The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-08-28

1911, leaves three sons and four
daughters.
Exiled Monks Return.-A dispatch i
received here from Barcelona, Spain,
states that the French Benedictine
monks of San Pedro, near Barcelona,
will soon return to their native coun-
try. The Benedictines were exiled
during the religious persecution in
France following the breaking off OF
official relations with the Holy See
several years ago. They were given
the monastery of San Pedro and have
since lived there. Now they are to
return to their original monastery
home in France, ample guarantee hav-
ing been offered to them by the
French government, and the confls-
Gated monastery has already been re-
stored to them.
A Fearless Churchman.-The trans
fer of Bishop Henson of the Episcopal
Bench from the see of Hereford to
that of Durham recalls in the minds
of English Catholics the celebrated
speech made by him in the city Tenn
pie of London, when he assailed the
directors of the British-Amazon Com
pany as being responsible for the ap-
palling atrocities perpetrated by their
agents on the PutumayO River, in
Ecuador. He wound up his denuncla-
ton by urging his audience to help,
| in the only way open to them, the poor
natives who were victims of these
outrages by sending money to the
Roman Catholic Duke of Norfolk for
the establishment of Catholic mis-
sion there under the direction OF the
English Franciscan monks.
EnqIish Won Bissings.-As a result
| of the military occupation, Cromwell
| liam outrages are becoming common
| in Ireland Priests are being held up
by the soldiery. While Father c. Do
herty of Dublin was on his way to
celebrate seven o'clock Mass, he was
ordered to halt. Pointing revolver
at him, one of group of soldiers de-
manded his authority for being out at
| that hour of the morning. A boy who
was going to serve the Mass was
| also held up and searched. A few
mornings afterwards a priest on his
way home from the church where he
had just said Mass was searched
by soldiers. This policy has gone as
far as sacrilege. The military raided
the church at Bellewstown in the
County Meath.
Combat Evil Reading.-To combat
evil reading-especially the kind that
is provided by the alien gutter press
lis the task that Archbishop Harry
urges on the clergy of Ireland. The
rag press, which is one of the endow-
ments that England showers on that
country, has many aspects. There is
the Sunday newspaper containing all
the English divorce news of the week.
There is the weekly paper that deals
with nasty matters in preachy tone
teaching the vices it pretends to
condemn. And there is the quasi-in
tellectual periodical which under
the cloak of an analysis of ideas, ad
vances views subversive of Christian
thought. Dr. Harry wisely points OUT
that to drive these purveyors of dam
nation from the haunts of men is not
enough. Catholic reading must be
available to keep them permanently
out of the field. A greater activity
on the part of Catholic journalism in
Ireland is foreshadowed. The Cath
Ole News Sheet has made an impress
sion in influential Irish quarters as
indicating how much can be done tC
disseminate interesting and authori
tative Catholic information.
Welsh Bishops JubIee.-The Cath
Ollie Bishop of Menevia, Wales, Mon
signor Mostyn, who sits in the an
cient seat of st. David, has just cele
brated the silver jubilee of his conse
Grafton to the episcopate. The bishop
: is a member of a noble Welsh family
that has preserved the Faith I'm
broken through the centuries of perse
, cution, and at the family seat of the
, Mostyns at Talacre the red light has
burned before the Blessed Sacrament
for centuries. Monsignor Mostyn car
claim among his ancestors three con
: fessors for the Faith who were raised
to the affairs by Pope Leo XIII. These
martyrs are the Ven. Philip Howard
Earl of Arundel; the Ven. William
, Howard, Viscount Stafford; and the
Blessed Margaret Pole, Countess OF
Salisbury, who suffered death for the
Faith under Henry VIII. Blessed
= Margaret Pole was mother of Regi
nald Pole, Cardinal of the Church
and the last Catholic Archbishop OF
Canterbury, who was sent from Rome
to reconcile the English nation to the
Church in the reign of Mary Tudor.
Cardinal Praises Bishops Pastoral
In letter addressed recently to
Cardinal Gibbons, the secretary of the
Sacred Congregation, Cardinal De Lai
in praise of the Pastoral Letter of the
American Hierarchy, says "Youl
wise provisions for the administration
of religious life in your diocese de
serve the fullest approval, particularly
your insistence on the closest possible
union with the Apostolic See. On this
close relationship, indeed, rises, as
) on solid foundation, that unity
which Our Divine Redeemer desired
on it also depend the life and welfare
of the Catholic people. 1t remains