The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-06

how the little native children,i pre-
pairing for baptism, try to help out the
priests during the period of their in
struction. Knowing that the mission
is too poor to feed the classes, each
child brings little package of rice
sufficient to carry him through the
day, and cooks it during a spare hour
In this way, a good attendance is Sc
cured and the children do not suffer,
but the White Fathers would like to
be able to give to these little lambs,
rather than take from them
The New Sprng.-The Established
Church, the Anglican of England, is in
toils-has sunk to a woeful state. 1t
is a church of unrest, of shrinkage.
The Anglican ministers say that after
four hundred years of Professionalism,
England can in no. sense be called a
Christian land. The recent Anglican
| Church Congress has given rise to a
prediction of reign of anti-Christ.
In the last seventy years a great
change has come over Protestant
England. Slowly but surely and, in
deed, certainly, the one, holy, Cath
Ollie and Apostolic Faith is returning
to England. Seventy years ago, a
new spring dawned in England, and
that new spring is now on the eve
of new summer. Newman of Eng
land is dead, and Newman of Eng
land lives
Tablet to Leonardo da Vinci.---In
the famous Church of Santa Croce
which is so oft called the Westmin-
ster Abbey of Florence because of its
many monuments to illustrious men, a
commemorative tablet to Leonardo da
Vinci was unveiled several weeks ago.
The Plaque is a beautiful one on red
and white marble in the renaissance
style and is placed near the tomb OF
the Signorini. 1t is inscribed with the
name of Leonardo and the intimation
that it was put up on the fourth cen
tenary of his death, March, 1919, with
the names of the donors.
Scottish Pilgrimage to Lourdes.--
a Scottish pilgrimage to Lourdes in
July, 1920, has given great pleasure
to a large number of Catholics. Mgr
Mccarthy, Bishop of Galloway, anC
Canon Lavelle, Dundee, have initiated
the project. In a letter read in al
; the churches Bishop Mccarthy says
; In thanksgiving to God for preserv
ing us during the long years of wal
and suffering; to obtain Divine guild
ance in the anxious time before us il
further reparation for our manifold
evils; to obtain eternal rest to the
souls Of those who have died for us
and for ourselves all temporal ant
spiritual blessings, it is now proposed
to go as pilgrims to the feet of Oul
Immaculate Mother at Lourdes.'
ProseIytizers Abroad. Protestant
sects are causing a great deal o.
trouble in various parts of Europe. L
is said Salvationists from England
and America, are behind the agitation
in Czecho-Slovakia, which took a dep
utation of priests to Rome recently
to ask for all sorts of innovations
one of which, the abolition of the rule
of celibacy, was refused.
Troubles, not so acute as these but
unpleasant, are taking place in other
countries, thanks to the bad taste anC
propaganda methods of these moneyed
heretics. In France, both English and
American Protestant societies are
causing deep resentment amongst the
people by their efforts at proselytism
in exchange for war charities and in
situations which they have forced or
the people. In Italy the same thing is
happening. In Palestine it has al
ready happened; and, if they but knew
it, these Jealous missionaries are do
ing their respective countries the ques
tionable service of making their ma
tionalities hated in the allied lands
where they are forcing their "souper
!; ist' propaganda, incidentally, too, il
many cases, making a good paying jol
of their so-called charities.