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Show RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. I The Sovereign Pontiff. a ;1 token ,.j . tion for the Irish College, R,,me, h;ls ,-V,''T"' xift of books trenlinsr of tin ,, uy I,;,,,,,. .,,",'r'1 crature. Tiie-e. which antou.it to h't'i v ' ' . beautifully bound ;ml are of e-u-i..!er;iM,- ,, T' Rev. j. it. Burke, rector of the neirr.. ,.i:,i!V-., . Sf; Benedict the Moor. Xew York rirv. -,'!,V ' ! ceived in private audience by the Pope en !.".. The Pontiff evinced great iutf-rer in '-,'.l Burkes account of his mis-ion. and :,,. ourjove and ajostolie blessing to the r,j,,r,, pie." The Pop. complimented Mgr. kYm....:.. ",'," I the high standing of the American .-tu.jf;. . "'! t 7l" . 1 two vicars general nave juf been n;.;. ;,.,.' for the St. Louis diocese by Archbishop 1. !,:",,-. t the appoinfee being Uev. i). J. S. lb.ee. irr. tn.,r. able rector of St. Peter's -hnrc!l. JelTer i, 1 jrv r ' and Rev. J. A. Connolly, pastor of St. '!".-:-. .,,'.' church, St. T,oui.. ' 1 I Canon McKenna. P. P.. Bundoran. IreL.n :. ! died the other way. was affectionately known :!, ,!,, I of "the church building McKeiinas.' At i;lmi.ki. 'len. Xewbliss, Aughnamullen We-r. BundorMe Ballyshaiuion he has left handsome meutnrh.U , his life and Avork in magnificent churches. u . equipped convents and schools and comni".i.., parochial halls. ' ' N 4. Rt. Rev. Denis M. Bradley, first bishop f f,,i-chester, f,,i-chester, X. II.. died last Sunday. He was .-.7 Vi ;ir. " old and a native of Ireland. He had worn the' purple pur-ple for nineteen years aud was popular ami l.i--.vc'd by his people. " Joseph Meyer, so famous as the impersonator of Christus in the Passion Play of 17'. lso ;IUl'i 1S90, is dead, at Oberammergau. He was the choir leader in- the performance of JOtfi. The gold medal for oratory, presented to Xotro Dame university by the Hou. W. P. Breen of Tc'r. i Wayne, and one of the most coveted prizes within the reach of the students of the university, wm won this year by Mr. Maurice F. GrtHn, "04, of Toledo, To-ledo, formerly a student of Western Reserve. The award makes ?dr.Griffin the representative of Xotn-Dame Xotn-Dame atthe Indiana inter-collegiate oratorial en-- '' test in February.- J. Charles Arter. a Cleveland artist, who lias won distinction abroad by his portrait work, hn been honored by receiving a commission to painr the portrait of Pope Pius X. 3. Arter made the acquaintance of the Pope uhile he was patriarch of Venice and last summer was received by Mm at the Vatican. Arrangements were then made TTr sittings fora portrait next spring. ' A special cable dispatch from Bogota, CoLm v bia. to the Chicago Record-Herald, says that I,pe . I'ius. according to the advices from the i'olom- Y ' bian minister at the Vatican, has-addressed a notr ; to President Roosevelt offering his good ofticrs in behalf of Colombia to arrive at a just and enn- f table solution of the prr-:ent troubles with Col-nu- J bia. , j . - s Tho ceremony of blessing the flag of th- n.w I Panama republir was performed in the open air on f the plaza fronting the barracks at Pananui on Sun- ! day. Mass was celebrated by the regimental chap- f lain, who blessed the flag.. The soldiers surrounded ! General Obarrio, who made a short si?ceh to them. I after which the soldiers, policemen and firemen I I swore fidelity to the flag aud to the republic. f - T ' f Accordtog to a prtss cablegram, the Pope ha I ordered that all'the sacre.l vestmeuts and chalks accumulated in the Vatican during the Pontifical of Io XIII, which had been stofed under th I charge of Mgr. Marzolini, be distributed among tho poorer chures and priests of Italy, and has ap-Iointed ap-Iointed n commission of prelates to attend to the distribution. . Some of these articles will be given .through Propaganda to foreign missionaries in those places were it is difficult to obtain the nrrrv sary furniture for the celebration of Mass. anJ this step of the nw Poik-has excited universal approval. ap-proval. - '-';-. . V ery Rev. Daniel O'Connor, pastor of Immaculate Immacu-late Conception church. Clarksburg, and vicar general gen-eral of the diocese of Wheeling. W. Va., died Dv. 1.6, in VYashingtoii; from the effects of an operation. opera-tion. Father O'Connor had been a priest of the Wheeling diocese for forty-six years and was tbc ojdest man in the diocese in point of service, lb- was made vicar general in 1M.1. He was pomilar among the clergy of the diocese, and was a 'zeal- 1 ous and modest priest. The remains were take, to , Clarksburg tor interment. I It is interesting to note that the largest Jfsiii ! college in the world is at Borrow. Svria. Ir i I known as the University of -St. Joseph' Rc.et!v. says the editor of the Xew World, it has maaV a new departure. Yielding to a rather general lt- mand, it. has established a chair of Oriental .studies. . I to which students from Europe will be admiral. j ' 1 he briefest course of study will occupv three con- J A secutive years, and will require cbw attention to f . tbe languages ami literature of the eaf. A con- j stdcrable part of the time will W devote.l to Arabic. I which will." in the beginning, serve as ba-e for tt l acquisition of the various Semitic iat.guaee?- i Courses in. eastern history, geography nd achaf- f tdogy will form a neeessarv part of the i 11st rue- tion. J , A press dispatch from' Indianapolis savs: -Bish- op Joseph M. Francis of the Indiana diocese of the j Irotfcstant Episcopal church, in his sermon at Sr. . j Pauls church last night (Dec. 13). questioned the - f Adiristiaui.ty.of the. niembers of the church in this state because of the failure of the wealthier rla.- to raise-children." He gave statistics to shew that j the number, of baptisms of infants has deep-asd ! over et) per cent in fourteen years, while the num- bcr of adult communicants has increased aJni"1 1 rapidly. The wealthier classes do not want ehi'- j ilren, lwr said, "claiming that they do nor have the ( j tune to devote to them. A woman cannot be s t leader iu' Society and raise children. Both dcuta"'1 her attention and it is a sad facfthat manv v.-mm J .prefer society to children." - ' ' ' r |