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Show ) ft. 4 ' gburcfy Univmal j I ' ' : ' ; I j CHURCH CALENDAR. j' jvccniher. Immaculate Conception. j ' Sunday, 4. Second of Advent. St. Pe- j I tr Chrysolos-us. K;is. lion, xv. j f 1-1"; oi. Malt, xi, 2-10. j jiMnday, ... SI. Sibn.-O i I Tm-sday, 6. St. Nicholas. I "Wednesday. 7. St. Ambrose. I j'liuiyday. S. Immaculate Conception, f j Holy day of obligation. I f 5 3-ndiiy. St. Leoeadia. " i Saturday, 10. St. Melchiades. 1 1 - I j i r-t it ions? for prayers from associates j j c,; league of Sacred Heart Sunday lor I j .-ad associates: Monday for Io'-al -en- ' I 1. 1; Tuesday -for directors; Wdnts- 1 1 jiiy for promoters: Thuifday for tho -I i wilted; Friday for persev erance; Sr.t- I tirday for the young. j CATHOLIC POPULATION j ACCORDING TO STATES I (Church Progress, St. Louis.) Tl,,:. following- table results from a 3 .uiiparison of the government census y jioris for P'fiO with the figures given iii the Catholic directory for W.i. Th-i I ijp'f -;orv gives the total Catholic pop- 1 viation of the United States as 11.- i I i:Mt.Tl". The Directory always errs on j 11 he side of conservatism: a fact which ! is not taken into consklei ation in the j i j, ..;iration of this table: i ,t. s Population. Catholics.P.C. I , ,!aba;na l.S2S.67 24.073 1 I ",l;,nsas 1.311.-.64 12.000 1 ! o.lif-.rnia 1.4So,o:.S 373.000 2.1 '1 -..ra.lo 539.700 v 70.000 13 J .Mmiecticut .... S0P..1", 270.000 30 I . laware 1x4.735 2C.OO0 li J Vlorid 528.542 7.000 1 j ,;- nifjia 2.216.331 21.000 1 jvi.,ho ' lfil.772 .12.000 7 il'in..i 4.S21.550 1.24S.500 25 Indiana 2.516.462 182.493 7 I lla 2.231.853 170.000 S Kansas 1,470.495 75.SC0 5 ' I ;. ;.lu. kv 2.147,174 3S4.1M. 9 1 Louisiana l.SSl.625 4O7.OO0 30 I .Mail 1. ti94.4t;C 100,000 14 I Iar.!aiid and t I I listi i-t of Co- i-jj luinbia 1.46S.76S 250.000 17' jl "i i-s i"hupf Its . 2.805.346 P1O.0O0 30 j I Mirbigan 2.420.982 377.195 16 i Minnesota 1.751.394 367 000 21 f ! Mississippi 7.51.270 21.S40 1 : I mri 3.106.665 2S5.000 9 ! ! iontaiia 243.329 30.000 20 -. b:aska l.OtiS.539 95.13S 9 Nevada w Hampshire. 411,588 104,000 23 J ,-v Jers-v 1.8S3.669 378.000 20 I York' 7.26S.012 2,207.000 30 J i 'Ci ih Carolina.. 893.810 4 600 'i North Dakota.. 319,146 30 000.10 I ( lino 4.157.345 531.000 12 i ; ; Pnn 413.536 40,000 10 t r. 'insvlvania .. 6.302.115 1,000,500 16 : i:hode' Island ... 428.556 273.000 66 ' South Carolina. 340,316 8.500 I Soutli Dakota . 401.570 49.000 12 I Tennessee 2.020.K1C 29 000 1 T-xas 3.048.710 214.000 7 Vtah 320.074 9.300 3 j -v,,roiit .. 4:J4.H4 1 70.000 20 Virginia 1.854.184 30. 000 2 I Va;;hi'igton . 518.103 - 5I...W0 10 AWm Viinrinia.. 958.SOH 23.(K0 3 ; Wis-.-i.Fin 2.069.042 595.861 29 i Wvoniins .. ... -92.531 7.000 R: 1 Arizona ..' 122.931 40.000 33 I I'-'lian Territory -nd ( iklahoma. 790.341 21.288 3 y, w Mexico ... 195.310 133.000 68 I ' The diocese of Wilmington em- f b-a.-es the state of-Delaware and the itrn shore of Maryland and Virginia. i As the Directory, floes not say hew m.ir.y Catholics live iii D?lawan-. we f b; d to take the tlgures for the diores" I ! Wilmington, hence the percentage I is k.o high. I , " The state of Nevada belongs pai t- ly n.i the diec-se of Sa rani'pnto. part- ! 1 to Salt Lake City. As the greater I Lalf belongs to Salt Lake City, we have I ;..!d-.l Nevada 1o Utah. iii New Mexico and Hhode Island f more than half the people are Catho-.? Catho-.? li' s: in New Voik. iVj-.mrcticut, Califoi- );ia. Illinois. Louisiana. Massachusetts. I Nev Hampshire. Wisconsin and Ari-I Ari-I yona . ne-fourth ar Catboli.s. and in i Miirnesota. Montana. New Jersey and -i Vermont one-fifth. I ANCIENT HISTORY OF a CHURCH IN AMERICA I 1 Cini'-ch Progress. St. Louis.) f Almost 500 yf-vf before "ohVmbus set I 1! M woild afire with the knowledge ! bis discovery. Christianity had made ! its way into the western hemisphere. I Vv m Ireland it was carried into Ice- I b. '-id. While yet in its infancy in the laiier. Catholic missionaries, aflame wiib the y. al of the apostles began p:-e.o hing the gospc I in Clreeiiland. ; in tlic year IO011 lyjstory record the ri i in n of Lief, son of the foumier of . :i ''iiland. a convert to the faith, in ' :" . oinpaiiy with a number of Catholic 1 loissiona ries. Upon ri' lur soil the seed : 'f faith has rarely ever falb'n. For it i Mas eompara lively only a few years i i !ierai-ds w hen Ctiioi ity was su- P'eine. not only in Iceland and-Green -L: m. i. but also throughout Vinland. Among the zealous men preaching i'.e gosp. 1 in Crcenland was one Fa the? jv. ie. With the discovery of the grape-1 grape-1 ; id country of Vinland, a fact which ; 1 oeiims for its name, new fields were poiied fr missionary labor. That the "b'uizers might not be without the ) f -'.isolations of their holy religion the :-- a! of Father Frie led him a pioneer to f 11. is .-onirenial task. j Coinin-nsurate with his zeal was the . furors which hung upon his labors. ; In a few years Vinland almost .rivaled I -Greenland in iis greatiy multiplied j I places of religious worship. Both coun- ,: 1 : s w ere one in profession of the j atholie faith. Both had grown to suon I mportioris in this particular that a i v. ii.i-r organization nf the church was 'nied advisable. ; To this end Father Eric no- set his I 1 urpose. lleturning to Norway in the y-Hr 1120 the matter was laid before i iiie jnoper authorities with the happy i-sult that the see of Garda was es-,l es-,l tablished. And with the far greater I happiness to its inhabitants inasmuch "s ;is Father Fric was named to preside J er it. being- eoiryeorated the vear fol- low ing at Lunden. Denmark, i His was a great honor, which much of I i!ie world has forgotten. His were the 5 tirst priestly footprints made in the American soil. His the first episcopal eUthority which directed any portion . ! its people. The honors and duties of ihe episcopate, however, hung heavily upon his zeal for souls. ! , Greenland hud grown strong and beautiful in the practice of the Cath- ; die faith in her churches, convents' and clergy. Vinland was yet in her reli-g-i.'us infancy. It was Bishop Erie who bd plained the ef(j. Hip the duty, he linally eon iriced himself, to till the son. Therefor", we lind him putting off by resignation his episcopal authority to repume the task of missionary In j this field until called to his own great j reward in eternity. Such briefly is the history of the first American priest and 1 first American bishop. It is the link which binds the magnificent American church of the present with the infant 1 . hurch of the early ages. How beauti- j fully the story rainbows the ccnturis 1 "which intervene. The one arm resting j Upon our own day, the other on that -! the apostles. V. M. MEYER. Niagara Almni Meeting. .The Rt. Rev. James A. McFau!.-bish- j op of Trenton, N. .1., delivered an ad- I dress on "Catholic Federation." and j outlined a solution of the school ques- j lion, at the annual banquet of the Ni agara Alumni association, which held its twenty-third annual meetitv at the iioiel Rudolf ni Atlantic -City recently. The meeting of the "association orought to thip city a large representation represen-tation of Catholic clergy. The university univer-sity was represented by its president, tlu; Rev. William F. Likely, and the secretary, the Rev. L. A. Grace. It was decider to hold the next meeting at ' Niagara, and. preparations were also ma.lt for the celebration of the golden jubilee of the university two years hence. The ofhters elected for the en-sufng en-sufng year- are: President, the Rev. Nelson Baker. V: G.. Buffalo; vice-1 vice-1 resident, the Rev. Daniel Walsh. Buffalo; Buf-falo; secretary, the Rew Thomas H. Barrett, Salamanca, N. Y. 1 It was at the oanquet .that the great-est great-est interest was manifested. Bishop McFaul there made his speech, saying I in part: 1 "Federation has only been in exist-jenee exist-jenee fiva years, and already it has j grown to magnificent proportions. .Not I only Catholicity in the United States, ' but in Porto Rico and the Philippines. I has received new life and vigor from j the pulsations of its mighty heart. Federation Fed-eration is an organization whose aim is to unite all the Catholie nationalities I of the United States into one body for their civil, social and religious advancement. advance-ment. It behooves the- millions of American Catholics to haves a voice, and to have some visible, tangible instrument in-strument whereby that voice may be heard. "We projose this solution of the educational edu-cational problem: FirsC no public moneys to be paid out for religious iri-ftruction iri-ftruction in any school; second, let the educational per capita tax be disbursed for results in purely secular studies only in our Catholic schools, our teachers teach-ers receiving their salaries as other teachers receive theirs; third, to ascertain ascer-tain the results let our schools be submitted sub-mitted to state or city examinations. Thus will the great principle of our government, 'No public moneys for sectarian sec-tarian purposes,' be preserved intact." Archbishop Agius Here. On his way to the Philippines, to which he has been appointed the apostolic apos-tolic delegate, the Most Rev. Ambrose Alfred Agius arrived in New York, accompanied by Mgr. Giuseppe Petrelli, his secretary. For several years the Abbot proeurte general of the order of St. Benedictine, with hea-d quarters in Rome. Abbot Agius has been recently consecrated archbishop of Palmyra. The apostolic . delegate will meet President Roosevelt while in Washington, Washing-ton, but on his arrival said that he could not tell when. "My mission." he repeated, in answer an-swer to a question. "It is one of peace and good fellowship,' an apostolic mission. mis-sion. I do not come as a. politician. I can tell you no more at present, beta be-ta use my plans are not yet complete. I shall devote my energies to the spiritual welfare of the people of our faith in the Philippines and I expect to arrive in Manila early in January." Listens to Father Schell. Washington, Nov. 27. Father Schell, the Nebraiska Catholic priest who recently re-cently made charges in regard to the treatment of the-Indians on the .Winne-b;.go .Winne-b;.go reservation,, was presented to the president this-mbrning by E. Roee water, wat-er, editor of , the Omaha Bee. Father Si hell's object in visiting the president was to substantiate the charges which he made, and to justify his attitude, in view of the repudiation of him pronounced pro-nounced by the Catholic board of missions. mis-sions. The priest described fully to Mr. Roosevelt the alleged evil conditions, and complained .that the Interior department de-partment was not doing its duty in the I matter. Secretary Hitchcock recently J announced that 'he--t"would not receive I or recognize Father' Schell in any way j if he should come to Washington, but I me pi esiiieni i oiiiit-eu m u ame 10 listen to what he had to say. j Mr. Rosew ater told the president that 1 there was a' proposition to have the i Nebraska legislature pass a law es-j es-j tablishing a zone, around the Winnebago Winne-bago reservation in which absolute prohibition shall prevail. This, he ' said. jWould largely cure the evil of liquor selling to ihe Indians. The Pope's Rebuke to Snobs. j "Vox Urbis," correspondent a l Rome ot the Freeman's Journal, writes in a leieut issue: One of the" most remarkable acts of the reign of Pius X waa the appointment appoint-ment a couple of weeks ago of a com-j com-j paiatively unknown priest as archbishop arch-bishop of the great archdiocese of 1 Palermo. Hitherto the priests and peo-pieof peo-pieof Palermo have been invariably governed spiritually by a prelate be-loi be-loi ging to the ranks ot the aristocracy lor both priests and -people have always al-ways considered this a perfectly natural disposition of things. But they were not only pleased but delighted v, lit n the Holy Father chose for their m-w pastor Mgr. Lualdi, who was only known so far lor his humility of binn f.nd character. The people of Lucca,' however, have a diflerent way of looking at things. Their archdiocese has recently become vacant. Like Palermo, it has generally been ruled by a noble ecclesiastic, and the upper ten of the district, after putting put-ting their heads together, came to the ct iidusion that , they would send a deputation to Rome to ask" the Holy Father to continue the good old custom. S) they came along to Rome the other day, applied for an audience, were received re-ceived by his holiness, and proceeded to state their business. Piux X listened very quietly, but when the spokesman had finished speaking he made a few observations vhich the deputation is not likely to forget; "You have come here," he said, "to tell me that a bishop born from the ranks of the people is not fitted for you. Have you considered that your petition is a mark of insult and contumely toward me? Do you mean that if I were sent as arbishop of Lucca that you wbuld not accept me because I am sprung from the people? peo-ple? And do you consider that the diocese dio-cese of Lucca can demand to have an aristocrat for a pastor, when the universal uni-versal church is content to have the son of a peasant? Your mission here is a misguided one. - Return home and accept ac-cept obedinetly the bishop whom the vicar of Christ will". select for you." Prominent Episcopalian Converted. Joseph Ramee, for a score of years treasurer of the Episcopal church of the Holy Commonion in-South Orange, X. J.. has renounced that faith and become be-come "a Catholic. He is very ill at his home in Prospect street, and Nov. 21 he was prayed for at the Church of Our Ladv of Sorrows, in South Orange. A few weeks ago he called on Rev. James ; J. Hall, who is rector of the Church of i Our Lady end Sorrows, r.nd announced ' h!s intention of becoming a Catholic. I Father Hal lins-tructed him, and he was received into the church. The announcement an-nouncement has created surprise among the Episcopalians of the Oranges, as ' Mi. 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