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Show Religious Tntellisencc. Bcv. W. IT. Ketcham, director of the Bureau of Indian Missions, has returned from his visit to Europe. . ' Xow, it is said that a French Centre party is .being organized in order to defeat further aggressions aggres-sions upon the Church in France. ' -t- There is every probability that M. Combes will at once suppress the Sulpicians and forbid them to teach in seminaries in France. . The Catholic Union of Ceylon is growing rapidly rap-idly and has already secured the approval of- all the bishops and archbishops of India A congregation of native Marianite nuns are founding houses of their order among the Copts of Fgypt and bringing many to the fold. ! 4 The Welsh Xonconformists are threatening dire destruction in case attempt is made, to put the Educational act in force in that countrv. ' For the first time in the history of St. David's, Cardiff, two young priests were ordained on Sunday, Sun-day, 28th lilt., by His Lordship the Bishop of Xew-port. Xew-port. . A new church, to cost $-10, WO, is soon to be erected at Joplin, Mo. Thomas O'Connor, a wealthy mine owner of that city, has donated one-half of the cost. 4 According to the Catholic press of Sydney, this year's elections in Australia are marked by a scan-, dalous war on Catholics. The Orange element is chiefly responsible.' . The Holy Synod, to, which Pius; X sent, his blessing, has elected in a session at Constantinople ' Mgr. Paolo Sabaghian, Bishop of Egypt, as Patriarch Patri-arch of the Armenian Catholics. At the opening of the parliamentary session last week the Peruvian government brought in a bill for the separation of Church and State and the confiscation of ecclesiastical property. According to thcTatest official statement, there are sixty-four parish schools in the Xew 'York 'archdiocese, 'arch-diocese, the' number of children enrolled being 43,-574. 43,-574. - . : - . . '.. ; f- - , , , In order to avoid any further unpleasantness with t lie French government,-it is likely that Mgr. "la Xordez, Bishop of Dijon, will not return to Frauce. An important canonry will be given him. at Borne. . ; . The Paulist Fathers in Xew York have placed .their parish school in the care of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, whose mother house is-Xotre Paine. Ind. The school has been heretofore in charge of la: teachers. ' , Bev. John F. Quirk, S. J., president of Loyola college, Baltimore, has been appointed -a "member of the international jury of awards in the Department Depart-ment of Education at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Ex-position by President David Francis. ' . - Edward Johnson of Watertown, Wis., has given 1he Catholic university the sum of $.",000 to found a theological scholarship for the archdiocese of Milwaukee. It is to be known, in memory ofhis deceased wife, 'as the: Mary Crowley. Johnson scholarship.. schol-arship.. .. ; .:. - ,-. .... One of the first Catholic churches to use the steel skeleton plan of construction will be the new St. .'Joseph's church at Danville,; 111., .-the cornerstone corner-stone of which was laid recent l.v" by Bishop Stariha. of Lead, S. D. The church will cost $100,0W, and will seat 1,000 persons. The Catholic Young Men's union has adopted-a. adopted-a. plan. to open Catholic, night schools in all large cities. The schools will be conducted under the auspices of the society, and bookkeeping, stenography ste-nography and kindred stuJics will be taught to young working people who wish to advance. Father Sebastian Wyart. abbot general of the Beformed Cistercians, has just died in Pome at the age of G.". lie. had been an officer in the Papal Zouaves, and fought at the battle of Castel Fidardo, where he was wounded. On his return to France, he made a campaign during the Franco-Prussian war, and was decorated for bravery at the. battle of Pat ay. " '''.". Spc-ial honors have come to the Kcv. Henry A. Barry. S. T. 1)., of Boston. In .recognition of his service to the Church through his numerous literary liter-ary contributions, especially his "(jod, the Holy Ghost,'' he has been honored willi the grand medal .of the Academy of St. Thomas Aipiinas, Pome. It is reported that a new diocese is to be created cre-ated in Wisconsin in the northwestern part of the state, with Superior as the seal of -the sec. Under the new division, which is likely to be made, there would be four provinces in the M ilwaukee. archdiocese arch-diocese Milwaukee and La Crosse in the southern part, and Green Bay and Superior in the northern part. 'According to official statistics, the Catholic population pop-ulation of India is 22 per cent of the Avhole European Euro-pean and Eurasian population of the United Provinces Prov-inces of India, as shown by the census of U01. Yet 40 per cent of their children were being educated in Catholic schools. Which surely in itself speaks most eloquently for the zeal and efficiency of tltf? missionary system of education. Mgr. Daglicro, for many years apostolic vicar of X'orthern Patagonia, South America, has just arrived in Pome for his visit "ad limina." He is accompanied !.y a young Patagonian savage, the son of Xamunacura, who formerly made so much trouble for the Argentine republic in Indian In-dian raids, and who was known as the Pampas. The young Xamunacura is lo enter the College of Propaganda to prepare for the priesthood, and he will afterwards return to his country to evengelize the Patagoniaus. Bishop Hanlon's cathedral, in East .Uganda, Africa, Af-rica, is a thatched building, the roof supported by palm posts ami the ceiling and walls made of reeds. But the first pope had no better. ' Archbishop Iiiordan of San Francisco, Cal.. has appointed Bcv. P. J. Ciuumijus;- pastor of St. Patrick's Pat-rick's church, to be" chancel for of the archdiocese to fill the vacancy created by the death of the late Be v. P. Scanlan. , . f The government authorities forcibly expelled the Barnabite community from their establishment at Paris last week: A large force of municipal guards and'iirenieh executed the'expulsion: The doors and windows were barricaded ahd'th'e firemen scaled the walls, entered the windows and expelled the monks and a' number xf their 'sympathizers, including the Marquis' do Fougoro. ' Archbishop Falconio, apoVtolic1 delegate to the Lnited .Stales, is - xibo'ut Lo.fpay another visit to Pittsburg. He accepted an invitation .to be the guest of honor at a. large reception and banquet to be given by Duquenso council. Knights of Columbus, Co-lumbus, of Pi tt slmrg. . The dale has Hot yet been decided upon, but it will be within a few 'week?.' Judge La uning of lhe United Shiles court, Trenton, Tren-ton, X". -J., has denied the. application, of Paul V. Flynn to enjoin the .supreme .. council, ., Catholic Benevolent, legion, from enforcing its. new rales. Pichard B. Tippet t. supreme president of the Legion, Le-gion, appeared, argued the case and presented affidavits' affi-davits' of the officers and '"actuary of the supreme council, showing. that the new rates -were necessary, had placed the legion on a sound' financial basis and insured its permanency, and were equitable to I all the members. Immediately on lhe conclusion of the argument Judge Lanning denied Flynn's opoli-cation. |
