The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-04
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colored people speak gratefully OF
DR.. Hughes. She was accorded full
military honors with military escort
representing Spanish War Veterans,
the G. A. r. and members of the nurs-1l
ing profession in uniform.
Mass of Thanksgiving. Before a |
large gathering of people who assem-
bled from Reading, Allentown, Potts
vile and Bethlehem. the Rev, John E.
Lorenz, a former army chaplain, pas
tor of st. Mary's Church, celebrated a
Solemn Field Mass upon the Fair
Grounds of Kutztown, Pa, on the feast
| of the Assumption of the Blessed
| Mother The Mass, under the. aus
spices of the Knights of Columbus, of
| the Reading Council, of which Father
| Lorenz is a member, was High Mass
| of Thanksgiving for the escape from
| injury of members of this council sin
a train wreck at New Ringgold, on
! July II. The knights choir of sixty
voices, under the leadership of George
P. Haage, of Reading, sang the Mass.
New Catholic Weekly.-In the near
future new weekly paper will be pub
lished in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe
under the supervision of the Most Rev.
! Albert T. Dagger, o. F. M. 1t will be
named "The Southwestern Catholic"
and will be printed in English and
Spanish This is considered an i'm
portant step in the interest of Cath
| Ollie advancement in the vast Santa Fe
Archdiocese. There is at present no
Catholic paper published in New Mex
ico Funds are now being raised for
the new paper and there is reason to
hope that it will be placed in every
Catholic home in the archdiocese.
Blessings of Statues.-The beautiful
statue Of st. Joan of Arc, a gift of
ish, Boulder, Colo, to their church,
was blessed with appropriate cere-
monies Sunday, August %. Rev. G. J..
La Jeuness, pastor of st. Joseph's
Church, Fort Collins, performed the
ceremony of blessing the statue, and
Rev. VIM. Organ of st. Leo's Church,
Denver, preached the sermon. At the
same time statue OF st. Rita of Cas-
cia, another saint canonized in our
lifetime, was blessed st. Rita is
known as the saint of the Impossible,
because when her prayers are sought
favors which had been deemed impos-
sible, are often granted.
New Boarding School, ~Bene-
diets College, the pioneer Benedictine
educational center in the West, and
one Of the foremost Catholic colleges
of Kansas, will open an exclusive
boarding school for younger boys in
the grades, in the newly acquired Mid
land College properties at Atchison,
Kansas. This spacious and beautiful
college property was purchased from
the Lutheran authorities by St. Bene-
diets College, and consists of seven
large college buildings, including one
of the best and most modern gymnasi-
ums, anG campus of twenty-five
acres generously devoted to athletics
and recreation purposes. The com
/ plete plant will be given over to the
! younger students under the manage
ment of a select staff of professors
from the college.
An Active Parish Priest.-A re-
markable article about a priests work
in a country parish appeared in re-
cent issue of the Country Gentleman,
when Father Moenig's work in New
Hamburg, Mo-, was described Going
to the town twenty years ago as pas
tor, the priest, who knew nothing of
agriculture, found the people moving
away because they could not make a
living on their farms. He brought in
an expert, who gave them the first
lessons in crop rotation, and then he
taught them dairying, pure-bred live
stock breeding, the bee industry and
other things which have made the par
ish marvel of prosperity. The orig
inal parish is now divided into six
congregations, Father Moenig's con-
tanning $50 families. Everybody in
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, single bachelor, is a Catholic, and
everybody goes to church regularly.
The priest is not merely a spiritual
!: guide, but the agricultural expert, oft
/, en- the physician and the general adj
wiser in every sense of his people.
When a, few years ago smallpox
!; threatened the community, he vacci-
| mated everybody in it himself