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Show I THE (IlilK WW. I Archbishop Keane said in St. Patrick's Pat-rick's church, Washington, Sunday last, that the government would some day lament the storm of bigotry to which it basely yielded when it closed the Catholic Cath-olic Indian schools. 'b- There is not a Catholic in McKinley's new Philippine commission. But Archbishop Arch-bishop Chapelle is there, and he will make it very difficult for the Commission Commis-sion to misrepresent the Church in those parts. The Catholic diocese that contains the smallest number of priests, churches and Catholie-6 is that ot" Alaska, in which there are. only thirteen priests, five churches, five ehapete. four parishes par-ishes with schools, two charitable institutions insti-tutions and 1,000 Catholic population. ? Rev. Father Stafford responded to the toast "The Spirit of 1776" at the banquet of the Loyal Legion in the National Na-tional Rifles' Armory in Washington, D. C, on February 22. President Mc-Kinley Mc-Kinley was present and afterwards complimented Dr. Stafford on his address, ad-dress, j S- ! In a letter written to Father Aken of Helena, Mont., from Vienna, Jan. 2S, Bishop John B. Brondel says he ex- i pected then to leave soon for Flanders, i from where, after a visit of several j weeks, he will start for home. The bishop is supposed to be now at Bruges, his birthplace. The Catholic-winter school of America Amer-ica is now in session in New Orleans, La. An attractive course of lectures is in progress, among the names on the programme being Rev. Thomas I. Mc-Loughin, Mc-Loughin, Henry Austin Adams, Professor Pro-fessor Austin Olrt alley, Rev. Albert Brewer, S. J. and Mrs. Bertha Kuntz Baker. A Berlin dispatch states that the upper up-per house of the Baden Diet has passed the bill readmitting all religious orders to the territory of the grand duchy. The passage of this measure probably marks the close of a fierce agitation which has troubled the grand duchy ever since the imperial law of 1S73 wa3 put into force. The Sacred Heart Review thinks that the refusal of the Harvard faculty to recognize the diplomas of Catholic colleges col-leges will be a hardship for many young men of the vicinity of Boston, who would study law or medicine at the university after making their classical studies at Boston colleges. Philadelphia has jut passed the twenty-fifth anniversary of the raising of the diocese to an archdiocese, but there was not public celebration of the event. Archbishop Ryan being absent I from the city. The Philadelphia see was formed on April S, 180S, by decree of Pope Pius VI from the diocese of Baltimore, which then embraced the whole territory of the United States. The Jesuit Fathers are the latest to branch out into the non-Catholic field. Last week an experimental mission to outsiders was given in St. Francis Xa-vier's Xa-vier's college hall, New York City. It was such a success that the fathers are likely to go into the work in earnest. Rev. Henry Van Rensselaer conducted i the mision, and at the end of it twen- j ty-flve inquirers handed in their names for further instruction. During the past five years Mary Anderson An-derson has spent much time in studying study-ing music. It is said by those who have heard her sing recently that her voice would cause a sensation in the singing world, as her acting did on the dramatic stage. But she sings only for her "Tony" as she calls Mr. Navarro, and occasionally for the village folk at a concert. Even during the past year Mary Anderson has received many j tempting offers of professional engage- j ments. She is most emphatic in her ; refusals. ' The union of hearts of the members of the League with the Sacred Heart makes them most powerful. If they could only realize fully what thia union means, what strength and confidence they would have. They would fear neither the world, the flesh nor the devil. They would ask with utter confidence con-fidence for all their spiritual and temporal tem-poral needs. They would cease from all worry and anxiety, for all will be provided pro-vided for them. He that watches over the eparrow will not forget the least of His children. -$ The mystified Catholic Is unable to decide from a distance whether the Boer is his friend or enemy. Reports differ. But if that biological law, known as heredity, has not woefully miscarried under the southern sun, Oom Paul and his nephews do not indulge in-dulge an absorbing love for the hapless Papist. They are the only Orange men of simon pure blood now living. Thus the South African conflict is in some sense fratricidal and the Pope is but reducing to practice the sublime counsel coun-sel of the Sermon on the Mount when he prays for peace. Father Didacus Ruttlander of St. j Augustine's monastery. Pittsburg, Pa., dropped dead last week while administering adminis-tering spiritual advice and aid to a sick member of St. Augustine's parish. He was in the best of health when he left the monastery to visit the sick. He walked briskly to the home of Valentine Valen-tine Speth of Lawrence street to hear the latter's confession. The priest entered en-tered th 'ck man's room when he suddenly sud-denly tut. ed deathly pale. He staggered stag-gered to a chair and instantly became unconscious. When a physician arrived arriv-ed he was dead. Heart disease is attributed at-tributed as the cause. t A short time ago the youngest "Maid of Honor" to Queen Victoria was received re-ceived in to the church. She was the daughter of Lord Arlington, and her husband was attached to the court of Greece.- There were many circumstances circum-stances about her conversion that went to show that the finger of God lea her in a most remarkable way into the Cnthnllc nhiircti Writ the lea3(- -f fhea was her untimely demise. Her death was quite sudden. It occured at the i vice regal Lodge, Dublin Castle, while on a visit to the Lord Lieutenant. Her reception into the church was a leautl-ful leautl-ful preparation for her sudden though not unprovided death. Monsignor Sbarreti, the newly appointed ap-pointed Bishop of Havana, has appointed appoint-ed a Cuban priest as his secretary. Already the opposition to the new Bishop seems to be evaporating. The last meeting held to further a manifestation mani-festation against him turned out to be a fizzle. The speakers who had been very bitter against him before his coming, com-ing, said they liked his apperance and generally spoke well of him. The impression im-pression is growing that Monsignor ! Sbarreti is working for the best interests inter-ests of the Church In Cuba, and it is doubtful if any more protests will be made against him. ? After an illness of less than three weeks. Rev. William D. Kelly, the noted Catholic litteratuer, died at his home in Derchester, Maer., on last Friday Fri-day afternoon. He had been fmfferinsr for some weeks from the grippe, but nothing eerious was apprehended until pneumonia set In, which, in his weakened weak-ened condition, he was unable to resist. Father Kelly died a happy and beautiful beauti-ful death. Surrounded by his relatives and friends, conscious to the last, with the blaslsng of the Church in the reception recep-tion of the last Sacraments, he peacefully peace-fully and resignedly yielded his- eoul to God. Cardinal Ledochowski, prefect of the propaganda, who has just recovered from a critical illness, is the only living liv-ing member of the Sacred college who has had actual experience of prison life. When Archbishop of Posen and Primate of Poland he refused to submit sub-mit to the Falk laws and was cast into prison. It was while in his cell ; j that Pius IX showed his appreciation ; of the august convict by honoring him ; with the Roman purple. Later on. and j under another Pontiff, the prisoner Went to Rome and his jailer to Ca-nosa. Ca-nosa. His Eminence's life will furnish fur-nish material for an interesting biography. biog-raphy. Rev. Pere Char-eye, who has just died at the Marist Community in Paris, had been" bishop of Christ Church, in New Zealand, says the Parris correspondent of the London Catholic Times. But his humility was such that he could not bear the weight of the mitre. So he cane back to Europe and gained his superior'. permission to have his doners don-ers remov.-'d. The Propaganda annulled hi election us Bishop. In lS'JO he went to St. Taul. Minn. Archbifhop Ireland, who was hk-; personal friend, would have retained his se-rvices for his seminary semi-nary had not ill health compelled Tere Chayere to return to France. It is said that the Pope, after celebrating cele-brating Mass in his. private chapel, invariably in-variably recites the prayer for peace. South Africa being the region present to his mind, as he offers his petition. It is much easier to credit this report j than the one which was current early j in the week. This absurd story made I it impossible for the Pontiff to sanction i the African conflict the while he was praying for the success of the English arms. The information was said to have been gleaned from a private letter addressed by His Holiness to the Cardinal Cardi-nal nf H'Mtmincfoi. Tt ia U-rw-.-n.-n that Roman correspondents are permitted permit-ted to peruse the Pontiff's private missives, mis-sives, especially those a.d The Rev. Pere Albert Platel. provincial provin-cial of the Society of Jesus, breathed hi: last in Paris on the feast of the Holy Name of Jesus at the residence, of the Jesuit Fathers, Rue de Sevr(. He was but 62 years of age. He had for seven years ruled the Paris province, prov-ince, displaying singular wisdom and breadth of view. For seventeen years as master of novices he had emrdoyed th? bent qualities of his heart and mind in raising up worthy spiritual sons to the great Loyola. Hi death was that of a saint. The members of the community were around his bed, assisting as-sisting him with their prayers to the borderland of the other world. Tho Pope has presented His Eminence, Emi-nence, Cardinal Logue, Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, with a handsome n -t of vestments of gold cloth, with rich ornamntation in gold and silver. It is the handiwork of Signor Tanfani. the Provveditore of the Apostolic Palaces. The Chasuble is in the Roman shape, and the three divisions of the back are adorned with richly embossed symbols of the Blessed Eucharist. The lower part of the middle division bears the arms of the Pope. The tnes separating the divisions are entwined with shamrocks, sham-rocks, as are also the borders around the neck and elsewhere oi the several pieces. It is intended for the benefit of the fund which is being raised for tin? completion of St. Patrick" Cathedral, I in the Prima tial City. Bishop Satterlee advises his people to beware of sending their daughters to schools conducted by Catholic Sisterhoods. Sister-hoods. Too many of these young ladies are won to Catholicism by what they see and hear in such institutions. As the Sisters are careful not to interfere with the religious opinions of their non-Catholic non-Catholic pupils, the fact that many of these are won to the church ought to be an indication to those who- are looking look-ing for a creed that the claims of the oldest institution in Christendom are worthy of a careful examination. If Catholics and their practices are as repugnant re-pugnant to common sense as they are usually represented to be, those who see them face to face, and in all their fullness, full-ness, ought to be repelled rather than attracted. In warning parents of the danger which attends those who study i in Catholic institutions the good Bishop pays an indirect testimony to the power of the church. The religion which makes sisterhoods possible strikes the ordinary unprejudiced observer as having hav-ing in it an element of the divine, and it is not strange that those who view it from its inner sanctuary are forced to give it the allegiance of the heart. |