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Show ' NEWS OF THE WORLD." Cardinal Vaughan recently wrote from Germany to the London Times praising the fairness shown by Germany Ger-many to Catholic schools and education. edu-cation. Switzerland has now a Catholic president pres-ident and Geneva has elected a Catholic Catho-lic to represent her in the national legislature. leg-islature. The great Protestant heir-archies heir-archies will not have to wait for the day of judgment to have justice meted out to them. The World's Fair board has invited Cardinal Gibbyis to dedicate the Louisiana Loui-siana Purhase exposition on April 30 and his eminence has accepted. He has also accepted the invitation of Archbishop Kain to be his guest on the occasion. Rev. John F. Ford, for fifteen years at the head of the Working Boys' i home, Boston, one of the largest in- I stitutions connected with the church -n New England, died recently after a few days' illness, from pneumonia. The state of Louisiana has erected new buildings at Indian Camp, the leper settlement, to take the place of the old and dilapidated structures that the sisters of charity founded there when they went to take care of the lepers nigh ten years ago. The new buildings contain forty rooms and these must be properly furnished. This is being done mainly by generous Catholics Catho-lics of New Orleans. Provision has been made for twenty-four apartments, the donation in each instance constituting a memorial of some departed relative or friend. Js- A press dispatch from Rome last week said: "There is a final secret 6ltting of the cardinals and theologians at the Vatican to consider the canonization canoni-zation of Joan of Arc. It seems to be admitted that the canonization will be authorized. G In Washington on a recent Sunday evening Archbishop Ireland received a delegation from the Pen and Pencil club, representing the negro press of the United States. The members of the delegation thanked him or what they termed his unwavering stand for human hu-man rights, addresses being delivered by H. P. Slaughter, president of the club, and others. In responding Archbishop Arch-bishop Ireland said that in his public addresses and interviews on the race question he had simply obeyed the dictates dic-tates of his conscience, without expecting expect-ing any return in the way of firratltu.de : or without even knowing whether the negro race would ' be pleased by what he said. He said that the idea of making mak-ing any distinction in civil and political po-litical matters because of race or language lan-guage or color was most un-American and that he should use his influence against it. i Manhattan college, New York, has : concluded to have the college represented repre-sented at the World's Fair by the work done in the fouv classes of the ' English department. Application for space has been made and granted. The very remarkable conversion has been announced of M. Lepz, a leading rabbi of Genoa. A great impression has been made on the inhabitants owing ow-ing to his very prominent position. It is said he desires to study for the priesthood and to enter a missionary j order. I The London Daily News is gathering statisics of church attendance in that city. The work thus far has not been completed, but in its present unfinished state it shows that out of 2.469,416 souls j only 4S7.109 go to a place of worship. It is reported that Henry Labouchere intends retiring from parliament to re- ; side chiefly in a beautiful villa reconstructed recon-structed for him in the suburbs of Florence. Italy. A rumor is also afloat that he will embrace the Catholic faith, of which his wife and daughter are zealous members. According to the opinion of the New-York New-York clergy Very Rev. Joseph F. Mooney, vice general of the diocese of New York, may be required to accept the office of bishop of Buffalo. In India the Catholic population is 2.164.0C0. The Catholic population of Ceylon is 326,389. The Anglicans of i British India number only 111,924; Baptists, Bap-tists, 2.10S: Presbyterians, 9,591; Lutherans, Luth-erans, 1,400; Methodists, 5,998. A poor showing for those who boast that Protestant Christianity is making more progress than Catholic. |