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Show j i 1 which oyer-' : I Universal, r. 1 A FALLEN GOD. Man is a fallen Frn1 whose thoupiits uprise r To that high world where he was born to reign; Thence banished, be bears of his loss deep j pain. And walks the enrth remembering the nkios, ' And as a bird from coming winter flies Across vast continents, o'er hill and plain. To unseen climes, all fresh with spring's warm rain. i So he to heaven lifts imploring eyes. j And like a wandering exile homeward ; turns, ! Dreaming of peace and love that hover ' there. Of the glad fire that on his hearthstone burns. To welcome his return through frosty air. As though it knew the pain with which he j earns To sit again in the long vacant chair. Bishop Spalding. HERO OF THE FAITH. Priest Who Prevented Panic While ! HisAltar Was Afire. I The coolness of a priest at Kanosha, 1 Wis., .saved St. James' church from I , ' destruction by fire and prevented a I panic, while the New Year's mass was I ' ' leing: celebrated. The church was " ; crowded. When the priest was at the nsain altar the decorations in front of St. Joseph's altar caught fire and be-' be-' pan to burn. Many in the congrega tion started on a run for the door, but the priest signaled the choir to continue the music, and he proceeded with the mass, many of the people kneeling at his example. A number of men near the front of the church rushed into the chancel and extinguish- rd the flames. The aitar was badly damaged, and the large arch in front of It was destroyed. : Father H. J. Roche, pastor of St. James' church, is one of the best known priests in the . Milwaukee diocese. He has been in charge of leading churches in Wisconsin, and has been at St. James' church nine years. While he has been in charge of the Kenosha church he has not received one cent of salary, but at each annual meeting of the board he has urged the trustees to apply the amount due him toward paying the debt of the church. A short time ago, when the members of the church were making an effort to raise the debt from the church. Father Roche presented the congrega- . . tion with his savings of $2,700. j SUPPORT OF RELIGION". Excuses Many Give to Delay a Commandment Com-mandment of God. Kvery pastor hears again and again expressions of generous good will such as these: "I will give something to the Church as soon as I get out of debt;" "if fortune favors me I shall not forget for-get the needs of religion," or "when I had plenty I gave freely," or "when -j I succed in paying my bills I will at- tend to the pew-rent question." Under- j lying all these statements is the false assumption that the Church has strictly strict-ly no financial claims upon her children; chil-dren; that the most she can do is to make appeals; that her title to support rests upon chanty, and not upon jus-( jus-( tice. Assuredly the Church is not dis posed to urge her demands by force, no more than to enforce obedience to the ten commandments by the aid of ? the sword; but she gives no semblance i ' of assent to the heresy that her ma- ' , terial support is to be derived from the occasional offerings of a whimpering i generosity. Financial suport of religion is im- plied in the first and greatest com- ' mandment. God is to be adored by ' ' sacrificial worship as well as by faith ! ' and prayer. The discharge of this fun- j damental duty naturally involves everything essential to the appropriate I ? expression of becoming sacrifice. This divine Injunction, therefore, carries r with it the imperative necessity of sup- t plying suitable places of worship and of maintaining a divinely appointed priesthood. To keep holy God's day and ; name, to respect the rights of parents and others, aee divine commands. There j "is no less sanction for providing the i material agencies necessary for carry - ' ing out the true intent of God's first law. There is here no question of char- ity or generosity, but of duty and Jus- I ! tice. In issuing a special precept on ' the support of pastors (meaning every- j thing pertaining to external worship), I mandment as old as religion itself. To put the claims of religion last of all .to offer God crumbs from sumptuously sumptu-ously supplied tables, to proffer Him a percentage in the possibilities of fortune, for-tune, is basely to insult the Deity. God does not ask for what man does not need and He directs the unfolding unfold-ing of the future. He is pleased with the gifts that denoie sacrifice: the poor man's penny, the widow's mite. They v, ho promise to give of their abundance abund-ance exhibit a wrong spirit. It is well to remember that the claims of the Church are as positive and as pressing . . ' as other obligations: that these claims are to be pp.id not merelv from the , y . ample means of the rich, but also from the slender incomes of the struggling. God should not always be the deferred creditor. The support of the Church Is a duty of pimple justice. Religion would go forward with . leaps and bounds if pew-rents and Church dues j were paid from a sense of homely hon- j csty. The Church has suffered from i too much "charity." Catholic Mirror. - ; ITALIANS IN AMERICA. Mgr. Scalabrini Reports His Obser-1 rations in This Country. The Rome correspondent of the London Lon-don Tablet writes as follows about A" Mgr. Scalabrini's reception at Rome and his deductions in regard to the religious conditions of the Italians made during his recent visit to the United States: "Mgr. Scalabrini. bishop of Piacenza, who has just arrived in Rome, is a verv remarkable nvin ifin- his homage to the Holy Father, he visited vis-ited Minister Prinetti and Senator Bo-dio, Bo-dio, and it would be hard to sav which ,' f- the three welcomed him most cor- dially. Certain it is that the Holv Father was delighted with the very hopeful account the prelate had to give about the Italians in America. 'The Italian Rishop as he was called at the other side, hns visited manv of the principal cities in the United States. President Roosevelt received him with much cordiality, and spoke in the high- i . est terms of the good qualities of the j 1 Italian emigrants warning the bishop. however, that they would do better by going west, instead of huddling to- ; get her in New York and Boston where I they were exposed to the danger of los- i ' iri" all the good qualities thev brought . - . , ' vvlth them from Italy and acquiring all ! tne bad ones in America. In New Yok i , j alone there are now between 70.000 and I ; ! 8n-p00 Italians with no fewer than 24 - I " ' , i , in the single parish of St. Patrick ; ) ' "Mgr. Scalabrini describes as . 'pro- ! i digious' the change of public opinion ; n the United States with regard to 1 ' . ' the Italians. 'The rector of St Pat- Ticks, says the bishop, -tol,i I11P that I I vhen.lh: ltalians 'n settle in I ' j, the 'strict which had hitherto been almost exclusively occupied by the j Irish, he felt that the parish was ruined.. Today he confesses that his fears were without foundation. He is an Irishman himself, but he is now as. glad to see an Italian as an Irish face ! among newcomers." The Italian quar- j ter (known in New York as Little Italy), which has. been painted in such dark colors by Dario Papa Fontana and" Giacosa, has been greatly Improved Im-proved during the last decade. The New York corporation has interested itself in the homes of the immigrants, the immigrants themselves having in increasing proportions made up their minds to make America their own country, have ceased to live in the sordid misery for which they used to be noted, and the immigration society v. oi. Jiajpuci.fi udo uuim jnucn -ior me , material as well as for the spiritual welfare of the Italians. "In a few months Mgr. Scalabrini takes ship again for the new world but this time his zeal will be exercised in behalf of his fellow countrymen in South Africa. His name is already well known there. Naturally, Mgr. Scalabrini was warmly welcomed at the Vatican by the Holy Father. The Pontiff questioned him at great length about the condition of the Church In the United States and especially the prospects of the Italians there. Pope Leo makes his children of all national ities feel that he is almost one of themselves but Italians are under no illusions on the subject. His Holiness is an Italian to the fingertips, and Mgt. Scalabrini's visit, with his good new9 about the Italians in the United States, was one of the happiest events in the latter years of his pontificate. The two functionaries of state also listened with resDectfnJ attention to tho ni-olato'n suggestions for the protection of Italian Ital-ian emigrants. Like France, Italy is very willing to look after the interest of the Church anywhere outside Italy; so the minister and the senator piously congratulated the prelate on his mission, mis-sion, his missionary society and his efforts to organize the Italians in the United States." RELICS OF MARTYRS. Two Put to Death by Nero to be Deposited De-posited in Louisville Church. Last Tuesday the' remains of two Catholic martyrs, who sacrificed their lives for Christianity and met death under the Roman Emperor Nero in the vear 2Sr A. T.- were received Viero frnm Rome, the boxes containing them being be-ing first opened at the office of the surveyor sur-veyor of the port by Monsignor Zabler of St. Martin's church, to whom they were consigned, in the presence of Surveyor Sur-veyor Barnett, Deputies Cureton and Guffy and other officials and newspaper reporters, says the Kentucky Irish American of Louisville. These holy relics had been sent to Monsignor Zabler, rector of St. Martin's Mar-tin's church, Shelby and Gray streets, who secured them through the aid of friends in Rome, who had them sent here to be deposited beneath the altars in St. Martin's. The remains are those of St. Magnus, a Roman centurion, who embraced Christianity while a member of the emperor's army, and St. , Bonosa, a Roman Virgin. The bones i had been for more than 1,400 years in the catacombs of Rome, whence they were taken and deposited in the vaults of the Convent of Agnani, near Rome, about 200 years ago. Less than a year ago the Italian government issued an edict suppressing this' convent, and as the nuns had to move from the country coun-try they were obliged to make some disposition of the relics that lay in the vaults of their church. It was then that Father Zabler put himself in communication with his friends at Rome and managed to secure the relics. The members of St. Martin's church regard themselves as particularly fortunate for-tunate in being able to get the relics. There are comparatively few Catholic churches in the country that have the bones of one or more saints deposited beneath their altars, though according to ecclesiastical law all churches should when possible contain some sacred relics. "KING'S REMEMBRANCER." An Antiquated Office That Carries a Little History. Lord Dunboyne has just been appointed ap-pointed the king's remembrancer. The latter is an office of much antiauitv. which is today mostly honorific, and is invariably combined with a mastership of the supreme court, the master being sort of an official and permanent referee, ref-eree, investigating facts, "with a view to the information of the conscience of the judges of the high court of chancery," chan-cery," and when directed by the court decides judicially questions referred to him. The salary of these masters, who number eleven, is $15,000 a year. In olden days the king's remem-i remem-i braneer wts supposed to see that the I various royalties and -dues of one kind and another coming to the king's privy purse were not forgotten. But now-j now-j adays he has. only to put in an appear-i appear-i ance as remembrancer in the court of I the lord chief justice at the swearing j in. of the lord mayor of the city of London, at the ceremony of homage for the holding of crown lands, and at the ceremony commonly known "the pricking of the sheriffs" with a gold bodkin on the morrow of -St. Martin. Lord Dunboyne is a lawyer, and, like his predecessor in office, a master in chancery. One of the former Lords Dunboyne was Roman Catholic bishop of Cork. He inherited the peerage unexpectedly un-expectedly through the death of a nephew. Wishing to perpetuate his family, this member of a celibate priesthood applied to Pope Pius VI fcr dispensation to retire from the episcopate episco-pate and marry. The Pope refused, whereupon Lord Dunboyne broke- his vows and married a Protestant woman. There was no issue to the marriage, and just before his cV-ath he was received re-ceived back into the Church of Rome. Marquis de Fontenoy in Chicago j Tribune. THE JESUITS AGAIN. The Way This Terrible Order Opposes All Learning and Research. The New York Evening Press gives a bit of news from Cleveland, O., as fellows: "A remarkable meteorological observation obser-vation was made here by Rev. Fred-ej Fred-ej ick Odenbach. S. J., professor of physics in St. Ignatius' college, who saw the great sun circle, or halo, of Htvelius. which, so far as known, has only been observed three times before. Preceding a period of low barometric pressure, halos are often noticed about the sun. The commonest of these is one that appears at a distance of 21 degrees de-grees from the sun. An outer halo, at a distance of 46 degrees, is also occasionally occa-sionally noted. But the great halo of Htvelius, at a distance of 90 degrees, as observed by Professor Odenbach. Is' a great rarity and hundreds of years may pass before it is observed again." And now here is another example of the way those terrible Jesuits have of opposing all learning and all research. The Philippine commission, composed of Messrs. Schurman, Dewey, Denbv !and Worcester,, in theintroduction to their recently issued report Bay: . "While Mr. Worcester was engaged i ia gathering information as to thefpeo- ple of the Philippines and the physical characteristics and resources of the various va-rious islands, members ;of the Jesuit I Order were repeatedly requested to tcs-j tcs-j tify before the commission. It was suggested sug-gested by them that such information ! a 3 they were able to furnish would be of more permanent value if embodied in formal papers upon the various subjects sub-jects under consideration. An arrangement arrange-ment to this end was accordingly entered en-tered into with them by Mr. Worcester, whereby it was agreed that they should furnish treatises on tho following subjects: sub-jects: Orography, hydrography, geognosy, geog-nosy, pyelography, zoographjv. climatology, clima-tology, cyclical variation of terrestrial magnetism, seismic foci, ethnography, chrography, state of culture, chronology. chronol-ogy. The papers as finally received re-ceived cover a wide field. In many instances in-stances the subject matter and the method employed in treating it have been such that they, could be freely translated "and utilized as they stood. While the papers on climatology climatolo-gy cyclical Variation of ' terrestrial magnetism, and seismic foci are somewhat some-what technical, the information contained con-tained in them is so extensive, detailed and accurate, and much of it is of so much practical value, that it has. been thought it should be published in full, and thus be made available for purposes pur-poses of reference. The commission wishes to express its indebtedness to the fathers of the Jesuit Order at Manila ' for the whole admirable series of treatises which have made available a large body pf information, infor-mation, not a little of which is new, and much of which could not possibly have been gathered by us in the time at our disposal." ABOUT JUDAS ISCARIOT. Common Tradition That He Made a Sacrilegious Communion Analyzed. A correspondent of the American Ecclesiastical Ec-clesiastical Review writes it:1 -"At a recent retreat given to the clergy, I was somewhat surprised to hear it stated by the father that it is the opinion of modern Biblical critics that Judas neither made the sacrilegious communion, nor was he raised in the dignity of the priesthood. The latest conclusion would seem to be that Ju das left the supper room before the consecration, and was absent when our Lord conferred on the disciples the dignity dig-nity of the priesthood. May I ask what is . to be said in support of this opinion, which runs counter to a common com-mon tradition that Judas did make a sacrilegious communion, and was ordained or-dained a priest?" That sterling periodical makes the answer: - "The common tradition that Judas did make a sacrilegious communion cannot be shown to rest upon-any deduction de-duction from scriptural sources. Modern Mod-ern exegetes greatly differ in their Interpretation In-terpretation of the passages in the Sny-optics Sny-optics referring to the moment when Judas left the cenacle. Knabenbauer, in his "Commentary," semes to favor the opinion that the traitor had left the room before the institution of the Blessed Sacrament; and he thus reads John 13:30. This view is sustained by the manenr in which the ancient text of Titian is disposed. It, has also on its side the testimony of the so-called Apostolic Constitutions, and that of St. Ephrem, S. Asphraates CJac. Nisb.), St. Cyril of Alexandria, and Innocent III (De alt. mysterio, 4. 13), who answers the question "Quid ergo est tenendum?" tenen-dum?" as follows: "Illud forte sine praejudicio aliorum. quod Joannes in-sinaut, in-sinaut, quia cum Judas assecpisset bus-cellam bus-cellam pais, exiit continuo. Christus aiitem post alios cibos tradidit Euchar-istiam." Euchar-istiam." The same -interpretation' is given by Lamy, as also, to use the aforementioned' Jesuit commentator's words, "by far the greatest number of recent writers." " which ' "probably includes in-cludes Protestant exegetes, who have no reason to differ from our text interpretation inter-pretation in this instance. Arnold, Schranz, Keppler. are of the opposite' opinion, and support the view of SS. Cyprian. Chrysostom, 'Jerome, the two , Cyrils. Augustine, Leo and the Angelic Doctor. . , . The difference of view is, perhaps, suggested by the alternate efforts of the Christian teachers to emphasize in the example of Judas, on the one hand, the awful fate of those who commit sacrilege, and on the other hand, to I safeguard the reverence for the holy mysteries which our Lord could not have readily exposed to danger by inviting in-viting the traitor to seal his crime, already al-ready sufficiently determined UDon with the reception of the Blessed Eucharist. Eu-charist. As for the priestly character of Judas, it can hardly be assumed, since he did not participate in the complete com-plete initiation to the sacred mission which was given after the resurrection. Cursus S. Script. I in Matt., p. 439; III in Luc, p. 576. j CATHOLIC GROWTH IN CANADA. I T mi t . . . I In Three Large Cities Our Church Outnumbered All Others Combined. Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 2. A bulletin has been issued by the census bureau giving giv-ing the population of Montreal. Toronto Toron-to and Ottawa by religious denominations, denomina-tions, , .The Roman Catholics, far outnumber the leading denominations combined, the totals for the three cities together being: Roman. . Catholics, 322,423; Church of England. 96.35S: Presbyterians. Presbyter-ians. 6S.582; Methodists, 62.206. Since 1S91 the Roman Catholics have increased 67,967 in Montreal, 10,121 in I Ottawa and 7.174 in Toronto. The I Church of England . gained 4.250 in I Montreal, 3,315 in Ottawa and 16,322 In Toronto. The Presbyterian church gained 4.073 in Montreal, 3,865 in Ottawa and 14,913 in Toronto. The Methodists muster 1,368 more in Montreal, 2,562 in Ottawa and 15,970 in Toronto. "MEDICINE OF GOD." Pious Indians Who Give This Name For Holy Communion. We learn from the Missionary. Record Rec-ord that of the 12,000 Indians scattered about in the valleys, of the Athabasca and Mackenzie river, 10.000 have already al-ready been baptized. Twentyfive mis-! sion stations have been established in the district, the great number of which are provided with churches or chapels. Mgr. Grouard. who supplies this information, infor-mation, give a touching account tf the persevering faith and tender piety of the Montagnais. who flocked from their nunting grounds to greet the missionary.. mission-ary.. "Several among the most fervent of them begged to be allowed to repeat re-peat their communion, pleading: 'We are for such long periods debarred from the medicine ot God, which strengthens strength-ens the heart, may we not be privileged to receive it once more while we dwell in the neighborhood of tthe-house of prayer?"' The apostolic labors of. the Oblates of Mary Immaculate amonj? the Indians of British America recall the heroic lives of the early missionaries mission-aries in New France. Chapel at Duluth Blown Up. Duluth, Minn.. Jan. 1. The explosion of a boiler in the basement of the Sacred Sa-cred Heart Institute here last night i resulted in a loss of several 'thousand dollars to the building, while seventy persons who. were within at ' the time narrowly escaped being killed or injured. in-jured. . ; Evening .devotions were in progress at the time in the chapel.' and Bishop James McGolrick was just pronouncing pronounc-ing the benediction when the explosion occurred. .' . Fragments' of the boiler - came up through the floor, and every wincfo'w ln the structure was shattered. The wood work. took fire above' the boiler room, but was extinguished in time to prevent pre-vent casualties. -It is thought the boilers had been -tampered with, a one of the valves, was found to have been completely closed. - ; 'fThe Modern Bible Craze." The Northwestern Christian Advocate, Advo-cate, official publication of the Methodist Meth-odist Episcopal Church in the Central States,' has put its stamp of disapprov-al-on the present demand in ecclesiastical ecclesias-tical circles for a modern Bible, published pub-lished in twentieth century diction. Under the raption, "The Modern Bible Craze," Editor D. D. Thompson. ; says: "There are already at least half ja dozen of these so-called modern English Eng-lish Bibles, written in what the authors j or editors claim- to be the language of ; the people, each of which in many vital j respects differs from the others, and , none of which is the equal in sublimity land power of the language of the old j version." ; American Woman Honored by Pope. New York. Jan. 4. Miss Anne Leary of this city has just received word from Rome that, the pope has conferred upon her the title of countess-. Miss Leary built, the chapel at Bellevue .hospital, and established the Arthur Leary chair of English literature ..in the Loyola school RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. The Academy, of the Sacred Heart will establish a Catholic college at Lake Forest, For-est, a suburb of Chicago, according to a well authenticated report. This is further confirmed by the filing for record of a deed from John M. Roach to the institution institu-tion of forty-six acres of land, where, It (s said, extensive buildings will be erected. -- , Brother Paschal, who died a few days ago, was the oldest inmate, of the Franciscan Fran-ciscan monastery of St. Bonaventure at Paterson, N. J. He was S4 years old. During the twenty-seven years that Brother Paschal had spent in he monastery mon-astery he was known to speak but three times. Mrs. Bridget McCarthy of Ansonia, Conn..- is almost 109 years old. She was born in Mitchellstown, Ireland, on May 19. 1793 and she therefore lived in Ireland when it had a parliament. She remembers remem-bers the hanging of Father Goigley at Maidstone in 1798, the nnlon of Ireland with Great Britain in 1800, the famine in lszz, tne aeatn oi imam xv in imi, ana the coronation; of Queen Victoria.. ;-.( ;-.( S . It is said thePope purposes to issue early in the new year an encyclical on Christian . democracy, "designed to check ' the threatening disputes which have arisen lately in the Italian Catholic party. Mrs. ' Elizabeth Kiernan of - Cincinnati, whose will has. recently been probated, left $14,000 to Catholic, charities. Among the bequests was one of $5,000 to the Catholic university. A dispatch' from ' Rome states that it has been decided to send a pontifical mission mis-sion to the coronation of King Edward, on lines similar to that of the Victorian jubilea. . , Bishop Beaven has ordered the Polish priest, Father Rakowski of Holyoke, to leave the diocese, and has deprived him of his .faculties. Rev. C. F. McElroy, pastor of the Church at Derby,. Conn... recently announced an-nounced from the pulpit that he would appoint a certain day on which to receive subscriptions for a certain, Catholic paper. This fs ; certainly the most effectual ef-fectual way In' which to propagate the "perpetual mission in every parish. : . ; Rev. Dr. Edward 'McSweeney of -Mount? St.- Mary's College, i Emmitsburg, Mr., is engaged In writing a history of the National Na-tional Catholic .' Total Abstinence Union of America. This history will be an exhaustive ex-haustive one. " and Dr. McSweeney -is sparing neither-tim- nor effort to make It In every respect authentic. On- .the FeastjoOt St... Catherine half-bred half-bred Indian girls from the St. Boniface Industrial' school; St.: BoriIfceV Man., entered en-tered the order-of Sisters Auxiliary to the Gray Nuns. ..Their names are: Alice Swampy, Mary Chatelain, Sarah Henry, Archange " Morrisseau. A white girl, Helen Toutan, enterdat the same time. The Pontiff withstood the fatigue of the Christmas ceremonials perfectly, although al-though he insisted upon complying with the eustom of ..saying three masses on Christmas day, one a midnight mass. The winter always agrees with him. It Is the exhausting heat of mid-summer and autumn that reduces his strength. The New York World says Cardinal Gibbons is to be appointed the president of an episcopal .commission to submit to the Pope a list of new. sees to be created in the United States, in order to keep pace with the growth of the Catholic community. commu-nity. This is the result. It is also asserted, as-serted, of recent correspondence on the subject. .. The new CatholicTcathedral at Westminster Westmin-ster will be opened three days after the king s coronation. After consultation with Architect Bentley, Cardinal Vaughan has decided that the opening ceremony will take place on Sunday, June 29. subject sub-ject to the reservation that nothing un-loreseen un-loreseen shall Intervene to necessitate a postponement. Cardinal Gibbons, we believe, be-lieve, will preach the dedicatory sermon. Bishop Touchet of Orleans, France, who u .i.ct.cu u) me rope in jjiivaie aucu- ence last week, was the bearer of the fifth volume concerning the trial and death of Joan of Arc, compiled by a learned Dominican friar. Father Ayrolies. He contends that Joan deserves the palm of martyrdom and the title of saint. This view is shared by the Pope, who expressed ex-pressed the intention of canonizing St. Joan of Arc during the year Mr. F. Coataggino, the well known artist.- who painted the ceiling in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington and whose home Is at Upper Falls. Eleventh district, has completed a picture. 9x13 feet; representing repre-senting "Jesus at the Marriage Feast," and will paint another of the same size entitled "The Holy Family." for St. Mary's Catholic church at Rondout-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. ' The Most Rev. . Dr. Dwyer, coadjutor bishop of Maitland.- recentlv referred at some length to Catholic literature and urged Catholics to take the Catholic newspapers and read them; that was the only means by which they could get accurate ac-curate news. He said he knew of nothing noth-ing more . advantageous than a Catholic paper to promote religion and to foster a true Catholic spirit. He tirged the necessity neces-sity of its being in the home of every Catholic. . ? There was . recently jubilation in the Italian press over the supposed slight of the Holy Father involved in the dispute regarding the Croatian college in Rome. Now. however, it seems the Italian government gov-ernment has-aoreed to act as the Pope's bull directed. The college remains under the protection of Austria and the rector appointed, by the Vatican retaining control. con-trol. The Italian press is much chacxined Pt the collapse of the opposition to the Vatican's Instructions. |