The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-04-02
OLD WORLD NEWS

A Ratification Cause.-A General
session of the Congregation of Rites
has been held in the presence of the
Holy Father to discuss the heroic vir-
tues of the Ven. servant of God, Jo-
seph Capasso, a secular priest of Tu-
rim.
Italian Chaplain Honored.-In a very
f1attering letter the Minister Of Ma
rine, Senator Sechi has just COM
municated to Mgr Rodolfo Ragnini,
who during the war was Chief Chap
lain for the Italian Navy, that the
King has conferred upon him the
Commenda of the Crown of Italy.
Pope BIesses u. S. Fund.-Pope
Benedict XIV has bestowed a special
blessing on Mrs. John Adams Drake
of New York, for her work in send
ing free milk to Italian babies. The
news was conveyed in cable from
Miss Lillian White, the representa-
tive in Rome of Free Milk for Italy
Fund. In the two years since Mrs.
Drake started the work, 100000 in
milk has been sent abroad.
USING Gentle Tactics.-Following
the principle laid down by the great
Croatian Bishop Strossmayer, Jugo-
Slav Catholics are endeavoring to
come together with their separated
brethren on the points they have in
common and not to argue about their
differences. Above all they wish to
make them see that the Catholic
Church teaches charity and the prac-
tice of virtue. AS first step toward
revelation to non-Catholics of what
the Church really is, the Catholics of
Jugo-Slavia have planned to establish
temple of their faith and worship
in the capital of the kingdom.
Catholic Princess Engaged.-The
engagement of Princess Marguerite,
the daughter of Prince Waldemar of
Denmark, to Prince Rene of Bourbon
has been announced Princess Mar
guerite, like her mother, is Catho-
lic Prince Rene is the son of the
Duke of Parma and brother of Fee.
lix, now Prince of Luxembourg and
consort of the reigning Grand Duchess
Charlotte of Luxembourg. He served
in the Austrian army as captain OF
the fifteenth regiment of dragons
during the great war. Prince Rene
also is Catholic.
Buy Protestant Church.-Indicative
of the falling off of attendance in
Protestant congregations is the fact
that many Protestant churches are
being sold and dismantled or remod-
eled and used for picture houses in
Scotland. Now one has been acquired
for Catholic congregation. The La.
dyburn Free Church of Kingdom,
Fifeshire, is the edifice which has
come into Catholic hands, having been
purchased by the Catholics of the dis
trict which is served by Father Pat
rick Birnie, from Kirkcaldy. The con-
gregation has united with another
Protestant congregation in the vicini-
ty.
Proclamation Is ARCHAEOLOGICAL
of war profiteers to hold carnival
and ball in the Ceremonial Hall of
the Hofburg, Vienna, formerly the I'm
perial Palace, have been defeated
thanks to the strenuous opposition OF
| the Christian Socials and other de
cent and right thinking persons. The
hall which the war rich hoped to pro.
fame by their unseemly junketing
holds solemn memories for those who
still hold to the old monarchy AT
the same time Catholics see in the at
tempt willful piece of PROCLAMATION
| since it was in this Hall that the En-.
peror Franz josef used, on Maundy
Thursday, to wash the feet of a Ger.
tain number of old men, in memory
of Christ's washing the feet of His
Apostles on the night before His Pas
sion,