The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-03-06

hundred inhabitants. AS the Chris
tians were few and far between, they
had but a little church at the far end
of the town. This, however, became
totally inadequate when the town be-
gan to develop owing to the CONNER
cial traffic through the Suez Canal.
The new church will be beautifully To-
Gated and will do honor to the Cath
Ollie religion.
Bishop Restored to See.-The Polish
Government at Warsaw is making
every effort to restore the dispos-
sessed Catholic Bishops to their
Sees. One of the most recent to be
thus returned is Mgr. Mankowski,
who has returned in triumph to- re-
possess his See of Kamieniec Podol-
ski This ancient episcopal See was
forcibly suppressed by the late Czarist
Government of Russia in 1866. After
the Russian Revolution Kerenski tried
in 1917 to restore the See but he only
partially succeeded. and the coming
into power of the Bolshevists made
the carrying out of this scheme I'M
possible.
New Bishop at Trieste.-Mcr. Bar
tolomasi, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT to the
Italian Forces. has been formally
installed in the Cathedral of San
Giusto as Bishop of Trieste ana
Capo d'Istria. The occasion gave rise
to a great religious and patriotic DEM
onstration, because, owing to Austrian
and Slav intrigues. the ultra-ltalian
See of Trieste, formerly the See or the
great humanist 4Eneas Sylvius Pic
colomini who became Pope Plus ii,
had not been occupied by an Italian
prelate for the last couple of CEN
turtles. The Holy Fathers tact in ap-
pointing to this redeemed" city Mgr.
Bartolomasi, who, as Chaplain General
to the Forces so greatly contributed
toward the Italian triumph, has met
with general approval and gratitude.
How Vatican Learned OF Pact OF
London.-The late Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Signor Sonnino is engaged, the
Italian public has been told, in writing
his memoirs. This is as much as is said
of the fallen one. He is writing his
memoirs! 1t is to be hoped the IA
NOUS Pact of London, and especially
the article in which England, France
and Italy agree to exclude the Holy
Father from the Conference of Peace,
l1l two t,1on 11f NV
him. AS chief engineer of the article
excluding the Holy Father from part
| that naturally belong to the occupant
of Peters throne, Signor Sonnino will,
it is to be hoped, put himself in his
proper perspective in his memoirs.
Italian Popular Party.-Cardinal
| Gasquet, in a recent interview, re-
ferred among other things to the
new Popular Party" in Italy. This
party, he says, is mainly composed
of Catholics, who are now encour-
aged to exercise the right to vote
| and will no doubt greatly influence
future elections. "The Popular Party
| His Eminence added, lis not officially
| recognized in any way by the Vatican
authorities, who are, however, neither
| ignorant of it's activities nor unsym'
| pathetic with it's aims" The Popular
! Party seems to be sort of Italian
Centrum, and we hope it will find a
| Windthorst, a Schorlemer, or Reich
| ensperger to organize it and lead it to
| victory.
On Observation-Disclosures in
it's present exceptionally fluid CON
dition is impelled to consider any
sensation of the hour that appears
capable of a religious adaptation
in the hope of solidifying itself
The present rage for the occult
consequently arrests non Catholic at
! tention To the Catholic the truth
about spiritualism, except as study
| in natural science or in human vaga
ries, possesses little interest. He
needs no messages" to reinforce his
belief in an .after-life for the human
soul. The so-called messages" OBJ
tanned under stage management are
| so banal-fall so far below the clear
| and universal teaching Of the Church
guided by "the spirit of TRUTH that
he can afford to give the gO-by to all
this hotch-potch of fraud, morbid curl.
Osity, and deviltry.
| Church in PortugaI.-Since the
occasion of the requiem Mass cele'
brated on the anniversary of the
murder of the late President Sidonia
Paes, when the government arrested
some of his friends, the condition
of religious affairs in Portugal is
very far from satisfactory. One of
the most striking things is the absence
of all visible signs of that religion
which is still professed by the vast
majority of the Portuguese people.
Neither priests, nor monks, nor mem
bers of the religious congregations are
allowed to appear on the streets in
the distinctive habit of their order or
state. Religious professions are not
| permitted. After the revolution the
churches were closed by a decree OF
the government; they are permitted
to be open now, but only under the
most rigorous restrictions. The
schools have been completely secular
| lied and taken over by the State, and
in some of them the teaching of abSO-