The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-10-15
NEW WORLD ITEMS


Mother Frances Dead.-Mother
Frances of the Sisters of Mercy has
died in the Convent on Mt. st, Mary,
Pulaski Heights, Little Rock, Ark.
Mother Mary Frances Fischer was
born in Little Rock on the feast OF
Our Lady of Mercy, September "a,
1851. She was educated at the old st.
Mary's on Louisiana street; entered
the Novitiateg of the Sisters of Mercy
on December Is, 1872; in a very short
time she would have celebrated her
golden jubilee.
Catholic Hospitals Standardized
Steps toward the standardization OF
methods and equipment in the twenty
one Catholic hospitals of Colorado,
Arizona and New Mexico, will be TAX
en- by the heads of these institutions
following the recommendations OF the
conference of Western Catholic Super
visors last week. Sister Mary, Super
visor of Glockner Hospital at Colorado
Springs, at which sessions of the con-
ference were held, was elected presi-
dent of the organization. The next
conference will be held in Denver the
first week of April, 1922.
Announces Catechetic Course.-St.
Thomas seminary, Denver, Colo, now
has a course in catechetics, it is an
1rounced by Rev. William P. Barr, c.
NJ, president of the institution. The
introduction of catechetics, he explain
ed, was in pursuance of directions Civ
en- by Pope Plus X, who emphasized
the need for popular instruction in the
fundamentals of the Faith. The SEM
inarians at st. Thomas will be pre-
uared to teach catechism to children
and adults in school and from the pull
pit.
Passonists to China.-The Sacred
Congregation of Propaganda has as
signed to the Passionist Fathers mis-
sion field in China, comprising the
Western territory of the Vicariate-
Apostolic of North Human. The Pas
sionist. Fathers are the latest to enter
the vineyard of the foreign missions,
but they have by no means been stand
ing idle, waiting for the Master of the
Vineyard to hire them. For the last
so years their work in the mission
field in the United States has been
constant and strenuous. 1t was the
hope that with increasing numbers the
home field could be covered and sur:
plus be available for foreign mission
work. But although their number has
been doubled within the last ten
years, they are still unable to salts
fy the ever-increasing demands made
upon them for missions and retreats
Feeling that they can wait no longer
they are willing to sacrifice some Of
their work, at home for the sake Of
the missions abroad.
Robber Shot by Caretaker.-One O
three intruders who attacked a care
taker at Mercy Villa Sanatorium, Bal
timore, last Monday morning, wa
shot but was carried away by his com
panions before the police arrived
The caretaker is William Kelly, VIII
says that when he went into tn
grounds of the institution to seek tn
cause Of an unusual noise, a prowle
struck at him with a piece of iron pip
or a club. The police believe that tn
intruders intended to break into tn
cellar of the sanatorium and stes
wine or other liquors which they SUI
posed were stored there. If that wa
their purpose, the Sisters in charg
point out, they were mistaken, as les
than gallon of liquor of any kind wa
kept in the building.
Open New Standardization
dates for the priesthood are to be az
mitted to the preparatory scholast
cate which the Augustinians have e.
tablished on Staten Island, N. Y. TIL
institution has just been opened
These first year candidates for holy O.
ders were formerly sent to st. Thon
as Monastery, Villanova, Pa.
Little Rock CoIIeee.-Little Roc
College, the foundation of Bishop Mo
ris of the diocese of Little Rock, Ark
is again designated by the War D.
partment as an r. o. T. C. camp fC
term of years. This diocesan institl
ton was recently classified under go
eminent survey as a college of Clas
A merit, one of three in the state
Arkansas.