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Show ; t , lo ,-,-, ' : ' . ' I ' j " "This is the I C. p Church Universal Sr ! II faith." ; ! CHUECH CALENDAK. lYbriiiU-y Devotion The Holy Rosary. !ml;i.v, 7 Sexageshua. S. Romnald, Ah. t'. iltiy. S. .John of -Muthu. S. Cuthman. ( M;;rivr- of Japan.) . Tuc-Liy. ;) -S. Cyril of Alexandria, bd. S. Apol-orii;i. Apol-orii;i. vni. Woiliifxlay. 10 S. Seholastica, v. S. Soteris, Vm;. (S. '! Prilto.) Thur-d.-ty. 11 S. Gilbert of Scnn.ringhom, Ab. (hir L.-tdy "i l."urde. , Friday. :.' Passion of Our Lord. S. Dennett Jii .A!.: .r S.-tfiir.ljiy. M S. Kent.ift-crn. Lb. Glasgow. Seven Nth'v F-.tinuers. (S. Telesphorns. p.) JOAN OF ARC. f Tin- decree on iho Heroic Virtues of Joan .of i lr- vas read on the Fen-I (.f the Epiphany in the i I "'i:-iioral hall of the Vatican palace, in the pres- y! "' "t the Holy Father, who va- surrounded by ! members of his court and a number of Car-" I; t-'inals and distinguished visitors, to Rome. In the i .i' .-ree a sketch is given of the Maid of Domremy, v. li is described as having emulated the courage U v f 1( l.orah, .lael and .ludilh. The struggle which s she made for her country is notieed in sonic del ail, L : nl ihe account of ihe final mi is as follows: "Her eause having been tried by most corrupt .nidges, the innocent, virgin was condemned to be 1 burned, and bravely endured the penalty on the "'ill of May, 3431, her eyes fixed on the crucifix, Iht lips pouring: forth fervent prayers and. asking prayer. for the authors of her death in the presence pres-ence of ihe great crowd there assembled." The jj Mops taken in the eause . of her beatification are b ilieii mentioned, and it is added that "the Holy I Valher decreed that in the case of Joan of Arc such sure knowledge had been acquired with regard re-gard to ihe theological virtues of faith, hope and charity toward.- God and the neighbor, and with repect to the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, j fortitude, temperance and the like, lhat it was safe to proceed further, that is, t the discussion jof the four miracles." This decree His Holiness ordered or-dered 10 ,o published and inserted in the Acts of the -Sacred ( 'rnjrroalion of Rites. 1. The decree having been promulgated, Mgr. T'-ii'-het, Pishop "f Orleans, thanked the Holy Fa-ther Fa-ther lor having at the commencement, of a Pontificate Pon-tificate which gave so much promise paid this lienor to the Heroine of Orleans, who was ihe in-- in-- carnation of French patriotism. ''May the good ! and chivalrous child,'1 said the bishop, in eonclud- !' ing "may Joan of Arc. renewing one of the no- Mist works of her mortal career, obtain for France hnly peace of mind and the union of hearts for France, which is so gentle when it is uuited, and fo humane when it is peaceful." The 1ih delivered a brief address in Latin, expressing ihe joy this occasion afforded him. His Holiness said lhat amidst the difficulties of the present hour the life of the heroic maiden gave Catholics and lovers of France a lesson in' cour-itsi' cour-itsi' and M'lf-sucrifie. Upon this topic the London Catholic Times says: Think what we may of the visions and-' voices j in which Joan of Arc so firmly believed, history does not niter a nobler example of the power of v faith than Iter marvellous career. This daughter of a peasani. so innocent, so devoid of a knowledge of 1 lie world, believed that heaven called upon her Jo had Charles VII to Rheims in order that he might be there anointed as king at a time when, in the language of the decree which gives the seal of eon-ecrat ion 1o her heroic virtue, the affairs of France were in a lamentable condition. Charles was completely demoralized, and courage and initiative ini-tiative had abandoned the most energetic leaders. And dcpite obstacles of every kind, not the least bej'nrr the pusillanimity of Charles . himself, she "accomplished better than a man would have done ihe mission which God had entrusted to her' Stranger still to relate, God, who guided and protected pro-tected the wonderful maiden in her glorious deeds, rosen-ed for her an awful fate when her work was done. She was publicly burned. Suffering is the bi ihat God assigns to all His choice servants, and his leaches ns the losson that in J lis designs trib-uiatioii trib-uiatioii js the touchstone of merit, and the stepping -t"iie t.j heavenly rewards. BACK TO THE FAITH. " An extraordinary example of return to the church alter nearly fifty years of apostacy occurred lately in Chicago. The facts arc vouched for by. iio Detroit. Journal and are as follows: Father, i L. La Fontaine, when a young priest, was .per-' 1 by Cbiniquy and followed him to St. Annev near Kankakee, 111., where he taught school for I s( ITal years "ami was afterwards ordained as a I Pp'-l vteriaii preacher. lie officiated in the 'St. Anne Presbyterian church for many years, and finally resigned to j cj-eti i. birgt-st More in the village. He became rich, married into one of the mot aristocratic families of the picturesque little French-Canadian town, and was the father of two daughters.. One "i ihoe is Mrs. L. F. Scott, wife of a Denver capitalist. cap-italist. Though he pro;pered beyond his most sanguine san-guine expectation:-, it was always evident to the friends of Father La Fontaine that his mind was H"t cu-v and thai he yearned for the old t'ait and be liar, been known to expre-s' regret because he ' 1 h it the church. i At last, a lew in-nth:- ago, when he was 75 years J 1 of age, the prodigal returned to the bosom of the F I irue church ami left all behind. He is said to have 1 entered a monastery to do penance ihere for the remainder of his days. His example shows how h.ng-.siiffering and infinite is the mercy of God and inav be cited as an encouragement to thoo despairing despair-ing sjnncrs who are tempted to lose all hope because be-cause of the length of lime they have spent in grievous sin. NEW BISHOP FOR COLUMBUS, lit. Rev. James J. Hartley, bis-hop-t'loct of the -iioccse of Columbus, will be consecrated on Feb. -.'. the feast of St. Matthew, in his own parish Church of the Holy Xani", at Sleuhenville, O. The appointment came to Father Hartley when he was immersed in the work of erecting a fine new school, and so reluctant was he to out rust its completion to new hands that he determined, if possible to remain with his people long enough to finish the task. In the meantime he has appointed Rt. Rev. Mgr. F. !X. Spechl. V. G.. administrator of the diocese. j Rishop-elect Hartley was born Juneji. !.,". in J St. Patrick's parish. Columbus. O. He attended the parochial school there. The present Bishop of Litlle Rock was then pastor of Si. JVickV, and Bishop Roscerans also lived in this parish, as the cathedral was not yet built. The bishop-elect began be-gan his studies for the priesthood at St. Aloysius' seminary. Columbus. This iiisiinnion closing:, he continued his studies at St. Mary's, Cincinnati, tnd made his iheologieal 'our.se at ihe Seminarv of ' Our Lady of the Angeb. .Niagara Falls, X. Y. He ! was. ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Watter- p"ti June -.", S82, in St. Joseph's -cathedral. Co- lumbus. His first mission was Steuhenville. Here I ie has sixnt the twenty-two years oi his ministry. J . In disposition he is htunble and unaspiring, seek ing always to obliterate self in anything he has " ' - . . -7 . ' .I.IIIWH ever done. He is a favorite with the priests, a deep student and an excellent financier. His parish par-ish is the model of the entire diocese, the church property at Steuhenville ranking with the finest in the state, and ibis despite, the fact that his congregation congre-gation is composed almost' entirely of poor working people.' ENGLISHMEN AS SAINTS. "Jhe English undoubtedly are a religious people; peo-ple; 1 have noticed that both in Loudon and'else-i and'else-i where." So writes a French Benedictine. Dom ! Roulin. whose words have been translated for the Ampleforth Journal by the Rev. J. A. Watmore. O.S.B. Yet in the same periodical Bishop Hedley j complains that sin-.? the days of the Heptarchy ' then; lias been a lamentable absence of English names from the list of the canonized saints. One or two in the Middle Ages and the martyrs of Henry and Elizabeth arc all that we can boast, says the London Catholic Timjs. The bishop observes that in spite of the prevailing Protestantism of the last three hundred and fifty years the proportion ought to have beeu greater. Perhaps the explanation is, as his lordship suggests, j that whilst the natural virtues are held in high j esteem by the people, there is not a due apprecia-j apprecia-j lion of the supernatural. In ihe canonization of the saints the church teaches that it is the, supernatural super-natural virtues that God values, and that natural gifts and endowments are at the. best only- not. evil, unless they are subordinated' to -and. transformed by qualities of a higher land. - But probably. the remissness of the friends and admirers-of saintly people, who have died also helps to account 'for the paucity of English names on the calendar. 'Though the importance of what is -supernatural cannot 'be said to be overlooked in Ireland, Ssi? in about the same position as England with -regard to the li.sts ! of saints in recent Venturics.' ' .' ." j A FALSE CHARGE. j One of the charges which anli-clerical papers ! . have been making against the religious orders in France in order to justify their expulsion is the contribution by the members of those orders of more lhan an ordinary percentage to the statistics of criminality. It now appears that for the purpose pur-pose of bolstering up this charge they put forward false figures, which have been widely copied outside out-side France. The Rev. George Bertin, a professor in the Catholic Institute, Paris, has made nn examination ex-amination of government figures it will be rend'Ty admitted that the compilers were not particularly favorable to the religious orders and he has discovered dis-covered that in the four years ending with 1901 the proportion of convicted criminals per 100,000 in the liberal professions was as follows: Lawyers, notaries and procurators, 48; artists, :?; medical men, IS; lay masters of schools, over 6; religious masters of schools, over ."; members of the clergy, including masters, V,. Whilst these figures bear witness to the superior morality of the "clericals,'' it .is to be 'noted that juvenile crime is assuming alarming proportions in France. Within twelve months 027 persons between IS and 20 years of age, were brought up at the Assizes, and fifttbree male and sixty-seven female youth of from 16 to IS years old committed suicide.. People are asking if this shocking record is not the fruit of godless education. edu-cation. London Catholic Times. MOTHER SUPERIOR HEIR TO MILLIONS. Xews comes from Dos Moines, la., that Sister Mary Philomena,-.the mother superior of Mercy hospital in that city, found herself the other day 1he heir of an estate valued at $15,000,000. The estate is that, of her uncle, who died in Australia ten years ago. Hi name was John McCormick and his home was at Melbourne. He owned several sev-eral gold mines, sheep ranches and other valuable properties. The two brothers, John and Henry, left in early youth for Australia, and nothing had since been heard of them. The McCormick family came to ibis country from Ireland in ISaO and settled at Germantown, Pa. Mary married a man named Keating and moved to Davenport in lS.r3. Sister Philomena is a daughter of Mary Keating. Two brothers and two sisters at Davenport will inherit the fortune with Sister Philomena. ; - FEDERATION OF CATHOLIC SOCIETIES. ' Detroit, Mich., Jan. 31. About 2,000 persons . were present in the light guard armory today at a :niass meeting that marked the close of the semi-' semi-' annual meeting of the advisory board and executive execu-tive board of the American Federation of Catholic , Societies, Speaking of the aims of the federation, Bishop McFaul of Trenton. X. J., said it would accomplish ac-complish much in the direction of doing away with two great deficiencies of the Catholic church. One of these he said, was the lack of organized Catholic Cath-olic opinion, the other being the lack of an organ to disseminate such an opinion if it existed. j "Retain the present public school system," said Bishop McFaul, "but do not bar Catholics out of their rights as citizens. The federation has taken an admirable stand on this question. Its platform is: That there shall be no public moneys paid out for religious instruction in any school. But let the state examine our schools and if on examination it is found that we are giving the children an education educa-tion which comes up to the requirements of the state, then let the state pay for it." The board decided that a special organization fund of $."i,CC0 should be raised. THE PRONUNCIATION OF LATIN. To the Editor of the Xew Freeman, St. John, X. B. : Sir There are three ways thereof known amongst us. (a) The modern Italian way; with the normal vowels of all languages, except modern English; and with soft c pronounced as tch. (b) The modern English way, against wltose introduction Milton protested, with the abnormal vowels, ay, ec, igh. (c) The probable old Roman way; with ihe normal nor-mal vowels of all languages, except , modern English; Eng-lish; but with c and g-always hard; as they are in the other pronunciations except before e and i; j o. g. ago, acutus, pronounced, for "consonants, alike in all three pronunciations. ' v I Between (a), the modern Roman or Italian and fc the probable vdd Roman, there is very little difference. I omit some minor de Vails'. The greater great-er differences." lie between (a) and (e) on' the one hand and (b) on the other. May I ask why shouuL(a) or (c) or even (b) be termed cacophony.' ' (a) is an attempt at Leo XIII : (e) at Cicero, and (b) aKthe English' gentleman's Latin, at least between Walpolo and Peel. As to the linguistic question it is certainly of souio interest, and might be treated scientifically, ' on; would think. It is a question of facts, to begin with. Is everybody ev-erybody who knows agreed that (c) does most nearly near-ly approach the old Roman way Is it a fact that they probably pronounced c and g hard? I heard Dr. Shaban of the Catholic university at Washington say the other day that it was au injustice to teach any boy now in school or college any other pronunciation. It puts liixn at a disadvantage disad-vantage as to his scholarship. Is it a fact that all nibdem grammars issued by, Oxford and Cambridge men give (c) as the old Roman pronunciation? It is a fact, of course, that in the other English speaking world of America this pronunciation ha3 been generally adopted. I know there is' one exception. Of course, there is. the other question, i. e.: Do you wish to pron0un.ee like old Romans, or like modern Romans? And, .of course, in the Latin church this language has naturally fallen in with the modern pronunciation of Rome. Xor, I believe, has anyone proposed that in church anyone should adopt any other. I know there are countries that commonly retain local pronunciations, as France; though the efforts of high plated clergy are often strong to have this peculiarity discarded. I never heard, indeed, of any English speaking priest pronouncing pro-nouncing Latin quite in the fashion of his local peculiarity, though many go t-nly half way to Rome. Some, in Xew Brunswick thus, desire (a) new-Roman new-Roman ; some (b) new-old English; others (c) old Roman. ' v Most assuredly both (a) and (c$, seem to be "Roman"; nor is the fact changed by -sneering at one or the other. All the facts might'us well be admitted: they are fairly ascertainable. And thus we might start fair as to whether Jt is desirable to be with the majority or no, and whether wheth-er it is desirable to perpetuate local peculiarity. x Also, one might ask, which produces happier results. re-sults. Everyone knows there is something to be said on both sides. On which side is there morei W. F. P. STOCKLEY PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH. Bishop O'Doa of the Baker City (Ore.) diocese publishes the Lenten regulations in the Catholic Progress of Seattle. He instructs pastors to recite, re-cite, the following prayer at the conclusion-of the low masses, after the usual prayers. The prayer was approved by His Holiness, Leo XIII, Augi.RS, 1S0S: "To thee, O blessed Joseph, we have recourse iu our affliction, and, having implored the help of thy thrice holy Spouse, we now, with hearts filled with confidence, earnestly beg thee also to take us under thy protection. By that charity wherewith thou wert united to the Immaculate Virgin, Mother of God, and by that fatherly love with which thou didst cherish the Child Jesus, we beseech thee and we humbly pray that thou wilt look down with gracious gra-cious eye upon that inheritance which Jesus Christ purchased by His blood, and wilt succor us in our need by thy power and strength. Defend, O most watchful guardian of the Holy Family, the chosen offspring of Jesus Christ. Keep from us, O most loving Father, all blight of error and corruption. Aid us from on high, most valiaut defender, in this conflict with the power of darkness. And even as of old thou didst rescue the Child Jesus from the peril of His life, so now defend God's holy church from the snares of the enemy and from all adversity. adver-sity. Shield us ever under thy patronage, that, imitating im-itating thy example and strengthened by thy. help, we may live a holy life, die a happy death and attain to everlasting bliss in heaven. Amen." Indulgence of seven years and seven quarantines each time this prayer is said. BROTHERS OF MISERICORDIA. The Brothers of the Mistricordia are one of the sights of Florence. They are all ' men usually of good family, who devote their lives to the work4 of burying the dead and caring" for the injured iu any accident, or taking the sick to the hospitals. They wear long black habits with a hood over the face having holes to see through, and they look, like ghosts. They carry the sick in a sort of blanket and the. dead in a coffin covered with a black pall, on their shoulders. One. walks in front of them with his face uncovered. ,-When they pass, the people peo-ple cross themselves, and say a short prayer for the. sick or dead. , ' It is said that, the grand duke was a member of this brotherhood, and that when tho cholera raged there he worked with the rest. 'Some of the poorer people', also join the Mise'ricordia, and the guide says that you can. tell a gentleman from a peasant by the feet. They do noble, self-sacrificing work. CATHOLIC STATISTICS FOR UNITED STATES. j Milwaukee, Feb. 2. The .Catholic population of the United States numbers 11,887,317, according to M. II. Wiltzsius' official directory of the church in America, which will be published this -month, and these millions Lave ll,lhG churches to attend and support. There afp 980,088 Catholic students in the nation, na-tion, who have seven universities, seventy-five seminaries, sem-inaries, 179 boys' colleges and 646 girls'-, colleges and 4,000 parochial schools, in which to obtain their education. . . The total clergy of the United Sf.itcs is 13,267, of whom 9,900 are diocesan and 3.327 vlong to the various orders. Some of the increases shown by comparison with last years figures are: Population, 597,607; churches, 308; total clergy, 99; diocesan clergy, 157; order clergy, 102. POPE PIUS ON CONCORDAT. Paris, Jan. 29. The Rome, correspondent of the Figaro says that from certain persons who recently discussed French affairs with the pope he gathers that His Holiness regards the concordat as a heavy drag on he French church, and as unduly unfavorable unfavor-able to the state, and that he would be willing to make any concessions provided the principles of the church werenot touched. In the event of the abrogation of the concordat, the correspondent continues, which the pope would not initiate, His Holiness foresees a temporary crisis, from which the church in France would emerge with increased strength. |