beginning of the
14th century now in existence. The
gift to the British Museum by Mr.
Thompson is the st. Omer Psalter, ar
incompatible English manuscript Of
the 14th century. A Pontifical, it may
be explained, is book comprising
the different services with which {
Bishop is specially concerned. The
Metz Pontifcal is adorned with forty
large miniatures illustrating the prin
cipal Episcopal Offices. 1t begins will
that of the Dedication of Church
the ceremonies connected with which
and with the Conservation of an Alta
are shown in great detail in a serie!
of pictures.
| Ant-conscription Fund Trouble
Certain parties in Cork, Ireland, ar
inclined to raise quite unnecessar.
trouble as to the disposal of the loca
ntiConscription Fund. Very Rev
DR.. Cohalan having suggested that th
balance in the hands of the loca
trustees should be applied to the crea
tion of a fund for the erection of
Cathedral in Cork, a claim has beel
entered by representatives of SIM
Fein, Labor, and the Gaelic League
and of the Irish Volunteers that ney
trustees shall be appointed to TAX
charge of the fund, ito be held intac
| for possible national emergencies.
Bishop Cohalan, in published lette
to Father Cassidy, P. P, Ballinghas
sig, has clearly stated, in his opinion
the legal obligations of the presen
trustees-that they are bound to re
turn intact to the subscribers tn
moneys with which they had been er
trusted if and when these subscriber
individually so demand, and that pre-
sumption of their consent to any a
location of such moneys cannot in an
circumstances be safe from the poin
of view of legality. He directs tha
these legal obligations be respecte
and fulfilled.
Vilification of Nuns.-The vilifics
Ition of the Catholic religion, it
priests and nuns, and pious practice
in printed matter sent through tn
post was recently condemned b
Archbishop Kelly of Sydney, Austria
liza, and this form of insult was strong
ly reprobated by Mgr Segrave, a
Drogheda, Ireland. This objectionabl
printed matter in which the practice
of their religion were held in odiun
was, he said, sent by post to Catholic
in Drogheda. Why, he asked, di
Protestant tracts rage so much agains
nuns? Was it because they had moth
ing like them? To-Day there wer
$4,000 Sisters of Charity, and at thei
head was an Irish Sister, who ha
years ago been one of the Sisters il
Drogheda. The Sultan protecte
them in the hospitals of Constantine
pie. The grand Turk and heather