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SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1922
Some men are so mentally
crooked that they cheat even
when playing solitaire.
The Precious Blood
cleanse every sin from the world,
did not the world refuse to heed
the pleadings of the Kedeemer.
1
w° i
Judging from the attitude of
some of our noisy, so-called citi
zens, it is almost a crime to be an
American. And that in our own
country.
It is regrettable that Oonan
Doyle stopped giving the world
the exploits of Sherlock llolmes.
The reading public lost a. delight
ful novelist when Doyle took to
"spirits."
It is not too late—vea, it is just
1he time—to decide the school for
1he
little ones next year. A Cath
olic education will le a bulwark
in their lives againsl the assaults
of all their enemies.
The activities of the new Ku
Klux are but the rejuvenated
hatreds of the old A. P. A. Oppo
sition to the Catholic ChuVch. her
schools and the presence of Cath
olics in public office—all smells of
the A. P. A. corpse.
The pleasure which an ordinary
mortal gets in unjustly persecut
ing his fellow man is explained
by the fact, that the ordinary
mortal, in the case, has already
lost all faith in God and man.
Loss of faith works that. way.
It has only lately become gen
erally known that Pope Benedict
XV shortly before his death do
nated 180,000 marks for the
printing of the ninth volume of
the great historical work of the
Goerres Society, "Concilium Tri
dentinum," the completion of
which is now assured.
Tagore, the Indian poet, writes
1o an English missionary:
"Preaching your doctrine is no
sacrifice at all—it is indulging in
a luxury far more dangerous than
all luxuries of material living. It
breeds an illusion in your mind
that you are doing your duty—
that you are wiser and better than
your fellow beings. But the real
preaching is in being perfect,
which is through meekness and
love and self-dedication."
Many of otir young women, the
Providence Visitor observes, will
be so bent on what they are
pleased to call a «roocl time"
during the coming vacations that
every idea of rest and recreation
will be cast aside and ignored,
Their short weeks will be no more
relaxation from the restless activ
ity that fill their every day life
than are the evenings spent in the
dance or at "movie" shoAvs. It is
an undeniable fact that most of
the women working in offices and
shops during the year want to
crowd as much as possible of what
is really activity and hard labor
into these few weeks allotted to
rest. It is a good time gone mad.
A priest of the diocese was 'ac
celerating the tardy steps of the
children as they sauntered along
to the chapel for catechism on
Saturday morning. He finally
completed his labor, says the
Transcript. He noticed a little
fellow of seven years leaning
against the fence a few yards
away. The priest approached the
boy and asked him if he belonged
inside. "Naw,'' was tlie answer.
"I am not a Catholic." "What
are vou?" "I'm nothing." "Do
elnirch?"
{iNaw,
ing when
and I'm not go­
I
grow lip either." The
tendency was to smile, but pity
was the order of the day. The
dead letter and barrenness of non
Catholic worship is surely reaping
a whirlwind of infidelity and ir
relijrion.
The Ku Klnx Klan is in politics,
says the New York Times. Work
ing in secret,, these political
"night riders" are spreading ap
prehension in many parts of the
country. In Oregon the Klan came
within a few hundred votes of
nominating its candidate for gov
ernor of the state: in Texas it is
seeking to send to Washington a
I'nited States Senator who will
support the Klan in Oklahoma it
is out to defeat one of the leading
candidates for the democratic
nomination for attorney general:
in Florida it has nominated a
judge and the legislative ticket in
one of the principal counties.
There are rumblings of its activ
ities from Illinois, Georgia, the
Carolines, Arkansas, Alabama,
Indiana, California* Connecticut
and a dozen other states.
The following information has
been received concerning lynch
in ps for the first six months of
this year. According to the
records compiled by Tuskegee
Institute in the Department of
Records and Research, Monroe N.
Work in charge, in the first six
months of lf)22 there were .50
Iynchings, This is 6 less than the
number, 36, for the first six
months of 1921. and 18 more than
the number, 12, for the first six
months of 1920. Of the 30 persons
put' to death, 19 or 63% were in
two states. Mississippi (7), ami
Texas (12). The states in'which
Iynchings occurred and the num
ber in each state are as follows:
Alabama, 1 Arkansas, 2: Florida,
1: Georgia, 4 Louisiana, 1 Mis
sissippi, 7: South Carolina, 1:
Oklahoma, 1 and Texas, 12.
THE
FRIGHTFUL
AGES.
It is customary with a certain
class of writers to quote the Mid
dle Ages as the synthesis of all
that is low, vulgar, ignorant, bar
barous and superstitious. Such
sciolists are not confined to so
called historians, but are found
in the ranks of novelists and pub
lic speakers. Many of these per
sons would find it hard, perhaps,
accurately to define just what is
meant by this period or how many
centuries it embraces.
Usually the Middle Ages are
taken for that span of years ex
tending from the fall of the
History shows undoubtedly that
ignorance did prevail to some ex
tent. How could it. be otherwise
The barbarian hordes that swept
down out of the north and broke
up the weakened remains of the
old empire, were uncouth, untu
tored men. Accustomed to their
mountain and forest, fastnesses,
unversed in the arts of polite life
and given over to all the customs
of the uncivilized man, little won
der is it that they refused at first
to adopt the softer manners of the
cultured Roman. The Church
took up these denizens of the cold
north and gradually moulded
them into Christian and civilized
beings. The task was arduous
and the schooling long. The re
sults, however, Vere unmistak
able.
During this period great church
men and mighty rulers flourish
ed. The names of such men as
Gregory the Great. Alcuin, Bede,
Charlemagne, Paul the Deacon,
and a host of others would shed
light and brilliancy
OIL
life as lived in the world today.
Doubtless the people of the year
3000 will readi with horror of the
ruthless bandits that now infest
every section of our country, let
alone foreign parts. They may.
with some reason, too, conclude
that law in these far away days
was but a farce and its enforce
ment a joke.
which probably but few persons
There is a wonderful
have seen or read.
imbued
Avould
Avest-
est empire of the Romans, in 476,
down to the fall of the eastern em
pire, in 1453. It is a period of
about one thousand years. The
writers mentioned above, there
fore, would assign all the vices
and oddities they ridicule to the
people living during that space
of a thousand years.
any age.
Anselm and the immortal Hilde
brand, Gerbert the mathematician
(Pope Sylvester), and countless
other lights shone brightly in the
firmament in those far-off days.
Needless to mention the intellec
tual giants of the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries: Thomas
Aquinas, Bona venture, Albert
Magnus, Dante are names claimed
by all humanity on account of
their universal appeal and super
eminent genius.
True it is that life was not al
ways held in high esteem mur
ders and assassinations, robbery
and pillage but too often stained
the pages of the chronicles of the
time. It is disputable, however,
as to whether these crimes were
more numerous than we find in
America—to mention but one
land—today. Murder, suicide,
graft, oppression, robbery, as
sault are so common right now
that one scarcely lifts an eyebrow
at the news of the latest atrocity.
It would be interesting to know
the judgment of posterity, say. a
thousand years hence, on reading
Avork,
Avhich
shows
the spirit of the Middle Ages. It
is the Barbarorum Leges Anti
quae, Ancient Laws of the Tribes.
The author, a priest, Father Paul
Canciani, published this monu
mental collection in five immense
folio volumes in Venice, in 1789.
It is a reproduction of all the
laAvs
of the various peoples during the
Middle Ages, presented in the
original Latin of the time, mixed
Avith
Italian, French and German
idioms.
Canciani's collection is a revela
tion, for it adduces the exact
Avords of the laAvs then prevalent,
together with copious notes and
commentaries of his own. We see
from this compilation that the
peoples then living
Avere
Avith
Avas
deeply
religion and piety.
The smallest offense against the
Church or the spirit of faith or
morality
severely punished
by the State. Fasts, holidays and
religious exercises of all kinds
Avere
set forth in these enact
ments, backed up by the power of
the government. Immorality of
every species was not. only con
demned but rigorously checked.
Kings and statesmen did not conr
sider it beneath their dignity to
take cognizance of the slightest
transgression against the moral
law. If the penalties
and unescapable, it but demon
strated that faith in God and
country
Avas
Avas
MIDDLE
soon correct the far­
cical application of our
laAvs,
and
Avould do more than a thousand
modern statesmen to restore order
and respect for the rights of
others. And these geniuses
Avere
but a few of the towering giants
of the hated Middle Ages.
FATHER CLEARY.
It is but rarely that this diocese
has had the pleasure and the
honor of felicitating a golden
jubilarian among its clergy. If
Ave
mistake not, the last occasion
Avas Avhen
the late lamented Arch
bishop commemorated fifty years
in the priesthood, but oAving to
his expressed wish no public cele
bration Avas held of the event
With great rejoicing, therefore
clergy and people unite at this
time to honor a priest who for the
space of half a century has shed
honor on his ministry and has
been a high credit to the Church
Avhich
he has so nobly defended
and upheld.
It were perhaps not exaggera
tion to state that Father Clearv
is
knoAATn
throughout the
Avhole
country. His lectures and public
discourses in practically e\rery
state have brought his name be
fore the public as but
feAV
haAe
been. Eloquent, fearless, of com
manding
A'oice
and presence, he
has set forth the truth as he saAV
it before believer and unbeliever
alike. It is not too much to say
that there is not in America today
a better
knoAvn or more widely
recognized champion of temper
ance that Father James Cleary
He joined forces Avith Archbishop
Ireland when the great prelate
stirred the country with his thun
derous denunciations of the
eAnls
of intemperance. Together they
traversed the land, and they reap
ed untold spiritual fruits in the
cause which they so ably, defend
ed.
For fifty golden years Father
Cleary has been an outstanding
figure in the priesthood. His eA'
ery word and act and effort have
been marked by the priestly char
acter. In all the many movements
in
AA'hich
he has taken part, he has
ever left the unavoidable impres
sion that he was first and last a
true priest, a man set apart by
God to do the work of God: and
therein lies his chief glory.
TAvelve years ago he undertook
a
Avork
that
Avell
the ordinary 'daily accounts of northwest. An immense church,
might daunt a
much younger man. Asked to es
tablish a parish in South Minne
apolis. he found prairies, a house
here and there, with no public
improvements, and without a dol
lar with Avhich to begin. With
priestly faith and confidence in
God. he at once set to
Avork.
The
result of his efforts is apparent
tod a A' in one of the grandest
parochial centers in the entire
WIS CATHOLIC BULLETIN, JUL¥ 8, 192J
a commodious rectory, a -school
that always stands in the fore
front of scholastic achievement, a
convent for the nuns, a large
parish that points with pride to
its splendid rector, the honor and
•espect of all citizens, regardless
of creed: these are the fruits
with which God has blessed the
ndomitable pastor, of the parish
of the Incarnation.
When Father Cleary stands in
the sanctuary Sunday morning,
surrounded by Archbishop and
clergy and a devoted people, may
we be permitted to offer our sin
cerest felicitations with the cor
dial wish that God may long bless
and preserve the venerable jubi
larian.
TREND OF MODERN FICTION.
There is a school—or maybe it
is only
a
feAV
Avere
swift
deep and abiding,
and that laws
were
made to be
observed.- The obedience to la.A\
remarkable in those times:
the people
»Avere
scattered eroAvd—of
modern Avriters
Avho
pander to the
depraved taste of the morbid and
who, bv their pornographic out
put., often turn the innocent, soul
into the blase, sophisticated'mind.
Their treatment of subjects that
moral purity avoids, and their
covert sneer or thrust at Christian
belief, imperceptibly lead to a
Aveakening of faith not only in
God, but in human goodness. Not
a
there are, who, like Boccac­
cio, Rabelais, Murger and other
purveyors of filth, pour forth their
scented offering's reeking Avith
poison.
Sunday supplements and cer
tain magazines are the worst of
fenders in this field. With the
printed word they add fuel to the
imagination in the salacious pic
ture and the immoral illustration.
FeAV Sunday papers there are, it
seems, but, carry the most outland
ish
"scientific" articles
flood of dirty
rugged and the
rule of justice was firm and un
challenged.
It is a pity that such a work is
not available in an English trans
lation. It
Avould
go far
tOAvards
shaming those light-Aveight writ
ers who talk and scribble blithe
ly about things beyond their
knowledge. A Gregory, a Hilde
brand or a Charlemagne living
today
Is,there not here an opportunity
for Avomen's organizations to
purge our ordinary reading mat
ter of the obscenity that should
be repulsive to every decent wom
an For after all, it is the
fe
male of the species that is expos
ed to wanton insult. Woman's
Aveakness, her person and her
misfortunes are portrayed
$
&
Avith
a
vieAvs.
They are
not insinuating, as formerly no,
they wallow in filth
Avith
out any
pretense to decency. Their fiction
leaves nothing to the poAver of im
agination. This faculty is reliev
ed of all effort in perception by
means of the "revelation" on the
pictured page.
Avith
unbridled license in Avord and pic
ture. A strong movement, cham
pioned by several million women,
would go far, towards cleansing
the Augean stables as they send
forth their streams of putrid filth.
Age does not need such condiment
in its mental pabulum, Ayhile
youth
soon loses'the taste for solid
virtue.
DON'T QUIT THE CHURCH.
One of the traits of the Cath
olic Church is that there is no
open season
Avith
regard to attend­
ance at Mass on Sundays. "Closed
for the summer" signs do not
adorn the facade of a Catholic
edifice. The obligation to hear
Mass on such days is a personal
one: it. accompanies one whither
soever he goes. The practical
believer is aware of this responsi
bility, and he seeks on every occa
sion to live up to it.
At or near all the large summer
resorts throughout the country
may be found a church Avhere the
tourist or
Aracationist
is afforded
the opportunity to comply
Avith
his obligation. That usually he
does so is apparent from the
croAvds
that throng such churches:
eloquent testimony that the faith
is still strong in the Catholic
heart. Very often, too, do Ave re
ceive requests for information as
to whether there is a church near
such or such a lake or resort.
There is a type of person,
is
hoAV-
ever, who seems to plan his out
ing in such a way that he can ex
cuse himself from attendance at
Mass", for the simple reason that
there is no church Avithin hailing
distance. It may be mere acci
dent in some cases,
Avhile
knoAA-n
again it
to be deliberate.
Perhaps
Avorse
still is the per­
son who starts out early on Sun
day morning for some pleasure—
fishing, hunting, autoing, etc.—
and simply dispenses himself from
the obligation without reference
to the condition of his soul. It is
not rare, in cases of accidental
deaths on Sunday excursions, to
discoA'er
that the unfortunate
failed to hear Mass before seeking
his outing. The best and the
manly method is to play the game
safe: attend to the obligation
which is incumbent on every Cath
olic, and one is thereby assured
both of the blessing of God as Avell
as of a clear conscience. It pays
in the end.
OPEN TWELVE PBS
w
MGR. MACKIN, 85, STARTS CAM
PAIGN FOR NEW SCHOOL
IN CAPITAL.
Facing his eighty-fifth year, the
Right Rev. Monsignor James P. Mack
in, pastor of St. Paul's church, Wash
ington, D. C., has announced that he
will embark upon a campaign to raise
$200,000 for the erection of a new
parochial school for that parish, of
which he is the first pastor.
Despite his years, Monsignor
Mackin is one of the most vigorous
members of the clergy in the Balti
more archdiocese. He says Mass and
hears confessions daily, occupies the
pulpit regularly, superintends the
Avork
of church and school, and re
cently established a playground for
the children of the district adjoining
the church. The church edifice, one
of the most beautiful in Washington,
is a tribute to his labors.
"Take life as it comes," is a maxim
with Monsignor Mackin! "Never
worry about anything. Try to improve
things if you can, but never be per
turbed over what happens in your
life."
Before studying for the priesthood,
Monsignor Mackin was a sailor, hav
ing shipped on a whaler from New
Bedford, Mass., shortly after graduat
ing from high school. He quit the sea
in 1861 and later entered St.. Charles'
seminary, Baltimore, being ordained
in 18(18. He was a classmate of the
late Most Rev. John J. Keane, second
Archbishop of Dubuque, and the late
Most Rev. John Joseph Kain, second
Archbishop of St. Louis.
Monsignor Mackin was made a do
mestic prelate in 1908 and celebrated
his golden jubilee as a priest in 1918.
The late Cardinal Gibbons was his
life-long friend.
OMAHA PUPIIS
WIN
The result of the recent essay con
test between the pupils of the paro
chial and public schools of Omaha
lines up again in the forefront the two
Sacred Heart schools. The World
Herald offered forty-five prizes for the
best essays on the subject: "What the
Constitution of the United States
Means to Me." Of these forty-five
prizes, the pupils of the Sacred Heart
schools won thirteen. Putting it in
another way, although the pupils of
the Sacred Heart schools did not
number 2 per cent of their competitors,
they captured about 30 per cent of
the prizes.
ORDER GREAT MOSAIC
The contract has been let to a Vene
tian firm for a great mosaic work for
the Church of St. Matthew in Wash
ington. The work will require two
years to complete. It will be sixty
feet in diameter—the largest of its
ki»jJ in the United States.
NEW IRISH K:§S!3nS
Seventeen students were raised to
the priesthood at All Hallows College,
Dublin, this month. They are all1
destined for missionary work abroad,
chiefly in America and Australia. At
the conclusion of the ordinations Rev.
A. McArdle gave an account of the
China mission field.
They were making many thousands
of converts in China during the past
few years, he said, and there were
now in that country 55 Bishops and
2,000 priests of whom about 900 were
Chinese priests. There were between
4,000 and 5,000 nuns in China, and it
Avas computed that the Catholic popu
lation was well over 2,000,000 persons.
CAMPAIGIS SUCCESSFUL
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR EDU
CATION BEING RAISED IN IL
LINOIS—PEOPLE ARE GENER­
OUS.
Millions of dollars are being raised
by the Catholics of Illinois f&r Cath
olic educational purposes, in several
state-wide campaigns to which the
people are responding loyally. A
number of educational institutions are
the beneficiaries. Among these re
ligious-educational movements are the
following:
Fund of $1,000,000 being raised for
the Catholic -Foundation of the Uni
versity of Illinois, originated by the
Knights of Columbus and in which
the Knights, the Catholic Knights of
America, the Ancient Order of Hiber
niajns, and the Catholic Order of For
esters, are mobilized.
Fund of $500,000 for the Univer
sity of Notre Dame, in which alumni
of the South Bend institution in Chi
cago and Illinois are taking a leading
part.
Fund of $500,000 for St. Viator Col
lege, near Kankakee, Illinois, which a
committee of Chicagoans is directing.
Fund of several hundred thousand
dollars for the Catholic University of
St. Mary of the Lake near Chicago,
founded by Archbishop Mundelein, and
which he asked the State Council of
the Knights of Columbus meeting dur
ing the week to support.
In addition to these educational
funds the Catholic public of the
Archdiocese of Chicago is raising a
fund of $750,000 for the Associated
Catholic Charities, close to fifty per
cent of wnich goes to the institutions
which are educational as well as char
itable in their nature.
Already Champaign county, in
which the University is situated, a
county with scarcely 1,000 Catholic
families, has initiated its campaign
with subscriptions of more than $100,
000. University students, many of
Last weiek Cardinal Dougherty an
nounced the foundation of twelve new
parishes in the Archdiocese of Phila- whom are working their way through
delpliia to care for the great Catholic school, averaged in contributions $75
growth.
W y v a
CANADIAN CATHOLIC CONGRESS
HELD IN WINNIPEG UNDER THE
AUSPICES OF T,HE CATHOLIC
TRUTH SOCIETY SPLENDID
DEMONSTRATION OF CATHOLIC
FAITH AND SOLIDARITY—MANY
INTERESTING PAPERS READ-
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS AD
DRESS MEETINGS.
A
1
remarkable demonstration of
Catholic faith, showing the numerical
strength and solidarity of the Church
in Winnipeg, took place on Sunday,
June 25, when upwards of 10,000 per
sons, school children and men, march
ed in procession through crowded
streets. The parade was the inaugural
event and, indeed, the most striking
feature of the second national confer
ence held under the auspices of the
Catholic Truth Society of Canada.
The procession took place in the af
ternoon. The line of march from the
C. P. R. station to the Board of Trade
building was jammed with spectators
who repeatedly cheered the marchers
as, with almost military precision,
they filed past the reviewing stand
erected on Main street in front of the
court house.
The school children, especially, re
ceived generous applause. Each school
had its own section distinguished by
flags and standards. The pupils of the
different parishes were neatly attired,
many of them in uniforms that lent
color and variety to the scene. The
Union Jack, the Canadian flag and the
Papal colors were much in evidence
and several bands added to the gala
character of the parade.
Noted Men Present.
On the reviewing stand, grouped
about the Most Reverend Archbishop
Sinnott of Winnipeg, were the visiting
prelates, prominent delegates from
different parts of the Dominion and a
guard of Fourth Degree Knights of
Columbus with drawn swords.
Among the churchmen were Arch
bishop Mathieu of Regina Archbish
op O'Leary of Edmonton Bishop Lillis
of Kansas City, Mo. Bishop McNally
of Calgary Bishop Buseh of St. Cloud
Bishop Wehrle of Bismark Bishop
Coutourier of Alexandria Bishop
Budka. Winnipeg Bishop Prud
homme of Prince Albert Monsignor
Blair, V. G., of Winnipeg and Mon
signor Hudson of England. Sir Bert
ram Windle of Toronto, Honorable L.
A. Cannon of Quebec, representing the
Provincial Government: Justice Dy
sart of Winnipeg J. P. Murray of
Toronto, President of the C. T. So
ciety and members of the Winnipeg
City Council also occupied seats on
the platform.
After the parade the children as
sembled in the stadium to listen to an
address by Archbishop O'Leary and to
assist at Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament given in the open air.
The men marchers disbanded at the
Board of Trade rooms where Arch
bishop Sinnott welcomed the dele
gates in a brief speech and congrat
ulated the Catholics of his see city on
"the solidarity, unity and strength
which, has been demonstrated today
on the streets of Winnipeg." He read
a letter from Pope Pius XI which, he
said, "sets the seal of apostolic ap
proval on the Catholic Truth Society
of Canada." His Grace also conveyed
greetings and expressions of good
will from the Cardinal Archbishop of
Quebec and the Apostolic Delegate,
Ottawa, after which he introduced
Bishop Coutourier of Alexandria,
Ont., who spoke on "Catholic Faith,"
outlining
it3
origin and development
and pointing out the manner in which
the Catholic Truth Society can con
tribute to its propagation. He was fol
lowed by Mr. Murray, President of the
Society, who appealed to the delegates
and to Catholics in general to support
the "organization in its work.
The musical part of the program
was furnished by a children's choir of
250 voices under the direction of Fa
ther Moore of St. Mary's Cathedral.
A Varied Program.
The forenoons of the following three
days were given over to sightseeing
and social functions for the delegates,
and the afternoons were occupied with
Ibe reading and discussion of more or
less technical papers on subjects of
interest to those who had the welfare
of the society and the spread of the
Church's influence at heart. These
meetings, held in the Knights of
Columbus auditorium, Avere well at
tended and, no doubt, much good will
result from them. Among the subjects
discussed at these sessions were: Par
ents and the Educational Problem, by
J. M. Bennett of Toronto The Cath-
TO
PLAN TO CHANGE DATE OF
ER IS NOT APPROVED!,
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
British delegates who have return
ed to London from the recent con
gress, in Rome, of the International
Astronomical Union, when the assem
bled astronomers were received in spe
cial audience by the Holy Father, re
port that the congress has rejected
the proposal to fix the date of Easter.
A special commission or the con
gress, over which the Cardinal Arch
bishop of Malines presided, considered
this question, and the outcome of their
deliberations was that they decided
on the retention of the Gregorian cal
endar in its present form. The gen
eral opinion of the congress seems to
have been that without the general
agreement of the Churches, there
could be no change in the method of
fixing Easter.
As this decision has been come to
in Rome, it may be taken for certain
that the Parliament will abandon al
together its plan for fixing the date of
Easter a proposal that was embodied
in the form of a Bill, presented in the
House of Lords by the Earl of Dess
borough.
olic Church and Reconstruction, by
F. W. Russell of Winnipeg The Value
of the Catholic Truth Society to the
Church in Western Canada, by Rev.
George T. Daly, C. SS. R„ of St. John,
N. B. The Ruthenian Problem, by
Rev. F. L. Van den Bossche, C. SS.
R., Yorkton, Sask. Teaching Cate
chism in the Rural Districts by Cor
respondence, by Monsignor Victor Day,
V. G., Helena, Mont. Catholic Immi
gration, by Monsignor Hudson of Eng
land The Layman in the Work of the
Church, by Bishop Coutourier.
Archbishop Dowling Speaks.
On Monday evening the MoBt
Reverend Archbishop Dowling of St.
Paul presided at the public meeting
held in the Dominion Theater. He de
livered an address on Catholic Educa
tion, in which he dwelt on the neces
sity and meaning of the Church's edu
cational program, outlined some of the
more pressing difficulties that con
front her in this work, declared that
our obligations are "to defend truth,
to assert our rights, claim our
privileges and use our resources as
custodians of divine truth and teach
it to the children in the schools." In
referring to the Catholic Truth So
ciety, he stated that its function was
to interpret Catholic truth to outsiders
and to multiply the means for remov
ing the misunderstanding that exist
ed, and to help discharge the obliga
tion of teaching the nations. There is
"a great, wholesome, appealing work
to be done by the Catholic layman
and woman who understood how dark
and dismal the world would be if the
ideals for which the Church stands
were removed."
Sir Bertram Windle.
The topic of "The Church and
Science" had been assigned to Sir
Bertram Windle of Toronto, a scientist
of international renown and a convert
to the Faith, who pointed out some of
the more important contributions
made to science by Catholics, as an
answer to those who declare that it is
impossible for a faithful son of the
Church to be a devoted student and
exponent of true science. Sir Bertram
declared that since his conversion to
the true faith forty years ago he had
never been hampered in the slightest
degree in his scientific investigations
by the fact that he had tried to be a
docile son of the Church. He said it
was the duty of organizations like the
Catholic Truth Society to make every
possible effort to dispel the miscon
ceptions that hang over the Church as
a cloud and prevent many earnest
seekers after religious truth from see
ing her in all her beauty.
Other Speakers.
Tuesday evening's meeting was pre
sided over by the Archbishop of Ed
monton who spoke of the importance
of the Catholic Truth Society as an
auxiliary to the Church in the work
of propagating the divine message. He
was followed by Michael Williams, di
rector of the press service of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Council of
Washington, who described the work
of his department and dwelt on the
different ways in which Catholics can
be of assistance to the secular press
in enabling it to secure true accounts
of Catholic functions and thus help
to dispel some of its alleged unfriend
liness to the Church.
Monsignor Kelley of Chicago spoke
on the Home Mission work of the
Catholic Church Extension Society of
which he is President, the service
rendered by the chapel cars to the
scattered Catholic population of neg
lected rural districts and the need of
a more generous offering for the sup
port. of the missionary activities of
the Church.
The same evening the French sec
tion of the Catholic Truth Society held
a meeting in the auditorium of the
Church of the Sacred Heart which
was presided over by Archbishop
Mathieu of Regina. It was devoted to
the strictly religious phases of edu
cation, and the speakers made strong
appeals for union among all Catho
lics and for co-operation with those of
other religions for the general welfare
of the country. Addresses were de
livered by the Honorable L. A. Can
non of Quebec Honorable Leon VI.
Gouin of Montreal Honorable P. A.
Talbot of Winnipeg and Bishop
Coutourier.
The convention was brought
to
close on Wednesday evening
a
Avith
a
reception to the delegates on the
grounds surrounding the residence of
Archbishop Sinnott who Avas assisted
in the receiving line by the visiting
prelates, and the newly-elected Presi
dent of the Catholic Truth Society, Mr.
Cattingham of Winnipeg.
1«S FRENCH SWF
Miss Mary Gertrude O'Donhell of
Trinity College, Washington, has been
announced as among the successful
candidates for scholarships offered to
American students by French univer
sities and the French Ministry of Edu
cation. Winners will be given the
option of attending one of a group of
the leading French colleges.
JOIN IN IE DEUM
CARDINAL, BISHOPS AND GEN*
ERALS IN NOTRE DAME.
Marshal Petain and the generals
who were successively in command of
the Army of Verdun, Generals Nivelle,
Mangin and Guillaumat, attended
a solemn "Te Deum" sung in tit*
Cathedral of Notre Dame, of Paris.
Cardinal Dubois, accompanied by tb*
bishops of Arras, Chalons and VerduB,
presided. The president of the R#.
public was represented. The choir
was decorated with flags of societies
of ex-service men.
The famous "Te Deum" of BerlioE,
which is seldom sung on account of
the size of the choirs and orchestra
which it demands, was rendered
660 musicians.