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Show 1 J ; I I J faith." . I LaW" -,,-,-,,, ' . ) Ii CHURCH CALENDAR. 1 Jia.v Do vol ion Blessed Virgin. I Sunday. .1th after Easter. Arparitionof St. , ui,:lc!rl. K. James i. 22-27; G. John xvi. 22-30. " ' MoimIjiv. J Kopation St. Gregory Xaz. I Tuoday, K Kopation St. Antonius. 1 Wednesday, 11 Keg-ation St. Francis lliero- I j jivllK'. S. 'T. I I " Tlmr.-dny. 12 Ascension (Feasl of Obligation). SS. Xeretis and Companions. E. Acts i, 1-11; (; Mark xvi. 14-20. I YvUhy. '13 St.Mohn the Silent. I S.iTurdny, 14 St. Poehomius. , J I E"W LIGHT ON ACTS OF PAUL. e j T!i Heidelberg' (Prussia) press has jnst pub- .;!(--d ilte Acta Panli narrative of "the apostles' i traveling, unbefore known in their entirety. The (.,iiii'il r. Dr. Karl Schmidt, was seven years piee-3 piee-3 1 it: I' ' th 2.0(H) small fragments of papyrus and miii-ljiting the contents from ihe Coptic. It is ; ,l,i;:)i(d tlie work solves many problems connected vi:ii early Christian literature and proves that sev-h.i.ks sev-h.i.ks of that era of which we possess only y,u-- lire ihe one great work of the acts of Paul, I I (."ii-i-'ing firstly of the so-called theela acts, see- ' I ? , eivilv ilic apocryphal epistles of the Corinthians, I ! i;;l ttiirdly t ho martyrdom of St. Paul. Dr. : ; S-iiinidt says the Coptic manuscript of the dale G 1 A. 1).. was written by an elder of the Christian I eluii- h "to honor St. Paul and combat Agnostic .' l(!V-il'S." f ANNIVERSARY OF NIGHTWORKERS' MASS. On Sunday, Alay S, will lc observed the third anniversary of the institution of the 2:30 o'clock I fr printers and night workers in St. Ari- ,irt V church. New York. lit. Kev. Thos. Y. Cusack. i .V.'.xiiiary Bishop, will celebrate Solemn Pontifical ' "M.i-s at 2:30 a. nr. Bishop Cusack gave th& mis-f mis-f .-j.n last year lo the printers at 3 a. m.,' and by ferial request of the printers and the roctor, - j :itliers Evers. he is asked to officiate at their an-I an-I : i;iveiary. Admission will be by ticket. A grand eiairatc programme ot music by tho choir, assisted by some of the best known ladies and gen-il'nien gen-il'nien of New York, with a brass octette, will be r ndercd. The sermon will be preached by the Rev. vVilliam Ciuinon. D. i). Johnny Quiglcy, the Bos-ten Bos-ten newsboy tenor, will also sing at the Mass. ; HINDRANCE TO SIN. The Sovereign Pontiff wains us all, that if our j piety toward the Blessed Mother does not hinder from sinning, or does not move our will to J amend an evil life, "It is a deceptive and false piety, wanting in proper effect and in its natural - I fruit' Alary was Immaculate because of God': essential opposition to sin; the human body of the Son of God could not have been taken from a moth-rr moth-rr once tainted with original sin, and ihe slave of Sntan. whose dominion the Son came to destroy, i If while we profess to love' the dear Mother our lives are evil, we honor lier only with our lips while mv hearts are far from her. Purity of life should i .lisiinguisli the children of the Mother Most Pure," and fidenily to God and His church, of which Alary was the beginning of the type, in imitation of her wondrous fidelity by which she repaired the deadly dead-ly faithlessness of Eve. lier fidelity took the form L i a charity only less than that of her Sou a char- 7 ity which made her sacrifice that Son and herself in a crucifixion of heart only less than that of the Ib.'-au .f Jesus'.' -- - . ' - - AN EX -REVEREND SIDETRACKED. f (Juiie recently, the ex-Reverend Thomas llag- I rrty was announced to deliver a lecture at Afarion, Ind. .under tlie ail spice of the local trades council, j On the initiative of the Knights of Columbus a I mooting of the men of St. Paul's church was held in the founcil's rooms on April 17 and a general : prolog voiced against the lecturer using the title ) Kev. Father" Ilagerly. It was the prevailing sen-i sen-i 1 inn nt that any support given him would be offen-; offen-; sivo to tlie Catholics of Alarion. He was a renegade, rene-gade, a priest false to his tows, an advocate of principles reprobated by the Church and his presence pres-ence in the citv harbored by an association of j which many of them were members, was an insult to them. The committee appointed to confer with ihe trades council was received most courteously j and on its representations the lecture was. immediately imme-diately cancelled. If the example of Alarion were followed elsewhere the AroGradys, Delaneys and others would soon be driven out of the lecture :i"ld. Catholic Columbian. GROWTH OF ST. PAUL DIOCESE. j Al.out fifteen years ago the archdiocese of St. '! Paul was a suffragan see of tlie archdiocese of Alil- v-ioikee. It now counts seven sees in the three ; siaiov that it covers, Minnesota, North Dakota and j S.-ut, Dakota. It is said that Xorth Dakota I (dh.eese ,,f Fargo), the area of which, is 70.000 souare miles, and the diocese of : D.uluth, with an ! ana of 30MRt square' miles, or about .three-fourths I i iio size of Wisconsin, are apt to'bexlivlded, so. that ill.-- archdiowse , of St." Paul will pr'obflbly, within a ! .-'lort lime' comprise nine episcopal wees-"' I In 1 there were 4 C3 priests in -the province ! of St. Paul. . There' arc;"now (according to the j a:liolic Directory of, 1D04), 0'J:J an increase in. f id it years of fifty per cent. The increase 'in the j i ninher of priests has been most notable in the' .;; ooses of Juluth. Winona and North Dakota; I i.oro tlie increase is nearly seventy per cent. With 'lo j.rcH-iit rush of immigration westward to the Itakota-. and the taking up of lands in northern j i M imiesota. there must naturally be a large increase I : ihe Catholic population in those sections; and ;! . reclion of new dioceses merely.' foreasts the Mr urc and provides for it. Catholic Citizen, Alil- V. niik'-e. . ' . ' '" ' - , - MARY'S PREDESTINATION. 1 Wii.ii wo c.nsider the' Word's desire 'to assume : v;1i,,l nature, when we ponder -His choice of a i ioan nature, when avo refle-t on His further l M,,ioo to His oul and body, and-add to all these j .derations the remembranee of His immense I 1 . we can see how His goodness would exult in j 'I- eliuieo of His Arotherr'wli'om to love excecding-I excecding-I 1 was to b-co.ae one of His chiefest graces, ope of ; j ill- ymitest of all human perfections. All possible j -a ui res were before Him, out of which to choose j creature ihut was to '(-omo-nearest Him, the ; ", .JtIm. tia( was 1(, 0ve. him. and-to have a nat-'r;d nat-'r;d ridit to love Ilim, best 'of all, and the creature vla.in duty as well as preferencc'was to bind .him 1,1 love with the i:iteiisclover'Then,-outof all He ii-'se Mary. What more can be said, She; ful-1:ilod ful-1:ilod His idea, or rather she .did .not ho muchftik His idea, but she was herself.llis idea, and,' his idea' " h r was the cause of her creation. The whole Zoology 0f Alary lies in this eternal and efficacious ' cli,,i,.e ,f 10r in the bosom of the Father Father j T;ilcr. ' . . . . .:' ' ... ' I1HE POPE AND SOCIAL ACTIVITY. . Pius X eordially encourages social .works fiiiiongst Catholics. In a letter which-he just ad-i ad-i blessed 10 the Second Group of -the. "Opera dei hi ('"ngrossi Cattolici'' he gives strong -evidence of I dns disposition. He urges them to promote and if direct, not only instiutions of a puwly.eeonouiic I uid, but also those of a kindred character, proles- if :':- sional,. workingmetrs. masters.' associations, dif-lusmg dif-lusmg a spirit of harmony amongst them; societies Jor. providing legf.l advice, societies for the care of emigrants, and like combinations. But. whilst Ins Holiness thus speaks to safeguard the interest inter-est of the toilers, he is distinctly unfavorable to societies, connection which may have, prejudicial effects on Ihe faith of Catholics. He directs the Second Group of the "Opera- dci Congressf to, keep its members away not only from those. societies so-cieties which are direct causes of intellectual and moral errors, but al-o from the so-called neutral associations which have been .established ostensibly for the protection of the worker, but in reality aim at something quite different from the moral and economic welfare of individuals and families. Nor should the clergy take part in the working of societies socie-ties which, though apparently good, decline surveillance. surveil-lance. And the energies of lovers of novelty and eager youth who wish to reform everything but sometimes act. unwisely are lobe restrained. Ala infos in-fos tly what the Pope desires, is-progress on distinctly dis-tinctly safe lines. London Catholic Times. - BIG DAY FOR CATHOLIC FORESTERS. .Sunday of last week was abig day for the Catholic Order of Foresters of Iowa at'Oelwcin, when besides the initiation of 500 candidates into the order, Alass was celebrated under a tent in the presence of at least 3,000 people. Excursions were run on the Great Western road from all points on the road between Oelwein and Chicago, St. Joseph, AIo., Des Moines and New Hampton and not less than 5,000 visitors were the guests of the prosperous little, city of Fayette county. The services in the tent began at 9 o'clock and the initiatory ceremonies at 10 o'clock. Dubuque Du-buque county furnished about 300 candidates, the balance coming from other courts of the state. The work was exemplified by two teams from Chicago Chi-cago and beside State Chief Ranger J: J. Ott, there were present High Chief Banger Thos. II. Cannon, High Secretary Thos. F. McDonald, and John F. Seanlan, the father of the order, all of Chicago. GROWTH OF ENGLISH MONASTERIES. A French contemporary gives what it terms very edifying statistics as to the growth of monasteries monas-teries and convents in England. According to its table, in 1S36 there were in that country no monasteries mon-asteries and sixteen convents; in 1812, three of the former and twenty of the latter; in 1S50, eleven, and forty-one; in 1SG0, thirty-seven, and one hundred hun-dred and twenty-three; in 1S70, sixty-seven, and two hundred and. thirty-two; in 1900, two hundred and sixty-six; and finally in 1902, three hundred and five religious houses of men and six hundred and eighty-five of women. The notable increase during the past few years is largely due, of. course, to the iniquitous legislation of France. Bess than a quarter of a century hence,, in all probability, the r.epublic in which M. Combes is now playing his anti-christian antics will be proffering bonuses to her expatriated religious in the hops of recalling them to their true homes. Long before that the Associations Bill and similar enactments, were blunders as well as crimes. Ave Maria. BISHOP POTTER FEARS 'iRIAL FOR HERESY. Bishop Potter (P. E.) recently' expressed the hope that he might not be "tried for heresy" for saying that "the. religious reaction following the Keformation tended to place the Bible in an artificial ar-tificial ixhsitiom.- This reform put. in place of infallible in-fallible man an i nf alible ' "book whose authority was final." If Dr. Potter' is tried for heresy oil this account it will be for expressing a favorite thought, of 'Catholic apologists. The Bible.' is an infallible book, indeed, but only when read and expounded by the infallible guide whom Protestantism Protest-antism rejected. Just now the English Bible Society So-ciety is celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its foundation; and it glories in the 'fact that it has distributed within the century sonic hundreds of millions of . copies of the Good Book. But: they have evidently not got. around -to. all .parts of Alassachusetts yet; for Bishcrp .Potter confesses that while staying with a churchly family lately his request for a Bible resulted in. the discovery that there was no copy in the house. And even if there; were, what use is to be "made of it. now that it is discredited, revised, and amended by every little theologaster fresh from the Divinity School? In the important business of saving his soul, a man hankers after some sort of infallible assistance; and now that the Book n?eno longer available, we may expect serious people more and more to turn to the Church. Ave Alaria. MORE COMMON READING OF THE GOSPEL. One of the oldtimc falsehoods so.vchemen'tly and persistently urged against the Church by the typi-. typi-. cal Protestant of other days and the less enlightened enligh-tened of our separated brethren even yet is likely to be relegated to a position of "innocuous desuetude" desue-tude" during the reign of Pius X. It is high time that so ancient a calumny should be. laid to rest. His Holiness lately granted an audience to representatives repre-sentatives of the Society of St. Jerome, an association associ-ation whose object is to promote the more common reading of the Gospel among the people. -In the course of the visit he said: "Afost. willingly, do I bless your "association; I bless it with both hands and with1 all my heart, knowing the preat ood it has accomplished and the benedictions wiiich God has showered upon it. The more the Gospel is read. the. more is faith revived. The Gospel is the book which ' Serves everyone and for everything. Tlie world today is eager for history: well, the Gospel is an historical work. I, who have lived among the people, know well their special needs and their tastes. When t he story of the 'Gospel is narrated to them, everyone every-one listens attentively and loses nothing. . . . The Gospel is a printed sermon by which all may profit. It is commonly asserted that peasants, being dowered dow-ered with very little intelligence, can derive no benefit from reading the evangelical history. That is an error. Peasants have a more ' l.V-ely 'intelligence 'intelli-gence than they are credited with possessing. They love to read the stories of the Gospel; and they know how to apply them, to apply them, often enough, better than this or that preacher. It is not only peasants and the lower classes, however, ; that derive pleasure and profit from the Gospels. There are many books of devotion and meditation medita-tion for the clergv, but not one of. them is worth the Gospel, which, is .prc-eminently.'the .book for, meditations, for spiritual reading, and for retreats." re-treats." Ave Maria.. .' ' WAS NEWMAN OF JEWISH DESCENTP Alost of our readers,' says the Beview of St. Louis, are probably aware 'that the late Cardinal Newman was on both sides of his family of foreign extraction. ; His father's was Dutch, t lie name being be-ing originally Nieumann; while his mothers was ' French, she being a scion of the Fburdriniers, an . old Huguenot house. Air. Percy Fitzgerald, who knew him well, says (Fifty Years of Catholic Life and Progress, 1900, vol. ii. p. 252) that "Newman's features even were, scarcely English, and in old age assumed the cast of an antique Dutchman." Now we read in the life just issued by Rev. Drv Barry ('Newman.' by William Barry.' New; York: Scribner's Sons. 1904. Pages 7-8) ; . "He (John Henry's) father was chief clerk and afterwards partner in the craft, an admirer of Franklin, and an enthusiastic reader of Shakespeare. Shakes-peare. These particulars, except at last, will prepare pre-pare us for the fact that in an earlier generation the family had spelt its signature .ewman': that it was understood to be of Dutch origin; and that its real descent was Hebrew. The talent for music, calculation and business, the untiring cnery. legal acumen, and dislike of speculative, metaphysics, which were conspicuous in John Henry, bear out this interesting genealogy. A large part of his cliaracter and writings will become intelligible if we keep this in mind. That' his features had a strong Jewish cast, is evfdont from his portraits, and was specially to be noted in old age. It may be conjectured that tlie migration of these Dutch Jews to England fell within a period not very distant dis-tant from the death of Spinoa in 1G75. But there is not the. slightest trace in Newman of acquaintance acquaint-ance with modem Hebrew literature or history; so far as we can tell he had never opened the 'Ethics,' and the only Alcndelssohn he knew by name was probably the author of TJijah.'" |