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VOL. 26—NO.
PHILADELPHIA,
SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 20, 1920
VILLA MARIA CHARTERED
AS A WOMAN'S COLLEGE
State Department of Higher Edu-
cation Grants Right to Con-
fer Degrees.
IS FIRST IN THIS DIOCESE
Opened Six Years Ago as a Young
Ladies’ Academy—Affiliated
to Catholic University.
Regal, imponing. majestic, we statue | Sacrament of Penance as
of Mary Immaculate crowns the dome
of her new temple of Tearninge—Vila
Masia College, the only Catholic
oman’s coliege in the. Philadelphia
Archdiocese.
Just twelve years ago, on the first
Friday of November, ground was
biessod and’ broken for the buliding of
my: six years tater, Beptem-
te “[a14, the academy wan, formally
pened’, In November, the aa Friday,
year, th me
and the gevat builaing ed.
some days later to Mary Im-
imaculate.
‘The new academy grew most raptdi
and tn a few years has Accomplished
many things, Before the close of the
first scholastic year, 1914-1915, th
academy was affiliated to the crtnole
of
as aide
Teatea
“SATURDAY EVENING POST”
AGAIN. SLANDERS CHURCH
tory This Time Is Located in
Mexico, Far Away from Dis-
proving Court Records.
“The Saturday Evening Post,” which
stooped o revile the priesthood two
years ago, when the war its
height and thousands of brave priests
and hundreds of thousands of Catb-
olic men and boys were in tre: and
‘ere in trencl
camp, “carrying on” under the "stan
and Stripes, is up to its old tricks
“the Saturday Byening
ni
in the Cathoiic Chureh.
e. gon
Catholic Standard
and- Times, Catholies
throughout the ‘Gited Staten will re
call how “The Saturday ning
published
very bad
t
the editor.
Mexico Net Pennsylvania,
it ig not a pleasant thing to print
Libelous articles ‘when court records
are
University, at Washington, D, C., a) tan e editor of “The Sat-
in th xt year, 1916, attor vi y EX nine. Yo at” no doubt knows
Minute ‘inspection “by, the | inspector sre ie teaches even the unwise:
a Department of Public Tn-| and many enterprising publishers, #0
ro}
struction, was accredited by the State
a first-class high school.
Applies for College Charter. .
tho Sisters,
ja Maria had beco
lege with every
this wero set on foot in February, 1920,
when Villa, Marla formally applied for
& collere |
Sep’ ection of the
aegroes of “the faculty and of the bull
swith its tibraries, laboratories and
entire equipment by.
Virst Deputy State "Biperintendont. Tn
ot higher education, | He fav.
orable report wai
at the October meet ne 8
Couneil,
was tho fir
application for a vollege charter had
teen duty filed.” ‘Thereupon.
mittee, ‘composed, of the meribers of
c
above-named council” was ap-
pointed to, make a special inspection
not only of the degrees, equipment 3 and
pre
building. but: also of
ouesee of ntudy offered. ‘Thie Insp eee
ton te ce At the
University Council,
luken and the eollege charter omotuily
granted,
Glad 98
, the date of the above
xious and
he
November 12
the heights of Immaculata, but a
quent visits to the Gentle Master of
Villa Marla, and pleadings betore His
ance tl
by their own now, ag they have eve
done in batties fought and won for
God. At the ringing of the evening
“Angele” eg, ou Lady had matted
to toll the. Villa's anxious
her own my:
flashed across
Js a college!”
rejoicing, the
giving,
Maria, Mary, Immaculate Mother and
Queen
ters, Servants
ot
it wil
to prosper and
The
be ‘given Villa. Maria College
rejoice.
Colleae Mott
‘Ma Maria Cor.
‘$ to all youn
In the near future,
lege, will “open its door
Catholic
ential in these n
must hold her own without Tomine that,
womanly, and | simplicity,
ri
exe
ponents of that Christian Catholle. ed
Ueatio which Vitla Maria College
was born this November,
The teachers, who Will compose
facuity of the college, have all received
he the University of
Fennayivania and Villanova.
“Regal, imposing, majestic, _over~
orto, Chester Valley,
dy of Villa Maria, Mary Tm-
late, may you reign long over the
fotze that beara your name!" ‘This
: ver of the nuns,
‘of he Tminucurate.
“Weare of
Servants of the
2
ry facility for the, higher
‘Accordingly, negotiations for
posses:
women dosirous of pursuing
in
dlution adopted
rt
the | mony. tothe
mae ccireuiation alone
ntin n Third ore)
NEN HAPEL AT EASTON
18 SOLEMNLY BLESSED
Rev. Michael A. Bennett, Pastor,
Officiates at Ceremony and
Celebrates Mass.
The Chapel of St..Jane
Frances ao Chantal, * Easton, was
sotemnty blessed qn last Sunday by
Reb. _Bichael Ae Ben:
ett, ted “the High
Mass, which | egal follows
B-
Church
trick Ar Collis,
versity of
2
in
the northeastern part Pennes hata
and congratulated the parishioners on
ery Rev.
V. Band the Revs, Eimer XE
Ktaploton. i reene, John C.
Phelan, Rilchuel Baeso, John B, Lorena
nd John uuscan.
“Tyne devotion of the Forty Hours’
will begin to-morrow (Sunday). The
Ph. D.,
beg!
Rev, Michael A. Kelly, C. S. Sp.
will preach the course of sermons.
a ——_+-+
SPREAD GOOD LITERATURE,
ADVICE TO URUGUAY YOUTH
5 N.C. W. ©. News Service).
Montevideo, Oct. 25.—The nt
convention of the National Congress
Catholic Youth
three thousand youn;
Communion at the
which was celebrated
contrast to those who are growing Up
thout convict) without a
thought of the ial auestions of con:
science and the
otable amon” ‘the papers read at
ag one by Arturo E.
10>
ple. It was a
PC ot'whe Hederation of Catholic Youth
ts members and
ne for provincia centers ot ae:
tivity, which ‘woul K In €0-0
tion ‘with of Gathoile
n'a res-
¥ the convention.
SHRINE’S HISTORY WILL BE
TOLD IN MOTION PICTURES
ceptlon, on
University, .from the fi
jaying of the foundation
stone last September.
Tine the picture taken at the time
of Cardinal Ginbons’ Jubtlee, this fim
will show @ majority of the American
Rerarehy, “Tt witt give Hew “alno
the procession of the Cardinals, rch
bishops and clergy at the laying of
the stone, the ceremony of blessing
{Re dtone and of the kreat throng, Ine
attending
(lading. Coreign diplomats,
th CB
ANNUAL COLLECTION FOR THE
SEMINARY OF ST. CHARLES BORROMEO, OVERBROOK.
he | Reverend and dear Father:
\ {
{
November 14, 1920.
are respectfully asked to please announce and urge at all Masses on ihe, ext two Sundays this
cl
‘foears colon for our dioce
seminary’ collection |
Tt hast never failed to arouse the cutie
vie with one another to secure for
of the semi
ea
For the esol a was established by God to spread and preserve religion; and without the seminary | ®
there row
san Seminary of St.
‘harles Borromeo
s been considered the mo:
siasm of our Rev
tant of
7. Clergy end the generosity of our laity,
their respective ‘parishes a high place o ‘ontri
spare neither time, nor pains, to raise the largest possible, sum.
at Over!
ir diocesan aeane
Our
Sol ficito ts
n the contribution list.
It would be. difficult to overpraise their
A spirit of Faith prompts this friendly rivalry of parish, with parish and this concern for the upkeep
nay
Ne ate has sent Me, I also send you,” said our Divine Lord to His first priests, and through | f
thean to ‘dete succes!
He has portrayed. them in beautiful and touting similitudes.
Vhat is more beneficent than day!
light,
breaks over the eastern horizon, driving away the darkness
of night, lighting up the surface of nature, banging cheer to the sick, the sorrowing, the wayfarer, and
stirring all created life into activity?
“You are the light of the world,
words; for it v
” Christ proclaimed to His
priests; and history has. verified His
Wwas His priesthood which gave us Christianeivilization. Teswept
away pagan idolatry through:
ost of the worlds ibolished slavery, raised the status of woman, and provided for those, who in ancit
chieatios becami
rou are the wall of ne carth;" by word and example the priest is to shield frail man from corrupting
outside Inintences aed row hie oan
Hence, wherever the priesthood
priesthood ‘has been des!
passions.
has not existed,
where the priesthood of Chest i is absent.
he Faith has never taken
, the Faith also has disapy eared. Unbelief, superstition, immorality run riot
root. Wherever the
, humanly. speaking, our holy religion was threatened with extinction in the sixteenth century
Wher
by Luther, Calvin, Knox and
on the need of seminaries, to stem the
When Ireland was crushed sander
mn her own hallowed soil, it hi
other heresiarchs, the Council of Trent,
tide of irreligion,
the heel of the
er youth abroad th seminarie:
the greatest of all Councils, laid stress
ersecutor, and was forbidden to train up’ prie
s in Flanders, Prance, Italy and Spain,
Guided by the Holy Spirit, She tealized that unless she ‘had priests, Faith would di
a priesthood, then, is the source of religion; and the seminary is the source at ithe priesthood.
pricethy ‘peal, they
priesthood,
Last
where, had so extra
Our clergy and pe
pride in their achievement
ordinat
of the semin:
ear Arherican Catholies were startled, by our seminary collection. Never before here
ry r the
unt been contributed
ople became, objects of admiration and praise.
cover; since our orphan ‘asylums, parish” sebouls and churches ‘are the fruits of, Faith and, of |§
are indirect products ary.
The pre the seminary, the more priests we. shall have?
appropriate occasion on which to repeat our congratulations and thanks; a: duty which
This is an
we discharge with all our hea
The 1
|| There are five m
It should be tore in mind that
what ie used to be,
This oe it has eome Necessary to mi
view of thes:
exzend last year’s generosi It
resolve to excel its last semmary colle
a conditions. our Rev. Cle: and
now the purchasing power of
he other hand, high prices for labor, food, fuel
ake repairs and preven
dev
an mo:
as never ween Known that ‘tes rested ‘on their oars.
ction, and it will de
SPIRITUAL BENEFITS.
number of students in the seminary at present is 289, the largest this diocese has ever had.
more in Rome; three at Washington; and two at Orchard Lake, Michigan; total, 299.
the dollar is only about one-thii cd of
and other needs continue still.
which will cost over $100,000.00,
laity a st earnestly
Let every parish
4 will please remind your people of the following spiritual benefits to be gained by all those who
take part in the seminary collection,
I.
2,
All ti
on the Sune within the Octa
of “. Sh Sine
ial Mass for. the
living
the
s Borromeo, whose fe:
benefactors on the first Sunday
Mass to be celebrated daily for the living and deceased benefactors,
‘The Rosary to be recited every Sunday for the same purpose.
the students will offer Holy Communion for
e of St.
of Ler
deceased members of the devoted band of the seminary’s best
A speci de
bevels the solicitors, will be cnchrated during the Octave of All Sai
‘onclusion, we
hi in for what ycu have hitherto tne for the seminary and praying
God % bless you and 1 your faithful congregation, remain,
Very affectionately yours,
JOSEPH A. WHITAKER, Chancellor.
erend Rector:
will
+D. J. DOUGHERTY,
Archbishop of Philadelphia,
ie Reve please read this circular for two successive Sundays, and have lists of |®
manager’, solicitors and contributors sent to the Cathedral Office.
wi
°:
ly requested to|Bcsr t
Foy ES, "ag Yaw . 7 FIVE CENTS .
ets Thaurie nrence:
WILL UN ad *© (FRANCIS DE SALES?
OF ST. BARNABAS tne.
Monsignor Fisher Will Officiate
at Ceremony in Elmwood
Section.
The corner-stone of St Bamabas!
new combination, churc!
building, Bint ‘ied street nd pt
‘Sun-
n,
or of St. Raphact's
‘The Rev.
eehan, rector of st
jomas Aquinas’ Church will b
ter of ceremonies, The sermon ‘wilt be
delivered by 1 Rev, William J. Gar-
ac school children will be present
ber of hymns.
Ble:
will march in parade to the exerciser,
and there will be a special guard of
honor composed of members of St.
Catholic Club.
9 of Church.
Y chureh was establish
Barnabas’
Tekblshop to organize t
parish, "Permission was obtained from
the owners of the Benn Theatre, S
y-tourth street and Woodiand’ ave
me 0 hold religious aerviees in that
Sar sunday at present
Masten are celebrated each Sunday in
the theatre. On week days Mass is
celebrated in the pastor's residence.
was broken for the new
pure Mind acho! building on August
15, of this year, and the work is well
under wa
ay.
tation to religious and other
qoclele ‘ta attend ‘has been sextended
° Dougherty. The Vin-
Je naststane Fecto
TEENS OF MERCY WILL a
ent J. Ford
After Memorial Mass in Cathedral,
Knights Will Serve Turkey Din-
ners to Orphans.
His Grace the Most Reverend Arch-
nual
Kalen on Columbus which will be eels
ebi
“athedral, on. next
The better the seminary, the better our hretay, thanks spiving Day, at
The Rev. Richar Kelly
wu be ine celebrant of. the ass, The
or else-| Rev.) Henry T, McFall will be deacon,
ainten an seminary, |/and the Rev. Thomas K. Connell will
They "themselves have “taken a a just) be sub-d The Rev, Thomas F.
MeNatly will bo master of ceremonies.
ana
faints to “Archbishop Dougherty.
sermon wilt be delivered by the Tight
Rev. Monsignor Daniel J.”
tor of the Cathedral.
mission having been
Tetaries of Councils in which the de-
(Continued on Secon
a| preceding day.
Ri
UP KOS THRIRSSWNG OY wes
CHURCH IS CONSECRATED
Most Reverend Archbishop Of-
ficiates at Solemn Ceremony in
Magnificent Edifice.
MASS (OF THANKSGIVING
Bishop Walsh Preaches Learned
Discourse—Bishop Shahan and
\Many Clergy Attend.
ze Suttion ot thirty years of eac-
fice and was given visible ex-
on ression on 2 Sunday, in the Church
of Jes', when dis-
fost Reverend Archbishop ceibated
as a fitting
consecration, whic ‘to
ok place on 2 ine
ye
jarble statuary, adorned
with mosaics of finest workman
the walls of the editic
ecclesiastical
architecture in the United Sta
satis G Oficiater,
everend Archbishop of-
fated at the solemn consecration, on
test Saturday, ‘The Re
nthe
brated on’ Sunday,
the
Risht Rew. Monalgnors Peter Masaon,
¥_F, and Henry . Drumgoole, D. D.
er, Ve
chal
algnors Nevin
James P. Sinnott.
Decorations Most
The
beautiful,
re placed onthe altar’ alle at” tho
Beautiful.
joral decorations were, most
Large baskets of flowers
entrance to the gan etaarY, and within
the enclosure. The altar was profusely
tastefully decorated with
chrysanthemums, relieved by the green
of numerous ferns, Exquisite was the
delicate coloring of the autumnal ger-
uspended
2 to canrctty:
The music will b sd by the
ights of Columbus choir under the
direction of Joseph O’Brien and Will- pring!
iam J. Dougherty. William Sylvano " a :
Rind, organi” of the Cathedral Tuy gle ihe hr oe the een
1 preside at the organ. Pews have
been reserved tor relatives of memby en's Add
‘ho died during the year on of ad- In dress to congregation
many
it and
ast occurs on the. 4th of No vember
Solemn Requiem Maw will . einen for all the deceased benefactors during the Octave |°
on
MALINES’ COUNCIL MEETS
AGAIN AFTER 300 YEARS
W. C. News Service.
with peal of
ind bells and. impres-
urth Provincial
n interval
«By N,
Brussels,
1
and monsignori—and many important
members of the regular and secular
clergy.
ms
On the, mornine, of the Council's
ope! Cardinal Mercier and other
aombers, atcended by the Metropolttan
tM
a. Pontifical Ma:
Council were held.
vices.
“the third and
vinelat Counell oe
after the rellgtou:
last previow:
Belgium wi
TAKES VEIL A VEIL AT CARMEL ATTEND MASS IN BODY OF PEACE IN ENGLAND
(By NOC. W. C. News Service.) (By N.C. W. C. News Service.)
Paris, Nov. 4.—Three hundred Paris London, Nov. 4.—A: 6 women
physicians, including. several world- | Who have been appointed to the bench,
ne since the law ca to effect in Eng-
famed members of the m: Pro-liand which qualifies women for cer-
ssion, assembled in the, Montmartre tain omces on an equality with m
Rasilic the Sacred Heart, where | ig Lady Carotine Petre ot Ingatestone
te, a special Mans Swan said, tor them, | rr, orn in ‘an
os em - receivini yo
Shora of her hair, simply rengod tn >| murion, hem receiving Holy Com yy tice ot the ‘Peace’ forthe county
blue. and wearing a silk bonnet, hes : ysicla: belony re of
mins secatved by a religious, while mn Hee aoe eae eaten vettea{ 7 he ether aro one of the old Cath-
the nuns, standing in two lines With }uny ect. Luke Socioty.” ‘Their pil-| © families of England. Tho fourth
lighted tapers in their hand erected srimage to the Sacre-Coour will henee.{B8t0n Petre, died in the Tower
their future Sister, The forward be renewed overy year. London in 168%, where he had been
their black veils. The former rand incarcerated as one of the victims of
duchess carried white flowers In her +++ he infamous Titus Oates plot. The
and. hirteenth barol lest and
italian monk, in a short address, LEPHO!) domestic prelate to Po} ‘o XIII,
greeted her and extolled the beauty of TE NE The present head of the family is
acrifice, which he declared would || LOMBARD 5740—5741 || ine young lord Petre, in 1914,
bring her a throne in the next world || i,4 pot) ‘Telephone Com| whose father, the _risteonth baron, wa!
far more glorious than the one she|| order to relieve zone cangestion ‘and || killed in wetlon France when the
haa abandoned improve the service, has ferred || present peer wa P only one year 0
rn final kine fo her mother und The Ca tholic Standard a and Times ne of the young Lord Petre's great-
- un is Superior of t Sisters of
LOMBARD 5740—5741 || Charity at) Westminster, und. wnother
a wiember of the Good Shepherd
uy
f] oles of White Plains,
jacks the
Guardians of Liberty on “thee Patrlot-
a impressive monu- | *
ted the
Ena then ecclesiastical laws, 's
Grin ‘varisua ‘hooks, were often. the
occasions of controversies, Now they
have been systematically compiled,
amended and perfects
this new code to local iegisiation |
be the work of the Fourth Prot
0
Coune!
PARISH HONORS HEROES;
White Plains, N. ¥,, Nov. 15—Cath-
who represent
only one~ tenth ot fee Population, have
answered by
am by erecting an im
ment on the lawn of St. Sonn Churen
in honor | ot the 365 men of that parish
who the great war.
The, monuments, hich Is em-=
bedded a bronz0, tablet Inserived with
of the men who foll in the
Contiet, wil stand as a iitent_ rebuke
fovthoxe Who are striving to minimise
the coperinutions. of Catholica ta. the
national struggle, One-third of the
men who enlisted from White Plains
were Catholics,
?. |ehrism at
©
subject for wonder.
e Jot this rection of the cl
-|seeing the growth
~ |quest.
cil, | Blessed Sacrament, have
at. Appitention of tee
BIGOTS ARE CC CONFOUNDED |
w
of God, according to an elaborate
of many ceremonies and prayers.
Three times the conscerator encircled
the exterior of the church, sprinkling
the “outer, walls with water
Inner walla wore also Blessed with (ho
triple blessing of holy water. Then,
tho floor of the chureh, from the main
sani
tified with holy water and vd pene
inside walls were anointed with saci
the twelve places, where
rackets have been set up to hold
ration, the
he
xetanivey to Him,
lienated, bartered, or
never ‘again be weed for a profane ory
worldly purpose,
your church was ready
consecratio n within thir
thirty: yenra ago that a servant elt!
hie!
80 sparsely settle:
Archbishop ‘Ryan, of ha
to‘found here a” now pariah.
of the olty, Arch
bishop “Ryan acceded — tq
and established the’ par Fish ot
figuration and the parish’ of the
been formed
out of it.
Lauds Clergy and Laity.
“tt ia worthy of note that your par
@
beginnings of a parish,
in 1908, he lett a “memoria the
of over $30,000
only oft this debt,
firing the school, ed
ent jome $18.
Charen rat, 2 cost of man, hoo. 000.0
{onal school, It was “fortunate for
you that, Meithout delay, he dismayed
acteristic enerey in setting to
vt erect. thie ratontio “chute
Unique in the United Staten
terpiece of Byzantine arehiteet re tna
he waited until now, the hy ould
bably cast nearly a million doltors.
“You have reason to thal Gea that
whilst the material needs of your pare
teh were | be ing provided, your anieitnal
‘0 by no means neglected, O7
The contrary, your parish. is pre-em=
inent for Its organization, the, sole nden
of its services and the spiritual
(Continued Secant o>