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Show which OTer yjr 9 cometh the Universal ' AVE VERUM CORPUS NATTJM. Hail, true Body, born all plorioiis From 1 ho wormh of Virgin fair. That upon the Cross victorious Died the souls of men to spare! Throuch whose M'lf. by lanT-hrad riven, Healing blood and wator poured, l',t lo us our .iov in heaven When through de.ith to life restored. Though Hie vary, keep us, wary, Ifieiule Jesus, Son of Mary! Ave Maria. WEEKLY CHURCH CALENDAR. Sunday, Doc. 8-.Feast Immaculate Conception. B. V. M. f Monday, Dec. 9 St. Eutichiani. Pope and Martyr. ! Tuesday, Dec. 10 Translation of House of Loretto. i "Wednesday, Dec. 11 St. Damasi, Pope and Confessor. Thursday, Dec. 12 Festival of Our Lady of Gundalupe. j Friday, Dec. 13 St. Luciae, Virgin and Martyr. Saturday, Dec. 14. St. Melchiades, Pope and Martyr. CLERGY FUND ASSOCIATION. I; - Chicago League of Priests Organized I For Benevolent Purposes. ' (Chicago Tribune.) On the occasion of the fourteenth annual an-nual meeting of the Clergy Fund association, asso-ciation, which took place on Nov. 14 at the Cathedral of the Holy Name, the members of the association decided to make known to the public the facts concerning its organization and purposes. pur-poses. So well has the secret of the society so-ciety been hitherto kept that little or nothing has been known about it by non-members. The society is composed exclusively Df Roman Catholic clergymen. It thus becomes, at the first qualification, one of the mot exclusive societies in the i world. No layman or woman may ever lie initiated. Archbishop Feehan of the Archdiocese of Chicago is president, and before admission each aspirant for membership must be approved by him. I Pastors and subordinate fathers of the I ; spply for membership, however, are al- 1 most Invariably passed upon favorably I by the Archbishop. .i The object of the society is beneficiary to help those of its members who become sick, and occasionally to afford vacations to those whose limited income I , forbids even a brief rest. The sum of ffiO a month is donated to each member ivho becomes sick, and in the case of his death, the full funeral expenses are as-fumed. as-fumed. A small annual stipend is con-I con-I tributed by each member, and the sum thus accumulated is drawn on for the purposes indicated. In case of a surplus sur-plus at the end of the year the finance committee is usually empowered by rote of the society to make investments. Archbishop Feehan, the president of the society, was also its originator. It Ktarted with a membership of fifteen priests. At present there are over 250 names on its rolls. There are several rommittees to look after the business of the organization, each one being complete in itself. Among them are the visiting committee, whose members call upon the sick and infirm priests; the committee on entertainment, whose members arrange for an occasional social so-cial affair, and a finance committee. . The annual gatherings of the society are said to be exceedingly impressive affairs. The meeting place is always the Holy Name Cathedral. After solemn sol-emn requiem high mass has been said Tor all members deceased within the ; year, adjournment is taken to the par- j ish house, and the business of the so- riety, including the election of officers, - takes place. ! ' At the last meeting, on Nov. 14, the i , following officers were chosen for the r tnsuing year: I President The Most Rev. P. A. Fee- ; han. ; First Vice President The Rev. P. M. Flannigan. St. Anne's, i Second Vice President The Rev. A. Evers, St. Boniface's. Secretary The Rev. J. Kinney, St. Malachy's. Board of Managers The Rev. Fath-, Fath-, ?rs A. Wolfgarten. W. Lynch, A. Ber- geron, T. E. Cox and D. Feely. WHAT'S IN A NAME P Bishop Burke on Proposition to Change Name of Episcopal Church. Albany, N. Y. The discussion at the trit nnial council of the Episcopal church in San Francisco on the propo- . sition to call the Episcopal church the Crtholie Church of America caused Bishop Burke, in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, to preach a sermon at today's mass on the growth of the Catholic Church in the United States. He said that some years ago to be known as Catholic was to bear op-pro'iiium, op-pro'iiium, v. hile today to be a Catholic was to merit respect and honor. "Because of the meaning and signification signi-fication and honor atached to the name Catholic," he continued, "one of the createst of the Protestant denominations, denomina-tions, the Protestant Episcopal Church ' of America, has considered seriously the changing of its name to the Catholic Cath-olic Church of America. "Ye can see by this example that it Is no longer considered by our Protestant Pro-testant brothers a disgrace to be a Catholic. f it were, the clergy of that denomination would never have considered consid-ered the adoption of the name. "But how can they take the name ; when there is but one Catholic Church. and that the one whose head is and i always has been in Rome? The mean ing of the word Catholic is such that the Church cannot be confined to one ration. , "There can be no Catholic Church of America, for that would limit the rhurch to one continent. A Catholic Church cannot be national, for the "leaning is that it extends throughout the world and is universal. "Unless its priests are obeying the mandate of the Church to preach the j word of God to all nations, baptising iheni in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, it cannot can-not be called Catholic. "The Catholic Church is one. holy, " ratholic and apostolic. Its teachings 9 re not confined to any one nation, and Its history does not extend gack a few hundred years, but to the time of Christ, its founder. "When the Declaration Decla-ration of Independence was signed there were in the United States about sn.OOu Catholics. Now there are 2 000 - m.'" ' ' ONLY ONE OTHER INSTANCE. I Celebration of Golden Anniversary of I Chicago Nuns. I For fifty years the life of Mother I ' i Genevieve, superior of the Sisters of I Mercy in Chicago, has been wholly cTe- I , i-oted to religious, charitable and edu- I ?Ktional works. At Thanksgiving this I f vear she and her two principal co- I workers, Mother Scholastica and Sister Angola, reacher their golden jubilee :n the order, and in honor of the event celebration took place such as the nuns in Chicago never held before. The celebration lasted four dayh. To the principal service in Xavier's academy acad-emy 1.000 priests and nuns were invited. in-vited. A bishop celebrated pontifical high mass and a great choir sang the mass music to the accompaniment of a large orchestra, comprised wholly of nuns. Archbishop Feehan crowned with gold diadems the three jubilarlans "who have fought and worked for half a century in the interest of faith, education educa-tion and souls." The jubilee gifts to the order received from friends and admirers of the three sisters reached many thousand dollars in value. A marble altar had been erected by the nuns themselves in then-chapel then-chapel to commemorate the event an i "as a memorial of eratitude for the blessings conferred during the fifty years of her religious life upon their beloved superior." The alumnae of the school gave a costly onyx, marble and brass altar rail. To the character of Mother Genevieve Gene-vieve Catholics attribute largely the remarkable progress and development of her order in Chicago. Besides caring car-ing for neavly lo.OltO children in parish schools in the city the Sisters manage a great hospital in Calumet avenue and a remarkably successful home for working women of moderate means. The history of the Catholic church records but one similar instance. la 1S67 three nuns of the Carmelite order were crowned in Baltimore for fifty years spent together in the service of the Church. RT. REV. W. R. BROWNLOW, D.D. The Bishop of Clifton, England, Called Call-ed to His Reward. The Rt. Rev. William Robert Brown-low, Brown-low, D. D., fourth bishop of Clifton, Eng., died on the 9th of November. The son of a Protestant minister, the Rev. William Brownlow, M. A., rector of Winslow, Cheshire, and of Frances, daughters of -Mr. Robert James Chambers, Cham-bers, William Robert Brownlow was born at that rectory on July 4, 1830, says the Catholic Times of Liverpool. He was educated at Rugby school and at j Trinity college, and took his B. A. degree de-gree with mathematical honors in 1S52. and his XL. A. degree in lsoa. 1? or ten years he was a clergyman of the Church of England. While serving as curate of St. John's church, Tonquay, he severed his connection with the Church of England, and in 1S63 was received re-ceived into the 'Catholic church at Birmingham by Cardinal Newman, and was confirmed by Archbishop Ulla-thorne Ulla-thorne some days after. In his work. "The Early History of the Church of God," which was published pub-lished by the Catholic Truth society, recently, re-cently, he gives the following interesting interest-ing account of his conversion: "More than forty years ago I happened to have some correspondence and conversation con-versation with a member of the Plymouth Ply-mouth brethren persuasion on the constitution con-stitution of the Christian church. We agreed to read the New Testament together to-gether alternately at each other's houses. We began to read the Acts of the Apostles. When we came to the fifteenth verse of the first chapter: 'In those days Peter rising up in the midst of the brethren.' etc., my friend paused and said: "You see the spirit of popery showed itself in the church at a very-early very-early period.' His remark made a deep impression upon me. and made me re- j solve to study carefully the early records rec-ords of the church in order to discover whether what 1 then understood by J 'Popery- was or was not an essential ! part of Christianity." I HELP FOR INDIANS. Archbishops Encourage Wider Efforts in Behalf of Catholic Schools. Washington. It was announced that the Catholic archbishops of America, at their annual meeting, adopted the following resolution: "That we heartily commend and will practically encourage work for the raising rais-ing of the amount annually needed for the support of the Catholic Indian schools, and will similarly encourage wider efforts aiming at bringing the benefits of Catholic training to the Catholic children in the government schools." The personnel of the Catholic Indian bureau is as follows: Cardinal Gibbons, president; Rev. Wil'iam H.. Ketcham, director; Very Rev. Dr. E. R. Dyer, treasurer; Charles Lusk, secretary. The following resolutions were unanimously unan-imously adopted: "Resolved, That in the name of all the Catholics of the United States we lament the assassination of President McKinley and deplore the fact that in our land of enlightenment and liberty such a crime should have been possible. pos-sible. "Resolved, That we invoke the benedictions bene-dictions of heaven on the administration administra-tion of His Excellency, President Roosevelt." CONVERTS IN ENGLAND. One Diocese Records Fifteen Hundred in One Year. At the half-yearly meeting of the Catholic Truth Society of England, held in London on Nov. 5, Cardinal Vaugh-an Vaugh-an made a gra-"ying announcement. announce-ment. He said thai a great many Catholics had been scared by the present pres-ent violence of their opponents and imagined that the Church was losing ground in the country. He had been somewhat under the impression himself. him-self. A short time ago he directed the priests of his diocese to send him a return of the number of converts in the diocese during the past year, expecting ex-pecting to find that there would be a considerable falling off as compared with the previous year; but to his surprise sur-prise he found that the number had increased in-creased by 300, the figures being 1.500 last year, as compared with 1,200 the year before. They had, therefore, no need to fear the noise and bluster of their opixments. Let them keep a good temper and meet their antagonists with argument rather than with abuse. IN THE HANDS OF THE LORD. Mother Julia, Superior of All Nuns of Notre Dame in America. The death of Mother Julia, superior of all the houses of Notre Dame in this country, was announced last week and the news came as a shock to her many friends and to the Catholic people throughout the country who knew of her strenuous interest in the mission of her order, the education of young women and girls. Her illness was sudden and its termination ter-mination speedy; but her work from i day to day was always planned and I carried on to as much completion as human foresight can provide, and in that respect it was not left unfinished. As she herself wrote. In one of her ! latest letters, "this is my route, and I ' shall complete it unless God ptope me." j God stopped her in His own good time, I but only .after she had proven herself ; His able and willing handmaiden, Mother. Julia, whose name in the world was Susan McGroarty, wa bv birth an. Irishwoman, born in Donegal in February; 1826; but came to Cincinnati Cincin-nati with her parents in early child- ; hood. Her father died not long afterward; after-ward; but the name is a familiar one to CincinnatianB of the fifties and sixties through the brothers of the deceased, General Stephen McGroarty, who bore many wounds as evidence of his devotion de-votion to the Union, and Patrick McGroarty, Mc-Groarty, now a resident of Washington, D. C, but for many years a man of note in Cincinnati, i Susan McGroarty was one of the first pupils of Notre Dame in Cincinnati Cincin-nati and with them completed her education. edu-cation. Her amiable and joyous disposition dis-position made her a social favorite; but worldly allurements soon palled and on New Year's day, 1S46, being then in her twentieth year, the young woman presented herself as a postulant at the doors of Notre Dame, and there, for fifty-four years, she served well in every ev-ery position to which she was called, emulating the zeal and capability of the foundress. Mother Julia Billlart, whose name she had received in religion. re-ligion. MAJOR KEILEY DEAD. Lifelong Friend of Cardinal Gibbons Decorated by Pope Pius IX. Brooklyn. Nov. 27. Major John li. Keiley died at his home, 213 Clermont avenue, last night of heart trouble. He was born in 1S39 in Petersburg. Va. When the civil war broke out he joined the confederate army and became be-came a major on the staff of General j Long-street. At the close of the war Major Keiley came north and settled in New York. In the early '70's he be- J came the manager of the Freeman's i Journal. ' Major Keiley was well known to Catholics through the country. In 1S6S. when he was married, the ceremony-was ceremony-was performed by Cardinal Gibbons, then a bishop. This marriage was the first one he solemnized after his elevation eleva-tion to the bishopric. Major Keiley was an almost lifelong friend of the cardinal, and when the latter visited this part of the country he invariably stayed at the home of the major. The active work Major Keiley did on i behalf of the Church was recognized in 1ST.", when he was made a knight commander of the Order of Gregory the Great by Pope Pius IX. He was also privileged to build an j altar in his house, where Mass was always al-ways celebrated Jjy Cardinal Gibbons himself when he was the guest of Major Ma-jor Keiley. One of his brothers. Right. Rev. Benjamin Ben-jamin Keiley, is bishop of Savannah, Ga. Major Keiley leaves a widow, two daughters and three sons. WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Exercised by the Nuns in a New Zealand Zea-land Convent. . , . . . caramai ivioran or eianey is a strong advocate of woman'r suffrage, but it took the nuns in one of the convents in New Zealand to push it to the limit. lim-it. According to the dispatches the community polled its full vote and swelled the totals by forty. Of course the good Sisters couldn't go to the public voting place, and a special voting vot-ing booth was provided for them within with-in the convent walls. Perhaps there was some good reason for this display of civic interest on the part of the religious, re-ligious, but we like to associate our sisterhoods with more congenial work-And work-And yet. if the religious communities of France, men and women, had taken more interest in civil affairs and thrown th? weight of their influence for good government, they would not now perhaps be wanderers and refugees, refu-gees, seeking homes "in foreign lands. When it comes to politics, there is nothing like the almighty ballot. Catholic Cath-olic Messenger. YELLOW LIE NAILED. Story That Pope Advocated Crusade Against Jews, Anarchists, et. al. New York, Nov. 30. According to the Times, Roman Catholics in all parts of the country were much exercised shortly after the assassination of President Pres-ident McKinley to read that the Pope had advocated a crusade against anarchists, an-archists, Jews. Christian Scientists, spiritualists and a number of other believers be-lievers in creeds that widely differ from that of Rome, but it is officially denied that the Pope said anything of the kind. The Rev. W. T. McGinnis, pastor pas-tor of St. Francis Xavier's church in Brooklyn, and president of the International Inter-national Catholic Truth society, has received a letter from the cardinal secretary sec-retary at the Vatican, to this effect, having been written in response to one j of inquiry from the secretary: "The substance of the letter which j was written in Italian." said Father McGinnis, "was that the whole thing was made out of whole cloth and the reported discourse of the holy father had never taken place and we are authorized au-thorized officially to deny the circulated reports." Catholic Exhibit at World's Fair. Out in St. Louis, where everyone is enthusiastic over the coming World's fair, strenuous efforts are being made to outdo all former enterprises of this kind. They are planning to have a Catholic exhibit that will be something more than an exposition of the progress of the church in this country. If the idea expounded by some of our St. Louis Catholic contemporaries does not miscarry about all the treasures of the Vatican will be transported across the Atlantic to the fair, accompanied by a detail of the famous Papal Guard. These trophies will include sacred rel ics, priceless manuscripts, with other treasures that have never been disturbed dis-turbed except for use in an impressive ceremonial of the church at Rom?. The federal government is to De asked to furnish a man-of-war to transport the Papal exhibit across the water, and most extraordinary piedges are to be given for its safe return. Definite Idea of Pope's Jubilee. As the time draws near for the celebration cele-bration of the silver jubilee of Leo XIII's pontificate a more definite idea of the details accompanying the grand event can be realized. Of course, on Feb. 2ft the event will be celebrated with all the grand ceremonial of the church appropriate to an occasion of this kind. Dignitaries of church and state from all parts of the civilized world will be present then to do honor to the great pontiff. But the celebration celebra-tion will not be confined to the Eternal City: Catholics everywhere will have an opportunity of showing their love and veneration for the Holy Father. The committee appointed at Rome to make arrangements for the jubilee proposes pro-poses as the first part of its programme pro-gramme prayer for the pope and church. The restoration of the Sovereign Sover-eign Pontiff'e own cathedral church, the Basilica of St. John Latent, now in much need of repairs, is to be one of the results of the Jubilee. The providing provid-ing of vestments and other sacred objects ob-jects for poor churches is specially recommended. rec-ommended. During the second half of next. April there will be a great pilgrimage pil-grimage from the Catholic world to Rome. Finally, the faithful are reminded re-minded that for the immense spiritual interests which Pope Leo has at heart there is no other temporal resource now except the generosity of the faithful. Boston Republic. . ; . Late Bishop of Sandhurst. The death of the Bishop of Sand- ' hurst draws attention to a very re- , markable family. Four of the broth-ers broth-ers of Bishop Crane belong to the Aii-gustinian Aii-gustinian order, while a fifth belongs to the Oblates of St. Charles. His Only sister is a Carmelite nun-. The record of this holy Irish family (for Bishop Crane was a native of Carrick-on-Bar-row, ' parish of Ballymitty, cc.nty Wexford; and was born in 1816), is i hardly surpassed by that of the fa mous Vaughn family of England, one of whose members. Cardinal Vaughn, is the primate of the Church in that country. Seven sons, including that prelate, became priests, while several daughters embraced the religious life. Western Watchman. A Lame Sister Now Walks. For thirteen years Sister Alegondes, of the Convent of Mercy, Webster avenue, ave-nue, Pittsburg, had not been able to put her right foot on the ground, and now she walks. Last week she returned re-turned from the shrine of St. Ann Beaupre, Canada. Sister Alegondes was a nurse in the Mercy hospital. One night while walking walk-ing in the dark she fell, after striking her foot against a rocking chair, breaking several of the small bones of j the ankle. The foot curved up almost into a ball. Friends advised her to , go to the shrine of St. Ann after sur- 1 geons failed to relieve her. She did so, and was cured. She left her ; crutch at the shrine. I Fifty Golden Years, j On Sunday, Dec. 8, the Jesuits will ! begin a three days' celebration of the Golden Jubilee of St. Francis Xavier's church. West Sixteenth street. New York (now the most important foun-' foun-' dation of their order in the United ' States. Cardinal Martinelli will pre-jside. pre-jside. and every detail that ecclesias-: ecclesias-: tical pomp can add will be availed of ! to make unusually imposing the eom-I eom-I melioration of an event that has been I such a benediction to the city. The foundation is linked with the names of isuch wise and learned men of our race t and ornaments of their order as the lamented Ryan, Larkin. Driscoll, De-luynes. De-luynes. Murphy and others, long since gone to their reward. The Wage-earners' Pontiff. Leo XIII has been and is the best friend and ablest advocate the wage-earners wage-earners have. From time to time the Holy Father has recommended the formation of associations to look after the material welfare of the workers. These associations should seek to procure pro-cure increased facilities for labor, and to enforce the Just claims of the laborers la-borers in their relations to their masters. mas-ters. Leo XIII does not hesitate to declare de-clare it to be the duty of the government gov-ernment to treat the working classes with consideration, and to discourage luxury and greed among the rich. The Pope is the best and truest friend of the workingman. He does not overlook over-look the grievances of the wage-earner and is the only living infallible expositor ex-positor of the true Christian political economy, which teaches that "the laborer la-borer is worthy of his hire." Remarkable Irish Woman. Rev. Mother Ignatius of the Convent most remarkable woman in Australia, says the Catholic Press of Sydney. She is a sister of Archbishop Croke of Cashel, one of the most distinguished of Ireland's prelates and patriots, and although she is now 84 years of age, her mental faculties are as fresh as ever. Some short time back she met with a slight accident, from th-? effects ef-fects of which she has not quite recovered, re-covered, but otherwise she is in sound bodily health, and is likely to live and to take a keen interest In iltc order for many years. Mother Ignatius is one of the company of twentv-four nuns, who came to Australia with the Bishop of Maitland and the late Dr. Quir.n of Bathurst, arriving in Sydney Syd-ney in October, 1866. There were also nine priests on board. As Bishop Murray Mur-ray has said, never has so large a number of the sons and daughters of Erin ltft their dear native land and convent homes to proceed in one ship on such distant mission. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Archbishop iCorrigan lunched with President Rooseveltast week. In recognition of the services rendered ren-dered by the Sisters of Charity and Little Sisters of the Poor to the city of I Richmond, Va., a state subsidy of $500 was appropriated At present there are flourishing missions mis-sions among the colored people in Delaware, Del-aware, Maryland, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texa.5, Louisiana Louisi-ana and Arkansas. $- About two-thirds of the ..'state of Mrs. Catherine Getty, who died lately in Baltimore, is left to Woodstock college, col-lege, to Cardinal Gibbons for the education edu-cation of priests, and to the Little Sisters Sis-ters of the Poor. ! Although S2 years of pge. Cardinal Richard, archbishop of Paris, is still In good health and extremely active. His eminence intends to head a numerous numer-ous deputation of Freeh bishops, who will go to Rome in March on. the occasion oc-casion of the pope's jubilee. -f One of the largest bequests over made by a colored man to & charitable or benevolent institution in the United Unit-ed States was made in the will of the late Louis Dode, of $30,000 for the establishment es-tablishment of free white and colored wards in St. Joseph's hospital, Baltimore. Balti-more. Archbishop Chapelle has been relieved re-lieved of the office of Delegate Apostolic Apos-tolic to the Philippines: jut he retains that of Delegate Apostolic to Cuba and Pcrto Rico. His Grace is expected in New Orleans' by the middle of December. |