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Show f f I , -j ; " "This is the 5 -' L 1 tl IT ' fr victory which ; c p Cqwcq 'utiwtrsal tte j I - faith." J CHURCH CALENDAR. Sunla.v. Jan. 17 Second after Epiphany. Holy ' St' Anthony, Ab. r-n,1iv Jan. IS St. Peters chair at Koine. I'r -ca' V. M. St. Wolfred. B. M. 1 ' Tui-sday. Jan. 15) St. Wulstan, B. St. Maris, M Si. Sulpi'S B. Wnlay. Jan. 20 St. Fabian, P. 31. St. Se-; Se-; l..,Miaii'. M. St. FechhVAb. ' ' ' Tliur.-lflv. Jan. 21 St. Agnos, V. 31. St. Vivian, j St. FriKtu.-puf. B. M. . i.v;,i;-.-- Jan. 22 Sts. Vincent and Anastasius, M M- S;iturl;iy. Jan. 2:"! Espousals of Our Lady. St. .;inf-rH!'iann, V. M. V - ANAECHISTS CAUSE TROUBLE IN CHURCH. TI;r'' men created a small riot in St. Casi-i Casi-i incrV Lithuanian Hem an Catholic church, Pitts-i Pitts-i liuiM. "ii Jan. 1(1, by making the declaration that Si''-i-- f Charily were not good women. The were denounced by the pastor, Rev. Father lolm S. Sutkeiteis, as anarchists, and he boldly tiers tie-rs , l,i!cd that they were implicated in the plot to as-' as-' m-inate President McKinley. ! j Tlie occasion for the trouble was a meeting to jirr.uige for work in the parochial "schools of the Lurch. The usefulness of the Sisters in this work . I just bceen praised by one of the speakers when I .! man in the audience arose and said: 1 "We will not have the sisters. They are not ;" I women, and, being such, should not have con- ir.il of -our children." ; Immediately there was confusion. The speaker was joined by two others and, standing in the pew, i they defied the men of the meeting to attack them. A ruh was being made for the three men when ih" priest told hi" congregation to let them depart in ieace. In the meantime a police call had been sent in from the episcopal residence, but when' 'ilie oiheers arrived the intruders jiad been allowed j i.( depart. The priest later said the disturbance I was not raised because of the Sisters, but because j ihe anarchists had declared his life forfeited. The ! reason for this he is unable to explain. lie said ! ;i band of anarchists exists in Pittsburg and holds regular meetings, lie said he learned this from Lawrence Pious, a college chum of his in Russia, ! who drew the lot which made him the choice of I ihe '"reds" to murder President McKinnley. Pious I refused to carry out the plot and fled to Michigan, I when?. he died. Father Sutkeities told the police S rhat he was convinced the anarchists were prcpar- ing to take his life and his residence was strongly I guarded by officers. j POPE PIUS X AND THE JEWS. I Anti-Jewish prejudices will receive no eneour-. j agement from the ii';v Pope, writes the Marquise, j de Fontenoy. Pius X has many warm friends I among the Hebrew race. He was first brought into . j contact with the latter when a parish priest at Tom-, j bola, where for three successive summers he was j tutor to the boy of a Jewish banker who had his i country place in' the neighborhood. When trans- f erred as rector to Salzano he became the most in- ' limflte friend of a Jewish manufacturer, Romain I Jacur. and was an almost daily guest at his house. On taking up his residence at Mantua as Bishop he was delighted to. find his friend Jacur estab- i ilished there, and became once more a habitue of his 'liuse. and when elected Pope last summer it was. y- uris Jewish friend, now a senator, who drew up the message of congratulation dispatched by the mu- nicipal authorities of the city of Mantua to its I former Bishop. At Venice, too, when Patriarch there Pius ! mingled freely with Jews, 'associating with many of them in his numerous charitable "undertakings, while some of the leading Hebrew bankers of the city did not hesitate to intrust tb him the distribu- ' tion of that part of their wealth which they de- voted to good works. A , VIRTUES OF MAID OF ORLEANS. The Congregation of Rites; at its session Jan. . f.. officially proclaimed the virtues and-heroic deeds of the Maid of Orleans. All the members of the congregation were present pres-ent except its prefect, Cardinal Cretoni, who has been ill since the conclave.1' In his absence Cardinal Fcrrata acted as prefect. Aire, me: those present were all the members of the French embassy accredited to the Vatican, many members of the Papal court and other high dignitaries digni-taries of the Church, and-about one hundred invited in-vited guests, including a number of French priests and laymen. Monsignor Panici. secretary of the Congregation Congrega-tion of Rites, read the Papal bull admitting the virtues of Joan of Arc, and the - Bishop of 'Or--leans, who had. dedicated his life to bringing about' the heatificalion.of Joan of Arc, replied, thanking . i tin- Pope for ihe honor conferred upon France. I PIUS X'S OLD NICKEL WATCH. An.. Italian newspaper tells .a charming story -...I H iIiK Pius X. 'lis Holiness recently received in audience Mon-Mnor Mon-Mnor Scahibrini. Bishop of PJaisanoo, one of the ric hest and most widely known Italian prelates. louring their conversation His Holiness drew ' -"-. r 1 1 his watch, an old, worn," blackened timepiece. '" tiio simplest of nickel cases, worth perhaps $2 most. .Moiisignor Scalabrini could not repress a smile, ' ;in.!, being an old friend of the Pope, he said: "Your Holiness, permit me to exchange watches i t wiih you. We will both gain by ihe transac- ' i'-ii." Wiih ihesc words he pulled forth a magnificent j watch, studded with diamonds, and respect-'..iiy respect-'..iiy haudel it to the Pope. Tint Pius X shook his head and exclaimed: "I part with my old nickel watch Xever! 1 value i' more ihan anything I possess. . It is a remein- j ' l.r;i;:c of my dear old mother, it marked the hour L r death, and 1 would not part with it for all tl.e riches in the world." ' ' .' . And ihe Bishou says he saw tears in the eyes j ff :h- veneralde Pontiff. IRREVFREXCE IX CHURCH. O.-ejisiuiially the Catholic press and frequently '1: "atholic pulpit give the layman sharp reminders ' :!ie subject of church decorum. And when they 1" iheir reward is as a rule sharper censure. Yet i; i not a fact that both have ample justification Is ilirie not an increasing carelessness in this par-T.Lir par-T.Lir on the part of many members i Do they not v tL t jn their conduct the customs of the non-CiM non-CiM h. , je congregations? Is their participation in I 1Vie si i viees not : actually irreverent ? OLorvations confirms the necessity of the repri-I:;arn!s. repri-I:;arn!s. There are those who refuse to wet their finp-i rs or so; tlic-ir gloves by contact with the holy, iit'-r at the door. ' The sign of the cross upon en-1pring en-1pring -hurch they never make. They enter the J''w without genuflecting and bless themselves with I n flourish that is ridiculous. When sitting they as-I as-I M1!l!l a barroom sprawl and when feigning prayer I t'1 ,V c'vr" 0110 110 or worsuIl1 a(Mnc i'H their j ''f,(ly for nu'ckery. At the cloFe of' the services tliey ' '''iago iho fiit acquaintance in conversation until If llu' felroc-t is reached.; - ' i . ' - 5 Wherein do these persons give indication that the church is the house of God By what act have they manifested a belief that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is really and truly present in the tabernacle taber-nacle and on the altar Have they actually heard Mass? Have they not, perhaps, been the. occasion of scandal? I fact, have they not insulted Gcd rather than paid Him homage Is such conduct not most severely reprehensible ? What makes the matter worse, these individuals are unusually of a class accustomed to requirements require-ments of good society. They arc over-particular about the slightest foVms at social' functions and the severest critics of any infractions. Is it not strange that they should exercise refinement in the parlor and take their barroom manners to church It is hard totell which has been put on for the occasion. oc-casion. But at all events, both press and pulpit are justified in their efforts to correct the evil. Church Progress. .HEAD OF THE PAULISTS DEAD. In the death of Rev. Father Deshon, Superior-General Superior-General of the Missionary Order of St. Paul, the Apostle, a striking fisrure is removed from the Catholic Cath-olic Church in the United States. Father Deshon recokned it amongst his greatest distinctions that he was a classmate of General V. S. Grant at West Point. Indeed, the story goes that the distinguished Paulist outdistanced his celebrated classmate in the study of the science of war. But Father Deshon lived to inculcate the arts of jeace. He did so in a notable degree, for -he assisted at the foundation and later m shaped the policy of the Paulist Fathers. Fath-ers. The deceased Superior . of the Paulists was born in the historic city of XewT London. He canie of Huguenot stock, but entered the Catholic Church in the days of his young manhood. As in his student stu-dent days he was associated with men who became illustrious in his country's councils of war, so in his early priesthood he was identified with ecclesiastics ecclesias-tics who attained distinction. Father Deshon was a worthy associate of Fathers Ilecker, Hewitt, Baker Ba-ker and Walworth. Father Deshon was the last survivor sur-vivor of a noble band who wrought well for God and country. Peace to the ashes of the soldier-priest. Catholic Transcript. PIUS X PLEADS FOR PEACE. In an interview with the Pope cabled to a Xew York newspaper the Sovereign Pontiff is quoted as follows in reply to a request to intercede in Macedonia Mace-donia : . ''Perhaps I have done more, my son, than you know of. "I do not wish to interfere in politics unless I know that action will be effectual for doing good. "For instance, the other day, when it appeared as if there was the prospect; of war and bloodshed in Colombia, I communicated with the American government and -received a most courteous and cordial reply. Vith regard to the Macedonians, only a few days ago I received a letter from the Sultan himself him-self an extraordinary document, which was principally prin-cipally taken up with congratulating me on the efforts I had made in the cause of peace." CORRECT AND INCORRECT. fgs" It is the correct thing To stand while being incensed at Solemn High . Mass. ,' To remember that the vestibule of the church is not a reception room for the interchange of friendly greetings and current gossip. To remember that for; each - day of the week there is a special devotion: V Sunday The Holy Trinity. . '' " Monday The souls in purgatory.'' Tuesday The guardian angels. Wednesday St. Joseph. . . ' Thursday The Blessed Sacrament. ... Friday The Sacred Heart and the Passion. ' Saturday The Blessed Virgin. . For ladies occupying end seats to move up when others enter the pew. For gentlemen occupying the end seat to move up or rise and let ladies pass in before them. It is not the correct thing To march up the aisle to a front pew if one enters en-ters church after Mass has begun, especially during the sermon. For men and boys to loiter around the church entrance staring at passers-by. To leave the church as if exhausted and glad to get out. To be late for Mass. To stalk hurriedly and noisily up the aisle. To ignore the holy water font at the entrance. To give a little bobbing courtesy instead of the proper genuflection before entering the pew. POLES WHO ARE PROTESTANTS. We have often been curious to know the number of Protestant Poles in the United States, having heard so much from Catholic and Protestant sources of wholesale perversion or conversion among them. The information is at hist supplied by the Rev. C.,V. Strole, of the Polish Baptist Mission, Detroit. At a recent ''rally" in the First Baptist-Church Baptist-Church in that city he stated that the Poles in this country number about 1,500,000. "The grand total of Polish Protestants is not over 2,000' There arc 280 Polish Baptists and'SOO Polish Lutherans. The Congregationalists, who for twenty years have labored la-bored to pervert Catholic Poles in Detroit, have ''a nice church with sixty members." ' Of Polish Episcopalians, Epis-copalians, Mr. Strole made no mention, and we judge they must be few in number ; for he remarked re-marked that "the Lutherans have done better in their work of conversion than any other Protestant body. It is easier for them to convert my people, because they have a cross on their steeples of their churches and make them resemble the Catholic edifices" edi-fices" It is consoling .to. believe, j-emeinbering how they, have been seduced, that these poor ignorant Poles will soon return to the Church. They have not. 'apostatized, only strayed away, like that good priest of our acquaintance a professor in one of our largest seminaries, by the way who dropped into an Episcopalian Church and recited all his Breviary so the story goes before discovering his mistake. It is for zealous shepherds to seek out those lost sheep and lead them back to the Fold. Ave Maria. MISSIONARY COLLEGE. It is a significant fact that within a few months almost a hundred thousand dollars have been collected col-lected for the missionary college at Washington, the purpose of which is to equip young priests with special preparation for work among non-Catholics in this country. There were two gifts amounting to ten thousand dollars each, but the rest of the1 large sum was mad? up of smaller contributions, ranging from five dollars upward. -That such a large sum should be collected with so little noise is proof of the intense interest aroused .the country over by the missions to non-Catholics. It is proof, too, of the splendid zeal and generosity of Ameri- , can Catholics when an appeal is made for, tho. right . cause in the "right, way. But the most gratif-rrg fact revealed by an examination of. the list of donors. is thc'uumb'er of "bishops and priests who 'figure in i " - ' it. For example, fourteen of the thirty-three foun ders already enrolled a; founder is one who contributes con-tributes a thousand 'dollars 3f more are clergymen; indeed, considerably more' than one-fourth of the total amount collected was contributed by the bish-' ops and priests of the- country. "Money talks," says the proverb, and these contributions speak eloquently elo-quently of the interest of the diocesan clergy in the sheep which are "not of this fold." Ave Maria. . SAY YOUR PRAYERS. Good morning. It is. a very simple matter, yet j acquaintance would wonder, or possibly be offended, if anyone forgot this simple act of politeness and token of friendship. Xow,'there is One who is always al-ways more near to us than any of our. friends; One who loves us more dearly than the fondest mother ; One who just yearns for that mark of affection, the 'Good morning." It is God Almighty Himself.. How often people pass Him by without as much as noticing Him! Yet they demand, as a matter of course, that He should provide for their minutest minu-test wants during that. very day. They demand the enjoyment of His compiiny in heaven, though they slight Him days without nuniW on earth. What if they slighted their friends and neighbors in like manner Would they be welcome at the; banquet table, or at some game, after, such rudeness, not to say unf riendliuess ' - ' '; SALE OF FRIAR LANDS. An agreement has bc6n reached, says the Xew Century, between Governor Taft and the friars providing pro-viding for the settlement of the friar "land question" ques-tion" in the Pilippines. The Holy Father has given his approval of the terms of the settlement and the approval of the War Department is awaited. The settlement provides for the purchase of 103,-000 103,-000 acres, comprising all the agricultural lands and holdings of the friars, 'with the exception of 12,000 acres, including a farm near Manila, which has been sold to a railroad company, and also one sugar plantation. ' The price agreed upon is $7,250,000. 'The friar3 originally asked $154000,000. V Governor Taft's first offer was $0,000,000. We hear from Rome that upon receipt of the news of the settlement of the friar land dispute, the Holy Father expressed his delight. "It is the best Christmas box I could have had," he said. General satisfaction is expressed in Rome over the result of the negotiations. ITALIAN KING'S GIFT. The Italian King, whose visit to the Italian Hospital in Queen Square, arranged to take place on the journey to the Guildhall, was for. some reason rea-son of police caution cancelled, has made, to that institution the munificent gift of a thousand pounds as a special mark of approval of its work, and as sign of his regret at not himself being able to visit it. In that act Victor Emmanuel has copied the example of our own sovereign, whose "charity has now become a byword. On so signal a present the Italian Hospital is to be congratulated, and especially es-pecially the Sisters of Charity who have aarge of the establishment, which has gained the Italian King's approval London Universe. THE HEAD OF ST. JOHN. By direction of His Holiness, the head of St. John the Baptist has been removed from the Vatican Vati-can to San Silvestro in Capite. On Sept. 19, 1870, while the Italian hosts whitened whit-ened the hills around Rome, His Holiness, Pope Pius IX, ordered the removal to the Vatican of the more remarkable relics of the Eternal City. Mgr. (now Cardinal) Sanminiatelli Zabarella. who was private participant chamberlain, drove to5an Silvestro Sil-vestro in Capite and removed thence its two historic his-toric relics, the Edessene Portrait 'of. the Redeemer . and the head of St. John the Baptist. Trr the early '00s, after the abolition of some of the changes occasioned oc-casioned by the facts of. 1870, ,the reetor of the church petitioned the pontiff for the return of the two relics. Leo XIII , taking the request into consideration, bade that they should be brought - from the deposit, de-posit, which is in charge of the papal sacristan, in order that he might see and venerate them. lie ex-. amined both reverently, and conceived a 'love for them. Desiring to acquaint himself ith their literature, lit-erature, he ordered that a monograph about their history should be compiled. This Dr. William J. D. Croke drew up in December, De-cember, 1893: "De Vultu Sacrosancto Domini Xos-tri Xos-tri Jesu Christi Dicto Edesseho" (Romae, ex Typography Typo-graphy a Pace, Phillippi Cuggiani, 1893). But the relics, instead of losing their hold on the affection af-fection of the Pope's piety, were set upon the altar of his private chapel, and were not . returned to their church of San Silvestoro. After the conclave of August last a new petition was drawn up and presented to Pope Pius X. A few days ago Cardinal Car-dinal Merry del Val and some prelates of the Vatican Vati-can were in the relic deposit, when a knock was heard at the door. It was His Holiness. He entered en-tered and passed around, examining the wonderful collection, which exceedingly few visitors or residents resi-dents have been privileged to see. When lie reached the head of the precursor the cardinal secretary of state asked what should be done with it. The pontiff pon-tiff replied that it should return to San Silvestro. "Then," answered the cardinal, "I must take measures meas-ures to carry out the Command of your Holiness?" This was accordingly done and the rojic was transferred trans-ferred to the church, where the clergy received it with religious ceremonies. The head is complete except for the chin, which is at Genoa. . CATHOLIC DIRECTORY NAMES. ; Among the 12,908 priests whoso names arc ! given in the Catholic Directory, Murphy has an even 100 representatives, followed bv.Wash with 78, Ryan73, Kelly 72, O'Reilly 04, O'Brien 71, Smith 51, O'Connor (J2, Brady 54, Fitzgerald 42, Sullivan 50, Lynch 42, Quinn 49, McCarthy 35, Burke 30, Byrne 27, Mueller 27, Ilickey 25, Carroll 30, Kennedy Ken-nedy 38, O'Connell 27, O'Xeill 20, Brennan 23. Mc-Cabe Mc-Cabe 24, O'Sullivan 25. Barry 20, Daly 23, Gallagher Galla-gher 29, Meyer 30, Murray 27, Ward 20 and Schmidt 17. Every letter of the alphabet is represented, repre-sented, even X, though with only one name. Over 000 names have the prefix Mc' over 500 that- of O', while Van and Von claim nearly 100. - : CATHOLIC OPINION. Boston has re-elected a Catholic Mayor by the largest plurality ever given a candidate for the office of-fice in that city. There are many lessons in the result, re-sult, not the least, of which is that the practical Catholic makes a good public officer. Church Progress. Pro-gress. . N In his beautiful sermon last Sunday on the nature na-ture and value of Time, the Rev. Dr. ..Locke, of the Delaware Avenue Methodist Church, this city.' spoke of "the angel that lies in a rude, unfinished block of marble," but forgot to mention the author of this beautiful thought.. It was none other than the poor benighted "Romanist," '.one Michael Ahgelo, who, seeing a splendid block of marble that jtruck his fancy, as he 'passed along, exclaimed to his companions: com-panions: "There is an angel imprisoned there, and 1 will liberate him."' Union and Times. - -f . ' '", An alleged critic in the London Xews has. the hardihood to declare that the best English is' spoken in Scotland. Hoot mon ! Even the literary savage, Carlyle, growling Scot though he was, would remove his pipe to grin at such a. statement."! It has. long been the consensus of the dneftet h that, the4 ; English .language is -spoken, with ' greater propriety ', in Dublin,' the. capital of .Ireland. i-than anywhere else in the world. Union and Times. . ' i |