The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-02-12
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High Paper Decentralization Of
Catholic papers in Czecho-Slovakia
has been made exceedingly dificult
by the high cost Of paper, and many
of these journals and periodicals
are facing the future with concern.
The crisis is so acute that Arch
bishop Kordac called the publish
ers into conference to consider
the situation and find q remedy. The
most popular Of the Catholic dailies,
Lid, with about $4,000 subscribers,
closed the last year with q deficit OF
800, 900 crowns. The Czech, a daily
for intellectual Catholics, had a sim,
liar; experience.
Cardinals Appeal for School.-The
appeal OF Cardinal Gibbons in be.
half Of st. Mary's Industrial School
Of Baltimore, which was recently de.
stroyed by fire, has been responded
to by the Supreme Board Of the
Knights Of Columbus, which has
pledged the assistance of the members
of that order in raising the $4,000, 1000
necessary to rebuild the institution
Milan. Catholic 81" Receives Pope's
Blessing. Pope Benedict has sent a
telegram to Count lombard, president
of the New Catholic University of mi.
Ian, calling down the divine blessing
on that institution, and expressing the
wish that it may spread more abund'
antly the light of truth, make men
better, civil society happier, and the
country more grand and noble. The
initiative in creating this university
was taken by Cardinal Ferrari, arch
bishop of Milan, and the Holy Father
sent to the dying cardinal this
expression. The university Is to be
sustained by contributions from Cath
olies.
New Catholic Publication in Eng
lland.-The Catholic Social Guild OF
England is intensifying its part in So
cial reconstruction by the publication
of new monthly organ, the Christian
Democrat. The policy of the journal
| is the same as that of the Guild
based on the social doctrines OF Lee
XIII, and stands for the maintenance
and defense of the Christian family
a living wage, partnership instead OF
class antagonism, Leo Kills doctrine
| of property seeking to make as many
as possible become owners. The
movement is under the leadership OF
Monsignor Parkinson, rector OF Os'
colt College and first president OF the
Guild.
!. A Notable Jubiiee.-Scholars will
be interested to know that recently
| in the historic Abbey of Montecassino
italy, was kept the golden jubilee as
a priest of the learned Abbott Am.
brose Amelli, o. s. B., for many years
Archivist Of the Abbey, founder OF
the Society of S. Cecilia for the Re
form OF Ecclesiastical Music, and a
patristic and biblical scholar of Eu
ropean fame. Congratulations poured
lin from all parts of Europe, and the
Holy Father wrote a most fiatterine
autograph letter. Cardinal Gasquet
travelled on purpose from Rome te
lMontecassino, and presided over the
DELIBERATIONS. The Abbot's confreres
published for the occasion an impor
tant and valuable work entitled, "Mis
cellanea Amelli," which contains
Learned contributions from the pen Of
many scholars, such as Cardinal Gas
auet, Professor Burkitt, Dom Wilmart
of Marlborough, and M. Mercati, the
lPrefect of the Vatican Library.
/ A Great loss.-Jugoslavia has los
a great churchman and a strong po
llitical leader in DIR. Antun Mahnic
Bishop of Veglia, who has died a
iZagreb. His writings on religious
philosophy and his treatises OF ped
fagogy are classics in Slav litera
lture. He was the most redoubta
BILE foe of the new paganism which
4 infiItrated slowly among unobserv
ant or Indifferent circles, until ht
arose to demolish with scorn and con
tumely the theses of the would-bt
lprogressists. AS the founder Of the
Catholic movement that brought to
Igether Croats and Slovenes in one
powerful organization he is revered
by both peoples and considered pic
neer Of their religious and nationa
InrnprnSS He advocated tho nraSnrva
tion of the old Slav or Glagolite Litur
gy in the islands and on the coast dis
puted between Slavs and Italians.
Church in Georgia.--In the Londor
Tablet, the Rev. Dom Maternus
Spitz, O. 8. B., reports on "The
Catholic Church in Georgia'--not
our American cotton State, but thai
mountainous forest clad kingdom ir
Southeastern Russia. called by the
natives Sakartwelo or Karthweli
which, on May 26, 1918, constituted
itself as 1.-THE Sovereign Independent
State and Democratic Republic o.
Transcaucasia." The Catholics in this
new republic are few and far be
tween-about 10000 in total popu
llation of 2,500,00 souls. Georgia nov
has full religious liberty. In response
to the favorable report Of Mgr. Nor
iondo, O. p, whom Pope Benedict XIV
had sent there as Apostolic Delegate
y to investigate ecclesiastical affairs
the Propaganda has now asked the
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