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Show Religious Tntelliaence. A bust in marble of Archbishop Bya'n is much admired in the Fine Arts building at the World's fair. J .. Mexican Catholic papers declare that the effort of the Bible societies of the United States are proving fruitless in that country. The Church in France comprises 17 archbishops, 67 bishops, 105 vicars general, 685 canons and 101,-000 101,-000 priests. ' ' Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltftnore was elected vice president of the. Harvard Law School . association at its recent meeting. v The ordination of seven students, was the first official function of Bishop Fox of Green Bay after his consecration. . ' Archbishop Maguire of Glasgow, Scotland, has issued a rule that no person who gambles shall be permitted membership in a Catholic society-It society-It has been admitted.'in reply to a' question in the house .of commons, tltat all the inspectors engaged en-gaged under the Irish' 'estates commissioners are Trotestants. ' ' ' '', A Madrid correspondent learns on the. highest authority that ihe king of Spain will pay his first state visit to King Edward in Xovember. The Holy See believes it can solve the problem presented by the seven ' episcopal vacancies in France by o ppoini ing' canons with'spirjtual privileges privi-leges without the official title of bishop. The Pope and Cardinal Merry Del Val. the papal secretary of state, have received a large number num-ber of congratulations on the rupture between France and the Vatican. These-messages include several from America. . . . , ... - f - Dom (lasquef , the well known" historian and scholar, wil come to this country next month. He is to lecture at the ecclesiastical seminary in St. Paul. Minn., the University of Xotre Dame and St. Mary's academy, Xotrc Dame, Irtd. The Paris Temps prints a dispatch from Home announcing that the court, at X'aples. which has been judging a contested will ease, has decided that the Pope is capable of inheriting in' Italy, which hitherto had been disputed., - '. ' Very Kev.' Father Felix Ward, C. P.. formerly rector of the Sacred Heart Monastery -on' the Xew-burg Xew-burg road, has been appointed superior and provincial pro-vincial of the Ppssionist .Fathers in the United States, succeeding the late Very Kev. Stephen Kealy as head of the order. ' A Fifteen young women took the' veil . novices at St. Agnes"' convent at Fond du Lac. Aug. 15, and sixteen novices became sisters. . The diocese of Belley, France, has two small seminaries, one at Belley. and the other at. Mexi-mieux. Mexi-mieux. On the ground .that' one is sufficient, . Combes has ' ordered . the seminarv at Belley to be closed! . 4 It is something of a coincidence that Cardinal Logne, archbishop of Armagh, the consecration of which cathedral has 'Just taken place, was born in the very year in which-thai cathedral was founded. His birth took place' at Kilmacronan on Oct. 1, 1810. The annual Catholic pilgrimage took place re cently to the silo of. St. Thomas a Beekct's martyrdom martyr-dom at Canterbury, England. There was a procession pro-cession through the streets of Canterbury to the cathedral. , Xegotiafions are going on with a view to Propaganda Pro-paganda being requested to send English-speaking priests out to the Congo Free State in the immediate imme-diate future. - Father Henry, rector of Mill Hill, has just returned from Belgium, whither he had been invited by Kiu:y Leopold to . confer on the matter with the authorities of the Congo government. govern-ment. " . - The body of Archbishop Guidi, the apostolic delegate to the Philippines, who died in Manila on June 2! from heart failure, will bo conveyed to Kome, where the interment will lake place in September. Sep-tember. ' Under the direction of. Father Wynne, S. J., and other Jesuits, the entire data for the process of the canonization of Father Jogues. the martyred missionary of the Mohawk valley, has been forwarded for-warded to Borne. ' " , . . . ' ' ,'"''' At. St. Louis recently the Jewish synagogue, B'Xai EI. became the property of the Croatian congregation. Father-Sinister, who is in charge of the new Croatian. congregation, will have the synagogue syna-gogue renovated at once, and the fomuii dedication of the building for Catholic worship will take. place in September. - -' ' "If all the descendants-of '-our Ca)MIic forefathers," fore-fathers," said Bishop McFaul recently, "had remained re-mained true 'to Their faith, there would he more ;'; . 'i than 40,000.000 Catholics in the Crated States,' to-, day, instead of 15.000,000. There is hardly a Protestant Pro-testant family in the country that has not had one of its ancestors a convert from the Catholic Church.'' Alsace and Lorraine are still French provinces ecclesiastically, as the bishops there are rub.jeet to the French hierarchy. The Holy Father has decided de-cided to end the anomaly Ao archiepiscopal see will be erected in Strasburg and a suffragan see at Calmar. Catholics of the "lost provinces" welcome the change. Madame Anne de Meeus. the venerated foundress found-ress of the Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration and of the Work for . Poor Churches, a charitable or- , ganization which is better known in this country j as the Tabernacle society, died recently at Y ater- ! mael. Boitsford, Helgium. . The holy Father has sent a special blessing through Cardinal Merry del Val to Mrs. Lindsay Blake (formerly Mrs. Dudley Baxter), ami Mrs. Stafford J. Baxter upon the recent occasion of their confirmation by Most Kev. Archbishop Connie, at Kelvedon, Essex. England. Both ladies arp recent re-cent converts to tlv Catholic faith. The. members of this Baxter family arc descendants (of .Richard Baxter, the famous English writer of Queen Elizabeth's Eliza-beth's time. The male members of the family, who are also converts, are among the foremost writers on the Catholic press of England at id America. 4 The St. Vincent de Paul society, of Xew York. is doing notably good work. The members now contemplate the erection of n building. Said President Muiry to a Sun reporter the other day: "We have jusf sent 2-W children off to our air home at Spring Valley, Ko.kland county, X'. Y. We have been sending 250 boys and girls up there every two weeks and will try to reach all the deserving poor. In the fall we are going to erect a building, which will cost at least $15,000. to be ready for use next spring, at the fresh air home. This building will be used for delicate mothers and shop girls who ' are convalescing from illness.' ' . At Xotrc Dame, Ind., Aug. 15. twenty-nine young souls, entered upon the religious life, and nine novices, having passed the five-year probation, made final vows as Sisters of t.he Holy Cross. The occasion marked ihe close of the annual retreat, and there was a sense of jubilance, a perfect happiness hap-piness not to be found in the most splendid pageants of the world. Very Kev. Dean Kit-hard Laloro Burtsell of Eondout, X'. Y.. is one of the .three American j ' priests now living who were present in Kome fifty years ago when the dogma of the Immaculate Conception Con-ception was promulgated. Dr. Burtsell expects to be in Kome on Dec. 8. when the golden jubilee of the promulgation of the doctrine will be celebrated. f Arrangements for a campaign to increase the membership of the Catholic Order of Foresters and a uniform initiation fee were discussed at a joint meeting of committees representing the several courts of Milwaukee county in the assembly hall of St. John's parish school. The officers were authorized author-ized to make the necessary arrangements for a mass meeting of all the courts of the county on Sunday. Xov. 6. at which time it is expected between 500 and 000 candidates will be ready for initiation. f The Feast of the Assumption was solemnized at Holy Till, Wis., with a greater concourse of pilgrims pil-grims than in any preceding year. About 1.500 pilgrims received the sacraments. Seven priests attended to the spiritual wants of Saturday, Sunday Sun-day and Monday. Declaring that he can and will fight fires with the best of the local firemen. Kev. Edward A. HoT ran, assistant rector of the Sacred Heart church. Bayside, X'. Y.. has become a member of the volunteer volun-teer fire company. The m-.nbers of the company are rejoicing at this addition and a reception is being, planned in hi hoimr. Father Holran says he intends to turn out when the alarm rings and assi-t in dragging the hose wagon to the scene of the fire, and that he will then demonstrate his ability abil-ity as a fire fighter. - Kev. J. F. Prim, pastor of Mater Dolorosa church, Xew Orleans, and editor of the Morning Star, has received from William If., emperor of Germany, the Order of the Crown. This imperial decoration has been awarded to Father Prim as a recognition of his work done in behalf of the spiritual spir-itual welfare of the Catholic sailors on board tho German men-of-war visiting the port of Xew Orleans. Or-leans. Kev. Michael Healey. pastor of St. Mary's church of Tiffin, O.. was found unconscious last Sunday on the concrete walk between the. church and the parsonage of St. Columbia's church, Youngstowu. where he was visiting. I lis skull was fractured. Dr. ITealey, who is 81 year's -old. was a guest at the parsonage and fell from a second-story second-story window some time in the night. |