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Show Religious Intelligence, Father Chiderick will lecture -on ''Japan," ''Ja-pan," and Father MeCorry, Paulist. qn "The Story Beautiful" before; Buffalo audiences in the near future. 4 ' In Chicago the Sisters of the Good Shepherd are about to begin" the erec-lion erec-lion of a new institution to cost $350,-000. $350,-000. The papal secretary of etate is to be known henceforth by his Irish patronymic. patro-nymic. He will be called Cardinal Merry, the cumbrous del Val being dropped. " 4 - " Very Rev. Thomas F. Lille, who has been named as Leavenworth's new bishop. Is a native of Missouri. He has been pastor of St. Patrick's church, Kansas City, previous to his appointment appoint-ment as vicar general. Rev. Father William St. Elmo Smith, the courageous chaplin of the New ; i York fire department, suffered a stroke of paralysis on .Oct. 2. It is expected that he will be able to return to duty I in a month or so. . ! It has been decided to begin at once the .work preliminary to the erection of , the new cathedral at St. Paul, Minn. Rev. W. H. L. Reayney was elected chaplain-in-chief of the Spanish AYar j Veterans' association at the annual i convention held inSt. Louis. Father ! Reaney was chaplain of the Olympia. j Admiral Dewey's ship, during the battle ! of .Manila bay, and is a son of Captain , Reaney of the United States lighthouse service. . Father Bernard ,Vaughan of London has been selected by a commission of cardinals sitting in. Rome to preach in : that city on the occasion of the great celebrations in connection with the jubilee ju-bilee of the definition of the dogma of the immaculate conception. Dec. 8. .. t Arrangements are said to have been made by the bishop of Cremona for sending 100 Italian emigrant families to the island of Cuba, where plan? hive been made for their entering agv'cul-tural agv'cul-tural pursuits. .Count Pecci. the nephew neph-ew of the late pope, is interested in the scheme. His wife has large property interests in the island. t- Move than 100 clergyment gathered at St. John's ecclesiastical seminary. Boston, Bos-ton, last week, to take part in the exercises ex-ercises connected with the unveiling of a memorial to the late Abbe Hogan, first president of the seminary. Archbishop Arch-bishop Williams was present. The memorial me-morial monument is a gift or the alumni of the seminary. The parish school of the Mission Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Roxbury, Mass., opened its fall session with a rollcall by actual count of 1,001 pupils. European exchanges are publishing a report that Archbishop Walsh of Dublin Dub-lin is to be made a cardinal. So many Catholic peasants continue I to leave Brittany on account of the persecution of religion there by the French government that the minister of the interior' has- sent a circular to all the communities of that department depart-ment urging the ofticials to stop the exodus. Here is a declaration that deserves a little more than a week's attention, says an English exchange. One of th speakers at the Catholic Truth, society's so-ciety's conference at 'Birmingham last week said if all Catholics became total abstainers for eight weeks and gave the savings thus effected to the Catholic Cath-olic war chest they would not only have the 1,000,000 they wanted for school work, but many thousands for rescue and preventive work. Lecturing in Dublin on "Catholic Government." Rev. Father Edwin, O. S. F. C B. A., L. Ph.. Louvian, pointed out that Germanv with a population of 55,000,000, has over 20.000,000 Catholics, and that the Catholic provinces of th Rhine, Westphalia and Silesia are prosperous, pros-perous, while the Protestant provinces are amongst the poorest of the empire. The United States hag been largely built up by Irish Catholic brains and blood, while England owed Magna Charta to Catholics of the stamp of Stephen Langton. Primate of Englanl and a cardinal of the Catholic, church. English laws were the product- of the Catholics, Alfred the Great and St. Edward Ed-ward '.the Confessor. Catholic Austria is progressing, and still more Catholic Belgium, while the Protestant countries of Holland. Sweden and ' Norway are descending to obscurity. Father Edwin gave a detailed account; of the extraordinary extra-ordinary progress which Belgium has made since the Catholic party cam? into power twenty years ago. |