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Show RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. He Is Catholic. j fudge Fitzgerald, who is presiding at tiie sensational sensa-tional trial of Thaw, the American millionaire, was born in County Clare and educated at the Jesuit Jes-uit college, Limerick. Brazil Is Awake. In Brazil there are now 120 bishops, besides one cardinal and three archbishops. There is much Catholic life there: the Jesuits. Franciscan. Siile-sians Siile-sians and Fathers of the Divine Word are, doing much work. Free Night School. Kev. Jeremiah Harrington, pator of As.-enion church. .Minneapolis. Minn., contemplates opening ;i nieht school which will be operated free to Catholic Cath-olic young men. Common school' subjects, together togeth-er with shorthand and typewriting will be introduced intro-duced as a feature of the curriculum. Indian Catholics Speak. At a meeting held in Library hall. Fort Wayne. Ind.. under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus Colum-bus and Kev. S. M. Yenu. chancellor of the diocese, dio-cese, the Catholics of that city sent cordial greetings greet-ings to the Sovereign Pontiff, applauding the apostolic apos-tolic firmness in the French situation. Bishop Al-erding Al-erding presided. Tried New Dodge. A brand new method of advertising a plav and a player was tried last week in Boston. It was announced an-nounced that the performer was about to enter a convent in Montreal. In response to a telegram from the Boston Herald the Mother Superior at once answered that the girl was absolutely unknown un-known at the convent. To Restore Cathedral. Efforts are being made to restore the great en-ibedrai' en-ibedrai' atijs-la-ChaDcIIe irwtoeirThe remains of -Charlemagne are buried. The great cathedral, which was originally built by Charlemagne himself'. aCthe end of the eighth century, was restored by Ortho III., in 983 and several more times in the course of centuries. It has now been found that repairs are urgently needed in order to save what remains of the building. Big Churches. The following is a list of the great churches of the world. The estimate allows four persons to every square yard of spaee available: ' Milan Cathedral stands at the head, with capacity capa-city for 37.000. St. Paul's. 25.000. The capacity of San Petronio, Bologna, the Florence Cathedral and the Antwerp Cathedral is about 24.000 apiece. That of St. Sophia, Constantinople, is 23.000. St. John Laternan. Borne, about 22,!oo. Xotre Dame, Paris, 21.000.' These are the nine great churches of the world. The Pisa Cathedral comes tenth with a capacity of 13,000. Bishops Not Concerned. For more than a fortnight the secular press has been stating that Bishop Bonacum of Lincolu, Xeb., has been called to Borne to answer inquiries into his deposition of a priest in his diocese. Xow Rev. Dr. George Agius, secretary to Bishop Bonacum and chancellor of the diocese of Lincoln, denies that the visit of Bishop Bonacum to Rome has anything to do with the Murphy case at Seward. Xeb. He says that so far as Rome is concerned that case is forever settled and that Rev. William . Murphy's attempts to appeal from the Bishop's decision in this case have three times been rejected by 'church authorities at 'Rome. Dr. Agius writes: "I have time and again asserted that as far as Rome is concerned, the Murphy case is closed never nev-er to be reopened. The supreme authority in the church vested the Rt. Rev. Bishop with special and plenary powers to deal with the insurgent priest. The Bishop exercised those powers and the priest Avas condemned. This nriest attempted to appeal to Rome three times, and three times Rome rejected his appeal. As the priest did not submit, consequently conse-quently he became schismatic. The case then is finished as far as the church is concerned. It only remians to be seen whether the courts of Xebraska will protect the Catholic church in its property rights. Thus far they have failed to do so. and at Seward the strange- spectacle is presented of six schismatic families, headed by a schismatic and excommunicated priest, holding the church property prop-erty and forcing the congregation to worship in the public hall. "Bishop Bonacum has gone to Rome. Everybody Every-body knows that. Our old tricksters do too, and they, could not resist the temptation to resort to their old tricks. They say that the Murphy case is undergoing a new phase. Xo; Rome has spoken once; the priest must bow and comply with her decision. de-cision. That's all." . |