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Show . r , Religious Intelligence. Very Rev. A. Corcoran of Chicago, provincial of the Order of St. Viateur, died Jan. 29 at Phoenix, Phoe-nix, Ariz. From St. Louis comes word of the death of Mother Agatha, superior of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Jo-seph, in her 74th year. The. parochial school of St. Francis congregation, congrega-tion, Milwaukee, will hereafter be a free school, no tuition fee being required. The wife and daughter of Henry Labotichere, the brilliant English publicist, are Catholics. T The Scotch Catholic Directory for 1904, just issues, gives the Catholic population of Scotland as 513,400. There are 1,954 Catholic places of worship in Great Britain, served by 3,711 priests; 1,222 of these are regulars. There are 1,400 Catholic priests In China and in the single province of Shan-Tung there are 56,-000 56,-000 Catholics. General Peigne of the French army has Issued an order forbidding the soldiers of his division to ioin anv Catholic club. 4- The Archbishops of Mexico and Puebla are organizing or-ganizing a national pilgrimage to Lourdes, Rome and the Holy Land in honor of the fiftieth year of the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. j Five ' thousand persons filled the Paulist Fa- I titers' church, Xew York. City, on the opening night of the mission to non-Catholics. All Catholics Catho-lics are excluded from the services unless each is accompanied by a Protestant. There exists in Montreal a small religious community com-munity of deaf mutes, called the Congregation of Our Lady of the Seven Dolors. It has been organized or-ganized since 1886. There are thirteen members, and they take vows for one year only, renewing j them at the end of that time. j St. Patrick's church, the oldest in Lowell, Mass.. j has been destroyed by fire. A few vestments and banners and the sacred vessels were saved, and it is possibl that a chime of bells, which remained in the Bclfrv, are in condition for continued use. ' The nephews of the late Pope Leo seem determined de-termined to appeal to the law courts for their inheritance in-heritance in the estate of their uncle, the late Cardinal Car-dinal Guiseppi Pecei. Pope Pius has consulted the Vatican lawyers on the Lest means to avoid what he Considers a scandal. Archbishop Farley sailed for Rome on Thursday. Thurs-day. It is reported he will oppose at the Vatican an extension to the United States of the papal decree reviving the Gregorian music and excluding exclud-ing female choirs as well as many instruments now ; in use here. A copy of the decree received here has arousd much comment among churchmen. The Orestes A. Erownson memorial committee met at the Catholic club, Xew York, last week, to complete the arrangements for the unveiling of the -bust of Orestes Brownson'in Sherman square. Seventy-second street and Broadway. This plot has been dedicated by the city of Xew York to -the Brownson statue, and it is expected that the statue will be unveiled some time during the coming June.- A monument to Padre Junipero Serra. the founder of the Franciscan missions in Califoria, is to be erected in Golden Gate park. At the last meeting of the park commissioners a letter from Archbishop Riordan was presented requesting the board to accept the offer of James D. Phelan to erect a monument to the pioneer missionary. The desired permission was readily given. ' ' Mrs. Bourland. a prominent club woman and society leader of Peoria, 111., was received into the Catholic church last month -and made her first communion on Christmas day in the Peoria cathedral. ca-thedral. Mrs. Bourland is a member of one of the oldest and most aristocratic families of Peoria, j and her conversion created something of a sensa- J tion, not alone in the city, but throughout the state, where she is widely known. , Last month there were two remarkable conversions con-versions in Rome, one of a professor of languages. Leonidas Basilides. Constantinople, a schismatic of the Oriental Greek rite, and the other Signor Al-. Al-. lesandro Sterio, a Croatian of the Evangelical Reformed Re-formed church. The new converts, who were received re-ceived into the' Church on the 16th and 18th ultimo respectively, were afterwards received in audienc by the Holy Father, who gave them his apostolic blessing. 0 The Casket is authority for the gratifying information in-formation that the University of Ottawa, recently destroyed by fire, is finding friends in quarters least expected. It says: "Since the destruction of .'tho buildings of the University of Ottawa, all Canada seems to have awakened to the fact that this seat of learning had been quietly doing splendid work, and that the country as a whole requires that the work should be continued with.', as-brief , au intermission inter-mission as may be. Men who never took, any in- ? - - i terest in Ottawa before are hastening to i" r.'A Protestants are joining hands with Caihoii ' " " Few deaths can have been move widcir eor-mented eor-mented on than that of the late Pope. Lf() yjlf. . Milanese press-cutting- :C-ii-y has u..w cIec;.-,! in nine large, volumes over 12.'iO articles fror-newspapers fror-newspapers of countries relating thereto. X-less X-less than 2,5tin ,,f the lolling ncw-parifrs cf th -world are r.-prcst n'e.l. I i Father Jackson, who as et.aplaiit a.-cojnti,Tiicd Sjr Frederick RoU-rts ,,a j,; ;-;;n.,,n, ili;,r',!, ,,, Kandahar, has for the lai r-ixtceii years been 1., Wing in tho wilds of Borne... ;md .iurirR- th;:t time has never worn a .-hoc and scarcely c-er .-.hp in a bod. Peace hath her lierc.es as well as war." Cardinal Merry del Val has taken posse, -i,.- of his titular church. St. Praxotcs. t Js recalled in this connection that one of his predecessors ! therein va St. Charles Borromeo. who, made ca:-I ca:-I dinal when only 22 years old. began by serving a-secretary a-secretary of state for bis uncle, Pius IV, at a time when the affairs of tin- Church gHve grac concern con-cern to the. Sovereign I'onfiif. j There was recently received into the Ca; nolle I fold in St. Vincent's church. Sr. Paul, Minn., of which Rev. Lawrence Cosgrove is pastou, an interesting in-teresting group of converts. L consisted of three Chinese, one negro, one Dane, one German Lutheran Luther-an and three Swede-. Mr. No Sam. who took the name of Joseph at his bapti-in. and who is years of age. is said to be tbe leader of the Chinese Chi-nese people in the northwest, and his family are, it is reported, -oon to follow hint info the Church's fold. - Bishop Mufel. apo-tolie vi.-ar in Korea, Las sent a report to the Vatican saying that the l,O0i) man Catholics living in Korea arc subjected to? grave risks because of the condition of th- country on account of the Russian-Japanese situation. Tho bishop recalls in his report thai, his predeocs-tor iu Korea spent. "liftoon years in prison because he was not afforded protection. |