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Show j THE CATHOLIC WORLD. His Holiness Leo XIII. has decided to hold in Rome next year an internation-j internation-j al congress of workmen. ! The contract for the monument to be erected to the late Bishop Watterson of j Columbis, O., has been awarded. Sister Beatrice, of the order of Char-t Char-t iiy, and for more than a quarter of a i century the head of the Providence hos- pital. Washington, D. C, died there re- cently. The Catholic Orphan Asylum of New York has been, sold by Archbishop Cor- rigan for $2,250,000. The eite is very I va.iuable, being on Fifth avenue. A new i asylum will be built farther up town. ! Bishop Mullen of Erie received word I last week that his resignation, forward- i ed to Home some time ago. has been j accepted. Bishop Fitzmaurice is now, i by virtue of his rights cf succession, bishop of Erie. A hospital in which consumptives alone will be treated is soon to be erect- ! ed near Chicago by a number of philan- thropic citizens at a cost of $125,000. It j will be in charge of the Pcor Hand- maids of Jesus Christ. ' . t The "Univers." of Taris. announces 1 - mre persecution of the religious or- ! dcrs by the government. On Oct. 4. the j property of the Urs-uline mans of the I Chirac Convent was sold by auction, i and on the 24th similar proceedings will 7 be taken against the Sisters of the : Christian Union at Mende. I Monsignor Skrbensky, canon capitu- 1 !ar of Olmutz, has been resignated by I the Iimperor Francis Joseph for the Archbishopric of Prague, and the choice has been duly notified to the Sovereign Pontiff. Mgr. Skrbensky. who is of i Czech origin, is barely 36 years old. He was ordained priest in 188D. I Kilkenny. Ireland, at the present time '. rresents an incident unique of its kind, ! in the fact that two superb churches are being simultaneously erected not ' far apart within the city. More reinark- I able etill is the circumstance that one ! of these is being raised at the cost of a single individual, the estimated out- 1 lay being 30,000. The burning of St. Marj''s Industrial i Training School for Boys at Feehan-i Feehan-i ville last Sunday evening was a ter-; ter-; rible disaster, but a disaster which, no ? doubt, the Catholics of Chicago will ' soon see repaired. The loss was consid- erably greater than the insurance, j which amounted to over JSO.000. i His Holiness, although not receiving so many in audience, continues in. his usual health. He spent some houn j i last week In the Vatican gardens, which j ! he enjoyed. The encyclical on 'which he has been engaged, on the present crisis in the English Church, is now finished j dnd will soon be out of the hands of j the printers. j The new- Youth's Directors' building, m entSy dedicated by Archbishop Rior-: Rior-: ian in San Francisco, has been for- i n.a.llv opened to the homeless lads of city for all the years to come. Inis i noble charity, while organized and managed under Caaholic auspices, is ! ii.-t limited in its usefulness by condi tions of race, creed or color. According to the'llluetrated Catholic Mi-ions, there are at present in Japan s bout 123,000 Christians, and of those r,::.$T2 are Catholics. 13,000 .Congrew-ti.nalistR. .Congrew-ti.nalistR. 12,000 Preshytenans, 8,H0 Kpi.opalians. The Catholics are di-vided di-vided as fo-HoH-s: 35,645 in the Naf .iiore; ,U4 in the Tokio; 4.463 in the Hakodate, and 4,470 in the Osaka dio-i-rse. The Catholic university opened its classes this year on the 11th. Monsignor 'onaty celtrated the solemn r.la.s. and the Rev. Dr. Grar.r.an, dean of the theological facility, read, in the rame of the professors, the prof ewion ..f faith. Afterwards the Right : Rev. lu-tor addressed the faculty and rtu-d-nts in the assambly room,-McMahon hall. Rome is anticipating a great influx of j visitors next year on account of it e- ing holv vear. The Cardinal Secretary of'ptat'e "anticipates an invasion of at l'-ast 1,200,000 pilgrims, an. average ot ' ::.ooo a day, and the amount of 1 eter s . ne thev will bring is reckoned to i-'aeh 2 000,000, while the sum tney will spend in Italy is estimated at A WO.OOO. Mr. C. V. Fox, the young Oxonian, who has just carried off the French I n ulling championship, is an Irishman. Though not yet 23, he has already carried car-ried off many of the leading prizes of the rowing world, and experts predict a Mill brighter career, for him in the future. fu-ture. Previous to going to Oxford Mr. Fox ??y a student in Ireland at Cion-jowc-s Wood College of the Jesuits. The Friars Minor of Belgium have st one of their most eminent religious, the Very Rev. Father Anseim Knapen, who passed away at the age of 67 years In the Mechlin Convent on Sept. 4. during his fifty years' monastic career the deceased father fulfilled offices of Importance both in Rome and in England. Eng-land. He was an excellent theologian, t'ke several languages and by his eal and activity rendered services to the Church that leave his memory sacred. sa-cred. The government Indian school at Carlisle. Pa., celebrated last week the twentieth anniversary of its foundation. founda-tion. But it has not yet begun to celebrate cel-ebrate the etstahlishment of religious liberty within its bounds, because Captain Cap-tain Pratt will allow no Catholic Indian In-dian subject to its authority to serve God according to the dictates of his conscience. It is the last public institution insti-tution in which religious liberty is openly and defiantly violated. .$ The feature of the debate in the British House of Parliament Tuesday of last week was a bitter attack upon the administration by the Irish members. mem-bers. Davitt and Redmond, were particularly par-ticularly bitter. They charged that every civilized nation was crving 'shame' against England. The latter declared that the blood of every man killed in the Transvaal was - upon Chamberlain's head. For this remark Mr. Redmond was forced to tender an apology.. Says the Catholic Transcript: "It is a-, unfair and dastardly shuffling to say that the Catholic press of the country coun-try has entered protest against the necessary occupation of the Philippine churches by the American troops. What, the Catholic, nepers reprobate is the unnecessary looting of claurches. graves and tabernacles. The authorities at Washington can stop these outrages, and if Catholics who are in a position to be heard are. outspoken in their condemnation con-demnation the vandalism will stop." The United States navy was without a Catholic chaplain until Cleveland's second administration, though a majority major-ity cf the men were of the faith. In March. 1SSS, Father Parks was appointed. appoint-ed. Since then Rev. William H. L. Reaney and Rev. . John P. Chadwick i have been appointed, making but three Catholic chaplains out of a total oC twenty-four. Father Parks' latt assignment assign-ment at sea was on the San Francisco, the Hagship of Admiral Howell, engaged engag-ed in. the northern blockade of Cuba, which included the port of Havana. The recent unveiling of the statue which has been erected to the founder of the mission of Lretto, in western Pennsylvania, Father Gallitzin, the second prie.t ordained in the United States, reminds the Church Progress that out on the Pacific stope there stands another monument to the memory mem-ory -of Padre Junipero Serra, O. S. F.. still another at Detroit in honor of Father Gabriei Richard, and yet another an-other in Statuary hall, at the national capital, in cornqnetmoration of Pere Marquette; and also moves it to ask, simply for information sake, if we have a public monument to any opposition oppo-sition preached of. those olden days. Rev. Dr. Peter J. Prendergast, pastor of the Church of the Epiphany, New York, died on October 9, at the church rectory, at the age of 59 years. Born in Ireland, Dr. Prendergast was educated for the pulpit at Maynooth Ecclesiastical Ecclesias-tical College, near Dublin, and was ordained or-dained thirty-four years ago. coming to America two years later. His first appointment ap-pointment was as assistant at the Church of the Epiphany, whence he went to Elmville, and later to Middle-town, Middle-town, where he was rural dean. From Middletown he was transferred to Ron-dout, Ron-dout, and then back to the Church of the Epiphany as pastor. There he remained re-mained since 1890. Bishop Prendergast, of Philadelphia, is a brother of the deceased. de-ceased. As Admiral Dewey rode in triumph past St. Patrick's Cathedral, on Fifth avenue, says the New York Times, there hung high above him between the noble spires the banner of his country, coun-try, and its ample and splendid folds vibrated to the notes of "America" rung out by the great chimee, while in the streets below thousands on thousands of faithful followers of the Roman Catholic Church shook the air with their cheers. Later, when he stood in the presence of the executive head of the nation to receive at his hands tha SWorU. Uiai was uie umuic sign ui whole nation's gratitude, the blessing of heaven was asked by a prince of the Church, Cardinal Gibbons. " At a meeting of the Protestant Protective Pro-tective Association of Belfast, Ireland, on October 13, resolutions were adopted approving the government's policy in the Transvaal. The meeting also recorded re-corded the hope that the government would transport free "all cowardly Feltfans wishing to help the Boers, in order that they may be shot for their country's good in the only place they ever present to British troops their backs." This, coming from the 'bloody Orangemen" of the "black North, is delicious, says the Catholic Union and Time what battle d5d they eVer figrht and win' As for the Catholic Irish, history's scroll is emblazoned with the names of battles they have fought and victories they have won. Did the Bel-fat Bel-fat Orangemen ever hear of Fontenoy? nd, speaking of Fenians, did they ever hpar of Ridgeway? Many a gallant Irithman will lay down his life on Boer battlefields and eery face win be urr.eS I Swards the hereditary foe. The KSt Orangemen will, as usual, do their fighting by resomtlon- r , Tt i? reported in Roman CathoBic circles cir-cles fn New York City that the Rev. I Dr. Richard Lawlor Burtser.l, who, in 1891, was removed by Archbishop Cor-rigan Cor-rigan frc-m the rectorship cf the Church ctf the Epiphany, Second avenue ave-nue and East Twenty-first street., is likely to be reappointed to his former charge to fill the vacancy caused by the death last week of the Rev. Dr. Peter J. Prendergast. When Dr. Burt-sell.was Burt-sell.was ssnt to Rondout, Dr. Prendergast Prender-gast was made his suecessod as rector of the Epiphany parish. Dr. Burtsell was ecclesiastical counsel for the Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn in that priest's controversy with Archbishop Corrigan and worked assiduously in the interest of his client. It was said at the time of i Dr. Burtsell's removal from a prominent promi-nent city charge to a country pastorate at the order of the archbishop that he was thus disciplined because of thj activity and energy he manifested in Che defense of Dr. McGlynn. The wedding of Miss Laura McLaughlin, Mc-Laughlin, daughter of ex-Register Hugh McLaughlin, the veteran Democratic Demo-cratic leader in Brooklyn, to Dr. James A. Roache of 150 McDonough. street was solemnized by Bishop McDonnell on. Wednesday. Mr. McLaughiin, who is the "Dick" Croker of Brooklyn, has already made provision for the future home of his daughter by the purchase of a 520.000 house at 312 Jefferson avenue, ave-nue, and his wedding present will be a deed of the property. The marriage of Miss Nellie McLaughlin, his other daughter, to the late Dr. Alexander F. Carroll, more than ten years ago, was a notable event in Brooklyn The wedding wed-ding presents were so numerous and coetiy that a big granite vault was built under the sidewalk of the Carroll home on Washington avenue for their reception. Their value was variously estimated at from $100,000 to S2F.0.000. From tfrme to time there have been ru-' mors of attempted invasions of the vault by robbers, and it is said that the choicest treasures are new in the keeping of a safe deposit company. On Nov. 25 next the Rev. William Lambert of Mason City will be a priest fifty years. He will be the first member mem-ber of the West Virginia clergy who will have the honor of spending fifty years in the priesthood, and hence it will be the first golden Jubilee ever celebrated cele-brated in that diocese. Rev. William Lambert was born Jan. 22, 1S27, at Obarlerci, Washington county, Pa. His father, WilKam Lambert, came to America from County Wexford, Ireland, Ire-land, in 1812, with his uncle. Dr. Lambert, Lam-bert, second Bishop of St. John's Newfoundland. New-foundland. He was a boy of about 10 years at vhe time of the rebellion of 179S, and was an eye-witness to the defeat of the English troops at the battle of Oulart Hill. He was never tired of telling his children in the long winier evenings of those terrible times, and the cruelties committed on the people of Wexford, and used to conclude con-clude by saying that if all Irishmen had fought as the Wexford men did, Ireland would have gained her freedom. Not liking the climate of Newfoundland, Newfound-land, he migrated to the United States and took up his permanent residence in western Pennsylvania. Here he married mar-ried Lydia Jones, daughter of a Quaker family, whose ancestors came over to Pennsylvania with William Penn. On account of her marriage with an Irishman Irish-man and -a Catholic her parents looked upon her as a disgrace to the old English Eng-lish Quaker stock, and severed all relations re-lations with her. Shortly after her marriage she became a convert to the Catholic faith, and was to the day of her death a devout, practical Catholic. |