The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-12-17
NEW WORLD ITEMS

New CnurCn ana SCnOofs-WOIh OA
the new building, to be used as a
church and school by st. Athanasius
parish, in Evanston, ILL.,, will be start
ed soon on the property recently pur-
chased in north Evanston. The Rev.
p. J. Murphy is pastor of the new par
ish.
Mother Pauline Cannon Dead
Mother Pauline Cannon, provincial OF
the Dominican Sisters in Galveston,
Tex, is dead at the age of 81. She
had a large part in the foundation OF
the Dominican convent at Riverside,
Cal, st. Agnes Academy, Houston,
and ST. Dominic's Villa, Lampasas,
Tex.
Bishop Gives Altar to orphanage.-
When, during the war, Bishop Morris
turned over to the use Of the govern
ment st. Joseph orphanage, the altar
was removed to st. Joseph seminary,
Little Rock, Ark With the closing
of Camp Pike, the Sisters and chill
dren returned to the orphanage and,
on a recent Sunday, the Bishop dedi-
Gated a beautiful new Rigalico altar,
with onyx pillars and columned dome,
which was his personal gift to the asy-
lum.
Noted Irish Doctor.-Dr. w. Mag
ner, who has been appointed director
of the Pathological department of st.
Michael's hospital, Toronto, belongs
to a Catholic family prominently asso-
ciated with public life in Cork county
and city. He is cousin of the late
Canon Magner, murdered just twelve
months ago by member of the Aux
iliary Police force. DR.. Magner also
holds an important position in the
Pathological department of the Uni
versity of Toronto. He is graduate
in medicine, surgery and obstetrics OF
the National university of Ireland.
Notre Dame College ChapeI.-The
chapel at the University of Notre
Dame, the largest college chapel in
the United States, was built forty-two
years ago, on the feast of the
Immaculate Conception. 1t was be-
gun in 1869, by the Rev. Edward Sor-
- IL, \. S. c., founder and first president
,-.. Of the university. The chapel con-
tains many relics, including pieces of
the True Cross, piece of the manger
in which Christ was born, pieces of
the girdle and veil of His Mother and
the bodies of two martyrs of the Sec
ond century. The front center altar
was carved by Bernini, who aided in
the work of st. Peters Cathedral,
Rome. The paintings and designs are,
for the most part, the work of Luigi
Gregori, one of the greatest of the
italian moderns, who was in the Vat
ican at Rome before being called to
Notre Dame.
Radio Sermons Convert Two.-Tap-
gible results, including one reconcile
alton and a possible conversion, have
already been achieved as a fruit of
the sending broadcast by wireless tel
ephone sermons preached in Pitts
burgh during the mission being con-
Quoted at old st. Patrick's church by
the Rev. Bertrand l.. Conway and the
Rev. David Kennedy, of the Paulist
Order. The sermons are received by
all wireless Instruments having a
wave length of $50 meters, of which
there are about ] 500 within the wire
less area. Within twenty-four hours
after the first radio sermon was sent
out, the missionaries received calls
from two persons who had listened
in" One was Catholic, who desired
to be reconciled to the Church after
some years absence, and the other a
. non-Catholic anxious to be instructed
in the doctrines of religion.
F.. Catholic Woman on State Commit
tee.-The appointment of Mrs. Fran
: els E. Slattery, president of the
League of Catholic Women of the Bos-
ton archdiocese, to be the only wom-
an member of the Executive Commit
Z tee of Ten of Gov. Coxs statewide
Committee on Unemployment, is a
striking indication of the recognition
of the league, with it's 100000 mem,
bers, as one of the greatest moral
forces in Massachusetts,. This is not,
by any means, the first recognition
that the league has received. Mrs.
Slattery, as it's representative, is a
y member of 10 other state or city COM
mittees-the governors committees
on Reduction of Armaments, the Wom-
- en- in Industry, the Massachusetts
Safety Council, the State Committee
on Motion Pictures, the Mayor of Bos-
: toms Committees on Unemployment
and on characterization, the State
Committee on Merchant Marine, the
State Executive Board of the Nation.
al Civic Federation, the Executive
Board of the Children's Hospital in
Boston, and of the Massachusetts AS.
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