The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-05-01

Reconstruction has been found to be
rather difficult task Many Of the
professors fell at the front, and the
mobilization of younger men made a
big gap in their intellectual training.
The financial difficulties of the time
make it hard to carry out urgent i'm
prOvements.
Saved Many from Scotch Reforma.
tion.-A story of notable work on the
part of Jesuits at the time of the
Reformation in Scotland, which saved
many souls to the Church at that
time, was related recently by Rev. j.
Hungerford Pollen, S. j., in Scotland.
Father Pollen showed how the Jesuts
worked against the new doctrines of
Henry VIII and Elizabeth. They &C
tually succeeded, he declared, in eff
fecting a ounter-refOrmatiOn, so that
thousands who had seemed lost to the
Church returned. An Irish Bishop
who passed through the North of
Scotland declared that he had given
confirmation to 10000 persons. The
powerful mobiles under whose prOtec-
ton this had been made possible, how
ever, the lecturer said, themselves
fell away, and the strength of CathOl-
icism, which had come to promise
great things, gradually declined in the
region.
Based on Christian Princi pIes.-The
Swiss Catholic daily, "Neue Zuercher
Nachrichten,' reports on a meeting of
the Hungarian Culture Society of St
Stephan. Cardinal Csernoch presided
His Eminence discussed the relation
of Christian principles to the prob
lens resulting from the war and rev.
OlutiOn. He referred to the so-called
new ideas of justice and humanity
champiOned by President Wilson dur
ing the war, and added that these
Catholic principles. The Cardinal ex,
planned that the idea of a league of
nations and of an international court,
in fact, the entire Wilson theory of
the duties of the States. is identical
with the basis of Christianity. If the
Allies take these ideas seriously, they
will find powerful assistant in Chris
tan Hungary.
Roman Foreign Seminary.-The
news Of the establishment of a sem.
mary for foreign missions in Rome is
OF happy augnry. 1t is to be built
alongside a new church in the Piazza
d Armi, big open space which, as the
name implies, was the open training
ground for recruits, being close to the
long range of barracks on the other
side of the Tiber In 1911 the houses
were built on it in connection with
the Exposition of that year, and 9th
erS have followed AS the population
of the city increases, it must be entire
ly built over soon; and the Congrega
ton of the Priests of the Sacred
Heart of st. Quentin have secured
from the municipality ground for q
church to be erected to serve the in
habitants that are and are to be, anG
they propose, too, to build, in connec
ton with the church, seminary fOl
foreign missions. They have received
an encourag ing letter from Cardinal
Gasparri in behalf of the Holy Father
Monks Perform PIay.-Dur:ng Holy
Week the Benedictine monks of Cal
dey Island off the coast of Wales, gave
the last of four performances of q
mystery play in honor of the Sacred
Passion. This community, which was
formerly Anglican, abjured Anglican
ism in March, 1913, and was received
into the Catholic Church by the BishoT
of Menevia. The Island of Galley
has an ancient monastic tradition
which goes back to Celtic times wher
a monastery flourished there founded
by the great grandson of st. Patrick's
, sister. The whole island is the prop
erty of the abbey, and its population
, which is entirely Catholic, consists o.
, fewer than 100 persons, including
| monks and villagers. The mystery
play. which has now been presented
for two years, is not performed as ar
entertainment, but as an act of devo
ton, and all the characters are takeI
by the monks and novices of the alb
| hey.
Film Of PIgrimaee.-A moving pic
! ture film that has been shown pri
vately at the New Gallery in London
| appears to be the beginning of new
| Catholic educational enterprise. The
film describes the recent pilgrimage
to Lourdes, in which the Carolina
Archbishop of Westminster several O
the English bishops, and large mum
bers of soldiers, sailors and civilian!
took part. This film showed the cele
bration of Pontifcal Mass by Cardina
Bourne in the Rosary Chapel, and de
scribes the history of the famous
shrine as we'll as the religious edi
! fees at Lourdes. Among the captions
thrown on the screen is a quotation
from the National Zeitung" of Jul.
80, 1914, in which that journal de
clared: ''The Holy Mother of God, o
Lourdes, will have much to do if she
the worker of miracles, is to mend al
| the homes which Our soldiers will