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Show f V 4- frtTr 4- 4- 4- 4- 4 t THE (ATKOIIC WORUKi 1 4-44-44 4 4-4-4-4- ' $t-'- .; - , ; Prince Lichten5te.ijt.nas -taken' .the habit at the Beneujfciine-Convent of Emanus, Prague...'4"'.-;. V Mivart has appealed, to the Pope. Rome is the poorest health resort on earth to which to-bring a sick faith. Her atmosphere is deadly : to heretics. General Roberts must ' have some very high emprise on hand : for-he has called for one hundred IrishmenHo undertake un-dertake it with him. 'None, but. Irish need apply." v . " ' - Vj ; : :'- ; :,:!. - Admiral Dewey attended the Emerald ball in Brooklyn, last week' Toe ball was for the benefit of, the Catholic orphans or-phans in Brooklyn. The. admiral is becoming morfe and more susceptible to Jesuitical influences. . The Natal Mercury cays; A. Boer wa nearcihing the body of a Connaught Ranger when he -observed a crucifix on the breaot of the deceased. After gazing gaz-ing for a monhent on the sacred emblem he hastily replaced the loot, covered the face of oiie dead and disappeared among the neighboring kopjes. . Cannot President McKinley find a good lawyer, who happen. to be a Catholic, and appoint him as one member mem-ber of the hew Philippine commission? There are Catholic Church interests to be adjusted, and a Catholic oh the commission com-mission will be a guarantee- that the administration is not altogether doing the behests of the preachers. 2 . The memory of Father Ryan, the poet laureate of the South, is to be honored by a monument to 'be erected in Elmwood cemetery.,,orfolk, Va., his native city, where'lie the unknown Confederate Con-federate d-ead. This will be handsomely handsome-ly fenced with stone, bayonet spikes and cannon balls. The monument of the poet priest will occupy fihe exact center of this resting place of the unnamed un-named dead. It is rarely that a Jewish Priest is encountered. However one visited Lebanon, Le-banon, Ky., this week, and preached at St. Augustine's Church. His name is Father Havelberg, and his present charge is at Grayson Springs, Ky. His father is a Jewish rabbi, and Father Havelburg left his own people to unite with tihe Catholic mimetry at a great sacrifice. " The members of his flock are few and poor, and he is touring the state seeking contributions to build a Church. A mission for fhe colored people of New York City and vicinity -will be opened in St. Benedict's Church for colored col-ored people. West Fifty-third street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, Sunday, March IS. The mission will continue for two weeks, the customary plan of one week for women and another an-other for men will not be adopted here. Every evening service during those two weeks will be for ' men, women and children colored people only. Father Finnegan, the well known Capuchin missionary, will be the leader of the misaion. s The bigoted school board of McDonald, McDon-ald, Pa., which expelled from the public pub-lic schools of that place certain Catholic Cath-olic children who refused to participate partici-pate in Protestant religious services inaugurating the daily sessions of their schools, has been compelled to take back water by the Catholic citizens. This is as it'should be. If the law of the land declares for non-sectarian public schools, it forbids the holding in the schools of any religious services ser-vices whatever, and Protestantism ' must conform to the law aq well as Catholicism. j At the celebration of the golden jubilee ju-bilee of St. Bridget's church in New York, a silver chalice made in Ireland j in 1640, was used. It was handed down from priest to priest in the family of Rev. Dr. P. F. JlcSweeney, rector of the church. " The chalice was originally the property prop-erty of the Rev. Daniel Swynye, of the diocese of Lismore, Ireland, who said , mass with it at a time when bishops' and priests had a p-lee set on their heads. It is belk-vi that the . priest himself died a violent de:th ; at the hand,.5 of-Cromwell's soldiers';' and interesting in-teresting fact is that it was made more than a century before the first mass was celebrated in New York City. "The telegraph announced recently the death in England of Professor David Da-vid Edward Huarhos, inventor of the printing telegraph and the microphone," micro-phone," says the Michigan Catholic, "but the dispatch was silent about one vary important fact: Professor Hughes was a Catholic priest. Born in London Lon-don in lkCl, he early emigrated with his parents to the United States. In ls:,u he was teacher of music at St. Joseph' j college, Bardstown, Ky. Later on h became professor of natural philosophy in the same college. His first great invention was that of the Hughes printing telegraph, which, in 1S57. h vainly tried to introduce in England." 9 Mr. F. P. Dunne the faithful reporter report-er of the conversations of Mr. Dooley with his friend Hennessy, is a relative of Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, and a nephew of Very Rev. Dr. Dunne, former vicar general of Chicago. Chica-go. Mr. Dunne must be a near relative of Mr. Dooley also, as he has the exclusive ex-clusive right granted by the philosopher philoso-pher himself to report his observations observa-tions on men and things, in which an intelligent and discriminating public is so greatly interested. Said public owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Dunne for not permitting Mr. Dooley's wisdom to "blush unseen and waste its fragrance fra-grance on the desert air." |