The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-06-10
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Converting Ensland.-At the Cath
Ollie Truth Society meeting held in
Plymouth lately it was pointed out
that there are 10000, 900 non Catholics
in Great Britain and that the problem
of converting England is more
urgent and larger than ever The c.
Il. S. is yaliantly doing its share, but
it is not finding the support its efforts
deserve.
Valuable Picture Is Stolen.-A pic.
ture valued at over $4,000 has been
stolen from the Church of San Ages
tino, at Arezzo, near Florence. 1t dates
from the fifteenth century, and is
variously attributed to Domenica Pc
corr, Perugino, and others The pic
ture had been marked down by Ma
poleon for removal to Paris, but owing
to protests was allowed to remain at
ArezZo
Catastrophe in French Church.
Just at the close of a service lightning
struck the church at Terry, near lou.
louise. The pastor was thrown to the
ground and an old man was killed. A
woman who was ringing the church
bell, near the doorway, was thrown
out of the church. The congregation,
panic-stricken, left the church, thus
avoiding greater catastrophe, for
the tower crashed down on the roof
which Immediately gave way, filling
the chlrch with debris
Clergy in ireland Send vestments
to Archbishop.-A set of mass vest.
ments has been received by Archbish-
op Curley from the Bishop and clergy
of the Diocese of Ardagh and Clon-
macnoise, Ireland, Archbishop Cur
ley's native diocese. The vestments
are gift expressive Of the pride Of
the Bishop and clergy of the Irish do
cese in the appointment Of one Of
their number to the primatial See Of
the United States. The vestments
consist of a chasuble, two dalmatics, a
humeral veil. chalice veil, burse,
two stoles and three maniples. They
are made of white Irish poplin and
dlS 1dCSu Will SOlu SCClA.
New Japanese Prefecture.-An-
nouncement has just been made in the
Acta Apostolicae Sedis, that new
Prefecture OF Japanese missions has
been established, which will be in
charge of the Society of the Divine
Word. Two civic districts of the arch
diocese Of Toxic have been set apart
and three similar districts from the
Prefecture Of Niigata have been add
ed to them. These five districts go to
make up the new prefecture which
takes the name, Nagoya, from the
largest city in this section of the
country. For the present, the Right
Rev. Monsignor Joseph Reiners, S. V.
D., Project Apostolic of Niigata, will
also hold the Office of Project Apos-
tolic over the new Nagoya mission.
On Choosing Bishops.-The recent
election of Mgr. Bornewasser, an aux
Hilary Bishop, to the bishopric' Of
Treves by the Canons of the Cathe-
dral Chapter, calls to mind the fact
that this method of choosing a do
ceson Bishop is restricted to very few
capitular bodies. Throughout the
whole Catholic world, with it's more
than 1900 archiepiscopal and episco-
pal territorial Sees (not including
the Vicariates) only Is cathedral chap
tiers have the right of electing their
own Bishops. These are the eight
D,1IC Hho nj Of
helm, Osna brueck, Koeln, Muenster,
Paderborn, Treves and Culm; the five
Chapters of Freiburg- i'm Breisgau-
Freiburg, Fulda, Limburg, Mainz, and
Rottenburg; the Bohemian Chapter of
Olmuetz; the Austrian Chapter of
Salzburg and the Basler Chapters of
Coire and Saint-Gall. All the other
Archbishops and Bishops are appoint
ed by the Pope, without the necessary
concurrence of the diocesan chapters.
Prelate combats Atheistic Cult
Bolshevism in Czecho-Slovakia is on
the increase due to the presence of
certain "kommissars" who have como
into the country from Russia by way
of Berlin, and to the activities Of COM
munistic labor leaders who are fl
nanced by Russian money. Not the
least influential of the adherents and
agents of Bolshevism there are the
national teachers" who are flocking
to the communist camp in great num-
bers since their salaries have been re-
duced by the National Assembly.
Most Rev. Francis Kordac, Archbishop
of Prague, is exerting all his energy
and influence to stem the tide Of
| atheism. He announces that he will
soon remove the gymnasium" (high
| school and college, from Bubenec,
near Pribram, to Brenov, where more
suitable and extensive quarters for an
educational institution of this kind are
available. Stara Boleslav, one of the
oldest and best known places of pill
grimage in Bohemia, is to be turned
over to the Jesuit Fathers.
Loosenine of Moral Bonds in Ire
manufacturing on the abuse of car
nal pleasure and sins of impurity,
Rev. M. S. Garahy, S. J., said word
of explanation was due to an Irish
audience for focusing attention on a
vice the discussion of which was nee
essarily embarrassing to Christian
modesty. Nothing less than, dire nee
essity would justify a preacher IN un.
dertaking the repulsive task of un.
/ masking this shameful idol 0f the