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Show Religious Intelligence Rey. D. M. Gorman succeeds Bishop-elect Bishop-elect Dr. J.' P. Carroll as president-of St. Joseph's college, Dubuque, la. . -There are today 116 different Catholic Catho-lic religious sisterhoods in the United States. Rt. Rev. Bishop T. F. Lillis sang his lirst pontifical mass in St. Patricks' church, Kansas City, on New Year's i day. In the afternoon he administered confirmation to a large class in which , there were several converts. f The White Sisters of Seoure de Notre Dame d'Afrique, founded by the late Cardinal Lavigerie. are pledged to the erection of a hospital in Uganda which shall be wholly reserved for the treatment treat-ment of sleeping sickness. Archbishop-elect Moeller of Cincinnati Cincin-nati has accepted the spiritual director-! director-! ship of the Catholic order of Foresters. This office was held by Archbishop Elder. ; . Rt! Rev. Bishop Hartley of Columbus confirmed a large class at th" Ohio penitentiary, Sunday Jan. 1. The converts con-verts were recently made by Rev. F. I, Kelly, O. P., chaplain of the institution. insti-tution. ' 4 While the ceremony, of consecrating j the new bishop of Leavenworth was in progress word was received from California Cali-fornia that Father Moore, administrator of the diocese and a candidate for the position, wa$ dead in-San Francisco, w hither he had gone some weeks before in search of health. Bishop Canevin, who succeeds the late Bishop Phelan of Pittsburg, is described de-scribed as one. of the mort scholarly prelates in the-American hierarchy. He is comparatively-a young man. and for several years' has actively administered the affairs of the diocese as coadjutor to the incapacitated bishop recently passed away. ; -4- "' i President Roosevelt has appointed j Professor Charles D. Neil of the Cath-I Cath-I olic university, U.'S. commissioner of I labor to succeed Mr. Carrol D. Wright. I Mr. Neil is professor of economics, has lectured and written on the labor question, ques-tion, and has been for some years-a member of the board of charities of the District of Columbia, He was. also, assistant recorder of the' Anthracite strike commission. ' fr-Iii fr-Iii the Protestant sections of Canada drunkenness is steadily on the increase. The criminal statistics for 1P03. just published, show this by the convictions in the courts. In Ontario the increase has been' 28 per cent: in Manitoba. 75 per cent: in Nova Scotia. 100 per cent; Quebec is the only, province in which there has been a decrease. Paragraphs have been going round the papers about a piano nent by the English king to the monks at the Great St. Bernard. The Montreux correspondent corres-pondent of the London Morning Post explains the occasion of this gracious gift: When the king, then Prince of Wales, visited the celebrated monastery in 1S5S he was struck by the absence of a musical instrument there, and promised the monks that he would send them a piano In return for their hospitality. The instrument was sent and now King Edward is"., renewing It. ; - '----'- v r' . "The priesthood'"- notes the Catholic Telegraph of :?ihjinn'kti. "should be above the necessity -of descending to the odious practice of continual begging beg-ging to obtain the wherewith to defray the ordinary expenses of the parish. No gentleman likes to beg: and no considerate con-siderate gentleman will force his pastor pas-tor to assume the undignified and disagreeable role of a beggar. It behooves be-hooves us, therefore, to be duly generous gen-erous in support of our church and its charitable and educational institutions: institu-tions: and we would again suggest the propriety of putting among the New Year's resolutions one of sincere, sub-rtantial, sub-rtantial, lay co-operation, .w4th the clergy." . ' ( i |