The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-04-23

of chapel, which will form part of
also, the bodies of the defenders will
be exhumed and re-buried in one vast
mausoleum.
Half-Fare for Masons.-Jugo-Slav |
Free-masons, when they travel on the |
Jugo-Slav railways, are to be allowed
reduction of so per cent off the
prescribed fare, according to a promise
made by the Serbian president of the
board of trade. Bishops and clergy, |
whether Roman Catholic or Orthodox
Schismatics, will pay the full fare. In
Hungary it is the other way about.
The Hungarian Government has de-
creed that the Catholic clergy and
members of religious orders may
travel on the railways at half the pre-
! scribed fare. The only reduction Of
fered to Free-masons in Hungary is a
free ticket, on all occasions when
their charges are paid by the State,
which is likely to be somewhat fire.
quent, since the government proposes,
to lay several of them by the heels.
President Thanks French Catholics.
The weekly religious papers pay
considerable attention to the converse
lions between President Millerand and
Cardinal Maurin, Archbishop of Lyons,
which took place when the Cardinal
paid his respects to the President on
the occasion of the latter's visit to
Lyons. President Millerand thanked
the Cardinal for the cooperation CIV
en- by the Catholic clergy in the mat
ter of national concord, and he de-
clared that the nation depends upon
| the moral authority which the Catho-
| lie priest possesses to maintain and
develop everywhere union between
| that such had always been the at
titude of the clergy during the war
and that they were an example of
sacrifice. He pointed out that LAT
priests of the diocese of Lyons had
lost their lives for the fatherland,
and that now that the war was over
| the priests wish to work tremendously
IOr uaClOndl ToSCOEdClOu.
Christian Brothers to Work in
China.-The Christian Brothers of Ire
land have volunteered for missionary
work in China, and are sending their
first band of four brothers in August.
They will work with the priests of the
Chinese Mission Society in their mis-
sion at Han Yang, in the Province of
Hupe, Central China, where they will
be chiefly engaged in higher educa-
: tional work. The Irish Christian
Brothers, have already done splendid
work in India where they have been
working since 1885, Inaugurated in
Ireland in 1902, the activities of this
Order now extend over Ireland, Great
Britain, Australia, New Zealand and
Newfoundland, while they have schools
in Gibraltar and Rome, and have re-
Gently spread to the United States.
In 1900 at the request of Leo XIII they
opened school in Rome to assist in
counteracting the proselytizing in.
fuence of Protestant agencies. In
1909 the order opened it's school in
New York City, and later the North
American Provincial House at Mamar
oneck, N. Y, which is also the novitiate
for the United States. The order has
a high school for boys at New Roch.
educational work in the Diocese OF
Seattle, Wash.
, Fall of Mandarin Power Aids ReIig.
, ion.-The overthrow of the power OF
: the imperialistic mandarins in China
, and the setting up of Republican in
: situations marks decided advantage
for the progress of Christianity in
that country, according to the Rev
Martin O'Branagan, who contributes a
comprehensive comment on mission
: airy work to a current issue of the
Catholic Times. He quotes from the
+ latest annual report of the French
Lazarist Fathers which gives the tota
of Catholics in round numbers at two
4 Millions gain of 39,418 during 1919
. despite the decrease of European
FL priests due to the havoc of war iT
r France, and the loss of the devoted
German priests. Compensation fol
the decrease of European priests is
, made by the increase of Chinese
priests and candidates for the sacred
f ministry. Fifty-one Chinese priests
S were ordained; the number of semi
v naries was increased by the astound
n ing addition of fifty, with an increase
s of ninety-three classical scholars. Al
v together there are at present in Chin;
: 2,347 priests-1,394 Europeans and 95:
= Chinese priests.
Misery of china-Reverend
: O'Gorman, c. NJ, of Picking, writin,
t recently to the American Foreign Mis-
n sions (MaryknolD at Ossining, N. Y
e made reference to tour of inspee
= ton which he had completed to tn
famine districts throughout Chilli an,
e Honan in China. He says that the en-
Il tire area covered by the famine tel
3, ritOry holds about thirty-five million
n of people and that the failure of tn
q 1920 crops was due to a continuou
T., drouth combined with the Visitation
n of enormous locusts. He furthe
states that he found the people eatin
!, what any "self-respecting America
= dog or cat would turn up his nose at.
J, Even this fare has failed the poo
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