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Show I IBE (ATBOLK WORID. j Cardiral Rispighi, the new vicar of Rome, is only 57 years old and wag made cardinal in 1899. Rev. F. Marchette has been appointed ap-pointed auditor of the apostolic delegation dele-gation in Washington. " j i According to recent and apparently I reliable statistics, the total number of Catholics in the Transvaal ig given i at 6,300. .- .. The Sultan of Turkey has officially recognized as valid the mr-dical tiiolo-mas tiiolo-mas granted by the Jesuit College at Beirut, Syria. ' .' " - Archbishop Chapclle says the friars are good priests and very acceotablf to the people. Only infidel agitators at home and sensational preachers from abroad hate them. The Rev. Egidiug Smulders, C. SS. R. senior rriest of the Redemotorist Or'. dr-r of the United States, died suddenly sudden-ly Monday at St. Louis. He was chaplain chap-lain in the Confederate army for four years, and was with General Lee at the surrender of Appomattox. At the close of a recent mission given giv-en by the Paulist Fathers in the Cathedral of Sacramento, Cal., Bishop Grace confirmed over one '. hundrca adults most of .whom v. ere- converts received before orduring the mission, j Irreligion and vandalism again join hands in France. The cable says that the Auborvilliersi Church, !n the outskirts out-skirts of Paris, was destroyed by a fire of incend.Mry origin this morning. All the sacred vessels were stolen. Rt. Rev. Alexander J. McGAvick. co-adjutar-bishop . to Most Rev. Ta-trick A. Fochan,, archbi.sTiop ef Chicago, has been, appointed by the latter the successor suc-cessor of the late Rev. Dennis A. Tighe in the pastorate of the Church of the Holy Angels. Bisihop McCavick 5s at present pastor of St. John'e Church.- Recently an unknown man called it nient on the Abbe Blanchard. vicar of the Church of St. LVn.Is. Taris. Thf man asked the priest to coirr.e to hA house, where a child was dyir.sr. The priest -went to the i.ouse and climbed to the fourth story. T There he-was Furroundo-1 by three men, who Insulted In-sulted ard attacked him. 7he abbo resjMii and, being- stjong, gave hia . ' - 'v '. adversaries more than they wanted, the priest calling for help all the time-. People ran to: his. aid and the men escaped in the confusion. The villagers cf Oberan-wcirgau are 'up in arms against the proposed establishment es-tablishment of a line cf motor vehicles designed to do away with two hours' drive from the nearest railway station to tho village. They.suy it will detract de-tract from, the dovoticrsaJ attitude which all visitors to the Passionspiel should assume. An unconfirmed report cornea from Roil:.? to the effect that the measures taker against the Assumption's by the Vatican are -intended to a:nly to all religious congregations throughout the world. Hereafter the members of these congregations will not be allowed al-lowed t3 participate in political work or the ryublicaticn of newspapers. -? It has been, suggested that it would ! be a g-iat&ful act for Queen Victoria, (taring her present visit to Ireland, to make restitution of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Cath-edral, Dublin, to the defendants of those who erected the structure as a . place of worship for the members of the Rsrr.'an Catnolic Clir'ich. While there is merit in the- s-uggestion. there is extreme lack of probability that her gracious Majesty would lend acquiescence acquies-cence to the idea. ;S - A Paris correspondent a nr. ounces the death of Pere Dorgere, the chief military mili-tary chaplain who nursed tha fever-stricken fever-stricken tuldiers around Majunga during dur-ing the Madagascar expedition. On his return to France the Bhhcp of Frejus appointed) I'ere Donger? parish priest of Saint Anne. The zealous priest found a tramp lying along the roadside, suffering fie-m smallpox. As nobody would go near him, he carried him to a hut in the 'presbytery garden, where, notwithstanding every care, he died a few days afterward?1. Unfortunately, Unfor-tunately, Tero Dorgcre contracted the malady in an aggravated foim, and has followed his patient to the grave. - In the s:;5tir.e Chapel, Sunday, the Pope received eighty-seven naval ca-detis ca-detis from the A nitric -.in training jf.iip Dixie. The cadt-ts were accompanied by six officers and the chaplain. Two thousand fcreign visitors, witnessed the presentation. aincT.; whom were many Americans. After tne ceremony of introduction in-troduction the Pope printed a jubilee medal to each cadet. The Pope's benediction bene-diction concluded the Ceremony, alter which the cadets cheered the Pope repeatedly. re-peatedly. The cruca in to.e chapel was opprest-'ive, and several women fainted in the throne. It is announced that $3,000 has been j subscribed, and the fund of $23,000 which is being raised by the New York association beard of the endowment of a chair cf philosophy at Trinity college, col-lege, the new p-r.e't graduate institution institu-tion of learning for women which is now -In course of erection, at Washington, Wash-ington, D. C. The Rev. Dr. Pace will fill the chair. California, it is understood, under-stood, wi'il erect the art buKding and I eataDUsh tne art scnooi or tne conese, and Boston will present a library to the college. It is expected that the college will be opened during October next. There are thousands of Catholics, says (the Church Progress, who do not make their contributions to the support sup-port of religion in the ordinary ways of rew rental and Sunday collections. This class should not be unmindful of the collections on Easter Sunday, which are ordered for the clergy of the parish. Nor should the services of the Prio.ua be measured in cents, where dollau can be afforded for that I work. The results of Archbishop Keane's visit to St. Louis is thus eummed up by a contemporary: Up to Sunday last Archbishop Keane had collected in this city for the Catholic University $30,700. His Grace left last Friday, and Arch-biehop Arch-biehop Kain has appointed1 a committee commit-tee of Priests to represent the university univer-sity and continue tho canvass of the city till the $50,000 necessary for the foundation of the Kenrick chair is raised. The committee consists of Fathers Myles W. Tcbyn, P. F. O'Reilly and G. B. Power. A prcee dispatch from Dubuque, la., date of April 11, says?: Michael J. Hen-ntj.-wy today filed petition to have the will of his brother, Archbishop Hen-nessy, Hen-nessy, declared null and void. He claims that the will on file was not the last; that there were two new wills, one disposing dis-posing of church property and the other of private property, which bear date of Jan. IS, 1300. while the original beara the date of Jan. 17. The new wills have the eame witneosea as the first, and have many erasures and interlines. For the first time in the history of the Church of the Gesu. Montreal, Canada, an English permon was preached from its. pulpit by a mem ber of the r ranciscan order, tna itev. Father Dominic, on April 8. A large congregation was present,, and at the close Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament Sac-rament took place. The preacher chose as tho suhje-ct of his sermon a topic appropriate to Palm Sunday, namely, the en-try of Chrisit into Jerusalem. Je-rusalem. Father Dominic devoted a few. words in conclusion to non-Catholics, and pointed out to the-m the marks of a true Church holy, catholic and apostolic. They Should examine the religion they professed, to see whether it bore these signs. The funds for the support cf tire diocesan seminary of Philadelphia are raised by individuals. Thia year they collected tho sum of $31.33!t.49. |