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Show Religious Intelligence. ; ' j Arrangements for the annual convention of the Wisconsin German Catholic societies, which will be held in Manitowoc May 23 to 26, are being completed com-pleted by the executive committee.- As all German Catholic societies of the state arc affiliated, an unusually un-usually large crowd is expected. ' ''" - . The Catholic Knights of Wisconsin will hold their state convention at Madisoji June 1. There are over 200 branches or. local divisions in the state. At the cathedral, Tuam, recently his grace the archbishop presiding, the solemn vespers of the church were, in all their sublimity, and with every rubrical detail, chanted by a choir composed entirely en-tirely of male voices the parochial and .college' clergy alternating with about, sixty-five of the students stu-dents of St. Jarlath's college. . . In Trichinopoly, India, the Jesuits have a college col-lege with 2,000 native students. The British government gov-ernment gives the Jesuits who teach 30 rupees (about $10) per head per month, and contribute half the cost of any buildings for educational purposes. pur-poses. There are 400 boarders in the college. They are all Catholics, and, belonging mostly to poor families, can pay nothing. " ' : The French government is leaving nothing undone un-done to lead people from the practice of religious usages. On Good Friday the captain of certain regiment, so the Universe reports,,-suipmoued his men and asked those who desired to oat''mat to give their names to the sergeant major. ' Unanimously Unani-mously the men declined the temptation, nor did a second invitation succeed, better than the first. 4 The Prussian parliament will have to deal with a group of questions connected with religious instruction in-struction in Catholic schools. On those questions the Center, or Catholic, party are solid, their wish being to establish the priest as the imparter of religious re-ligious instruction, and as the inspector in exclusively ex-clusively Catholic districts. Against the introduction introduc-tion of thes measures the entire Protestant clement in the landtag is arrayed as one man. The rumor that the French government had seized upon the sanctuary of Lourdes has received an official contradiction from the Journal de la Grottee de Lourdes. This journal, states that, whilst the fathers who formerly served the grotto have had to go. the -clergy of the diocese, under the immediate direction of the bishop.' of Tnrbes, hav; taken over the charge Moreover; thorp is ii reason lo believe that pilgrimages ha up- . ; ' pressed this year, or that, the liberty of the pilgrims pil-grims will bo interfered with. - .--'-.-.- ' Mrs. Thomas S. K.vau of Xew York. A lady of moans who was instrumental in building over thirty-five churches and lately paid the entire expense of the cathedral of Kichmond, Ya.. costing upwards up-wards of $500,000, has been decorated by the Holy Father. The Vatican authorities deny having received objections from American archbishops regarding the impossibility of enforcing the papal decree providing pro-viding for the restoration of the Gregorian chant and the banishment of women from church choirs. It is pointed out in this connection that, the decree did not call for the exclusive use of the Gregorian chant, nor did it forbid congregational singing, including, in-cluding, naturally, female. voices. Fully 2,000 boys and young men, members of the Cadets of the' League of the Cross and Leaguers, Leag-uers, renewed their temperance pledge on Sunday afternoon at St. MarvV cathedral, San Francisco. 4 .j The triennial changes which take place in vn- j nection with the Kedemptorit community have i recently been signed at the principal house of the order in Rome. In the Irish province the Very Kcv. Father Boylan has been appointed provincial of Ireland; the Very Kcv. Father O'Laverty, rector rec-tor at Limerick; the Very Rev. Father McXamara, rector at 'Dundalk; the Very Kcv. Father Murray, rector at Belfast, and the Very Kev. Father Hayes, rector of the Esker House of the Kedcmptorists at Galway. As a mark of her esteem fr the edifying example ex-ample set, by the Catholic girls employed in a hotel at Lakewood, X. Y.. Miss Cornelia Xash. a prominent prom-inent member of the Baptist church in .Brooklyn, has given $100 to Father Ilealy of Lakewood for the benefit of the Church of St. Mary of the Lake. 4. . The Irish hierarchy has lost two of its most noteworthy members by death within a few weeks. Following upon the death of the Most Kev. Dr. Mc-Kedmond, Mc-Kedmond, bishop of Killaloe, conies the news that Dr. Coffey, bishop of Kerry, died at his palace, Kil-larney. Kil-larney. Dr. Coffey, who was about 65 years of age, had been bishop of Kerry since 1889. It is stated that, complying with the request of the prefect of the Vatican library, the schismat- i i. -j.. - i- -.....-..: I . 1 , ...l 1 leai pacrjarcnaie oi v,onsiaiuiuopie oas uainne the forwarding to Komc of a complete collection of all the numbers of the patriarchal organ and a selection from all official publications', for which the Vatican library will forward to tl patriarch various works of its own; and this is said to be the first correspondence in a very long time between Koine and the schismatical patriarchate. Among the oldest living members of the hierarchy hier-archy may be enumerated: Vicar Apostolic Ynhl of Saxony, born 1S11 ; Archbishop Posilovic of Za-gramb. Za-gramb. 1814; Auxiliary Bishop Gleich of Breslau. 1815; Bishop Strossmayer of Bosnia. 1815; Bishop. Alschner of Brixen, lf16; Bishop Shedder, auxiliary, auxili-ary, of Vienna, 1816; Archbishop Sivilla of Gerona, 1817; Archbishop Elder of Cincinnati, 1819; Cardinal Car-dinal Archbishop Richard of Paris, 1819; Archbishop Arch-bishop Williams of Boston, 1822; Bishop MeClos-key MeClos-key of Louisville, 1823, and Bishop McQuaid of Rochester, 1823. . . . - |