The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-05-29
hand and it is expected to raise more
than 100000 for the building.

hand and it is expected to raise more
than 100000 for the building.
Cardinal Gasparri Mourns.-All the
sympathy of Rome is going out to Car
dinal Gasparri, His Holiness Secre-
tary of State. Only few weeks ago
his nephew died there, Avvocato
Filippo Gasparri, and later His
Eminence was at the death bed of
his brother, father of the nephew,
Signor Bartolomeo Gasparri. To both
those whom he has lost the Cardinal
was devotedly attached.
Eucharistic congress.-A great Eu-
charistic conference was held in
Formes, in the Diocese of Salamanca,
Spain, last week The Cardinals,
Archbishops and Bishops of various
dioceses of Spain were present. A
solemn Iridium was held in the Ca
thedral, and during it, on one Of the
days, Mass was sung according to the
Mozarabic rite, followed by a great
procession of the Blessed Sacrament
through the city.
The Bridgettine Nuns.-The Bridget
tine Nuns of Syon Abbey, Chudleigh,
England. just celebrated the 500th an
niversary of the first professions taken
in their community. These nuns trace
back their spiritual ancestry to the
ancient days when England was a
Catholic country, and they preserve an
unbroken tradition from that time, an
honor claimed by no other religious
community in that country. In 14OS
the first Bridgettine nuns came to Eng
land from the celebrated Monastery of
Wadstena in Sweden, to make the first
foundation of their Order.
Honor Catholic Officer.-Lieutenan
Colonel Sir Edward Bulfin of the Brit
ish army has been decorated with the
CroiX de Guerre by the President Of
the French Republic. Col. Bulfin, who
is a native of Rathfarnham was edu-
Gated at StOnyhurst and Trinity Col
lege, Dublin. After joining the army
he saw service in Burma and in the
Boer War, and later distinguished him
self in the late war. The late Sir
Mark Sykes said of Sir Edward Bulfin
that one of the most impressive events
of the war was to see him, at the
head of his Catholic soldiers, kneeling
in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
in Jerusalem, at the first midnight
Mass said there since the delivery of
the Holy City without the Turks look
ing on.
The Church in Bohemia.-The Cath
Olic priests in Bohemia, says DR.. John
G. Vance of the Westminster diocese,
| are undergoing the most extreme suf-
ferings. There are many priests who
have literally no underwear, and only
very poor and worn shoes and clothes.
They are often in dire need of food,
and in the bitter cold of the mountain
Gus parts are unable to warm their
houses. At the present moment priests
are badly needed to combat the
schism and to rally the loyal Catholics
to the Church, yet their activities are
| crippled because they are suffering
from extreme hunger and cold. Many
! of the priests receive only 1900
kronen for their annual salary, which
! is worth now about Is dollars A suit
! of clothes would cost about $500
kronen, or more than priests salary
| for two years!
Catholic Population OF China.-From
| time to time statistics are published
giving the number of Catholics in
| China. The Lazarist Fathers of Che
Kiang have compiled these figures for
1919, and they state that there are
| today 1,992,247 Catholics This repre-
SCENTS a gain of 39,41S during 1919,
| which is, however, little more than
| one-third of the ordinary increase. No
| than four European laborers. while
| the majority of the fifty-one provinces
can report no increase whatever. This
| however, is partly compensated for by
| the increase in native priests and stu,
| dents. Fifty-one native priests were
ordained, while the number of semi.
narians increased by fifty, the classi.
cal students by ninety-three.
Home Rule in India-India is one
! of the countries considering the ad,
vantage of self-government and the
missionaries naturally feel consider
| able interest in the matter. Specula-
tons of various natures have been
penned by them and here is the
opinion of Bishop as printed in the
Jaffa Guardian: We have several
times discussed the chances of the
| Catholic Church under Indian Home
| Rule, whatever be it's FORM and came
to the conclusion that wherever the
| Church has become Indian and SUM,
into the hearts of the Indian people
as in South India, and some parts
of the North, she has little or nothing
to fear. On this particular question
we last week interviewed Mgr. Perrin
Bishop of Mangalore. He declared he
had no misgivings on the subject, as
long as the missionaries identified