The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-03-11
NEW WORLD ITEMS

Priest Struck by Trolley.-ReV. Dan
Eel l.. McDermott, rector Of st. Mary S
church, Philadelphia, gave an exhibit
ton of remarkable courage and cool
ness when he was knocked down by
u trolley car and wedged under the
fender at Fourth and Market streets.
He escaped with only a few minor in
iuries and refused treatment at the
Emergency hospital.
Fire Destroys Church and Convent
Sunday afternoon, February 26, an
$4,000 confagration destroyed the
Church of st. Margaret on Lake Mas
son and also the Sisters convent near
Quebec. The shock has put Father
Theo. Marechal on the sick bed. He
was visiting at st. Jerome and fell I'M
conscious when he received the news,
Aid st. RaphaePs Society.-The sum
Of one thousand dollars has been Sc
cured through the efforts Of Rev. John
J. Burke, c. S. P, general secretary
of the N. c. w. c., from that organi-
2ation for Rev. Father Timpe, repre-
senting the ST. Raphaels Society at
Hamburg, Germany. This society is
giving spiritual aid not alone to emf
grating Germans, but also to Catholics
coming from other countries, many OF
whom are taking passage to the Unit
ed States.
Father PauIus Dies.-Priests from
many parts Of the Cleveland diocese
attended the funeral of the Rev. Jo-
seph NJ. Paulus of st. Demands
church, Akron. Ohio, of which he had
been pastor since 1915. High Mass OF
REQUIEM was celebrated by the Bish-
op. assisted by Mgr. T. c. O'Reilly, and
three other classmates, Fathers Croft
4v, Hassel and Seeholzer. Father
Paulus died suddenly while attending
the retreat for priests at Cleveland.
He was born in Sufield, Ohio, Feb
1uary IS, 1871, ordained on June 4,
1898, and served in several other Ohio
parishes before being assigned to the
church in Akron.
Priest Found Dead.-Thursday
morning, March 2, Rev. John B. Blu
ser, rector of st. John the Baptist
church at West Valley, N. Y, was
found to have died during the night
from apopleXy. Father Buser was
born January 26, 1873, at st. Ingbert
Germany, and was ordained at the
Gregorian university, Rome, in 1898
Not long after his ordination, he was
appointed a professor at the Arch
bishops Commercial college, Valpa
raise, Chill. In 1908, he came to the
Buffalo diocese. He had been assist
ant at st. Louis church, as we'll as a
St Mary of Sorrows, st. Mary Mag
dalene's and SIS. Peter and Paul's
Hamburg. April 20, 1912, he was ap
pointed rector of st. John the Bap
fist church at West Valley.
Sisters and Rrothers.--Here is al
unusual episode of Catholic news.
hundred young women join the Sis
terhoods where one young man enters
the Christian Brothers. The feast o
the Espousal Of the Blessed Virgil
was the occasion of very impressive
ceremony at the Sacred Heart church
Notre Dame, Ind, when 20 young me1
were received into the Brotherhood o
the Congregation of the Holy Cross
four Brothers made their Temporal.
profession and three pronounced thei
final vows. These 20 young men wht
received the habit of the Brother
hood and new name, have answered
the call of the Divine Master, Come
follow Me-" They have laid thei
OF hn IF TIr;C t hoy
dedicated themselves to His holy serV
ice.
Church for CoIored Catholics.-Th,
Rev. Bernard J. Quinn is making
tour of the churches in Brooklyn t.
enlist the sympathy and support o
the people in his effort to build
church for colored Catholics. Fathe
Quinn's Colored Choir has had tn,
good fortune of being trained by Pre-
lessor Parascandola, organist and mu
steal director of st. Peters, Brook
lyn, Father Quinn has rounded III
the scattered Catholics of the bi!
borough, and by his Jealous and de
termined efforts has brought togethe
congregation of nearly 1000 souls
He has secured the site for a new
church, and with the help he is receiv
ing from the kindly disposed Catho
lies throughout the borough, hopes tt
have his flock housed before long il
a beautiful and substantial church O
their own.
New Mercy Hospital for Kansas
In response to the general appeal o
the business interests and of twenty
eight physicians and surgeons of Lib
eral, Kan, and vicinity, the Right Rev
erend Bishop, after a personal surve,
of the whole situation, has granted tn,
Sisters of Mercy permission to opel
a hospital in that progressive city
Through the generosity of DR.. MOI
row, who turned over his own hospita
of thirty beds with entire equipment
free rent, light, heat and water un
til the new permanent hospital i
built, the Sisters took charge on Eel
ruary Is. The hospital will be tn
ninth institution of it's kind in tina
part of the state and will be known a
st. Joseph's Mercy hospital. A nurs
es' training school will be organize
at once.
Catholic Girl scouts.-More thai