The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-02-28

Bishop. Inc nrSt was also American
that of DR.. Levi Silliman Ives, Bish-
op of North Carolina. In 1852 he
went to Rome and made his submits !,
sion to the Pope, and thus, as he
himself said, abandoned a position in |
which, he had acted as a minister of
the Protestant Episcopal church for
more than thirty years, and as a
Bishop of the same for more than
twenty, and sought late in life admis-
sion as a layman into the Holy Cath
Ollie Church, with no prospect before
him, but simply peace of conscience
and the salvation of his soul" His
wife, a daughter of the Protestant
Bishop Hobart, also became a Cath
Ollie. Returning to the United States
DR.. Ives was made professor of rhet-
ORIG at ST. Joseph's Seminary, New
York. subsequently he established
the Catholic Protectory" in New
York, and was the first president of
that institution. More than one Angli-
can bishop in England has been ION
the verge" but nothing more has come
of it.
Ruined Churches in ItaIy.-More
than 1000 churches, chapels, vestries
and priests houses in Italy have been
destroyed by warfare or partially de-
| molished. The sacred vessels, vest
ments, organ, linen. ornaments and
other things essential to. or adorn-
ments Of. Catholic worship in these
churches-and especially 1900 bells
were carried off. The diocese Of
Trent suffered the most: there are 140
churches completely destroyed; the
Right Rev. Celestino Endrici, Bishop
of Trent, was interned by the Austri-
ans during the war. In the arch
diocese of GoriZiO, of which the
Most Rev. F. Borgia is Archbishop,
siXty-one churches are the toll of war.
In the diocese of Treviso. of which
the Right Rev. Monsignor Loughin is
bishop, forty three churches were
wrecked. In the diocese of Padua, of
| which the Right Rev. Louis PellizZo is
bishop, there were forty-two churches
| ruined The roll call of some of the
| other dioceses of Italy is as follows:
| diocese of Ceneda, q: archdiocese of
| Udine. 26 diocese of Belluno, ~; do
cese of Vicenza, -; diocese of Con-
cordia, s; patriarcato of Venice, Z;
diocese of Feltre, 5; diocese of Bres-
! cha. /. There are 22O other damaged
churches in the country
Reading the GospeI.-To priests
| and lay Catholics the details of the
| work done in 1919 by the Society of
st. Jerome in Rome (the purpose of
| which is the diffusion of the Holy
| Gospel in the Italian language) are
of interest. For years excellent re-
suits have come from the society; es
pecially since the advent of Benedict
XIV and the selection Ey His Holiness
Of Cardinal Gasquet as it's Protector
| In the diocese of Rome alone (Which
| in comparison with other dioceses is
| a small one) the society has sold as
many as 100000 copies of the Gospel
| in 1919. But the society has more
| and simple read the Holy Writ than by
| the mere sale of Bibles. Every Sun
day and holiday of obligation a leaflet
containing the Gospel of the day, fol-
lowed by a short homily, is put into
each ones hands at the beginning of
| Mass. And the subject of the sermon
| is that of the same Gospel. In this
| way tens of thousands of leaflets are
| distributed gratis to the worshipers
| Each parish priest orders the number
| he needs every week and pays for
them out of the funds of the Church
to the Society of st. Jerome.
| Maynooth Mission and the Holy
| See.-The two representatives of the
| Maynooth mission who were in Rome
| recently have satisfactorily made the
| final arrangements with the Holy See
| for the Missions campaign in China.
It's three years of struggle to live and
| thrive have been crowned with initial
success. 1t was begun, as our readers
are aware, in 1916 The little mustard
| seed, consisting of nucleus of some
| five Jealous priests, needed hierarchi-
cal approval to plant it in the soil Of
| the Church. This came first in Octo-
| Der, 1916, when the Irish Bishops
gave their appreciation. In the July
of the following year the Holy See
added it's approving voice, and the
| Holy Father expressed the desire that
the College of the Mission should be
| founded forthwith. In expressing his
| desire, His Holiness emphasized the
| great need of Irish priests to counter
act the influence of Professionalism.
| The promoters of the Mission did not
| allow the years to grow under their
feet in carrying the wish of Christ's
| Vicar into execution, for the new col
lege was opened in 1918. At present
| the mission numbers thirty-four young
priests, many of whom have shown
their jealous interest in the CONVEX
sion of China by giving up prominent
| positions in Ireland. Dalgan College
| has AZ students of philosophy and the
| ology, and as many as hundred or
| more waiting at it's doors to enter,
when it will be possible to have the
place to receive them. The House
| founded in the United States of Amer
lea in the diocese of Bishop Harry,
of Omaha, is the first shoot sent out
| by the root planted in the soil of Ire
land.