The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-04-30

of St. Lazare was one of the most no.
BILE of the estates in the district OF
Paris, belonging in the first place to
the religious order of st. Lazare,
which ST. Vincent de Paul founded on
the site of an ancient abbey. Here
St. Vincent de Paul lived and here
he died. Somewhere about the
twelfth century there was hospital
for lepers standing on the spot, and
the rights of fair were granted to
the establishment for the support of
the lepers. In 1878. st. Lazare was
made into prison for male convicts,
and during the Terror many distin-
guished persons passed their last
hours there before being dragged to
the guillotine. After the Consulate
st. Lazare was used as prison for
women, and has thus continued down
to the present day. With it's demoli-
ton, one of the last of the historic
landmarks of Paris will be swept
away.
Czech Schismatics Make Over
tures.-Bishop Dositej of Serbia has
Just returned to his own country aft
er a visit to Prague, where he met
leaders of the ssnationaP' Church of
Czecho-Slovakia for the purpose of re-
ceiving their application for admis-
sion into the Greek Orthodox Church
of Serbia. This application was made
originally by the former priest, DR..
Zahradnik- Brodsky and thirteen Of his
| associates in the schism. These lead
ers have called council of the schis-
MATES to be held in Prague to obtain
a union with Serbian Greek Ortho-
doxy The national council Of the
new sect has refused to sanction the
move, which, 1T is declared, represent
ed the wish of few and not the de-
sires of the whole body. Thus far
most of the adherents of the nation
al" Church of Czecho-Slovakia hold
| practically all the doctrines of the
| Catholic Church, but have rejected the
| discipline respecting the use of Latin
| in the Mass and-the celibacy of the
| clergy. But railroads.&c. elements.
under the leadership of DR.. Farsky,
| apostate priest, are growing more rad
ical and openly avow their disbelief
| in transubstantiation and, the virgini-
| ty of the Mother of God. More errors
| and heresies are expected to be
preached and espoused from day to
day. The disintegration of the schism
is in sight.
| Cardinal Bourne's Pastoral and the
Irish Protest.-A public meeting has
| just been held in London, described
! in the announcements as a meeting
| of London Catholics ito protest
| against Cardinal Bournes introduction
of. politics into the pulpit as demon
| strated in his late Lenten PASTORAL
Mr.. William Mccarthy, who presided
over the meeting, said that they as
| Irish Catholics did not wish to inter
| fere with the rights of any priest or
| ecclesiastic so far as the ruling of
| the Church was concerned, but they
| did object to his interfering in any
way with the national aspirations of
their people. The facts are perfect
ly clear and quite simple of under
| standing. The Cardinal Archbishop
of Westminster addressed his people
j in a pastoral, in which he said: 81
have grave reason to fear that some
of my own flock, impelled by legiti-
mate love of country and urgent long
ing for the realization of lawful as
pirations, are unwarily allowing them
selves to become implicated, by active
sympathy, or even, actual cooperation
in societies and organizations which
are in opposition to the laws Of God
and of the Catholic Church" There
are many thousands of Catholics in
that part of London which lies on the
other side of Westminster Bridge, who
are under the jurisdiction of the Bish
op of Southwark, and the pastoral
was not addressed to them. There are
other thousands of Catholics in the
crowded East End of Greater London
who are the spiritual subjects of the
Bishop of Brentwood, and the pastor
al of the Archbishop of Westminster
was not addressed to them. 1t was
addressed solely to those Catholics in
London who, by the authority of the
Holy See, are the subjects of the
Archbishop of Westminster. At the
meeting in question a resolution was
proposed by Mr., Richard Purcell, pro
testing in strongly worded terms
against the pastoral of the Archbishop
of Westminster. A copy of this res
olution was forwarded to the Pope.