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Show - - ! J$ (ITIOIK WOBID. I f : ThQUorge'a encyclical which is an old story in this country, has appeared in South America. His Holiness. has authorized au-thorized the promulgation of a statement state-ment pronouncing the encyclical to be a forgery." -A movement has been inagurated by Rev. Edward H. Devlin of Austin, Minn., to' supply the homes of his parishioners par-ishioners with Catholic newspapers-and Catholic literature of all kinds. It is to be hoped that the Catholics, of the intern-iountain country will do likewise. It is stated that the vacancy in the board of regents caused by the death of Father Malone may be filled by the appointment of Rev. John L. Belford of Oyster Bay. Father Belford is also to be the pastor of St. Vincent de Paul's church. Brooklyn, which was the parish occupied for so many years by Father Malone. Father Belford, the regent-elect, is" a close friend of Governor Gov-ernor Roosevelt's, who has his summer home in Oyster Bay, and is one of the moat brilliant priests in the east. It turns out that Rt. Rev. J. Meer-schaert, Meer-schaert, bishop of the Indian tribes of lege in Worcester recently and was received re-ceived with open arms by the unsuspecting unsus-pecting members of the faculty and students, was not Bishop Meerschaert at all. It is pretty certain that he was none other than a clever and experienced experi-enced confidence man named Lewis. ? The Most Rev. Dr. Gaffney, Bishop of Meath, Ireland, has decided to erect a new Cathedral and also a seminary in Mullingar. The latter, which will cost 20.000, will be erected by the bishops and priesis of the diocese, who for the last twenty-five years have contributed toward a fund for that purpose. -- The Dublin Freeman's Journal presents pre-sents this roster of distinguished Irishmen Irish-men in , the war against the Boers-Lord Boers-Lord Lansdowne, the minister of war, is a Kerry man; Mr. Wyndham, the under secretary, is a great-grandson of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and his living liv-ing image; Roberts is a Waterford man, and is proud of the fact. His title is Lord Roberts of Waterford and Kandahar. Kitchener was born on the Kerry coast. White is an Antrim man, Clerk o Cork man, French a Roscommon Roscom-mon man. The Irish people are not proud of this ilst;- A clever confidence man- nemed Lewig imposed on the faculty and students of Holy Cress college, Worcester, last week, representing himself to be Bishop Meerschaert. This man has operated it is- said, all over the country, but usually he enacts the part of a plain priest ana notthat of a bishop. He was discovered at Rochester, N. Y. owing to his lack of knowledge of Latin A few years ago he tried to bunco Father Feehan of Fitchburg out of ome money by means of a forged check. His deception was seen through, and later, after a desperate struggle he was arrested and served three years in state prison. Rev. J. F. Lehy, S J president of Holy Cross, gave him. $30 when he started off on his return, as was supposed, to his beloved Indian charges m the wildand. boundless west. The death of Dom Sebastian Wyart, Aiitred Abbott qf the Cistercians, deprives de-prives modern monasticism, says the London Daily Chronicle, of one of its most illustrious chiefe. He was quite recently promoted to the office of Abbott-General, holding jurisdiction over all Trappist monasteries unified by Leo XIII. Dom Sebastian Wyart was a former for-mer officer in the Pontificial Zouaves and was attached for some time to the Austrian general staff. A tender personal per-sonal bereavement led him to the cloister, clois-ter, although his bearing remained martial mar-tial to the last. Rev. John M. Murphy, Prior of the Trappists, denies the report published in the daily papers that the main body of the order is to be removed from Oka Can., to Med way, Mass. He writes: "Our order has no intention of leaving Oka, Can. It has been, there for the last eighteen years, and has a good home. The order has secured nothing at Medway, Mass. I visited a farm in that town last August, but secured nothing." Recently ten young ladies belonging to leading families of Aquila, Italy, asked ask-ed a Jesuit Father who had been, preaching a retreat there if it would be acceptable for them to make a sacrifice of one year of their lives to God, in order to obtain the prolongation of the life of Leo XIII. Upon receiving the Father's assurance that doubtless such a sacrifice in its intention would be very meritorious, the young ladies, accompanied ac-companied by their parents, went to Rome, where they secured an audience with the Holy Father, who was extremely ex-tremely touched by the exhibition of such unusual devotion. Cardinal Moran, speaking- at- the opening of a church bazaar, referred in terms of strong protest j) certain matters mat-ters connected with the departure of NewSouth Wales troops to the Transvaal. Trans-vaal. He asked to be permitted to take ; occasion to raise a voice t. protest. It was in regard to the dispatch of the New South Wales troops to the Transvaal. Trans-vaal. So far as their heroes were concerned, con-cerned, they sympathized with them in the fullest measure. If his advice had been asked by any of these young soldiers, sol-diers, he should have said: "Stop at home and defend your own, country." This he had said before, and he said it again, believing it to be the true spirit of Australian patriotism. But the matter mat-ter over which he wished to raise a protest pro-test was in the matter of haplains. Although Al-though he had written to the colonial secretary offering to send a Catholic Chaplain, the home government refused re-fused to accept one. 'It is not often, says the London Daily Chronicle, that a Nun has a fortune for-tune of 530,000. Such a sum has recently re-cently come into the possession of a merr.'ber of the community of Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul at Origny. In that little French town, familial- to many English visitors, a basket manufacturer of the name of Burlureaux throve so well that he opened shops for his wares in Newcastle-on-Tyne and in Leeds. By thrift he accumulated the fortune which now devolves by his death on his only daughter. In her hands it becomes be-comes at once the patrimony of the Door. , |