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Show ! ' which over- r arm cometh tfcs ' i . universal, - ' 1 j CHURCH CALENDAR. l i 5 ' IvOv Sunday. Gospel. St. John xx, I ' 19-31: Jesus appears to his disciples. I Sunday. 6 St. Cele!tine. I , 5 Mnnrtav. T Spvfii Sorrows. I J. V. M. I . " , Tuesday. S St. Walter. Ab. ' Wednesday, b St. Mary of Egypt, -- ' IVn. i ! Thursday, Id St. Macarius. B. " Friday, 11 St. Leoete Great, I D. C. Saturday, 12 St. Victor, M. S I INDULGENCE EXPLAINED. Just As Plain As Any Other Question ' 1 ' in the Church. f I . : The Rev. William O'Brien Fardow, " ; H. J., preached recently in the Church i . ! "f St. Isnatius Loyola, Tark avenue I and Eighty-fourth street. New York. nn the "Bible and Indulgences." and i said, in part: , j Our great work is in overcoming the ' prejudices againpt our church. It is 1 in like the snow on our streets just now !'' - you don't know where to step so as not lo Ftep into a puddle. Dut remove the heaps of snow and the streets again become beautiful. There are some peo- I ' Pie who pull down the blinds, close the : shutters and then say there is no sun- 1 f iihine. The Catholic church stands for -. j , " light with reasoning. ; I Fuppose the greatest prejudice the i ; world has ever reared up against us I ! ' is because of indulgences. The ques- , tion can be made just as plain as any I , other in the church. There used to be i an opinion among non-Catholics that i 1 indulrences meant foriri venr-ss for sins I i committed and sins to be committed j ' : ' in the future, and on that false defi- f ; nition the church was severely critl- 1 cisrd. i j We protest in the name of Jesus I ! i ! : .! Christ against having this lie circu- ' lated against us and even forced upon Catholic children in some of our public I ' , Kchools. Catholics know that the definition defi-nition of indulgences is false and feel it k ; to lie a shame that education should : impress such teaching on the mind of 5 the 3'oung when it Is so easy to learn "t ; the truth. Not a day passes but this calumny is repeated against us. Our ! Catholic people are getting tired of it because the non-Catholic does not take f : the trouble to investigate it. ; ' The principle of indulgences is the i ' remission of the penalty of the guilt of sin when the guilt has been washed ; away by penitence. The principle is j founded upon scripture and in the story I I of David's sin when the Lord forgave I him after he had expressed repentance, j ; ! but told him that the penalty of his sin f i was not altogether absolved, and that I as a farther punishment his son would I die. The man who says confidently that the Lord will not be so severe I upon us as to exact the full measure ? of our punishment for our transgres- - ; ' sions does not deserve to be argued 5 with. It is not what people think the Lord will do; it is what the Lord has , said he would do. I I could never understand how Prot- ; ostant people who read the Bible so much do not fully comprehend the subject sub-ject of indulgences as to the remission I of sinin the Catholic church. They ? , seem to think or pretend to believe that 1 ; Jndulgehces mean remission of past and I present sins and permission to commit more, because they are already forgiven forgiv-en by the indulgences. They say the f i word signifies that, to indulge. This I '. ' theory is held by people of education, i and that fact is amazing in itself, s . Indulgences do not apply to guilt, j. but to the penalty that attaches to j i guilt. We are often told that the Cath- f ; olic church is very lax, and all you ' have to do is to commit sin and then get indulgences. That is false. The 4 , Lord says that the sinner must be held i until the last farthing of the penalty shall be paid. Hence, we believe in a middle state, or purgatory, and I have observed that many Episcopalians are I ; nnw praying for the dead after having I abandoned that doctrine. I am glad that it is so. They are beginning to be- I lieve in purgatory. I ' The Catholics are the only ones who f strictly adhere to .the teaching of the j Bible In this matter. The principle of f indulgences is very clear. Now, as to the declared sale of indulgences, that I is another calumny against us. An es sential part of the efficacy of indul- gences is repentance for sin, and if j ' there is no sorrow nothing else can ab solve the guilt and the penalty. ; ST. PATRICK A PROTESTANT. I Methodist Parson Essays to Steal Our Saint. i The Her. Dr. Rees. pastor of the Sinithfield Methodist Episcopal church. i preached a sermon on Sunday night in which he tried to prove that St. Patrick Pat-rick was a Protestant. As St. Patrick was a gentleman, a J scheiar, an apostle and a saint, it is creditable to Dr. Iiees to want to claim him; but St. Patrick cannot return the ompMment and would say to every j j.fr.son wilfully and wlckedlv In the f i Methodist sect: "I know you not!" The scholarship of Dr.Rees may be t , guessed by two of his assertions, name- '.v. first, that St. Patrick's father was ' named Hilderbrand and that he was a I deacon, and, second, that the doctrine !-"' of transubstantiatlon was not a dogma Of faith in St. Patrick's day. The fact that St. Patrick may have I - baptized some converts bv immersion, I : proves nothing, for the Catholic I church today Is as willing to accept I baptism by immersion as baptism by I" ; sprinkling. There are five indisputable facts that proves St. Patrick's Catholicity: 1. He ) studied for the priesthood in monas teries in France. Belgium and Italy; 2. He was consecrated a bishop in Italv i by appointment of the pope; 3. He f practiced celibacy there was no Mrs. I St. Patrick, as there would have been if he had been a Protestant, for Prot-i Prot-i ' cstantism hates virginity and does not I give the divine grace "necessary to ' practice it; 4. He tilled Ireland with 4 virgins, men and women, including the lovely St. Brigid; S. He made the I Irish people Catholic to the core. 1 Grapes do not grow on thorns, nor i figs on thistles; neither does sanctity , come from heresy. Protestantism has no saints. It will i please not try to steal ours. Pittsburg 1 Observer. J i BRIDES OF CHRIST. !! Religious Reception at Nazareth Con-I Con-I vent, La Grange, Ills. I On the afternoon of St. Joseph's day, j March 19, the beautiful chapel of the Sacred Heart at Nazareth academy. La i Grange. Ills., was crowded with a seri- ous company who had assembled to l ( . witness the solemn ceremonv of recep- "fjjf tion of postulants into the humble and . ? unostentatious sisterhood of St. Joseph 5 whose mother house, novitiate, house of I ;' studies and boarding school for girls is 1 : , . . located in the above named charming I , suburb of Chicago. Eight young ladies had responded to the divine call and , i , having satisfactorily passed their time ; ; : of probation, those chosen souls meek- ; ; ' i ly presented themselves before the al tar for God's acceptance. The scene was one never to be forgotten. for-gotten. The bright flowers on the al-, al-, tars, the twinkling wax candles, the ft etrains of music, all formed an ap- V - propriale setting for the picture of the immaculate lives offered for unending service in the vineyard of the Lord. j At 2:30 o'clock the sweet-toned con- ! vent bell called all to the sanctuary, un3 in a few moments every seat was filled. Many eyes were dim with tears as parents, brothers or sisters remembered remem-bered that their dear one would, in a sense, be parted from them forever-more, forever-more, but all wore a loo of holy resignation, res-ignation, inspiring to behold. To the softly pealing strains of the organ the young girls who were to be clothed in the religious chapel entered the chapel. They wore handsome bridal gowns of silk, with long veils, crowned with wreaths of orange blossoms. blos-soms. After those to be received into the novitiate had prostrated themselves before the altar and had gone through the preliminary part of the service, the lit. Rev. Bishop addressed them in a most kindly manner on the responsibility responsi-bility and seriousness of the step they were about to take. ; The following named young ladies ! were clothed in the humble garb of St. Joseph: Miss Clara Diebel of Youngs-town, Youngs-town, O., Sister Mary St Elizabeth: Miss Sophia Dalton of Libertyville. Ills., Sister Mary St. Peter; Miss Agnes Ag-nes Barton of Chicago. .Ills., Sister Mary St. Francis Xavier; Miss Nora Lally of St. Louis, Mo., Sister Mary St. Tatrick; Miss Annie Schiemann of Cleveland. O., Sister Mary St. Francis of Assisi; Miss Mary Joynt of Emmets-burg, Emmets-burg, la.. Sister Mary St. Josephine; Miss Genevieve Sullivan of Chicago. Ills., Sister Mary St. Angela; Miss Mary Lvns: of Countv Kilkennv. Ire- land, Sister Mary St. Leo. Just before the ceremony of religious reception and confirmation, the Rt. Rev. Bishop, accompanied by some priests, dedicated the new convent. The sisters of St. Joseph were founded found-ed in Le Puy, France, in the year 1650, by the Rev. Pere Medoille, a saintly missionary of the illustrious Society of Jesus. The members live by the rule of the gentle saint. Francis de Sales, and are governed by the constitutions of the apostolic and zealous St. Ignatius of Loyola. The reverend clergy wherever existing, exist-ing, are earnestly requested to recommend recom-mend some good vocations to St. Joseph's Jo-seph's sisterhood. The community is composed of but one grade of members the workers rank with the teachers, and no class distinction exists between them. Subjects for the order must be solidly pious, meek and humble of heart, devoted, obedient, submissive, and of an agrefable disposition. The mission of the sisterhood is an arduous ardu-ous one, and the candidates must carry car-ry the cross of trials. In addition to teaching parish schools, the sisters visit the sick and dying and take charge of works of charity in general. CROWLEY NOT REINSTATED. Sweeping1 Order Is Issued Against the Priest. Chicago, March 2S. In an official letter let-ter sent to every Catholic priest in j Chicago today. Archbishop Feehan issued is-sued a sweeping order in the contro- versy of Rev. Jeremiah J. Crowley and his friends with the diocesan authority. Tho lotto ,nn. . I ' "We hereby notify you that the Rev. Jeremiah Crcrwley, whose public acts and utterances have given grave scandal scan-dal to the detriment of religion, is in open rebellion to legitimate ecclesiastical ecclesias-tical authority; therefore, any priest of the diocese of Chicago who assists him by moral or financial aid, or offers him encouragement of any kind whatsoever, is ioso facto suspended." The letter is signed by the archbishop and by Chancellor F. J. Barry. .A Strange Conversion; The story of a remarkable conversion is told in the Missionary Record of the Oblates of Mary for the current month, by a priest who signs himself "L. C. P. F." It occurred many years ago in Dublin, when the narrator was at-, tracted by the gathering of a crowd in i Sackville street and found it had collected col-lected to watch a poor man fallen in a , fit. It was evident from his style of ' dress that he was a gentleman, but as no one could identify him, his religion of course remained unknown. Under j these circumstances, the priest gave I him conditional absolution, had a cab called, and sent him to the Jervisj street hospital.. He tells the sequel as! follows: "On the following day, I was told that a gentleman was in the parlor who wished to speak to me. On going ' to see him, he told me he had not sent! me his card because 1 did not know j him. He then told me that he was the same who had a fit on the previous day ' in Sackville street, and that I had done something to him before I had either taken or sent him (I forgot which) to the hospital. He continued his relation by begging me to tell him what I had done for him. After I had explained what was meant by the condition absolution ab-solution and the sign of the cross which was made over him. he concluded by first thanking me and the good Sisters of Mercy who had so Jvindly nursed him, and then asking me to give him the necessary instructions, as he was determined to become a member of the Catholic church. I found that he belonged be-longed to one of the leading mercantile firms, of Dublin, and to a family that was conspicuous among the proselytizing proselytiz-ing circles. After due preparation I gave him conditional baptism, and as he remained in Dublin for more than a year subsequent to that time, I had ample opportunities of knowing that he became a model, practical Catholic, and he assured me that although previous pre-vious to his conversion he had been subject to epileptic attacks, sometimes as often as two or three times a week, he had never once been troubled in that way since I had done something to him as he lay on the ground in Sackville street." London Tablet. What a Catholic Must Believe. By the principles of the Catholic church no one is bound to believe any-God any-God has revealed. If God has revealed a thing as an article of faith except what certain truth, that truth must be im-rrutable. im-rrutable. No discovery in science, no progress in knowledge, no improvement improve-ment in society can make that which God has revealed cease to be the truth. It must continue to be the doctrine of tV church. Immutable, irreformable to the end of the world. The denial of a doctrine defined constitutes con-stitutes the loss of faith and a separation separa-tion from the church of God. There are many topics in some measure connected connect-ed with religion upon which we have no divine revelation; these topics can be freely discussed, for Catholics believe be-lieve that no power but that established establish-ed by God himself can command the submission of the human intellect: and if it should so happen that a doubt existed ns to whether any revelation was made upon certain topics during the inquiry, and until the discovery of satisfactory evidence, the church does not interfere with the adoption or rejection re-jection of such an opinion. She is said then to tolerate such opinion, because if she does not find i that God has revealed such a truth ' she cannot prevent its being held, nor can she cut off from, her communion those persons who may upon such subjects sub-jects hold even private opinions. Thus she cannot tolerate an error of faith- but she does tolerate difference of opinion opin-ion where defined dogmas are not concerned. con-cerned. Rev. J. F. Mullaney, LL. D., in Donahoe's. The Burial cf Self-murderers. . Since the spoliation of Rome by the Sardinian, suicide has become almost an epidemic, and scarcely a day passes without bringing its record of some unfortunate who, weary of life's battle, has presumed on God's mercy by going go-ing uncalled into his presence. Being requested a few years ago to give a decision upon the question: I "Should a Christian burial be given to suicides?" the sacred congregation of rites first called attention to the jjen- ! eral law observed in such cases, which decrees th;it Christian burial cannot l be granted to those who kill themselves through despair or anger (not madness) ob desperationem vel iracudiam. if before be-fore death they have not given signs of hypothesis were added: 1. When a doubt exists as to whether suicide was committed through despair or madness, Christian burial may be given, but seldom funeral services must be refused. When certitude exists that madness was the cau.se of self-destruction. Christian burial and seldom funeral services may be granted. Pray For the Priests. Once in the Ember season a servant of God saw Jean Jacques Olier cele-! brating mass, and was led to prav for, him. all through that holy sacrifice. ' that the priest then offering it might i attain to a perfect union with God and 1 that he might become a great captain I in the army of Christ, to marshal soldiers sol-diers in his service. Such should be our prayers for priests always. Pope Has Prepared No Tomb. The report so frequently printed that Leo XIII has had constructed a beautiful beau-tiful sarcophagus in which his body is to be interred, seems to be utterly without foundation. He has not even indicated, so far as the cardinals of his household know, where he would like to be buried, unless it may be that he has stated in his will. RELIGTOTTS TIMTTPT t Tcrwrx- Interesting Items Gleaned From "Church Progress." ' Three cities of Massachusetts have Irish Catholic mayors: Hon. Patrick A. t olhns of Boston. Hon. John H. H Mc-Namee Mc-Namee of Cambridge and Hon. John dr. Hurley of Salem. In Detroit there are ten divisions of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, with a membership of 1,209. There Is an excellent excel-lent military company in the citv. St. Stanislaus' church, Milwaukee, Wis., will shortly undergo a complete remodel- Lngr. - e casl of the improvement will be $20,ihjO. Members of theGrand View Avenue Methodist church of Dubuque. la., have expressed their desire to co-operate with Archbishop Keans in his struggle against disreputable saloons with "wine rooms" and women attached. By the will of theSate Cornelius $550 is left to St. Charles Borromeo's church, Kellyvllle. and J250 to St. Rose's church at San Francisco. Plans for the new'academv and chappl to be erected in Newport, Ky., by the Sinsters of Providence, have been returned re-turned approved from the mother house in trance. The building area is 200 feet square and the cost will exceed $90,000. Work on the new St. Norbert college at Green Bay, Wis., is progressing quit! satisfactory. The well which is being drilled on the premises has reached a depth of 200 feet and a good flow of water is expected at 50 or 100 feet more. It is expected that ground will be broken and work begun on the new St. Patrick's cnurch, Erie, Pa., about Aug. 1. 5v The ten divisions of Onondago Countv Ancient Order of Hibernians marched in the St. Patrick's day parade at Svracuse, N. l. The number was nearly 2,tKi0 men. On the occasion of the 124th anniversary anniver-sary of the birth of Robert Emmet, Mr. James D. Flynn, president of the Irish Language society of Washington, D. C, delivered his address in the Irish language. lan-guage. The Rev. V. II. Callanan. rector of St. John's church, Newton. Lower Falls, opened the men's retreat at the cathedral. cathed-ral. Boston, on Passion Sundav. Over 2,000 men were present. j I Eighty-five converts were received at a nussion recently held in Holy Angels' church, thirty-five of whom were bap- ; tized and are now under preparation for their first communion. Oshkosh will be the mecca of German Catholics throughout Wisconsin the week commencing May IS. as on that date opens the eighth biennial convention of the istats Verein of Wisconsin German Catholic Catho-lic benevolent societies, the meeting to continue for five days. Many others will also follow. Mtniphis now has four handsome Catholic Cath-olic churches St. Peter's. St. Mary's. St. Joseph's and the Sacred Heart und in a short time the people of St. Patrick's will have an up-to-date edifice. Chelsea will doubtless have a new Catholic church in the near future. St. Thnmnu Ar,niTii 13 r r oit.i of Philadelphia, of which Rev. Francis P. I Coyle is spiritual director, raised over $3,300 in a little over four months, and will place Our Lady's altar and statue and a stained glass window in the church. The Catholic population of the archdiocese archdio-cese of New . York is officially estimated at 1.200.000; of Chicago. m.M: of Boston, 550,000, and of Philadelphia, 400,000. Over $3,000 have already been subscribed by members of the congregation of Our Lady of Lourdes, Chicago( for a new parochial pa-rochial school building, on which work will begin in May. y Henry Boyle, one of Fond du Lac's (Wis.), most public spirited Catholics, is about to add another to his list of benefactions bene-factions to the city a home for the aged to cose $20,000. 5 ' Seven hundred dollars will be expended by the Young People's Union of St. Pat-nek's Pat-nek's parish, Cleveland. O.. in the furnishing furn-ishing of their new club rooms. A new convent for the Sisters of St Joseph, who have charge of the parochiai school of St. Francis Xavier's church is to be built at Rochester, N Y thia spring. The Rev. Father Beecherini of San l-rancisco's Italian church has received from Italy sixteen death claims of relatives rela-tives of the victims of the wreck on the abash last Thanksgiving. Mr. Beecher-ini Beecher-ini says the company is not willing to make any equitable adjustment of these claims so they will be pushed ihrm.oh the courts. One of the latestand most magnificent of the many beautiful gifts presented to St. Xavier s academy, Chicago is th sanctuary windows for the new convent chapel. They are the gift of Mrs. A W Greene, a former pupil.. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Moeller of Colum-i"sJ. Colum-i"sJ. ',has issued H Klter to the clergv of his diocese, suggesting means of in-proving in-proving the parochial schools in his jurisdiction, juris-diction, and has recommended the appointment ap-pointment of a diocesan school inspector. Mr. John A. Henneberrv has been an. I pointed chief clerk of district attorney Kht Jr,?- He, ls R Prominent Knight of Columbus and at present state president of th.j Catholic Benevolent Legion Le-gion of New York. ? The Very Rev. John R. Slattery. pro-5inciaJ pro-5inciaJ x?f St' Jos?Ph's Socletv of the ae, S?', ?clebrated his silver jubilee on St. I atrlck s day. iT miss)on hs been founded In the Klondike region, namely, at Gold Run r '. ,itre .are ,len places now "here mass l said, viz.: Dawson, Bonanza, Dominion Creek. Hunker Creek. Last Chance Sulphur Sul-phur Creek Gold Fun. White Horse. Se -Kirk and Forty Mile. Information has been received from Sine n? ihaf tne Vcr- Jhn kdudinelh, G. P., former provincial of the Order of Passlonlsts in the United States and Mexico and tor the last three years first counselor to the superior general of the Order of Passionists, will soon return to this country to attend the triennial conclave of the order, to be held in Pittsburg Pitts-burg next August. After the conclave he will probably return to Rome to complete his six-year term of office. The first annual" report of the Pasteur institute of India, which has just been issued, bears emple evidence of the wonderful won-derful success which has been achieved by Its director, Major Semple, during the short time it has been in existence. A German paper iniBaden says that the government of Baden will not allow, the smallest convent to exist in Grand Duchy, while in other parts of the empire whole dioceses are ruled bv monks. The bishop of Augsberg is a Franciscan, the bishop of Limburg is a Cistercian, and, the bishop bish-op of Matz is a Benedictine. The United IrishUague of Great Britain Brit-ain announces that it will oppose any- liberal candidate for an English constituency constitu-ency who is a. member of the Liberal League. His Eminence Cardinal Rambolla recently re-cently received Lord Denbigh and the other members of the British mission sent to congratulate the pope on his jubilee, ju-bilee, the meeting being of a very cor-. cor-. dial character. Father Jette, S.jYson of the lieutenant lieuten-ant governor of Quebec and missionary on duty in Alaska, has found tablets among the Nulato Indians being hieroglyphics hiero-glyphics similar to those used by the ! Apaches of New Mexico anotner argument argu-ment for the unity of the human race and its dispersion from its original home in Asia. Among recent converts to the Catholic faith in Germany were two sons of Jacob Caro, professor of history in the University Univer-sity of Berlin. j A donation to the organ fund of St.-i Joseph's church, Kilmarnock, has been received from Mr. Andrew Carnegie, amounting to $75. The monumental album soon to be presented pre-sented to Leo XIII by the Catholic women of Mexico now contains the enormous number of 50,000 names. During the last few weeks a Catholic mission has been established on King's I island, which lies sixty miles northwest at Ta.SR,aniil' ad is largely inhabited by aim -mnese. , A movement toward the church exists among the Jews of Posen, Prussian Poland. Po-land. A recent convert is a daughter ofl Professor Rosanes, grandson of the famous fa-mous Rabbi Akiba Eger. s The venerable Catholic archbishop of Glasgow, who is in his Soth year and is passing through another serious illness, has been a tower of strength to the Catholic Cath-olic church in Scotland. A Yorkshire-man, Yorkshire-man, he quickly found himself at home among Scotsmen, and under him the faith has flourished abundantly In Glasgow. The anti-duelling bill, championed by the German Catholic party, has passed in the reichstag. The chance is considered good that it will also pass the bundes-rath. bundes-rath. The German kaiser sent the holy father as a jubilee present a rich gold clock, the king of Saxony a superb porcelain group, wleh obtained a prize at the Paris exposition, ex-position, and President Loubet, as already, stated, some Coabelln tapestry. Cardinal Richard, archbishop of Paris, who is now In Rome, sent an autograph letter of congratulation con-gratulation to the pope and a magnificent bouquet of flowers. -- In Hobart, Tasmania, a Catholic priest. Father Patrick Gflleran, Is president of the Blind society and takes active part in yanm secular affairs. 3 In Dublin "Irish Language Week" is to be celebrated with a large procession. The Dublin trades are to participate, O'Connell's triumphal car is to figure in ' it and the Irish Foresters and the Emmet . Costume association has promised its aid toward forming a gorgeous and Impressive Impress-ive parade. |