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Show q . ' .' J" "j .-v, . ''This is the . I h r Church Universal S31 ; II , . . ' faith." J; l CHURCH CALENDAR. I Jity Drvoiion Blessed Virgiji. - Sundav. ''22 Whit Sunday. S. Ubald, 13. S. ! juiiii. vm. ? Monday. Whit Monday. S. John Lapiist I Tuesday, 24 Whit Tuesday. S. Yinoont of Lc- : ? ,;-. Drv. j' I VWlm-sday, L'.j S. Aldhelui, JJ. S. Uurban, I pM. Kinbrr. Fast. I i Thursday, i'G S. Quadratus, B. S. Oduwald, M. j ' Friday. 27. S. John, m. S. Julius, JI. Eni- Sai in-day. i'S S. Gregory VII. P. J Margaret ld ' : . M. Ember. Fast. j i con"vert-priej:t returns. I A convert at the age of W. Dr. Do Costa, once r-'-'o!- "'' ihe Protectant Episcopal ehureli of St. .John. N'v York City, was last November in Italy, ..rdaui'-d a priest at 11. Shortly after his ordina-Icars ordina-Icars were expressed that lhe failing health ,,t 1 1 .li-n'nguished eonvert might not permit his wxh-c lhe return trip to his native land. Last k. however, I Jr. )e Costa walked down the ( ;;;iiplank of an oeean liner in New York, 'appa- vu'ly improveil by the sea voyage. His brethren in faith rejoieo to hear the goood news and j l'cj.c :hat he may be spared to exereise lhe priest- 2 J, I for many years to come. Dr.De Costa made : ; j.ivparatioiis to outer the priesthood after tin? j of Jiis wife four years ago. His voice and l" ii have not been at rest since his reception into ; i!ic clnireli. He has two works about ready for j aMicatioii. one is on St. Patrick, another on the j f the doctrine of the incarnation in the Frol- i ,.-i:!in l-.iiscoial church. The venerable, eonvert x b-li'-M's ib;it the Episcopalians are representing v.H-iM-elves in a wrong light to the orthodox church I 1,. die end of bringing about reunion. Speaking ! ,1' lii- reception of sacred orders :it lii-s mK-uiifml lr. l)e Costa is reported to have said: "J was nu- oldest candidate ever admitted to the priest- InHl. Kalph H(yt became a priest when he was ;.". Now his son. a prosperous lawyer, whose wife iirl recently, is studying for 5 ho priesthood."' PROGRESS OF CHURCH IN CHINA. j Who will say llie church is not at work in ; China '. A report of the mission of Kiang-Xan, for j :: o ar. has just appe-u-ed. end this shows that the ': province j's eecdesiastieally divided into 305 dis- j 7 net-. These are cared for by one vicar apostolic,- j 17; de-uits, twenty-eight secular clergy and seven- iy-cven seminarists. n addition to these there j re twenty-four diarists at work, and these have iv.iity-four religious catechists. Thirty-two Car- : meliio nuns are in the same field, twenty of whom. i'vi- natives; ninety-two Helpers of the Holy Souls (nuns), thirty of whom are natives; 358 Presenta- ti-.n nuns, all of whom are natives. Twenty-three ; -f the Je-uit Fathers are natives, as are four of j the Seminarists at work. The province contains- 1-1.1.(1 ( atbohe Christians and N..b03 Catoehu- ; lacii-. From July to July there wore i'G.i'li; bap-" ) tMiis. all told, and d.7o2 continnations. During 7 "ii" time there were 7.0'T Christian loys in the I s';lioo,.ls. and agan boys; 0.420 Christian irl- and 14 j-agau girls. These were taught by ( i-'T male teachers ainl (!!: female teachers. The i yr.vinoo contains .i( i.( m m .( Hi Gf inhabitants. What 1 a center of Catholicity it will be in the years to -ie ji. Vatcluuan. . ' . ORDER OF INDIAN NUNS. 1 1 tu inu tin? war between Spain and America I f"i- lii'iian nuns went to Florida to nure the sick j 'i'li'T- in the Third division hospital. The order ; viis f.iiiii.lcl about len years ago by a full-blooded j : jiniian. Mother Catherine Sacred White Buffalo, .-'i:! ir '.ui given the iiame of the "Congregation ; AiiKTicun Sisters." ITer successor. Mother j on'-lgf't. is not a full-blooded Indian, as she is the I "'iii-lii' r of Chief Cloud Eagle's daughter, who was ; laarricl 1 Jcdin Pleats, an Irishman. Captured. ; vjdi f"iu- soldiers, he saved his life by his bravery, vdiich t), Indians o much admired that they gave i j liiii! f..r lii wife the daughter of Chief Cloud Eagle. ! I lie daughter of the union was sent to one of the ( i hciiiiii M-hools on the reservation, and from there j j 1 "' convent at Fort Pierre, where she received f -ii!.! Itefore entering, the order. Ale!),.-.- Anthony, the a.istant general, is the I ; L-an.l.hi i,rl,i,.,. t fu:t c,..4i t.,,-i u:,.t 't i. ! ; ',Txl)" ,!"d'e of the Sioux Indians. Sister Joseph ' I !s iiinious among her tribe as being the daughter ! ' v Ih :m-s. i !io lister of se-ond Cliief Two I and the yum of the third Chief Two Bears. NEW UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA. ' ''" hiving of the corner stone of the new Uni-yr-;:v of Oitawa on Yietoria dav, May 24, prom-Nl prom-Nl - to ! ;,n event of supreme importance in the l .' I l;..us and educational annals of the dominion. j'1 v- I'r. Emery. O.M.I.. president of the institu- I T , n. issue invitations to the re:Lttes of both ' ' States end Canada, to -t he-leading edu- j 1 ''"i'-1 list- and to the executive heads "and states- !: ' !; "' hotli )ailies. ' Eord Mintol governor gen- 1 M-r. Sbarotti, jiapal delegate:. Sir Wilfrid ':-Ur''!'' M i. H. Borden, leader of the opposi- j Aiclil,i-)c)p Duhamel,- the archbishops ami -sli.1.- ,, ,. ,tl1(.r Canadian dioees"S, and the '"-- of il. rjijfereut religious orders will be in-; in-; '''-. logether with llic lieutenant governors and iiiiiiisiers of the provinces, and the heads " -'--'-r universities and seats of learning. . J 'iy "ii'' of the most interesting personages . ;v.,.:,. i' Jot tjie moS imerestiinr, will be Cardi-I Cardi-I . - la! UiLl...ns. i . CATHOEICS IN JAPAN. ,. ! !i' hist issue of the official Missiones Catho-I Catho-I ('.")) gios iho number of Catholics in Ja-j Ja-j '''.''I :" oo, 4. in r5." Christian mission centers, s yji 'it churches. The more recent and very care-j care-j ' isties of Father Krose, S. J.. and the Bcnc- o , nnssiiniary, Father Maternu.s put the mim-! mim-! ' '' r: atholics now at .10.321, with S.OU0 catechu- j '. 1 here are "."." mission stations, one arcli- ii-. t :,nd throe bishops. 117 European riests and j 'i-iny-iour native, 205 catechists, three seminaries, j 1 ))'L -ixty-four students; ihirty-seven schools, with Ji "-' pupils: nineteen orphanages, with 1,404 in- : Ji'atcs; fourteeen industrial and leclinical schools, - 41t students: seven .hospitals and asylums, A : crvriiicpn inedical dispensaries for the poor. It '" rr' are four religious orders of men and six of t ... THE POPE AND FRANCE. p.,'''""nn)1 1o 1ue Paris -rix-spondeut of ih'J , '.u''' ")r appepnrs evident thdt.lhc present Poie i niiks it hjirdly possible to go any farther in the fj ;!'V eonce.s.sions to France, and has made up his j J1,"." w;i'h respect to religious questions." And j ;piuion is strengthened by the account which I f iiiholic deputv gives of an interview'he recently I 'iih iho Holy Father. The Poiw told him thrit J , " H' liineu of all political shad-, sliould unite in I i"iic(. ,,f jlK.rty? rspeeially of religious lib- i I 'rn-y- is Pius X afraid of ihe'threatened epa- I B mn 0f (.Jui,. an, statr; it canst-; him.no pppu-I pppu-I '"imoii. Indeed, he believes it will fTflis-tho chin- Clcr f the clergy and coniinn the devotion of the 0 faithful,- and, by banding Catholics ..-ether against the common enemy, ultimately ensure their triumph. But he urges them to act. ' And this appears ap-pears just the one thing which French Catholic--dread and shirk. They talk, protest, lament, but act. not. Now that the Holy Father lias spoken, ihev may take heart of grace, and perhaps who knows? M. Combes, seeing that the Pope is resigned to a separation of church and state, may hesitaio to give the church a liberty of which hitherto her union with, or rather subjection to. the state has deprived her. If freedom will benetit her. he will cc-itainly not grant it. London Catholic Times. NEW YORK SJJ. ON CHURCH MUSIC. I here is o much sense and propriety in Pope Pius X's de.-ire to reform church music that it is diUk-ult to -ce why Catholic com'muniries -houid oppose the changes he .suggests or be relucluut to accept theni. While it may take some time to introduce in-troduce the Gregorian forms he favors, surely, vith-' lhe great mass of noble church music at command, it must be a simple matter to make up at once programmes pro-grammes from which ''operatic" and other profane music shall be excluded. The services will be none the less attractive for the omission. Some parts of the reforms announced affect in a way the social life of the community and may have to be introduced gradually. The regular employment em-ployment of female voices in Catholic church choirs is, we imagine, peculiar to this country. Th exclusion of women may work hardship for a while and create embarrassment till the men and boys who are to take their places are found and trained. But the Pope acknowledges that his reforms will need time to be completed, and with the adaptability adaptabil-ity of the church to surrounding circumstances, there is no reason to doubt that American Catholics Catho-lics will be able to carry out in substance the holy see's musical directions. THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Canon Henson, a leading churchman of the Anglican An-glican establishment, recently suggested that in addition ad-dition to verses from the epistles and gospels, there should also be read in the churches passages from t lie lives of the saints. He said that this was the practice in the mediaeval church. The suggestion is one of considerable value. So much that comes from the pulpit passes over the heads of the people. It is theological, didactic or mystical, for which things our age has not a very ital understanding. But the congregation always listens to what is in the narrative vein. However money -mad or materialistic our age is, there is ever a deep interest in the emotional and spiritual episodes epi-sodes found in the lives of the great men of the church as well as in the careers of the great men of the state. And the lives of the saints touch upon every moral need of the age. Under the. influence of the Bollandists.'most of the fabulous and apochryphal features of hagiedo-gy hagiedo-gy have been eliminated, so' that the modern world . may listen to the lives of the saints without any disposition to doubt. Catholic Citizen, Milwaukee. EASTER COMMUNION. Among the precepts or laws of the church which bind under the pain of sin, we read this blie: ' ''To receive holy eucharlst at Easter or within the time appointed.' Christ, speaking to his apostles, who, then represented rep-resented the church, said: "Whatsoever you thall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven." For good and' valid reasons the church has commanded us to observe the above law, under pain of mortal sin, therefore we are so bound before heaven. The appointed time, beginning on Ash Wednesday Wednes-day terminates this year on Saturday. May 28, the day preceding Trinity Sunday. We are well aware that a few so-called Catholics, even among our parishioners, hold this law in scorn, but they forget or miscalculate the subject with which ihey are dealing. This is not a law' promulgated forr any temporal reason, or by any temporal government, govern-ment, but by the church of Jesus Christ ; "unless ho hears the church let him be to thee as the heathen and publican." CARDINAL SATOLLI S VISIT. Mgr. Falconi, the papal representative at Washington, Wash-ington, made the following statement regarding the proposed visit of Cardinal Satolli to America. "We are authoritatively informed that there is ha T.ot1i ilintm-nr in 1 lie current, renort, reirardimr the object of Cardinal Satolli's proposed visit to America, namely, to settle disputes which have arisen in ecclesiastical circles: on account of the alleged al-leged American spirit of liberty and the absolutism of Pome. "There is no friction whatever' between the apostolic delegate and the American hierarchy. The American bishops are united and in perfect, accord with the views of the Holy Father, and Borne is not apprehensive that they will ever be otherwise." DENVER BRIDE OF THE CHURCH St. Louis. Mo.. May 11 Four "Brides of the Church,", including ..Miss Lena Bominger of Deiir ver, were received as sisters' at the House of' the Good Shepherd by a beautiful ceremony presided over by Archbishop P. J. Ryan of Philadelphia.' A 10 o'clock the procession of clergy entered lhe sanctuary. Scarlet-vested acolytes and a number num-ber of priests preceded the archbishop. A second i procession was composed of the Sisters of the Good j Shepherd. Lat came the central figures of the d'iv the four postulants, wearing beautiful bridal' dresses of costly fabric and latest fa -hum, adorned with flowing tulle veils and. orange blossoms. Miss Bominger became Sister Mary of the Seven-Dolores. ' A PROTESTANT READER. A Protestant reader ofNthe London Catholic Times writes to ibat journal as follows: -"I find great help to truth in reading C alholic papers because (1) 1 get the Catholic position firsthand' first-hand' ('"') the news and statements are reliable regarding re-garding Catholicism, and (:J) not garbled. or 'faked up' to humbug the reader; (4) it smooths difficulties difficul-ties and removes prejudice; (5) 1 can read the other side of the questions that concern us; (G) 1 am helping a good cause by (7) helping to sprcadiight end increase knowledge." t- ARCHBISHOP CONFIRMS COLORI D CONVERTS Archbishop Farley administered confirmation last week in the colored church of St. Benedict the Moor, Xew York, to the largest number of convert con-vert ever confirmed at one service in that city. Of the ninety candidates, sixty-one were converts. One of "the largest gatherings that ever filled a parish church in that city witnessed the ceremony. Xearly 3,000 were unable to gain admission. CATHOLIC BOSTON. The Puritan fathers would have been horrified if they had been told that the day 'was to come when an attempt to ascertain the religious preferences prefer-ences of the people of Boston would show that out of 241,"1 questioned being nearly half the total population 109. 40O would say they were Koman Catholics: and only 20.olt) that they were Congre-gal Congre-gal ionalists, says the Chicago Tribune. ;A canvass, has bce'eii made by the Massachusetts Sunday School association, and that is -what it shows of those who were asked as to their preferences, 4...-, per cent are Koman Catholics. .Next come the Lap-tists Lap-tists with 8.74 per cent.' There were 8,996 persons who had ''no preference." They would not have dared' to give such an answer i'n Boston three con- j turies ago. , - ' , The Koman Catholics of Boston are better church-goers than the Protestants. Their percentage percent-age of regular church attendance is To.01, and of occcasional attendance is 4.71. The Presbyterians make the next best showing villi a percentage of 47.:32 for regular and 2:J.59 for occasional attendance. attend-ance. Another phase of the conditions in the churches has beeen brought out. It relates to the proportion propor-tion of males to females in the. religious denoinin-nations, denoinin-nations, Here, too, the Koman Catholic church is in marked contrast with others. Its attendance shows -19,767 males to 58,613 females. In almost every other denomination, save in the Jewish church, the women outnumber the men in the proportion pro-portion of almost two to one. - Those who said they have no preference for any denomination number 3,30$ women to 5,167 men.' A SCIENTIST PROFESSES HIS FAITH. Those who have attained eminence, as scientists have sometimes been most rei'dy to acknowledge their limitations. Only the pedant presumes to have mastered the whole field of human knowledge. We have heard so much from the noisy agnostic that we arc liable to forget that some of the greatest great-est scientists have beeen devout Christians. One of these, a distinguished professor of the official University Uni-versity of aris, undeterred by the infidel campaign cam-paign raging around him, makes his profession of faith in this fashion: ''I am a practical Catholic, and here is the simple .process of reasoning by which I became one. There is a God. everything tells me so; science itself demonstrates the fact. If there is a God, man has duties toward him, and therefore there is a religion. Engrossed with my special duties. I cannot become an expert, theo- logian. But I have looked at all known religions. The Catholic religion is incontestable' the most elevated and the purest; she dominates history. That suffices for rne; I fall on my knees, before her and avow myself her son, thoroughly submissive submis-sive in all those higher questions about which human hu-man science cannot tell me the first word." Transcript, Trans-cript, Hartford, Conn. INDULGENCE DOES NOT PASS AWAY. ' Suppose some one used my beads without my consent or without my knowledge, would the indulgence indul-gence in that case pass away, and would it be necessary ne-cessary for mc to hav?.- the beads indulgenced again ( In that case the indulgence docs not pass away, nor is it necessary to have the beads indulgenced again.. The reason why beads and other blessed or indulgenced objects cannot bo transferred from the owner, for whom they were indulgenced, to another person, in order that the second person might gain the indulgence, is the implied usurpation of a right which belongs exclusively to the church to transfer trans-fer indulgences themselves. There was certainly no such intention possible in the ease above stated. stat-ed. On the: same principle the beadst would not lose their indulgence if I would lend liiy-rosary to another, not to gain the indulgence, but simply to count the Hail Marys in reciting the. rosary. Catholic Union and Times. ' GREGORIAN MUSIC BY PHONOGRAPH. At the request of the Pope, it is said,' the singi ing of the Gregorian mass in St. -Peter's on the occasion oc-casion of the centenary of St.' Gregory, which was executed by a choir of 1,500. has been perpetuated for the use and instruction of the churches outside of Kme. Arrangements were made with a phonograph phono-graph company to take the records of the most important im-portant parts of the exccution,':aud a special meeting meet-ing of all the singers was held in the church the' day following the celebration. ' The" ma king of .the records was perfectly successful and soon lovers of church music all over the world will be able to listen to the most perfect execution of Gregorian ' music. .. -. . ' - s A RELIGIOUS FAMILY. : Kcv. Louis 'Van Driss. who recently died in.' Courtrai. Belgium, was a brother 'of the late well known Kcv. Charles Driscoll, S. J.. The family name was"1 Van den Drisch, but the three brothers, who became priests and spent their lives in the ministry min-istry of religion in this country, each changed his patronimic somewhat ' out of, consideration for American tongues.' Father Lewis, as he was often called, lived at St. Joseph's. Cincinnati, : some ten years, but left there about two years ago to return to his old home in Belgium, and the closing years of his life were passed at St. Charles' Ketreat for Priests. '" '- k .- . . |