The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-04-03

complishments, but let them call it the i
Czech National Church, and not the
Czecho-Slovak. For the Slovaks are
loyal Catholics, and they will remain
loyal Catholics, until the earth closes
over them in the grave" !,
Italian Pilgrimage to Lourdes.-Car-
dinal Ferrari and hundred and forty |
priests of the Archdiocese of Milan |
and passed through Nice on their re-
turn journey. While at Lourdes, the
Cardinal sent telegram to the Pope,
assuring His Holiness that fervcnt
prayers had been offered up, before
the Grotto on the anniversary of the
Apparition of the Virgin of the Pyre-
nees, for the work the Pope was do
ing for humanity. Benedict XIV re-
piled that he Frustrated himself in
spirit with Cardinal Ferrari to beg
abundant blessings on humanity and
the Church.
Friend of Boys Dead.-The death of
Father David Bearne, S. j., author of
many delightful stories for boys, is
| reported from London. He died at
Wimbledon College, after a prolonged
| illness, at the age of siXtysiX years.
Father Bearne was received into the
| Church upon reaching his majority
and entered the Society of Jesus ten
years later He was ordained in 1896.
! Father David Bearne was at one time
editor of The British Messenger OF
the Sacred Heart, but he was more
widely known to the reading public
through the medium of the numerous
books by which he delighted several
generations of boys.
The Country Missions.-The Bishop
Of Northampton, England, in his Len
| ten Pastoral, attacks boldly what is
perhaps the most pressing, if not the
most prominently mentioned Of Cath
Ole domestic problems, says the Uni
| verse. Our mission towards our sep
arated brethren leads the Bishop to
. discuss our provision Of Catholic facil-
!
tricts. And he draws for the better
instruction of enthusiastic critics a
picture Of the small country mission
in a Protestant neighborhOod, which
!, is as forbidding as it is unfortunately
, true A priest condemned to eat his
heart out in loneliness and depres
sion. without flock, without society
without employment except what he
can create for himself (such is the
Bishops true picture) is not priest
used to best advantage. An itinerant
, regional clergy, radiating from centre
where they are fortified by the advan
tages of common life, is one of the
Bishops remedial suggestions among
the possible new methods devised tC
. meet our new needs. The Bishop O.
Northampton has set force in mo
ton by this Lenten Pastoral which
: will not be stayed
New Sect in EeIgium.-An unprece
: denied incident is just recorded from
! Belgium A certain sect has recent,
: arisen there, known as the follower
: of "Pere Antoine" Pere Antoine wa
E a glass-blOWer by trade, who went t.
Russia and came back with the ne
ton that there is nothing pays S,
we'll as a new religion. He set him
self to work to create following, an'
. found it amongst the people who has
!. no religion at ALL the Socialists il
Belgium. He is now dead, and hi
work is being carried on by his widow
who styles herself Mere Antoine.
The surprising feature Of the thing i
that the Socialist following of the sec
- has actually had the audacity to az
- proach the Belgian government an
demand recognition for it as relis
ion of the state, to be subsidized b
/ the government. This is a CathOli
country! Persons outside Belgium
J. are surprised, and imagine that tn
IL sect is making Roadway amongst tn
l. Catholic population. This is not tn
T case, as the only adherents to tn
u sect are those who had no religio
u and who are hostile to the Catholi
/ Church.
y Associations LaW.-French Catholic
are faced with a new peril by a We
dict just given by the Court of Al
t peal at Nancy. It is necessary to g
5. back to 1906 to explain the case. |
J. that year two cures were appOinte
/ to the Committee of Culey, near Ba
l. lie Due; one, Able Hutin, was az
Y pointed by the newly-formed Associ;
n ton Cultuelle-over which the spli
h came between Church and State-th
g other, Able Richard, was appointe
IS by the Bishop of Verdum. The latte
If claimed the church property with a
it's appuItenances, but was forced
leave the district. His successor
: Able Calvet, never exercised his mil
j. istry, but brought an action in tn
e courts, in which the verdict was gi'
) en- in his favor. The Association Gu
" tuelle, however, appealed the case
y and it was coming before the Superio
e Court Of Nancy, when war broke OF
j. and postponed it for five years. TIL
If verdict of this court has just bee
A. given. 1t reverses the previous We
dict, and finds in favor of the prizes
appointed in defiance of the Bishop
"a Such a verdict, if allowed to stan(