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Show Occasionally you will find Catholic parents, says the Sacred Heart Review, who find fault with Catholic schools. Generally such parents are unfitted to judge of the relative merits of this or that system of education. Their opinions, opin-ions, nevertheless, are voiced with a very profound and judicial air. For instance, in-stance, of Sisters' schools this remark is often heard': "Oh, yes the Sisters are fine for teaching religion, but " i What follows may be gtietsed. Here j however, In a Methodist paper and Methodist papers are not disposed, by any meaijs, to lean toward a peculiarly Catholic system we find a recognition I by the worth of the Sisters' schools. I Writing of a Methodist school for girls, the most convincing proof the North-I North-I western Christian Advocate can adduce as to its excellence from every viewpoint view-point is that it is the only institution in Methodism "which really competes with the Sisters' school of the Catholic Church." In other wordts, the writer wishes Methodists to recognize the high standard to which the institution has been brought, by comparing it to the Sisters' schools. The trouble with the : Catholic parents who minimize the worth of the Catholic school, is that they do not, in moart cases, know in what way a true system of education , differs! from that which is false., At the 6:30 o'clock Mass in the chapel of the Sisters of Loretto, St. Mary's Academy, Denver, Feb. 26, as the Loretto Lo-retto Magazine chronicles. Captain Arthur Ar-thur S. McKinley, first cousin of our President, received hia First Com-munion. Com-munion. The captain was baptized in the Cathedral a few days previous, and requested the privilege of making his Firnt Communion in the chapel of the Loretto Sisters. After Mass the Sisters invited the gentleman and his wife to j DreaKiast with the chaplain; and dur-j dur-j ing breakfast Sister smilingly asked if ; the conversion was not a returning to j the faith of his forefathers. The cap-' cap-' tain replied: "Yes; my grandfather, , and of course the president's for our fathers were brothers was a staunch old Catholic of Belfast, Ireland. But our fathers came to America while very young and married non-Catholics, then fell from the faith themselves. Later they sent for our grandparents; and I they came to the old homestead in ; Canton, O.. where the president and I : were raised. I was a child at the time, but I was present at my grandfather's death bed. Though we were 100 miles from a Catholic Church, he requested my father and uncle to send for a . priest. The priest did not arrive in time to assist the old gentleman; but when his wife, our grandmother McKinley, Mc-Kinley, died, she had a Catholic priest with her." St. John's Hospital, Fargo, N. D., one cf the most modern and complete institutions in the Northwest, ras formally opened the other day, on which occasion the Sisters of St. Joseph gave a reception to the physicians physi-cians and surgeons of Pargo and vicinity. vicin-ity. Bishop Stianley was present and the guest of ho ior was Archbishop Ireland Ire-land of St. Paul. Until four months ago the building was used as an episco-I episco-I pal residence by Bishop Shanley. Of ! the Sisters in charge at the nospital it may be interesting to know that Sisters Julitta and Florerrtla are veterans of the Spanish war, 'having served as army nurses throughout the Cuban campaign and in the hospitals of the army camps in the south. On their discharge dis-charge they received from Surgeon General Sternberg, of the army, the highest commendation that that officer of-ficer could pass upon them. ?- There died at the Victoria. B. C, Jubilee Ju-bilee Hcepital one of the oldest priests on the Pacific Coast not only in years, but in the sense that since the days j when the first white settler penetrated the wilderness of British Columbia, he has been laboring in the cause of Christianity Chris-tianity among the natives of that province. pro-vince. Good old Father Rondeault of Cowichan, beloved by every one, the idol of the Indian tribes at Cowichan, among whom he has labored for -the past forty-two years, has gone to his reward at the ripe old age of 75. A 93vere attack of la grippe,' combined with the natural weakness of declining years, was the cause of his demise. Archbishop Christie of Portland, Ore., has received from Rome, through the Papal Delegate. Mgr. Martinelli, an apostolic brief naming Right Rev. F. X. Blanchet, V. G., Apostolic Protonotary. This distinguished honor, coming from the supreme head of the Church, has been bestowed on Vicar General Blanchet Blan-chet in recognition of his valuable services ser-vices rendered to the .Church in Oregon i during his long career in the priest- i hood. . ; Mgr. Anzer, Vicar Apostolic, has es-. tablished in China a newspaper in the Chinese language, and has received! from the Holy Father a brief congratulating congrat-ulating him on such "a happy inspiration." inspira-tion." S-- ' Sister Catherine Wateti died of consumption con-sumption on Friday of last week at the Convent of St. Joseph, in Fhishing, L. I., 39 years old. Rev. Thomas Walsh is her brother. |