The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-01-07
OLD WORLD NEWS

Received Grand Cross.-Ministor
NroIta Of Czccho- Slovokia. who has
been transferred +, ON Rome to Wen
Ha, Was received before his departure
by his Holiness. who conferred on him
the Grand Cross OF St Gregory the
GiCat.
New Bolivian Minster.-The new
Bolivian Minister to the Vatican. Sc
nCr Carlos Paz, has presented his Gre
dcntials to tho Pope. After an audi
cncc with the Holy Father, Minister
Paz visited Cardinal Glsparri and
then the Vatican Basilica
Cartiff's Catholic Mayor.-Council-
loT Francis Harold Turnbull, who as
the first Catholic Lord Mayor Of Car.
diff, becomes the first citizen of the
Welsh metropolis if not Of all Wales,
is rot a Welshman by descent. but
comes Ct All old Yorkshire family Of
Catholic shipOWnerS.
Receives PcpaI Honor-Councillor
Charles Munich, OF Hampstead Bor-
Ough, cO-founder of the Catholic As
social ion. has been made d private
chamberlain OF the sword and cape
by Pope Benedict NV. The present
P0Ntif is the third who has honOrcd
lir. Munich who received his first
Eapal decoration. the Cross Pro Ec-
clesia ct Pontiiice, at the hands of
Leo Kill
Missionaries to Assam.-About a
dozen religious of the Sllcsian Con
giegation Will be sent shortly to AS
@Cm to begin missionary work there
az soon as they have acquired some
ten Vernacular languages in common
use in the district. The Saesians
nave been entrusted BY The Holy
Father with the administrat ton of the
Prefecture apostolic Of Assam, fol
lowing their return to India. The
Prefecture Apostolic of Assam was
erected in 1889 and was in charge of
the SalCSianS until the outbreak of
the world war The total population
Of Assam is 7309,S00. OF this number
only 6,154 are Catholics.
Czech Catholics Establish Center
To counter the activities of the Y. NJ
c. A. and other Protestant agencies
il Prague, the Catholics of the city
have purchased large building in
Ninohrady. suburb, as the head
quarters Of the social and religious
works they are to undertake for their
fellows. This building is suitable for
large gatherings and all manner of
educational, social and athletic ac-
tivities. The building is being equip
ped for its new purpose. Want of
| financial support is preventing the
| Catholics Of Czecho-Slovakia from es
tablishing other centers of the kind as
an offset to the Protestant p"oDag2n-
! da.
Functions of Church and State
! Having dealt with the mission, the
! constitution, and the objects of the
! Catholic Church, Rev. P. Finlay, S. j.,
next directed attention in his lectures
at University college. DuDlin, to the
functions and jurisdiction of the Civil
State. BY the very constitution of
| human nature With its needs and Capa-
hiities, he said, Christ laid he foun-
d|tiOn3 Of the Civil State State ar-
tholity is not an arbitrary power. 1t
can only interfere with the libeity Of
he individual and of the family, when
1nd in so far as, its interference is
necessary for the common good Both
the Church and tic state are supreme
tech in its own cphere. The Church and
the Civil State have both the pow.
er to lcgis'atc: to make laws each fol-
it's own subjects; and unless such laws
are manifestly unjust, or it is other
wise legally provided, they will come
into operation without further con
sent or approval of the people.
Carinal Secs ireland as Model
Cardinal Lucon, Archbishop OF
Rheims, writing to Cardinal Logue
said: Catholic France, true to hel