The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-09-10

like statesmen and not like politicians.
They ask merely to be allowed to
shape their country's destiny; and, as
a reward, they are willing to risk loss
of home property, liberty and life it.
self. Dali Eireann, says Mgr. New
some, is a Parliament of Confessors."
Belgium Seeking Art Treasures
An attempt is being made by Belgium
to induce the Preparations Commission,
created by the Treaty of Versailles, to
compel Austria to return to Belgian
possession the famous Rubens trip
tych, representing the Madonna, to-
gether with the Archduke Albert and
his consort, Isabella. This master
piece is only one of the treasures OF
art which Belgium is seeking to have
restored. The other objects include
the treasure of the Golden Fleece,
arms and armor taken from Brussels,
and coins and medals. Unlike most
of the claims which the Preparations
Commission is engaged in adjudicat-
ing, this demand for the triptych and
| the other articles does not arise from
| the World War. The Golden Fleece was
removed to Vienna in the latter part
of the eighteenth century. Maria
Theresa, of Austria, purchased the
| triptych when the chapel in which it
was preserved in Brussels was torn
down to make room for buildings in
what is now the Place Royale.
| Dominicans in IreIand.-Not only is
this the seventh centenary of st.
Dominic's death, but it also approaches
| the seventh centenary of the introduc-
ton of the Dominicans into Ireland.
One of the brethren who witnessed
| fectory of st. Sixtus in Rome was,
said Father Carr, an Irishman who
three years after st. Dominic's death
came to Ireland bringing some of the
brethren with him. The Dominicans
in the Penal Days helped to preserve
the True Faith in all it's fervor in Ire
land. Dermod O'Hurley, Archbishop
of Cashel, the Cause of whose
Qualification was comparatively re-
Gently investigated in Rome, patiently
bore the corrosive plasters laid on his
flesh before he was put to death.
Richard Barry, Prior of Cashel, refus-
ed life and liberty at the price of
divesting himself of his religious garb.
Lawrence O'Farrell of Longford, hang
ing on the scaffold, lifted his rosary
beads in triumph in the air. And the
Rosary is still the favorite devotion in
rural Ireland.
l School Conflict in North lreIand.-A
conflict of opinion, likely to give rise
to considerable anxiety and indigna-
ton on the part of Catholics, is fore
Swallowed by a statement of Lord
Londonderry, the Minister for Edu-
cation in the tri-County Parliament, in
Ulster. He told deputation from the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian
! Congregation that proposals would be
submitted at the earliest possible date,
dealing in comprehensive manner
with education in the northeastern
area, over which the Parliament is to
function. The education problem
there is largely the result of Protes-
tants' neglect to provide their children
4 with schools. Catholics are we'll pro-
vided in this respect, thanks to the
energy, foresight and self-sacrifice of
the priests and the Catholic commun.
ity The new proposals are expected
to provide observation-disclosures
called-schools, to which no Catholic
child, of course, will be sent, but to
which Catholic ratepayers will be COM
PEELED to contribute. The fight against
these Goddess, in practice anti-Catholic,
schools will be strenuous.
/ EncycIicals Combat Communism
"The only principles that can counter
act Communism and so-called Social
ism are the Catholic principles laid
down in the wonderful Encyclicals of
Leo KILL" said Cardinal Gasquet at
Manchester, speaking at a garden
party given in his honor by the
Manchester Catholic Truth Society.
AS one of the foremost historians of
the day Cardinal Gasquet, who has
specialized on English history, is per-
haps better acquainted than any other
living man with the varying phases
through which the English nation has
passed. So in referring to the present
days as times of an astounding
character, of which the English OF
generations back would never have
dreamed, the Cardinal told his audi.
ence that there was no work more i'm
portant for them than that of instruct
. ing their fellow countrymen as to what
the principles of the Catholic Church
really are. There are, he told his
: hearers, prejudices to be fought which
are the outcome of three centuries oil
: absolute contradiction to the real
:" truth; exaggerations which are found
ed very often upon absolute bad faith
and upon mistakes and misunderstood
ings.
s. Recalls Earlier Irish Struggle
J Newer fall out with the extreme men;
i, they are called extreme because the,
q are extremely in the right" Thus thu
f late Right Rev. DIR. Duggan, Bishop o
u Clonfert, ended a conversation few
Fl days before his death with Mr.. VIII
( liam O'Brien, ex-M. p, and distinguish
b ed colleague Of Mr.. Parnell. TIL
t conversation is recalled By Mr.. Q Briel
s