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Show ! THE CATHOLIC WORLD i Archbishop Bruchesi of Montreal is ; visiting the Pacific coast. i 'Count Elemcr Lonyay of Austria, the j fiance of the Archduchess Stephanie, : has become a Catholic. Count Lon-yay's Lon-yay's family is a very old Protestant St. Mary's Cathedral,' the most im- posing Catholic church in Halifax, N. j S.. Can., having been declared free of J debt, was consecrated with impressive i ceremonies. Archbishop O'Brien of-j of-j Sciated. I Five thousand students enrolled in j the Dominican University of Manila! . So General Reeve, after a personal investigation, in-vestigation, tells us. That university I teaches law, medicine, liberal arts and i civil engineering. . --Speaking --Speaking recently before a young I men's convention at his episcopal city, j Bishop Horstmann said that he had but two suggestions to offer, and one I of them was. that each one subscribe for a Catholic paper. . Now that we know that Fuss and Feathers Funston was and Is an A. P. A., says the Buffalo Union and Times, we are not snrnrispd hp stole those cor- geous vestments and sent them to his wife. r i Last Tuesday the Universalists j adopted a new creed," remarks the Catholic Telegraph. "Is it not strange that Gcd would allow the world to knock blindly about foi 2,000 years without a proper mode of worshiping Him?" - Says a New Drop, N. Y., dispatch of Oct. 29: Sharkey arose from a sound sleep early this morning and took a short stroll with his trainer, Tim Mc-Grath. Mc-Grath. After breakfast the two walked over to the Richmond Catholic church, where they remained throughout the morning services. . s Now they are asserting and denying in AVashington that General Otis is a Catholic as if it made any particular difference to the cause of the Church. Is it not time for Catholics to quit this foolishness? The cause of religion has enough to stand for; let this evil be lifted from her door. The Most' Rev. Archbishop Keane of Rome is making ready for his journey through the country on behalf of the Catholic university an institution for which he has already labored and suffered suf-fered much. The real friends of Catholic Cath-olic education in America will pray that success may attend his efforts. Patrick Donahoe, publisher of the Pilot, speaking recently about the fiftieth fif-tieth anniversary of the visit to the United States of Father Mathew. recalled re-called the fact that he was one of the i last person6 to shake the hand of the greiflf advocate of temperance, previous j to his leaving New York on his return l to Ireland, j The Springfield Tribune has been try-I try-I ing to size up that vaurien, the "lib-leral',' "lib-leral',' Catholic, and here is the result of it's efforts: "A liberal Catholic is one who admits that, all forms of Protestantism Protest-antism are as good as the Catholic religionand re-ligionand a little bit better. Oi one who says that he only reason he Jrs a Catholic is because he was born in that faith. And he always says it in an apologetic tone." A remarkable funeral service took place at St. Simon's church, Washington, Washing-ton, Ind.. recently. The services were had over the remains of William Stanton Stan-ton of Washington. The Mass was sung by five priests ,all brothers, they being nephews of the deceased. They are the Revs. John F. Hickey of Cincinnati, Charles A. Hickey of Dayton, O.; George F. Hickey of Milford, O.; William Wil-liam D. Hickey of Dayton, O., and E. P. Hickey of Piqua, O. Rev. P. Dom Sauton. a distinguished Benedictine Father, was last week the guest of Rev. Dr. James Dougherty at Immaculate Virgin mission. New York. Father Sauton is a doctor of the faculty facul-ty of medicine of Paris, and president of the committee of the work for lepers under the auspices of the French government gov-ernment From New York he goes to Chicago, San Francisco, Hawaii, China ?nd Japan. He will establish a sanitarium sanitar-ium in the Pyrenees. The troubled waters through which our good ship of state is passing at present, in no way disturb the optimis-tic optimis-tic editor "of the Pittsburg Chronicle, who declares: "Spasms of affright over the downfall of the republic afflict some of our constitutionally pessimistic folk, who, awake or asleep, see dark spots. There is compensation in all things, and they will go to their graves with pleasant pleas-ant dreams. The republic will outlive them, sound and true to the principles of its birthright. The Rev. John J. Mallon, assistant nator of St. Thomas church, Corn-'va"ll-on-the-Hudson, N. Y:. is the editor of the new Literary Dot, a monthly magazine devoted to literature. It will ; consist of poems, short stones, re- j views and literary chronicles, etc. The i first number will appear about Nov. 10. Father Mallon is a graduate of Ford-ham Ford-ham College,' ami is comparatively well I known as a writer and poet. He is o, i member of the C- B. L.. the Knights of Columbus and theRoyal Arcanum. Referring to the charges made against the Friars in the Philippines. -General Wheeler writes: "The Friars and Priests are charged, with all 4Cirts of oppresaions and' misdemanora. But it must be remembered" that Friars and Priests are numerous. 3nd in o large a body there will be found every possible pos-sible phase of character and disposi-I disposi-I tion. Some of them are ho doubt op-i op-i pressors of the people, exacting in the I collection of rentals from, the land, in-j in-j dulging themselves in many ways, and I lead lives different from what should characterize the life of a Priest: but there are many good men among them." Speaking of Mrs." Shepherd's visit to Hartford, the Boston Republic said: "The notorious Shepherd woman is booked to lecture this week, but her audience promises to be slim, for three of the leading dailies and the local Catholic paper have fully exposed her unsavory character. The 'escaped nun.' however, appears to have experienced j no difficulty in hiring from one of the j Protestant religious organizations a hall in which to ventilate her lies and lewdness." lewd-ness." ' A New Haven paper recently gave prominence to the assumption that St. Paul was never in Rome. Th: weak and exploded contention .is indirectly refuted by Father Barnes, a convert, j who has been studying at the college attached to the English college for Anglican An-glican Clergymen, and who left Rome on being ordained priest. He claims to have discovered the burial place of St. Peter, which, up to now, has not been definitely known. He is publishing a volume on the subject, which will be studied carefully by all archaeologists to see if he makes good his claim. The Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame, Montreal, are sending to the Paris exposition a beautiful exhibit of work collected from the 112 convents of their order in Canada and the United States. The work is collected in seventeen seven-teen large books, covering the whole range of school subjects. One is devoted devot-ed to specimens of needlework, from the simplest to the most intricate and artistic. ar-tistic. There is , besides a fine collection collec-tion nt PanOflioTi nlotilc ISM vorFofiA. prepared by the pupils of Villa Marie, Montreal, and a beautifully bound volume vol-ume of illuminated designs, representing scenes in the life of the Venerable Margaret Mar-garet Bourgeoys, founder of the order. Colonel Otter, who goes with the Canadian, contingent to fight against the Boers, has a record as a commander i in the Queen's Own when that valiant body of warriors opposed 'the Feniar.s in 1S66. The record says that he was "at the head of his command" on that occasion, says The Boston Pilot. Inasmuch In-asmuch as his command distinguished itself mainly by sprinting to the rear before the advance of the Fenians, Colonel Otter and his Canuck regiment may be expected to be heard from in the vicinity of " the south pole when Oom Paul and his men advance upon Cape Town. The Hartford Courant thinks that Archbishop Chappelle does not go to Manila on a mission foredoomed to failure. It says: "It is not at all impossible im-possible that the mission of Arch--bishop Chappelle to the Philippines, as personal representative and delegate of the Pope, may accomplish more in the way of tranquilizing the natives and reconciling them to the new-order new-order of things- than the winning of many paddy-field skirmishes. In spite of his French name and blood, people who knew the Archbishop of New-Orleans New-Orleans when he was as yet only Fther Chappelle of St. Matthew's, Washington, say there's no discount on his Americanism. . -?- Here-are some statistics of interest: There are 32,500 priests in Spain to a population of 18.000,000 Catholics (or one Priest to 600 Catholics); 42,343 Priet-ts in France to a population of 35,000,000 Catholics (or one Priest to 850 Catholics); 76,560 Priests in Italy to a population of 2S,4.r0,000 (or one Priest i to 370 Italians); whereas, in the United ! States there are only 00 Italian Priests j to 750,000 Italians (or one Priest to 12.000 Italians). There are 55,263 Catholic Cath-olic Churches in Italy, or one Church to every 500 Italians. In the United States there is scarcely one Italian Church to 50,000 Italians. Father Phelan thus disposes of one of the ecclesiastical platitudes of the period: "God forgive Archbishop Ireland Ire-land for introducing that phrase: "personal "per-sonal initiative." It Is being hobby-horsed hobby-horsed to death by men. who never were guilty of an original thought and ! never accomplished any one good thimg in their lives. Only lazy thinkers and indolent workers find impediment in the teachings and practice-? of the Church, Mother Seton did not lack personal initiative, and she founded the Sisters of Charity. Father Nerfux did not lack personal initiative, and he founded the Sisters of Loretto. Moth?r Drexel did not lack personal initiative, and she founded the Order of the Bleesed Sacrament. Father Drmgool did not lack personal initiative,, and he established the Mission of Castle Garden. ' Siliman Ives did not lack personal per-sonal initiative, and he established the Westchester protectory. These disgruntled dis-gruntled persona?,, initiators should do more and talk let-K In reply to a request from New York for permission to use his name on a petition pe-tition urging President McKinley to offer the friendly offices of the United States to secure the peaceful settlement settle-ment of the trouble in South Africa by arbitration, the Right Rev. Bishop Ryan of Alton, Ills., wrote: To the Editor of the World: J An administration inflicting the horrors hor-rors of war upon the Philippines in the face of the constitution and its own basic, principles cannot with-grace or truth intervene for the Transvaal. JAMES RYAN, Bishop of Alton. i In addition to the expressions of re-great re-great for the insertion of the advertisement adver-tisement of Doctor King's malicious book in their columns publicly made by McClure's and the American Review of Reviews,- we learn from the Standard and Times that Munsey's Magazine sent the following letter to a New York physician who had protested against the advertisement: "Dear Sir: The advertisement referred to in your favor of Oct. 17, was admitted to our pages inadvertently.. We: presumed that a work vouched for iby men who have a reputation for breadth, such as Bishop Vincent has or -Doctor Vandewater, could not possibly-, be narrow or prejudiced. pre-judiced. The advertisement will not be inserted again.- We thank you for calling our attention to it." One of the most popular pilgrimages of northern. Italy is situated on the rocky heights of,, Monte Baldo, which towers above the romantic valley of the river Adige. To this shrine of Madonna della Uoro-. nam the inhabitants of Trent, the city where the great council was held, and Verona wend 4heir way when seeking aid of ' our Lady. Two thousand feet ' 'high and cling-ine cling-ine to the ' cliff - like a swallow's nest to the eaves a chapel, a monastery and several outbuildings have been constructed, con-structed, which are reached only over a lonp, tortuous path;' over steps hewn into the rocks along the mountain side. Once in ages past the ledge which now bears the chapel and sacred shrine was fortified by the Venetians, who defended defend-ed the valley from this point. . The Rev. James- A. Doonan. S. J., sV long of Boston, now of. Philadelphia, rej, cently addressed in the latter city i branch of the Irish Catholic Benevolen ' Union. We quote these eSoquen't am5 suggestive words: ' "One has but to re-j, call the history of this forlorn nation; for 300 years gone, to see how truly-all truly-all that is Catholic finds emphasis in the nation of Irish. That religious belief be-lief and national sentiment have been. weiaea m me lire or persecution, so that separation seems impossible, is a fact to which the civilized wcrld bears testimony to the uttermost parts of the earth. Would that' truth permitted per-mitted to cintinue the eulogy, and say as much for the terms Irish and union. The interests involved are too mighty, the sacred character of pulpit and J p-reacher forbidding the language of flattery, compel me to utter here a word of warning. If Ireland is today a land vhose fate arouses Pity in the breast of every man whose heart is not of stone, it is due to the fact that Irish and union, as sentiment and method, have not been wedded. Discord, dissension dis-sension and disunion have been to Ireland Ire-land foes more cruel than any that marched across 'her valley and field beneath the folds of English red. -4 . After considering all the accounts that have been written about the desecration dese-cration of Philippine churdches by American Am-erican soldiers by their fellow soldiers, the Catholic Transcript arrives at this conclusion: "If there has been' no Church vandalism - by our troopsj in, the archipelago, some of our s soldiers take strange and treasonable liberties with the truth. They perpetrate wan-. I ton slander against their companions' in arms, for which crime they should be courtmartialed and degraded, for- there is nothing meaner and more degrading, nothing more guilty in the sight of heaven, than, the placing of hideous crime upon the conscience of the innocent. inno-cent. For our oart, it is- far easier to believe that individuals of our army have so far forgotten themselves as to loot the churches of their vestments and sacred vessels, than to seriously entertain enter-tain the notion that an American soldier sol-dier could sit down in cold, deliberate malice, and write out false and degrading degrad-ing charges against those who share with him the hardships and the honors of the field." The much-mooted question, of buying Muekross Abbey and the Lakes of Kil-larney Kil-larney is but a small portion of a well-defined well-defined effort to bring the beauties of Ireland before the tourist public. Ireland Ire-land is undoubtedly advancing from a material point of view, but to stimulate that progress still more it is necessary to have an abundant and easy supply of money. It may appear to be a small Item, but when we consider the statistics statis-tics that are published it is quite remarkable re-markable what a large stream of gold is left behind by the passing tourist. Ireland wants to harvest a little bit of this just now. It is curious to know that the little 'Isle of Man has maintained main-tained an advertising bureau in the city of London, and the thousands of tourists that this bureau has directed to the Isle of Man are considered one of the sources of -wealth of the place, Ireland has a great deal more to show the stranger than many of the much-advertised much-advertised localities. The effort to bring It before the public needs only a large infusion of well-directed business energy. There Is a beautiful illustrated article on .this Pint in the Catholic World Magazine of, October, entitled "How America May Open Up an, Era of Prosperity in Ireland." i |