The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-08

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name of Nine. Adrienne Buhet supe-
rioress of the Danes du Sacre Occur
appears in a long list of names of
those killed in battle She was struck
by bullet as she was raising the
head of a wounded soldier
Pope Opposes BoIshevism.-Ac
ing to the best informed circles in the
Vatican Pope Benedict XIV has sent
instructions and solicitations to the
Polish, Ruthenian and Hungarian
bishops that they throw every effort
into the struggle which is being fought
against bolshevism the world over
Along the Rhine.-American Catho-
lie soldiers often hear Mass along the
Rhine, mingling with German congre-
cations now. They are not enemies
before the Blessed Sacrament. In nu-
merouS instances within the occupied
areas where the Americans held re-
ligious services on Christmas Day,
Germans took part
Catholics in ParIament.-Out of
over 600 members sitting in the House
of Commons for British Constituent
cies only II are Catholics. Out Of
over 80 members of the Government
only three are Catholics and these
are all Unionists. The Catholic menl-
bers of the Administration are Lord
Edmund Talbot; his nephew, Mr..
James Fitzalan-Hope, who has just
been appointed Financial Secretary to
the Ministry of Munitions; and Mr.
Denis Henry, the Irish Solicitor-Gen-
eral
Want x. c, Organizaton.--The
more Catholic huts and hotels that
| arise in England the better, for there
is a proposal by the Y. NJ. G.. A. to put
one of their huts on every village
green after the war, an audacious
proselytizing plan for which they are
asking the huge sum of eight mil
lions from the public Therefore, the
multiplication of Catholic huts is de-
sirable and We yearn for body of the
| same strength as the Knights of Co.
| lumbus, says a London dispatch.
Deaths of Missionaries.-The record
of deaths among priests and bishops
| in the foreign missions for the year
| 1917 is at hand. 1t shows that nine
bishops and 127 priests passed to their
| reward. The Paris Foreign Mission
Society lost the greatest number-27,
and the Holy Ghost Fathers come
next with II apostles left on the hard
| field of battle in Africa. All the con-
| gregatiOnS suffered rather more Sc
verely than usual, which is not sur
| prising, considering the calamities of
| the times.
Church of Santa Sofia.-Matter
which may engage Cardinal Bourne
when he arrives on the Bosphorus, is
| the return of the great Church of
Santa Sofia to the Christian faith for
which it was built. Already an Angli-
| can committee is demanding this of
the Government, and urging all Chris
| tians to unite with them in this de-
mand. The question will be to what
religion will the church be surren,
dered. 1t should be to that faith, for
which it was built and which still
endures. Before the war the face of
| the great mosaic Christ above the en-.
trance was commencing to appear
| once more from beneath all the Mo
hammedan decorative work where
with it was covered. and it was said
that this portended the return OF the
Christians. Now that this is realized
Santa Sofia should become the Basil
lea of the Eastern Rite of the Catholic
Church, the ST. Peters of the Orient
always. of course, inferior to the Ro
man Basilica. but receiving from it q
mission to the East
Our Boys in Germany-Catholic sol
diers with the American Army of DC
| cupation are well taken care of spir
itually, writes Father j. E. Doherty
chaplain of the Second Division
There are plenty of chaplains," he
| writes, and now certain men-chap
lains-are being chosen by Chaplains
Headquarters to give missions, re
treats and revivals. The men are be
ing looked after, and we are with
them all the while. Since December
Is we have been here in Germany
three miles from Coblenz, on a hill
overlooking the Rhine. We have taker
over a seminary belonging to the
Palotiner Order, and very comfortably
situated-electric lights, steam heat
showers, ETC.