The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-02-11
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Pontifical Requiem Mass for the late
Pope was celebrated in the cathedral
Saturday, January %. in Paris, by
Bishop Roland Gosselin. Absolution
was given by Monsignor Cerretti.
President Millerand was represented
by a French general. Secretary Of
State Colrat officially represented the
government, and Mesdames Millerand
and Foch were prominent among those
present. Marshals Petain and Lyau-
tey and Generals Castelnau and Gou-
raud, as we'll as other distinguished
military figures, were present. Mon
sieur Cesar Caire, president of the
Paris municipality, was present, as
well as the president of the barristers.
The academy and the arts were well
represented, and Marshals FOch and
Fayolle had personal representatives.
The cathedral was filled with notable
personages, many being unable to gain
entrance.
Recover Church Of st. PantaIeon.-
st. Pantaleon's church, one of the old
est in Cologne, has been returned to
the Catholics after having been in
use by the Professionals since the law
of seculariaztion about 100 years ago.
His Eminence Cardinal Schultz has
announced that st. Pantaleon's will
hereafter be parish church as it was
before the secularization. From the
decree of secularization, early in the
nineteenth century, until 1872, st. Pan
falcons was Protestant place of
worship. In the latter year, it was
transferred to the "Old Catholics
with the understanding that it was to
be used for Protestant soldiers. When,
after the close of the World War,
there were no longer any soldiers in
Cologne, both the Protestants and
"Old Catholics" sought to recover pos
session of it. St. Pantaleon's church
was built more than 900 years ago,
and for. centuries it had been IA
nous Benedictine Abbey.
| Bishop Likens Atheists to Prophets
of BaaI.-Monsignor Augustinus Kill
ian, Bishop of Limburg, Germany, in
a pastoral letter, likens the nations
of the present day to Israel, which
turned from the true God to worship
at the altar of Baal. This age, more
than any other in history, needs peace
with God, with all mankind and with
itself, Bishop Kilian says. Infidelity
and .wickedness are growing. Once
there were in all Israel only 1000 men
who did not bow to Baal; today, a
host of professors and writer's and
politicians openly preach atheism, and
many books are published to call back
the people to the temples of Baal and
Astarte, the Bishop continues. Back
to Christ" must be the cry of the
Christian peoples. No state can sur
vive without religion; culture and civ
ilization are worthless without it
Goethe, Bismarck and other thinkers
testify to that fact. We all know
says the Bishop, what the great Wash.
ington wrote-that religion and NOR:
atty are the Indispensable supports of
public welfare. X
Warn Against Rome.-Notwith
standing the recent accessions which
the German Nationalist party has
made from the ranks of the Catholics
including former leaders of the Cen.
ttrist organization, it's announcements
for 1922 include venomous criticism
lof the Catholic Church along with
frank encouragement of. what it calls
'@the old Prussian spirit" In the new
year book of the German Nationalist
appears a warning to the country
l"Beware, Prussia, take care of Ger.
many, lest thou awake one day to
lose not only the Prussian state-idea
but also thy Protestant faith," says
the almanac. Elsewhere in the same
publication is an article on the Cen
Itrist party, which is called the Shock
troops of the Roman Papistic
Church" The whole contents of this
year book are in the same tenor. The
newspapers refer to it as IAN anti
iCatholic sheet" The German Nation
alist party has a Catholic section,
for the accommodation of those Cath
Iolics who have identified themselves
with it, and it is still receiving addi
tons from the Centrists. 1t is diff
lcult for many to understand why these
ICatholic members of the German Ma
Itionalist party do not protest against
the offensive language which it's year
hook addresses to the Church.