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

able demonstration attended the con-
secration of Right Rev. John Baptist
Pelt as Bishop of Metz on Sunday, |
October II. All the civic and military |
authorities of Metz were present at |
the conservation ceremonies in the |
cathedral and attended the banquet |
which followed Cardinal Annette, |
Archbishop of Paris, aroused great en-
thusiasm by his speech on the saving |
of France.
Excluding the Pope.-It is now
established that, in 1917, France, Great |
Britain and Russia, entered into Sc
cret treaty barring the Holy See from
participation in the Peace Conference.
The treaty stipulated that they "un-
dertake to support Italy in so far as
she does not permit the representa-
tives of the Holy See to take diplo-
matte action with regard to the con-
clusion of peace and the regulation OF
questions connected with the war;
American Parishes.-In the "Acta
Apostolicae Sedis'' is a declaration of
the Consistorial Congregation to the
effect that divisions of dioceses in
countries transferred from the juris-
diction of the Congregation de Propa-
ganda Eide to that of the Consistorial
Congregation are to be regarded and
called parishes, provided that decree
erecting them and assigning definite
territorial limits and competent sus-
tenance to the pastor, has been is
sued by the Bishop. 1t is said the
diocese of Boston has done this.
Honor Catholic Missionaries.-Rev
Leon Robert, p. F. NJ, of Hong-Kong,
and Rev. Jean Ouillon, P. F. NJ, OF
the same mission, have received the
decoration of the Golden Wheat Ear,
decoration rarely bestowed on for
eigners. The last Catholic priest so
distinguished was Bishop Reynaud
whose prompt assistance to the suf-
ferers of the great flood won him the
gratitude of the Chinese people.
Catholics Make Demands. - The
Christian Socialists, or Catholic Par
ty, of Vienna, Austria, have outlined
the conditions on which their party
will remain in the government. The
terms include the abolition OF work
mems and soldiers councils, the i'm
mediate framing of new constitution,
the abandonment of all socializing
projects, the abolition of the Volks-
wehr and the substitution of nation
al army for it, the reorganization OF
the cabinet and taxation scheme
which will throw the burden of taxa
ton on the wealthy.
Give Pleasure in Vatlean.-The
Catholic papers in Rome comment
with great pleasure upon the visits OF
Cardinal O'Connell and Archbishop
Hayes and their celebration of Masses
aboard the Italian warship "Conte Ca,
YOUR" There have been only scanty
accounts published, as yet, regarding
the great meeting of the Catholic
hierarchy at Washington, but the Vati
can receives news daily and followed
the proceedings of the Bishops there
with intense interest.
Audience With Holy Father.-A'
the audience recently given by the
Holy Father, there were received
Mgr. Connolly, European vicar-gener
al of American chaplains, with Rev
Ernest Marsh, S. S. F. S., of White
Plains, n. Y, U. S. A. chaplain, anC
Father Lapie, the Sulpician rector oil
the Canadian College in Rome, which
now renews it's regular life, interrupt
ed by the war. There were also re
ceived one hundred British Catholic
soldiers, who came to Rome on a pill
grimage, prior to their leaving Italy
Peculiar Chinese.-Father Blanco
o. P, says of the Chinese: What
ever ideas or prejudices one may have
about Chinese men and things, ones
rule of conduct at the outset must be
to see, to hear, and to be silent
Living among the people in the int
llUl Will CuduSS OuI WGSlSIu uOtiOLS
sooner than we expect. The day will
come when things that startled the
missionary on his arrival will seem
altogether natural and commonplace
What is more, it is positively true that
if foreigners do not love the Chinese
and their ways, it is because they dc
not know them-or have a half knowl
edge that is worse than none at ALL
Pope Gives Advice.-"On the do
,mestic hearth woman is queen" said
Pope Benedict in answering an ad
dress presented to him by the women's
Unions on October II. "The Catholic
woman" said the pontiff, "besides
feeling it her duty to be virtuous, must
feel it her duty to appear such in the
fashion of her clothes, repudiating
those exaggerations of fashion which
show the corruption of those who de
signed them" The pontiff strongly
urged the formation of a league Of
Catholic women to fight what he
l termed the indecency of fashion, no
only in their own clothing, but alst
of that of persons in families who ap
proach them.
: Nun-Doctors in Poland.-A Polish
t nun was the first woman dentist tina
tho Amorioop .yo,lyorc found !,