The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26

poor, his zeal for souls, his fatherly
interest in the priests under his direc-
ton, and of his attachment and 10y
atty to Holy Church. Cardinal Rich
ard watched over the building of the
Church of the Sacred Heart at Mont
martre with earnest attention, and it
was he who blessed it and placed the
cross on the dome
AIsace-Lorraine.-I very impor-
tant and Illuminating article in the
journal des Debates" of Paris, NJ.
WELLER, deputy in the Alsace-Lorraine
parliament, deals WITH the question of
the Holy See. AS vice president Of
the Alsace-LOrraine group in parlia-
ment he, with some of his colleagues,
had an interview with the president
of the council. The article he writes
is evidently the substance of the I'M
derstanding arrived at. He says:
What l can say, without fear of con-
tradiction, is that in this group, COM
prising representatives of all parties
of the parliament, there is not sim
SIC OllC VI ll0 IlCIllUCIS, even
the most advanced, who does not rec
ognize the absolute necessity of con-
tinuing their code and their salaries
in the case of the ministers of re-
ligion in Alsace-Lorraine. Moth
ing will be easier than to adapt the
to the necessities of national policy
which in reality do not contradict it
Religious RhineIanders.-An Ameri-
can Catholic army chaplain, Father G.
Lacombe, writes thus of his expert
ences in Germany: Our men are far
more at home in Germany than they
were in France. The population de-
clare openly that they look upon us
as their deliverers. How explain
the German propaganda is still sub
sidized and still strongly organized
and that their avowed preference OF
the Americans to the English and
French is another piece of clumsy
propaganda. l personally think the
dis " SI 10 ulOlS IIliih
the answer is to be found in history
The Kulturkampf of 1870 burned deep
ly into the lives of these people, tc
whom religion is dearer than life it
self. They are organized along re
| ligious lines, and the simplicity anC
| thoroughness of their religious life is
an example to all of us. Every day
| the village assists at High Mass
| They stay for my Mass and sing theil
sweet hymns. They are at Benedic
ton at nightfall. They have the
rosary at bedtime. Last night the lit
tie Christmas trees twinkled all over
| the village, and in many of the fam
| lilies our boys were invited to say the
rosary under the Christmas tree.
| Prosperous Papers.-As indicating
! the present standing of the Dutcl
Catholic press, it may be remembered
and Ode Maasbode" of Rotterdam dur
ing the war have time and again beer
mentioned by name in Associated
| Press dispatches as the source of i'm
pOrtant information bearing on cur
rent happenings. The last named ap
per took the general public by sur
| prise when some two years ago, frs
of any other news organ, it installed
wireless" of it's own. Last October
| DE Maasbode" celebrated it's COLDER
jubilee and signalized the suspicious
event by installing an extensive new
and up-todate newspaper plant on one
of the principal squares of Rotterdam
| In 1868 the paper appeared as mod
est but vigorous weekly. The yea
| following it became a semi-weekly, anC
in 1885 was changed into daily, will
morning and evening editions since
| 1908. By dint of real pluck this pa
, per has worked it's way to the yer.
front rank of Dutch Journalism; no
| only is it the acknowledged leader o
the Catholic press, but both as to siz,
and general information the peer a:
we'll of any other secular paper.
| Brave Alsatians.-It looks as though
the anti-clericals in the French gov
eminent had met their match in Al
! sace-Lorraine. Those provinces have
not kept their faith and their nation
ality for forty-eight years despite thu
| German, for nothing. At Grubwille1
the Sisters had been expelled by the
Germans, who prosecuted and impris
! Oned them for their patriotism. Whe1
the Allies were victorious, the people
| of the place expected to see the Sis
! tiers back again in their old schools
but the laicization had already take1
! place, and the nuns, who have suf
fered in prison, did not return. ST,
members of the municipal council
have now addressed a demand to the
mayor that the Sisters shall be i'm
mediately reinstated as an act of jus
tice, and stating the matter is too ur
gent to wait till the municipal cleo
lions. The address was unanimously
adopted by the council, and it wa!
pointed out that the local administra
ton had been prepared for the nuns
return, but Paris had interviewed tt
! prevent it. The session ended with !;
remark that those who had been ;
match for the Germans, would know
how to break down the resistance o
French sectarianism.