The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-01-11

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Bishops, under the leadership of Arch
bishop Faulhaber of the Diocese of
Wuerzburg, have protested formally
against the separation of Church and
State and the abolition of religious
oversight of schools.
Convert Wins Doctorate.-The Rev.
Wilfred Moor, formerly an Anglican
minister, who was recently ordained
in Rome has taken the Doctorate of
Philosophy in the International Col
lege of the Dominican order.
Bars Socialists and Anarchists.-In
a pastoral letter from the Archbishop
of Amsterdam read in all the churches
December "a, it was announced that
Catholics in Holland will be refused
the sacramento, if they be members of
socialist or anarchist associations,
which are declared to be "in conflict
with the Catholic religion"
Bishop Broyer is Dead.-After forty
years of service for the Catholic mis-
sion in the South seas, Right Rev. P.
Broyer, D. D., Apostolic Vicar of
Samoa, died recently at Moamoa,
Upolu, near Apia, Western Samoa. He
was consecrated Bishop of Polyneum,
a Bishopric in Asia Minor, in 1897.
Monasteries Used for Hospitals
In France many Of the old mOnasterieS
are being used not only for shelters
and canteens for the American troops
but by the Knights of Columbus and
other organizations for their work.
Some of them have been transformed
into hospitals. These religious build
ings are treated with the greatest
respect.
X. of c. Hotel Opened in Rome
The Rome headquarters at the Hotel
Minerva, organized by Commissioner
Ryan, was formally opened on Decem-
Der 4, in the presence of a distin-
guished gathering of Americans,
Italians, and English, including Car
dinal Gasquet and Count De Sails,
British Minister to the Holy See;
Chaplain Major George Waring, U. S.
A; Mgr. Bartolomasi, Chaplain Gen
eral of the Italian forces; leading rep
resentatives of the American war
workers in Italy, and officials of Ital-
ian Catholic organizations.
New African Vicariates.-Two new
Vicariates Apostolic are established in
Africa: the one of "Betafo,' in the
island of Madagascar, with Father
Francis Dantin, of the Missionaries OF
La Salette, for it's first Vicar Apos-
tolic; and the other, of western Nj
geria," with Father Thomas Frederick
of the Society of African Missionaries
as first Vicar Apostolic.
New Sisters Foundation.-A small
community of Sisters of Charity of st
Vincent de Paul has taken up resi-
dence in st. Philips Orphanage, Edg'
baston, England, which has been
placed in charge of the Sisters by the
/ Fathers of the Oratory.
Irish Editor Dead.--William F. Den.
eby, proprietor of the Irish Catholic
Dublin, is dead-a decided loss to
Catholic journalism and to the Church
His most recent good work, a work
done in failing health and under many
discouragements and set-backs, was
| his campaign for enough Catholic
Chaplains in the Army and Navy.
English Catholic Guild of Israeli
Catholics in England have begun an
organized effort for the conversion OF
| their Jewish brethren. A Catholic
Guild of Israel" has been founded tc
| pray for the Jews; to establish q
! correspondence center for them; to
publish apologize literature in Yid
dish and English specially adapted tc
| their needs, to circulate Catholic books
and papers among them; to give ser
mons and lectures to Catholics, in
order to win their sympathy. and CO
operation to Jews, in order to explain
| the Catholic faith; and to collect 9
reference library of Hebrew and Cath
Ollie literature to be put at the dis
posal of the members for the above
mentioned purposes.
| Woman Named Ambassador.-The
Catholic Hungarian government is the
first government to appoint a woman
as ambassador. She is Rosiks
Schwimmer, a Hungarian authoress
Her post is Switzerland.
! A Catholic RepubIic.-Catholic Ty
rol is now republic. 1t is governed
by National Assembly of Parliament
of ITO members. It's capital is Inns
! brueck, the seat of the great Univer
sity.
Il -
catechism in Native Tongue. -
Right Rev. Camille Carrara, o. M
Cap, Vicar Apostolic of Eritrea, ar
African colony belonging to Italy, has
compiled large catechism in the ma
tive language of the Tigrigua. The
book, a copy of which has been Sent
to the National Office of the S. P. F.
is large volume, we'll bound, and its
/ pages, covered with strange charac
ters and symbols, represent a vast
amount of labor on the part of the &C