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Show f -f-t- 4--t- - "f 4 I THE (ATHOLK WORLD, f 44 44444444444 4. Forty-three converts are announced as the result of a mission to non-Catholics given recently by the Paulist Fathers in the Church of St. Thomas Aquinas, Brooklyn. The Catholics of France subscribe 60,000,000 francs a year to pay the expenses ex-penses of Catholic schools which are unsupported by the state. 1 - We note with pleasure that the Catholic Cath-olic University lately received from the estate of Miss Moran of Baltimore the sum of $10,000, left by her will for the encouragement of the study of Gaelic. The Sisters' of the congregation of Notre Dame, which is the oldest order cf Nuns- in Canada, will soon celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of its found'ation by Marguerite .Bourgeoys, whose life was so intimately connected with the early history, of Montreal. ' . The Paris Exposition, which will open April 14, will begin with solemn High Mass celebrated in the Basilica of the Sacreel Heart, at which the venerable ven-erable Cardinal Richard will po tificate. The orchestra assisting will be composed com-posed of the greatest artists of the musical world. ( Dean Francis Wayland of the Yale law school announced last week that W. Bourke Cockran cf New York city would deliver the commencement address ad-dress to the graduating class next June. Mr. Cockran has not yet selected the subject of his address, which will be delivered in the College street hall on Monday afternoon. June 25. , Archbfehop Keane will be in St. Louis in March and will deliver three addresses ad-dresses on the Catholic university in Washington. He will speak from the pulpit of three churches: St. Xavier's, St.'Alph'onsus and the Cathedral chapel. If a Kenrick chair is endowed by the contributions' offered in response to these addresses, Archbishop Kain will head the list with $2,000. . ' Sister Stam'slaus of the Sacred Heart 1 parish, St. Louis, proved herself a he- i roine trying to rescue a pupil from a j ' blazing school building last Friday and ' perished 'with the child in the attempt. ! I When their bodies w ere found in the1 partially wrecked St. Lawrence O'Toole ; parochial building the burned corpse of . I little Mary Fogarty was clutched in I I the charred arm of the nun. -- ' The Catholic Missionary union conducted con-ducted by the paulist Fathers has been-productive been-productive of extraordinary results, es-periaPv es-periaPv among non-Cpthol're. At a re- cent two weeks' mission g.ven m wrook-I wrook-I !yn 397 converts were received into the j church and nearly 2.000 adults con- ; firmed. During the last three months I of 1899, as a result cf these missions to : non-Catholics, there were 747 cenverhs, i with ninety more under instruction. - Maud Gonne tho daughter of one j English army officer and lister of an- i i other, is in the United States to plead i ; the Boer cause and incidentally to arouse Irish Americans to. a realiza- tion of the opportunity for Irish as--j pirations which she conceives is pre-! pre-! sented by England's occupation in i Africa. San Francisco is included in i the itinerary of the brilliant "Irish j Joan of Arc." The famous paintings of the life of Christ by the French artist, J. James Tissct, are to be brought to Brooklyn and to become the property of all the citizens of Brooklyn under certain conditions con-ditions which seem almost certain 'of fulfillment. It is through the enterprise of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and i Sciences that this has been made possible. pos-sible. All Brooklynites are appealed i to for support of the endeavor to bring to thia borough what is undoubtedly the mcst remarkable art work of the century. Cable advices announce the death in Dublin recently of Professor J. W. Glover, Glo-ver, the eminent musician. He was born in Dublin eighty-nine years ago, and gained a worid-w-icle reputation for the edition of Moore's melodies which he harmonized and edited. Among his numerous nu-merous compositions were an oratorio, "St. Patrick at Tara;" "The Deserted Village," an opera founded on Oliver Goldsmith's poem, and an ode to Par-nell. Par-nell. He was for many years organist of the Cathedral in. Dublin. Three children chil-dren survive him, Mrs. D. Glover-O'Sul-livan, the organist, of New York; William Wil-liam F. Glover, musical director, of Chicago, and Mme. Gray, the harpist, of London. He.was the grandfather-of Marie Glover, the well known singer. On Feb: 4 the Pope received Bishop : Spalding of Peoria. The Pope ques-' ques-' tioned him on the subject of the Beer-British Beer-British war ami seemed surprised that President McKinley had not offered his good services. He further said that political reasons only had prevented t him from offering the mediation of tho ' Vatican. The Pope also received Bishop Bish-op Riddell of Northampton, to whom His Holiness said he prayed daily for the cessation of the war. and hoped that hostilities would end before the close , of the Holy Year. The Rt. Rev. Henry Gabriel?. D. D., Bishop of Ogdensburg. says the Syracuse Syra-cuse Sun, is now in Cuba, having been commieiioned by Rome to go there for the purpose of looking into matters dealing with the Catholic church in that island. Bishop Gabriels is a conservative con-servative churchman, very learned, and is well known in Rome and highly ; thought of. He is a linguist of unus-i unus-i ual ability, and these facts influenced Rome to select him as the n.oet capable I persian to look the ground over. I The electian of John E. Redmond to j the chairmantship of the Reunited Irish party in the British house of commons is a cheering omen of the times, and gives promise that the way of the English Eng-lish transgressor will be rendered harder hard-er for the future by the strong opposition opposi-tion of the rehabilitated Irish party to his nefarious measures and designs. Mr. Redmond, amid the cheers of his party, gave notice on Wednesday that he would move an amendment to the address to the throne, urging the conclusion con-clusion of the Boer war anel recognizing the independence of the Transvaal. Of course it will be overwhelmingly defeated, de-feated, but, at least, it will show mankind man-kind how Ireland stands on the leading question of the world today. We note that the Priests of St. Mary's Church, Charlestown, are taking an active interest in the movement to increase in-crease the number of Catholic chaplains in the navy. In particular Rev. Fathers McMahon and Gormley, who called on the president lat week in regard to the matter, are desirous that the men in the Charlestown navy yard shall have increased opportunities to attend Catholic Cath-olic services. Father McMahon was very desirous that a Catholic chaplain should be stationed there, but Secretary Long said it would be impossible under the conditions existing just now Secretary Sec-retary Long agreed to communicate with Admiral Sampson and arrange matters so that Catholic Priests ihould have free access to the men and shipa in the yards at all times, and the men be accorded church leave on Sundays. Cardinal Jacobini. who died recently in Rome, was almost adored by the poorer clas'ses of the Eternal City, who never forgot that it was to him, next to the Holy Father, that they were indebted in-debted for all those workingmen's and 'artists' benevolent clubs which have j contributed so much to relieve the terrible ter-rible misery and distress of the last few years, while he was "persona grat-issima" grat-issima" in government circles. He was regarded ag the candidate of the Italian government for the tiara at the next conclave, and his election would have met with the warm approval ap-proval of Austria, Germany, Spain, Portugal, England and France. Cardinal Jacobini was well and favorably fa-vorably known in the United States. He was on the most friendly terms with Cardinal Gibbons. --&- Dr. Thoma- O'Hagan, the well-known Canadian author and lecturer, is booked for the following lectures in Michigan and Wisconsin: At Alpena, Mich., under the auspices of St. Bernard's church on the evening of Feb. 9 and 12. subjects, "The Catholic Catho-lic Element in English Poetry" and "Wit and Humor." At Kewaunee, Wis., under the auspices of the St. Anne's Reading circle, on Tuesday evening. Feb. 15, subject, "Wit and Humor." At Graen Bay, under the auspices of the Marquette Reading circle. Friday evening. Feb. 16, subject, "The Catholic Catho-lic Element in English Poetry." At Chippewa Falls. Wis., under the auspices aus-pices of the Faber Reading circle on Monday. Feb. 19, subject, "Canadian Life and Literature," and at Janesville. Wis., under the auspices of the St. Catherine's Reading circle. Tuesday evening, Feb. 20, subject, "An Evening with Dickens." Priests of Paterson, N. J., have begun be-gun a crusade on flowers at funerals. Father Dolan has gone so far as to notify no-tify his congregation that in future he , will allow no flowers to be carried into the church for funeral services. I Father Dolan find? a basis for this rule in the pockets of his parishioners, and urges it as a measure of justice to j the families of the dead. In many cases, he points out, where a death occurs, oc-curs, there is a small insurance. As a rule, a part sometimes not inconsiderableof inconsider-ableof this is spent in flowers. Widows, fathers and mothers spend money this 'way, he declares, when it would go a long way tow ard the main- I tenance of surviving children, aged or I infirm parents, and other relatives. In addition to Father Dolan, two other priests1 have recently condemned the practice. They are Father Charlens P. Gillen of St. Joseph's- and Father Thomas Kernan of Passaic. Very Rev. Dean McNulty expressed himself in emphatic terms several years ago as being opposed to the practice. i His denunciation saved many dolars to members of his congregation. During the la?t week in January one of the most gratifying missions for I non-Catholics was given in the Paulist church, New York City. The vast building was filled, and for the most part with strangers in search of the truth or attracted to the services by curiosity. In a metropolitan mission of this sort the charm which the Catholic religion possesses for the merely inquisitive is frequently the Indirect means of arousing an intelligent intelli-gent interest, and ultimately a conviction con-viction of the truth. The class for inquirers, in-quirers, begun at the close of the week's exercises', is attended by 150 persons, and at its first assembling, upon a demand for those thoroughly convinced, twenty announced themselves" them-selves" anxious for immediate reception into the Church. One of the orominent features of the Paulists' mission was the large attendance of people from Brooklyn whom the long, late journey of an hour or more could not deter from embrasing this opportunity for instruction. in-struction. The incidents ol: a non-Catholic mission are often as consoling and edifying edi-fying -as any apostle's heart could de-a're. de-a're. In this connection, one of the mission Fathers mentions the case of an old man of 60, his white head bowed with the humble, contrite, joy of conversion rather than- with the burden of his years, who approached the baptismal font after one of the missions for non-Catholics. His son, a fine, stalwart man of 35, witnessed the ceremony with tears in his eyes, and at its close, grasping the priest'a hand with deep emotion, exclaimed: "Thank God, Father! This is the fruit of the prayers of a lifetime!" Surely, by affording the opportunity for even one such blessing;, the labors of a week are well worthy of the missionary's humble gratitude to God. and the facts are bound to reawaken in our hearts the often dormant enthusiasm of the missionary spirit. |