The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-04-16

,hancel in the twelfth century. This /
ancient edifice is cruciform in plan.
The work is mainly early and notably
plain. The chancel, which is of later
date, is ornamented with blind ar
cade." This church is notable for pos
sessing treasure in it's eleventh Gen.
fury altar. Specimens of these early |
affairs are rare, for at the time of the
so-called Reformation many of the
old affairs were destroyed.
Wurtemberg School Question.-Dur-
ing a recent debate in the Wurtem-
berg Landtag on the question of cults,
DR.. Bauer, deputy of the Center, urged
that the Catholic clergy should be
placed on an equal footing with the
Evangelic clergy in the matter Of
grants. DIR. Bauer's proposal was
warmly contested by the Minister of
Cults Hieber, and by German Nation
alists and Social Democrats. Minis
ter of Cults Holman attacked the let
ter of the German Bishops on the
school question. He declared the
State must retain authority over the
schools. Under the administration of
Heyman, everything is being done to
hinder religious schools and favor
mixed schools. Deputy Bolz, of the
Center, answered Heyman's state
ments very effectively, and added that
in the interest of peace we would do
we'll to let the school question rest
until the matter is settled by national
legislation" The proposals of the
Center were opposed both by the par
ties of the right and those of the left.
But this is ever the case. When it
is question of opposing the Catholic
Church, the German Nationalist and
the Social Democrats always clasp
hands.
Czech Census Shows Catholic
Streneth.-Two-third of the urban
population and more than rs per cent
of the rural jewellers of Czecho-Slo-
vakia recorded themselves as Catho-
lies in the recent census taken by the
Government as the basis for fixing the
future relations between the Church
and the State. While complete Stats
tics are not yet available, it is evil
dent that the detection from the
Church was not SO great as either
the Catholics or their enemies expect
ed it would be. Many of those who
actually registered themselves as 9th.
er than Catholics are now. returning
to the Church with the explanation
that they were coerced or misled into
an attitude of apostasy. The weeks
preceding the census and the time OF
actual enumeration proved to be a
| period of rabid persecution of the
Catholics. The dormant anti Catholic
and anti-Christian spirit was inflameG
to fury, and there was witnessed vic
lent propaganda rarely equaled any
where. Although nearly all Czecho
Slovaks are baptized Catholics, many
of them fail to practice their religion
and the freedom won through the
great war has been interpreted as Ii
cense.
Catholics in Danger.-Word comes
from Belgrade that delegation from
Southeastern Galicia has arrived there
to present to the Metropolitan Synot
and the Government an invite ton tt
send a Bishop of the Serbian Ortho
dox Church to that part of New Pc
land as head of an autonomous church
to be affiliated with the Orthodox pa
triarchate of Serbia. There is NJ
doubt that the Roman Catholic position
in Southeastern Europe is seriousl,
threatened. This deputation to Bel
grade has for it's purpose the amaIga
nation of the 100000 Catholics wht
formed a union with the Holy See il
the seventeenth century. The propa
| ganda in behalf of this merger o
these Catholics with Greek Orthodox.
was in progress before the World war
1t was, in fact, part of the plan o
the Russian invasion of Austria. Pole
and Ruthenians are numerous in thi
territory but whereas the former, b,
reason of their nationality and thei
Roman Catholic faith, are historical,
opposed to Russia, the innate Ruth
enians, with the consciousness of thei
Russian origin, preserved Russophil
attitude and turned against the Aus
trian monarchy.
4 No AnnuIment of Frasso Marriage
Processes of the annulment of tn
marriage of the Count and Counties
Dentice di Frasso (the latter the fol-
mer Georgiana Wilde, daughter O
Mrs. Siegel of New York;, if under
taken at all, must have been initiate,
by diocesan court in the plac,
where the marriage was celebrated
This is the procedure prescribed b,
Canon Law. The Tribunal of the Re
man Rota knows nothing of the case
1t was reported in the New Yorl
World and other American papers tina
the Count and Countess di Frasso hat
been separated, and that their mar
riage "was annulled in Rome on tn.
grounds of "incompatibility" Coun
di Frasso is scion of an ancient Ital
ian family. His marriage to Mis-.
Wilde took place in London, April %
1906. The report from Rome seems tt
dispose of the story that the coun
! and countess obtained an annulmen
of marriage in Roman ecclesiastical
court.