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Show ni Church ' I which over- I&B coraeth the J Unwtvsm. 5 . ; CHURCH CALENDAR. i ; 1 ! 1 Fourth .Sunday after Easter. Gospel, I ' J"hn xvi. 5-14: Christ promises the I Comforter. I . 1 Sunday, 27-Ht. Zita, V. : ' Monday, S .St. l'aul of the Cross, C. J ! , . Tuesday. 29 St. Peter .f Verona. M. . VednesdaV. 30 St. Cathorin.. of Mien- I ; na. V. ! Thursday, May 1 SS. rhilip and James, Ap. I Friday, 2 St. .Uhanasius, B.C.D. Si Saturday, 3 Finding of the Holy J Cross. FATHER GASSON ON" ST. PAUL. I ; The Alleged Quarrel Between Saints ! Peter and Paul. I The usual monthly meeting of the . i Children of Mary was hold at the S.i . ' ' ' ,',1 Heart convent, Boston, on the J afternoon of Friday, April 4. Tlurs f . was a large attendance of the mem- I : bors, and several non-Catholics were : " . I 8,so present at the chapel services. 1 ; The spiritual director, the I lev. Thomas f I- asson, S. J., continued his conft-r- ; cnfM IITr.11 lif.i nnA .. I : J'aul. We give herewith a snyojsis of I ; his sermon: I i "ff much has been said.'' lie re- I marked,' "concerning; the alleged qrt-r- , rcl between St. Paul and St. Peter hat it will net be fruitless to consider it in I i ,' detail. To understand the matter fully, J : ' ' . "o must bear in mind that the early church was recruited from two sources, f i. : from Paganism and Judaism. Hence ! : arose two pets of difficulties, cm the 1 a-rt of the Jewish converts there wan 4 ' tendency to insist upon Mosaic ob- . . i ' seivanees and isolation as essential I 1-Tts of orthodox worship. The Jewisa I ' : ra?e had prepared the way for Chrls- $ r i ilaxiity. and it was extremely difficult fr a Jew to fpo how any one could cn- ! ter into the promised heritage of the f rd except throuRh the law of Moses, i "n the part of the converts from Fa- paiusin there were the customs geis- I crated by long centuries of idol-worship ' 'nd of lax morality. "St. Paul had. of course, dispensed jwilh the observances of the Jewish law, which was, of its nature, temporary tempo-rary only. Absolutely firm as the J . apostle of the Gentiles was, wherever I there was question of essentials, he. t showed the utmost liberality with e- sard to non-essentials. Criticism upon I bis generous dealings on the part of i certain narrow-minded individuals led, i in frreat measure to the first council of ! Jerusalem, wherein it was decided 'to ; i ! "Pen you (the faithful) no greater I , i burden than these necessary things; i '"" je aostain trom meats offerea to f ' Wolf and from blood, and from things strangled, and from weaknesses of -.he flesh.' This" decision meant much for the early church, because it taught tha i.ludaizers that hereafter the inteina- ' tional and world-wide influence of "hristianity was to take the place of national Jewish isolation. "It was after the decrees of this council had been published that St. Peter came to Antioch. and that there the famous scene referred to in the letter to the Galatians 'when Cephas (Peter) was come to Antioch I withstood with-stood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that some I came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles, but when they were come he withdrew and separated himself.' , Tw"o inclusions are drawn by some non-Catholics from this incident, namely name-ly (1) that St. Peter failed in the Iiaun; c.) that St. Paul was the fu-I fu-I S peri or, and hence that the primacy did ) not belong to St. Peter. ; "A slight reflection will convince anv fair-minded man that these two inferences infer-ences are unwarranted. First of a!", the act in question was one neither of teaching nor of profession it was "n act in itself indifferent, and St Peter was undoubtedly led by motives of the highest charity to withdraw for a Khort lime from open communication vhh the Gentile converts somewhat after ; the manner observed in India, whtr the missionaries have to deal with the different castes. St. Paul did riot approve ap-prove of this yielding, even for a tii.ic to Jewish prejudices. Being an ex-' ex-' Uemeiy frank character, he openly ex pressed his disapproval. But this disapproval dis-approval was the utterance, not of authority, au-thority, but of fraternal charity, as is perfectly evident from the many pas sages in St. Pauls letter, wherein he admits the higher prerogatives of the prince of the apostles. To wrest the i event to any other purpose is to strive to build a superstructure for which there is no foundation. "After many, apostolic. journevs through various provinces of A.a Minor. St. Taul came, to Troas. where in a. vision of the night he beheld a supnliani from Europe pleading for V.i spiritual needs of that great continent Th cry of the Mecedonian touched St. Paul's heart, and he set sail for 1iv.-regions, 1iv.-regions, so high in intellectual culture ; s low in moral depravity. It was at the historic town of Philippi in Macedonia Mace-donia that St. Paul's Kuropean mission opened, a mission fraught with mo mentous consequences to the then cK-i'ized cK-i'ized world and to the broad sway cf , Borne." post on Pilot. : "Catholic Laymen's Association.'' In reply to a recent query we are today enabled to print the following reliable information: The so-called "Catholic Layriien's I Association" mentioned in No. 13 of the t ; Bevicu- is the creature of three priests. who opposed the consecration of Bishop Muldoon as auxiliary- for th ai,M.u ; "f Chicago. One of these priests, Fr. J. J. Crowley, was excornmunicated by Cardinal Martinelli. and on March 19(12. was declared to be in open rebellion re-bellion to ecclesiastical authority ny priest assisting him by moral or tinan- i cial support is declared suspended. The case of the other tw0 priests is under investigation. The Laymen's association associa-tion holds meetings in the Sherman House, Chicago, where Fr. Crowley is warded by some supporters. Mr rvitchie. who is the attorney for Fr trowley. is also the attorney for the association. He is not a " Catholic. J here are three or four leaders in the ; association, and no mure than e ever attended any meeting. Manv. in fact most, of these are not practical Catholics Cath-olics They meet in secret and then teii the press of their resolutions. Their claims to a large membership are certainly cer-tainly fraudulent. Beview, St Louis i"nurcii calendar" Fakirs. Our friend Father Spaeth of' Port imitation 0f his clerical brethren everywh-rc. whon h? yViniam A f aud h.s people by means of a bogus 'lurch calendar. McGraw is probah lv he same swindler whose operf n men?, !TnS f the northwest were mentioned some months ago in the He - view. He induced Father Spaeth t , h,n contract for a parish director? and then started out to collect for the t-.nn P, ted he was not o do. With J-00 of such ill-gotten gain he took ! l?ll?ay- Faher Spaeth ient thJ f , fl' 5;,f7 him: McGraw was landed j ? in rled0- hrht bac k to Port Huron and compelled to pay $104 and the costs of prosecution, amounting to $4r. A safer and less troublesome method n'll be for the reverend clergy not to contract with strangers for the publication pub-lication of church calendars, no matter ' how seductive the terms they offer! Beview, St. Louis. '' : RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Interesting Items Briefly Told in "Church Progress." Tho Embarkation day celebration s,t Atlantic ,'ity, Aug. 2. 3 and 4. shall be marked i,y ;, series of entertainments on a larger scale than anything heretofore cJrJmbus1 bi' thC "X0W Jcrsey KlltKhts of A fre0 dispensary and an operating room tor the poor have been opened bv ,, S".crs of Charity at Hotel JJieu. El 1 aiia, ICX, Mr. John A. McCall. president of tli.s - , ?i' rk Life Insurance comnanv, while on a visit to his native city Albany, Al-bany, was a guest of Bishop Burke, to whom hr promised a $.V,w pulpit for the cathedral in that eitv. A contract has been signed for a new church for St. John the Baptist's congregation congre-gation at Pittsburg, Pa. The cost of the riew edifice will be J556.00O and work will be commenced on the same at once. , The annual pilgrimage of Ohio Catholics to the shrine of Our Lady of Consolation at Carey in that state has been ar-ransed ar-ransed for Thursdav. May . Present information in-formation indicates a Targe attendance. Three hundred and fifty varus of elegant ele-gant carpet have been ordered for the sanctuary of the Peoria cathedral. It is the gift of the Rosary and Altar soei- ! eties and will bo put down before the dedicatory ded-icatory exercises take place. Two thousand parishioners participated m the golden jubilee of Brother Herman raute of the Redemptions Order and sacristan of St. Mary's church. New Orleans. Or-leans. It was a grand celebration and a fitting testimonial of. his appreciation in the parish. Rt Bey. Bishop McQttnid of Rochester. . 1.. assisted by a large number of the clergy, dedicated the new churrh of the Blessed Sacrament at Rochester. Mr. Thomas Hanlon. a prominent Catholic Cath-olic of Brie. Pa., has again been unanimously unanim-ously chosen city clerk of that city. Mr. Hanlon has held the position uninterruptedly uninter-ruptedly for the pastjthirty-two years. Jn St. Patrick's church. Green Bav, ls., the pastor, on a recent Sunday, read apologies from two Catholics who had given public scandal bv their bad example. One had been divorced without with-out consulting the church authorities and the other married by a justice of the peace, Th Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration at Crowley, La., have let a contract for the erection of a convent to cost $14,000. This, with the buildings belonging to the order, will make the block on which It is to bo erected one of the handsomest in the city. St. John's hospital at Helena. Mont., recently completed, has been dedicated by Rt. Rey. Bishop Brondel. A dozen rooms of the hospital have been furnished by individuals or societies, and the institution, insti-tution, is now one of the most complete in the. west. It was built by the Sisters of Charity, and represents an outlay of J7a.O0O. ...... Mgr. Cannon of Lockport. N. Y.. has won his fight in the matter of Catholic pupils remaining out f class during the reading of -prayers la. the public schools, and it now remains for parents to stand uy me oecision given in toe matter, 't he board of educatii called upon Father Cannon and assured him that his demand would be granted. A novel Easter collection was taken up Easter Sunday morning at both masses at St. Peter's church. Butler, Pa. Every member of the parish was asked to give one day's wages of their earnings, which netted the neat sum of which Mas applied to the renewal of the fire insurance insur-ance policy on all the church property. Last week Bishop Moeller'of Columbus. O.. paid a note of tel.iw on the diocesan debt. In a little over a year the debt has been reduced over $150.O. a splendid showing, and one which Is the source of much pride to the diocese. The present balance is $12.00t). -- St. Leo's congregation was incorporated recently at Pound, Wis., under the state laws and will soon proceed to erect a church in their village. The St. Leo's congregation con-gregation is composed of German and English-speaking families. The Ancient Order of Hlhernians is in , a flourishing condition in Hampden county. Massachusetts. There are now -.ij,H members in the various divisions of the county, with a total of $10,000 In the treasury. Besides the eleven divisions, there are six women's auxiliaries, which have a total membership of son. The honor of having the most members on its roll goes to Division . 6 of Springfield, with 23U. " Extensive improvements of St. Jerome's Je-rome's church. Chicago, and the surrounding sur-rounding premises are now under wav. The ladies of the Eliza Allen Starr association as-sociation have assumed the obligation of meeting the necessary cost of the same. The N'ew York chapter of the Knights of Columbus, which is composi-d of representatives rep-resentatives from forty-seven councils, will hold a grand festival and games at Celtic park. Long Island, on Saturday. June 14. the proceeds to be devoted o the establishment of an employment bureau. bu-reau. Frank YV. Smith is chairman and John F. Connelly secretary of the committee com-mittee of arrangements. The Catholic Knights of America Kansas City will celebrate the twentv-fifth twentv-fifth anniversary of the founding of the grand order in a befitting manner. A movement in that direction is about to be started. The people of Ml. Clemens, Mich arc rejoicing that the fine library of the late Father Van Homisson said to be with but one exception the finest private library in the state is not to leave the Bath City, having been turned over to St. Joseph's sanitarium of that place." The Sisters of St. Francis' hospital Trenton X. J., have been given the sum of y.TaO by the municipal authorities for their work in caring for smallpox victims. vic-tims. Two of the Sisters volunteered their services wh n the city was unable to secure other nurses. Father Michael. C. P.. of Pittsburg. Pa I hi,s bf,,, instrumental i securing the tema.ns of St. Xigella. which lh,"r arrival will be placed beneath the high altar of the chapel of St. Paul of the Cross. The precious relic is expected in L'sTm r lhe juWlco f tn mo"- -; One of the niost brilliant events of Hie I 2 :r''!nirton,- -.'- where aU the recent concert given bv the st Yin-cent Yin-cent dc Paul society in that city. ' ' Wytheville. YirginTa. soon is to have a Maria, at Ahlngdon. are preparing to- remote re-mote from that town In a few week they haying recently purchased the beautiful beau-tiful ana costly property which was erected and embellished bv the former p"m.ar!lal for the western district of lrginia, Robert Gibboney. .H Informatibas reached Cardinal Cardi-nal Gibbons that Rev. William J. Kenny ?o ViUUBt,.ne' F,a- nas been elevated A fire some days agn at iIia Ti,ii t dan reservation: stale of T"h n and which is supposed to have ifeen ofm- i A.. : - eendiary origin, totally destroyed the Catholic church and the girl's dormitory. ' The society of the Army of the Cumberland Cumber-land will transfer the body of General Rosecrans from Los Angeles, Cal.. to Arlington, Washington. D. C. President Roosevelt will attend the ceremonies. The removal will take place about May 17; Governor Odell hassigned the bill which places the Knights of Columbus among : the organizations recognized bv the in- Mirance laws of the state of New York. The bill permits the order to loan a part of its surplus and will also give it a better bet-ter standing among the fraternal organizations. or-ganizations. Preliminary steps have been taken for the organization of a Catholic Truth society so-ciety in Philadelphia. There should be one in every large city. j Holy Family church at Rochester, N. Y., recently purchased a new set of stations sta-tions of the cross, costing $2,2'). A collection col-lection taken up on Easter Sunday to meet the expense netted the sum of $2,503. : The balance will be devoted to repairing ' the church organ. j Members of Holy Trinity and St. Patrick's Pat-rick's congregations in Pittsburg. Pa., had a tea party recently. The former realized $2,800 and the latter $3,000. A new $10.1100 church has been contracted con-tracted for by the Catholics of Sprague. Hash. It will be a handsome structure of Gothic design and artistically linished. Rev. Stephen Purcell of Skaneatcles. X. celebrated the other day the fortv-second fortv-second anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Thirty of these he has served as pastor In thc above place. The Catholics of Cataline island of California, Cal-ifornia, had the happiness of celebrating for the first time the sreat festival of Easter in their own church. It is modeled mod-eled after the old California!! mission church at San Diego, and has a striking appearance from Avalon Bav, built, as it is, high above the town. FOREIGN. The London Daily Xews savs that "every "ev-ery impartial traveler has "come away from Australia with the conviction that the religious future of the great continent is with the Catholic church." Father Ramon Sarmicnto, who some years ago joined the camps of the freethinkers free-thinkers over in Spain and was especially aggressive toward the church in speech and writing, has returned to thc Catholic fold. Over 4.000 converts have been gained to the. church in Siam within the past twelve months. Rev. Father Dreckmann. S. J.. of St. Xavier's college, Bombay. India, has been re-elected as one of the four syndics In arts of thc Bombay university. Queen Maria of Portugal a few days ago donated a sum equal to $i0 of our money toward the work of repairing a convent destroyed by the Portuguese Liberals Lib-erals during thc Oporto riots last year. The Abbe Pype, head rhaplain of tho Belgian navy, is one of Europe's distinguished distin-guished savants on the subject of deep sea fishing. He has just been chosen to represent Belgium at the St. Petersburg maritime congress. s Already, during the present year. England. Eng-land. Scotland and Wales have" contributed contribut-ed $5,500 toward the work of maintaining the Holy Places in Palestine. The amount is, in round numors, $530 more than was subscribed for the same purpose pur-pose last year. By the will of the late poet, Aubrev de Yere. the copyright of his published works, with ail profits to arise from the sale thereof. Is bequeathed to Cardinal Vaughan to be applied for the purpose of the religious education of Catholics, and especially Irish Catholics in Eng- j ' land. - . A few days before his death, the late Archbishop Erie of Glasgow celebrated the diamond jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood. Owing to the illness there were no special services, save prayers Jn his behalf offered up In all the Glasgow churches. The king, in sending the Earl of Denbigh Den-bigh to Rome, as his envoy, charged to convey to the Pope congratulations on the silver jubilee of hia papacy, was mostly concerned to follow thc precedent set by Queen Ylctorla in 1SS7. when both she and the pontiff had a golden Jubilee, she of her reign and he of his episcopate. The Rt. Rev. Matthew Gaughran, O. M. 1.. D. D.. was consecrated bishop of Kimberley. S. A., at Lelth. Scotland, by the Most Rev. James A. Smith. D. D., archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, Edin-burgh, assisted by Auxiliary Bisbop Ma-guire Ma-guire of Glasgow and Bishop Chisholm of Aberdeen. The Hon. and Rt. Rev. Monsignor Stonor has obtained for the Catholic Association As-sociation Pilgrims who leave London on May 6. a dispensation from the Holy Father from fasting and abstinence during dur-ing the time of thc- pilgrimage. Arrangements Arrange-ments are also being made bv Mrs. Stonor in regard to the audience the pilgrims pil-grims will have with His Holiness. ' Father Lejune. prefect apostolic of Lower Xiger. writes that the missions under his care are flourishing. Although Al-though work was begun oniy in K95. already al-ready there are three stations with resident resi-dent missionaries, five churches, two chapels, nine priests and seven lav brothers, belonging to the Congregation of the Holy Ghost, together with twelve extra catechists. .... Wasn't Worried. There was no modesty about Rhodes. He knew he was Rhodes and he wanted everybody else to know that he was Rhodes. It is related that the only man who ever got even with him in the matter mat-ter of personalities was a little German clerk in the government office' at Johannesburg. Jo-hannesburg. . Rhodes had to stand in line and he didn't like it. He had not been used to standing in line in South Africa, or anywhere else, for that matter. mat-ter. "Please attend to me at once," ho said. "I can t wait." "When your turn comes", mister," mumbled the clerk. "Confound you, sir, don't you know who I am? I'm Rhodes.'" "Oh, yes. I know that, but that don't worry me," was the unruffled reply. j "If you were in Cape Town I'd have ! you discharged in a minute!" roared Croesus. J "Yes. I have, heard that they dis-1 charged people in Cape Town for doing their duty," answered the clerk, "but we ain't in Cape Town. This is a re-, public." ! . i |