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Show j j P J J I . Sf Jf "This is'the j j I h p wurtfeZlnivmal S j I I 1 I - - faith."';: j II j . CHURCH CALENDAR. - - I I May Df-votion Blessed Virgin. 1 Sunday, 1., Within Oet, Ascension. S. John j Tinptist li 1,c- Our Lady of Grace. i I Monday, 10 S. Simon Stock- S. Brendan. ! I Tuesday, IT S. Ti:chal Baylon. S. Cathan, B. S. Madera. I I Wednesday IS S. Venantius, M. S.' Eris, Ktr. I I M. S. Thoodotus. Thursday, 10 Oct. Ascension. S. Dunstan, B. S. rudentifliia, V. , j Friday, 20 S. Bernardino of Siena. S. Plau- I Saturday, 21 S. IVtcr Celcstine,: P. S. Felix v( Cantalicc. ..Vigil Fast, I j ABCHBISHOP IRELAND'S NEW CATHEDRAL. I An-hbishop Ireland has purchased the' Kittson I .iM rty in St. for a site for his new cathedral. cathe-dral. J i one v! most beautiful pieces of I iM-.'inid in the v.-i..,l; And his grace is con- i:i:;iiilat'd on ail id.- ovpr its acquisition.- Not ..i:!y is the site a l'"ir;;bly adapted to his purpose, liit ho lias hough- j' ; t a great bargain, one-fourth I I "; "hut it ves held ai a few years ago. When the l ;;; Commodore Kittson purchased and improved I ! t 1 Ik- property, he prided himself on having the most I 1 jititiful and picturesque home west of New York! f T!i tall towers of the new cathedral of St. Paul I I will -oon crown ihe site. It is the intention, of the i:i-Mihop to bohi wcrk on the new structure next X sMitumn, and to push it to an early completion. St. j ,l..eph"s church, which is in course of construc- li. n. and which lias cost a large sum of money,, is ; u;ly ihreee blocks distant; but it can be used now i'..r some o1 her purpose. Parish churches must 4 chc way to cathedrals in young cities. An Associated Press dispatch, with St. Taul 1 uiu says: I "President J. J. Hill f,i' the Great Northern will Frj'ploniont his many gifts to the Catholic church I ly a donation of $1..'00.000 given jointly by him- and Mrs.' Hill towards'lhe erection of a hew i x;.'XU,('(;mj cathedral, in whidi two of the wealth's wealth-'s f of the St. Paul parishes will join. ' ' "The remaining $l.rO0,Oo0 is already, in sipht rivl will be f-ubscribccj, "by wealthy citizens. The iitlie.lrai will be the most costly edifice in the west, ! and will crown a height on St. Anthony hill in the vnter of the aristocratic residence district, on I which years ago Commodore Kittson put up the ! then rinest residence west of Chicago. The ca- j ihedral is only a few hundred yards from Presi- d nt Hill's immense palace. - ... f : "Archbishop Ireland has outlined plans for se- 1 curing the remainder of the money required. Con- l Ft ruction of the edifice will begin this summer. . "It was Mrs. James J. H ill's gift a few years ago that enabled the Catholic church to build -the. .-.110,000 seminary for students for the priesthood st Graveland park." - . WOLT CANNOT PROTECT SHEEPFOLD. A press dispatch from Home announces that a P;qial brief is being prepared by. order of Pius X handing over to Germany the i)rotectorate of the l'niun Catholic missions hitherto exercised;. by t France. Press reports about what the Pope is ):il"Ut to do must always be taken with a large grain ' salt. but. in view; of the anti-Catholic conduct of tin- French government, the report is not incredible. Ji i- to be assumed tliat if the French administra-livii administra-livii uld do in the foreign Catholic missions what i it i doing with Catholic institutions in France it v nol hesitate to do it. Hence, to continue the 1 n ni.h protectorate over Catholic mission any-where any-where is an anomaly, puttjng the. wolf to protect ; tlie 'sheepfold. As long as the French government continues in its present anti-Christian craze the ' iioereMs of the Catholic missions would be safer in tli,-. hands of Fmperor William. The same report, in confirmation of "what it f a, gives another piece of significant and interest- I i"K news. It is that the study of the German lan guage is made obligatory in the Ecclesiastical Ai-ademy of Xobles, which is the school of all the cliureli diplomats. All nuncios, continues the re-7" re-7" it. will hereafter speak German and will not con-f con-f no tlieuiselves exclusively to French, as has been the- custom. I WHY K. OP C. IGNORED A DEATH CLAIM. Lecane ho was a member of St. John's lodge Xo. T. and A. M., ihe supreme council of the t Ixnighis of Columbus have refused to paj' the .Yl.ooo death benefit duo the estate of the late Pat- I Tick Coghlin. former mayor and one of the most i pi-ominent Irish-Americans in Bridgeport, Conn. The refusal is based upon the allegation that as Ir. Coghlin was affiliated with a Masonic body he eould not be a member of the Knights of Columbus, .''.though at the time of his death, about two I nionths ago, he was in good financial standing in J that organization and carried insurance in it. The ret k.n taken by the supreme body, is embodied inT tli-- following vote: - 1 "Voted, that the claim of tin? late Patrick Cogh- I liu be reje.'tcd oil the ground' that' he -was not 'a I niember of the order. Tha t, the officer? and meni- hf-rs of ihe- subordinate' councils of this order in Ib-idgt port 'who are" i-csponsible for allowing Pat- I i' l: Coglilin to exercise ihe privilege of member- liip after knowledge f bis affiliation with Mason- j fy bo oon.-ured. and that tep bo taken to duly pun- l i-l: ihe sa;jjc; that a commiteoc of the board visit ; Bridgejiorr with a view to ascertaining who , were i Voj.(nsible for allowing Patrick Coglilin to exer- V io th' privilege of lnembrship after s:uch kubwl- I "dge was had." v ' The Knights of Columbus is a strictly Catholic o:der. One of the requirements of membership in I it i- that the member shall le. in good standing in ! the ehureh .a condition which, the Knights say. Could not exist while a membership was retained in viiy Ma sonic body. I That Mr. Coghlin was a member in St. John's llg-e ;it the lime ho was admitted to the local j I ;oiiii,-il of ilo Knights of Columbus, however, it is ! 1 c; id. Mas unknown to Jhe memlxTS of the council. His estate-will vigorously contest. the stand taken , ! by the Kidchts of Cohmibus, and a suit is to be ' instituted against the order to recover the death I bom-tit due. The matter will be carried to the 1 highest couris if newssary. . . J , A GRAND SIGHT. . , , . , , I Writing from Augusta. Ga., to the Catholic Co- I luinbian. James 11. Randall descrirK-s it : . . I I "The most edifying. sjeetaclc witnessed in this j I city was, on last Sunday, when celebrating the pa- 1 tronage'of St. Joseph. ICS Knig-hts of Columbus, ji in a body, went to holy communion at the Sacred Heart church. In his sermon Rev. Father Wilkin- ' on, S. J.. chaplain of the K. C. here, and presi- dent of the college and rector of the Society of - Jr-".us here, celebrated the mass and briefly preached I He said, in effect, , that no sermon, however' elo- jj oixMit, could equal the spectacle of. such a good ex- i a phi and. that in this day of infidelity, indiffer- ! ''"'o and unbelief, such pious exhibitions would do Jiiore to uphold and sustain true religion than any 9 Pulpit oration. During the mass the KnighU'sang I '01RiTgntionall.v and approached the altar rail. I Iter rank, with the fervor and discipline of true lyldicrs of ihe cross. The Pa trick' Walsh: Ergacli here is one of the best in 'the countrv, an(j it j9 largely so because of the ZCal and ability along with untrnng, labors of Worthy Grand Knight P. II. BLINDS NUN WITH ACID. Sister Mary Alma of St. Joseph's convent, Wheeling, . fl wa8 for the seco31tl tinic xvi,hin the past year the victim of a vicious attack, when, on H-iday, April 23, a tramp threw-in her face the contents of a bottle of carbolic acid. The tramp had applied at the convent for money. Sister Alma Al-ma said she could give him no money but if he desired de-sired something to oat it would be given him. He returnel later, and when the sister opened the door he dashed the acid in her face. At first the attending attend-ing physician feared her sight was gone-and that Die shock might prove fatal, but later reports indi-: cato that she will recover and that her sight was; not destroyed. Last September Sister Alma was assaulted by three negroes, since convicted for the assault, and it is thought the present attack was in the nature of revenge for their conviction. Letters to this effect were received by the sister superior and also by the I local newspapers, threatening that unless the ne- j j groes were gtven another trial, ..their punishment j would be avenged, i I ; HABIT OF DOMINICAN ORDER. j Seven young ladies from various--' parts of the country received the habit of the Dominican Order ; at St. Mary's of the Springs, near Columbus, O., ' j Thursday morning. May 12, the feast of the Ascension. Ascen-sion. Rt. Rev. Bishop Hartley officiated. These are novices who entered upon the religious life about a year ago and who now receive the habit, but take no vows. After another years probation they will take their first vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. The ceremony is a particularly beautiful and impressive one. The candidates first enter attired as brides and attended by little girls in wWe, as bridesmaids. At a certain part of the mass the bishop blesses the habit which they are about to receive and places it. in their hands. They then withdraw, and doffing their bridal robes, appear in the simple white habit of the Dominican nuu. HE STOOD UP WHOLE. . Three hundred Catholic physicians are in Rome on'a pilgrimage. They have been studying miracles authenticated at Lourdes. At one of the meetings i Dr. Boi'sserie, who for many years presided over ) the medical bureau at the famous shrine, told about some of the phenomena reported at Lourdes. One of the victims of a railroad disaster at An- j gouleme was a postal employee named Gargan who, hurled from the train, lay for several hours in the snow with fractures in different parts of his body. When the injured man Mas found he was transported to Lourdes on a specially constructed .stretcher. An unbeliever himself, he yielded to the entreaties of his devout Catholic parents and gave himself up to prayer, and a first miracle was granted in his return to the faith which he had abandoned. He. was afterward taken to the Grotto and plunged in the water. On leaving it he made three attempts to rise from his stretcher, and the third time, to the amazement of all present, he rose, to his feet perfectly cured and then made his way to the medical bureau. When Dr. Boisserie finished his narration before the doctors he called out to a young man present at the physicians' pilgrimage, pil-grimage, and amid the deafening applause of the spectators the favored youth who stood up was young Gargaii. Still some people say. ihe age of miracles has passed. Transcript, Hartford, Conn. "CATHOLIC ST. LOUIS, (INDEED!" The great Louisiana Purchase fair was opened formally in St. Louis last week by prayer from a Chicago Protestant minister. What irony of fate! Here is a city founded by the Catholic Laclede, named after a Catholic monarchy of saintly renown, baptised and confirmed con-firmed by heroic French missionaries and voyagers, and built up largely by French Catholic hardihood and enterprise and no churchman could be found , whose creed would be in uuison with those heroes of "the cross, flic lance and canoe" to officiate on such an occasion teeming with Catholic memories. The; had to go to Chicago for a preacher! Oh, the shame of it! Why was the prince of pulpit orators thus overloooked rthe present Illustrious Illus-trious archbishop of Philadelphia., the. peerless Ryan, whose. soul burns with undying love for the - great city by the Father of Wafers, within whose gates he spent the very flower of his days in Ken-rick's Ken-rick's golden reign Catholic Union and Times. DR. STANG'S CONSECRATION. In the presence of a vast assemblage, the Right Rev. William Stang, D. D., was Sunday morning, May 1, consecrated bishop of the newly erected see of Fall River, Mass., the ceremony taking place in the cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, Providcnec, R. I. Bishop Uarkins was the consecrating prelate, the Flight Rev. M'. Tivrney of Hartford and Right Rev. .John J. Brady of Boston assisting. ' Shortly after 10 o'clock every seat in the magnificent mag-nificent edifice was taken .many having come over from Fall River. Among the lay dignitaries seated in the center aisle were Governor Garvin, Chief Justice Stincss. Associate Justices Tillinghast, Douglass, Dubois and Blodgett. ex-Chief Justice Matteson, United States Marshal Kendrick, ex-Governor ex-Governor Brown, ex-Postmaster George, Superintendent Superin-tendent of Health Chapin and Superintendent Peters Pe-ters of the Rhode Island hospital. ..i -. HALF A MILLION FROM MOTHER DREXZL Once more Mother Kathcrine Drexel comes forward for-ward as the generous .patron of the Indian missions. Her latest donation is $500,000 devoted to the Winnebago Win-nebago reservation. Our Catholic annals have time and again been brightened by stories of , Mother Katherine's generosity. Her name is prouo'uuced with reverence in many a struggling Xegro and Indian mission in the south and west. Not, content with giving her private fortune to-ihe erection. and maintenance of a score of churches and schools this noble lady has consecrated herself to God in rcli-giou rcli-giou and founded the Order of the Blessed Sacrament Sacra-ment a religious community that is doing apostolic apos-tolic work among the blacks and redmen. Whether ;onc regards the munificence of her donations or the personal devotion displayed by this liberal patron of Indian and Negro missions, the example of Mother Katherine is unique in contemporary Catholic. Cath-olic. American history. There are Catholic homes in the land where her life story might be read with profit. Catholic Transcript. ' MEANING OF "M0TU PR0PRIO." It has been noticed that all important reforms introduced recently by the. Pope in the church have been ordered with a form of decree called "Motu Proprio," which means a decree cmhodying the personal per-sonal ideals of the head of the church, instead of the usual form or encyclical or bull, as was the case with most- of the decrees of t he late pope. The fact' is taken . as an indication of. the independent spirit of Pivx X, y.'ho Avants.to impress upon ihe '- miiidis of. his subjects tJiat..wkevea-.xeforiiis.he'jird- proses for the good of the church are. not the result re-sult of suggestion or recommendations made by "others, but are his --personal: f-onclusionpancl are to be received as such by the Catholics , of the world. ' . OMAHA PRIEST DIES OF WOUNDS . The' Rev.-Father Edward;Gearyv assistant pastor pas-tor of Holy 'Family. Catholic -church, died -3fay 4 as the result of injuries inflicted on him by high-' waymen. . .- The assault was made in front of the church by two men, one of whom called Father Geary to his aid, saying he was in distress. Before the highwaymen high-waymen could search the priest's rfockets, Father Fitzpatrick frightened them away. Father Geary was 73 .years "old and had been a pastor in this city for twenty-three years. LAYMEN AS TRUSTEES. t ffSS3 It is reported that the trusteecs of the Catholic university will appoint- a committee of prominent Roman Catholic lavinen to supervise the. affairs of the institution. It is stated that among those decided de-cided upon are the mayor 'f Boston. Patrick Collins, Col-lins, Bourke Coekrau of ,X.w York, Michael Cuda-hay Cuda-hay of Chicago and.Cria?los .Bonaparte of Baltic more. A law school'; "with - Bourke-Cockran and Hannis Taylor, former minister to Spain, as mem- bcrs of the faculty,. is also lo.be opened to undergraduate under-graduate students. . .- |