The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-01-17

thing till the close. Later he said, 4
saw things in there and thought over
them, and l believe now
German-Hungarian College. - The
College in Rome is
open again. The students all left |
Rome before Italy entered the war in
May, 1915. The house in the Via San |
Nicola da Tolentino is the headquar-
General and his Curia left Rome for |
Switzerland in the summer of 1913, |
but a few Jesuits remained here, and |
their quarters were left for them I'M
der an arrangement carried out most |
courteuosly by the Italian government,
when it utilized the big and con-
venent building as a hospital. That
is all over now the Jesuit General
and his Curia have been back for some
months; and there are also in resi-
dence some forty students. But they
do not wear the remarkable scarlet
cassock
Cardinal Mercier's Diary.-COnsid-
cradle interest centers around the
publication in the London Times" Of
the war "reminiscences of Cardinal
MERCER. His Eminence made copious
notes during the tragic days of the oc-
cupation, and these he has given to
Professor Mayence to cOllate and pre-
pare for publication. The proofs have
been carefully revised by the Cardinal
himself, and the whole was sent for
translation to the Benedictine Fathers
of ST. Augustine Abbey, Ramsgate.
The story has commenced in the
Times and will form the most inter
esting and important of the many war
records which that newspaper has yet
published. @
Troubles in Roumania.-The annex
alton of Pennsylvania by the ROu-
manians in the face of the peace
treaty has resulted in the "Roumani
zation'' of the schools, colleges and all
public institutions previously operated
by the Hungarians. The method is
applied to all religious bodies, and the
Catholics are not spared in the least
The schools, which are largely under
religious control, have been specially
singled out for attack and the
churches have lost their freedom of
religious teaching. During last Octo-
Der an order was promulgated that all
sermons must be submitted to the cen
sor ten days before they are delivered.
In many cases ministers of religion
have suffered indignities, and some
have been imprisoned and subjected
to harsh treatment.
Cardinal Appeals for Seminary
Cardinal Boure of London has issued
a pastoral letter, which was read in
all the churches of the Archdiocese of
Westminster, in which he appeals for
| the diocesan seminary, hard hit by the
war. The cost of deferred repairs and
| the cost of maintenance of the stu
dents under present day conditions
mean such an increase in charges
| that an additional capital of 100000
or an additional yearly income of $10,-
900 is necessary, while it has also be
come necessary to reduce the scholar
ships in order to increase their value
to the still modest sum of 1915 per
annum.- His Eminence also appeals
for the devastated Diocese of Bruges
whence he has received a heart-rend
| ing appeal issued by the Bishop, and
in which some $50 churches, converts
and schools are destroyed. An infu
entail British committee is being SET
up in London to aid in the restoration
of the ruined shrines and desolateC
centers of Catholic life in Flanders.
London Catholic Federation. - The
Westminster Catholic Federation has
been endeavoring to construct Cath
olic platform, and finds it a more diff
cult matter than it at first believed
Further good has also come to the
Catholic Social Guild indirectly from
these efforts. This latter organization
is a modest but genuine attempt tt
solve the difficulties of the presen
day with Catholic principles. The
Federation program was not fixed Vi
without much opposition and discus
sion. 1t was then forwarded to Car
dinal Bourne for approval His Emf
nence, who is indispOsed, has returned
it through his secretary, with the sus
gestion that the Federation would dt
better to adopt that Catholic platform
already adopted by the Catholic Socia
Guild from Father Husslein's Ameri
can program, which has found favo
in the states. There the matter rest
for the moment after stormy sitting
The Catholic Social Guild is mean
while working quietly to leaven TIL
masses through Catholic members O
those same masses.
. Well Known Jesuit Murdered.-I
! shocking crime has taken place il
t Brussels. A well known Jesuit Fa
, Their, attached to the College of 81
Michel, has been murdered in tn
: street in broad daylight. Father Lot
| rette was proceeding the other morr
5 ing about nine o'clock along the Ru
] Poincon towards the Rue DIES Brigi
t tines, when man sprang at him CRY
: ing: "Ah, it is you who have poisone
4 my wife, and, before anyone coul
interfere, he had struck the priest
e. violent blow on the head with an iro