The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-12-31
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considerable agitation of the question
in other quarters. and even women
have voiced their objections TO mem
bers of their sex occupying such Of
fees. Men, as a rule, oppose the pc
titiOn of the women to be appointed
judges and assessors and Jurors, and
some sharp protests have come from
women, too. There are those who
say that women lack the spiritual ca.
pacity for the calling of judges and
| that the influence on their character
in such positions would be deleterious.
| One Judge, however, has come to the
support of the women and in the
name of his colleagues defends their
right to serve on juries.
Apostleship of Sea.-Glasgow has
| Catholic population running close on
to the half million mark. 1t has The
largest Catholic population OF, any
! diocese in Great Britain, and in re-
| spect to the seamen who visit the port
| from all parts of the world, it prob
! ably has the largest transient Catho-
| lie population of any port in the Brit
ish Isles. 1t was to find out some
thing about these Catholic seamen
J that the correspondent Of the N c. w.
c. News Service got into touch with
| Arthur Cannon, secretary of the Glas-
| gov Archdiocesan Council of the
| Apostleship of the Sea, a splendid or
| ganization that is devoted entirely to
/ the welfare Of Catholic seamen. Al
j though the apostleship was only firm
ly established in Glasgow in Septem.
ber of 1920, there are, says Mr. Gan
non, conferences of the society in ev-
cry riverside parish.
Monks Chant Office for Benefactor.
| The funeral at the Cistercian alb
| hey of Mount Saint Bernard in Leices-
! tershire, England, of Mr.. Bernard C..
M. Phillips de Lisle, when the sol
emn Offices of the dead were chanted
by the monks of historic Citeaux, calls
to mind one of the most interesting
and romantic periods in the history
of the Catholic restoration in England.
For the late Mr.. de Lisle was the
| grandson of that Ambrose Phillips
de Lisle, who was one Of the pioneer
| converts to Catholicism among the
English upper classes, in the days be-
| fore Newman and Manning had made
the way plain. Disraeli, in his nov
els, made a good deal of use of the
English Catholics of his day as char
acters in his books. For example,
Lothair, in the novel Of that name, is
said to have been the Marquis of
Butte, whose conversion made a great
stir in political circles. Ambrose
| Phillips de Lisle is also said to have
found place in one of Disraelis nov
els, that of "Coningsby," where his
personality may be studied under the
character of "Eustace Lyle"
| Urge Reading Of Catholic Papers,
Striking references to the duty of the
j laity to read Catholic newspapers were
/ contained in the pastoral letters, of
! the Archbishop of Cardiff and the
Bishop of Aberdeen, published for Adj
vent. "It would be WE'LL" said the
Archbishop of Cardiff, "if on Sunday
more time were given to reading Cath
Ollie newspapers rather than those
that are known as Sunday papers,
which, as rule, are neither helpful
nor conducive to faith or morals. If
we wish to keep our faith real iv-
ing faith, we must make use of those
means which we have at our disposal,
the want of which was the cause of
the loss of faith to the Catholics of
Wales after the Reformation. There
are some excuses for their losing the
faith, but for us, who have so many
helps to keep our faith alive, there
| VIII be no excuse The Bishop of
Aberdeen made a plea for wider dis
tribution of Catholic literature, point
ing out that many good Catholics
ascribe their conversion to pamphlets
sent them by friends or picked up at
ltson1e Catholic church door.
Franc De La Presse."-"This year
we supported ten papers instead of
five, as we did last year, and we have
helped one director to buy a printing
press This was the substance of
the report made at the general as
sembly of the Franc de la Presse, .
which has just been held in Paris I'M
der the Craftsmanship of Cardinal Luz
con. The work of the franc de la
Press" Ga franc for the press, has
been in existence only two years. 1t
was founded under the patronage of
the Cardinals of France and with the
warm approval of the sovereign pom
tiff. It's object is to help the Cath
olic papers in material way; to pro-
vide them with the means for extend.
ing their propaganda; and to supply
!. if necessary, financial assistance to
promote the publications of Catholic
papers in localities where there are
none. To this end, it collects, through
the intermediary of diocesan and pa
; rochial committees, contributions the
, minimum of which is fixed at one
: franc. These funds are distributed
according to the requests sent to the
) central committee by the diocesan
committees, with the approval of the
Bishop.
Cardinal Praises VoIksverein.-Res
toration of the work of the Volksver
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