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Show I Cf the Yictorj ; ' J . which over- . i ; I Universal. r ; S ! CHURCH CALENDAR. Sunday, 11 St. Francis Jerome, C. J ' ; Monday. 12 St. Pancras. M. Tuesday. 13 St. John the Silent, B. i Wednesday", 14 St. J?oniface, M. i , Thursday. 35 St. Sophia, V. M. ! Friday, 16 St. John Nepomucene, M. Saturday, IT St. Paschal Uaylon, C. I . 1 . Sixteen Million American Catholics. t appears from the census of 1900 s that there are 6.19S.OfM persons of for- i Ipn parentage residing in the United i States. The census gives, in most in- ; -Unices, the parentage by specified 5 - countries. This fact -will enable us to 1 ' form a pretty close estimate of the j .number of those of foreign parentage i who are Catholics. It is fair to esti- 6 mate ihat nine-tenths of those whose I parents were born in Austria, Bohemia, 1 I French Canada. France. Italy and Fo-! Fo-! , ' t : land, arc Catholics, and that one-tenth I ' of those of English, Scotch. Anglo-! Anglo-! Canadian and Russian parentage, are i : ' ' Catholics: furthermore, that one-third I u of those of German and Swiss parentage, par-entage, are Catholics: and three-fourths ; of those of Irish and Hungarian parentage, par-entage, are Catholics. As a result, we have these figutes: American Catholics ; , . Of Austrian parentage 391.000 ! ' Of Bohemian parentage 321.000 Of French-Canadian parentage 731.000 j ; Of French parentage . 41'0J fit Kalian naronturo MM) I I ! - . - Of Polish parentage 621.000 1 ! Of Irish parentage 3,7.r.0.000 s j Of Hungarian parentage 162.000 . I ! Of German parentage 2,610.000 Of Swiss parentage 85.000 s i Of Anglo-Canadian parentage. 131,000 Of Knglish parentage 214.000 : Of Scotch parentage 62.000 t Of Russian parentage 68.000 : f ' ' Total 10.046.000 i i ; If we add to the above total Catho- i lies of Belgian. Dutch, Spanish, Portu- i ' i ' guse. Mexican and South American ' -parentage, the total will run up to ; l0.r00,0fift. And if we further add des-s des-s eendants of Catholics who resided here ! prior to 1S30. and descendants in the I third generation of Irish and German i , Immigrants, the Catholic population of the T'nited States will easily foot up to I 16.000,000. Catholic Citizen. . Rich. Gift to Pope. A Rome. May 4. Fifty American priests ( of the diocese of Brooklyn, headed by i ' Bishop McDonnell, were received by : ! the pope this morning. After a speech s ' of devotion. Bishop McDonnell pre- I . - sented to his holiness a check for $10,- I ' i ; OdO. The pope thanked the bishop for !:) the rich gift. His holiness congratu- ' lated the American episcopate, which, he said, had been the only one to send I him a collective letter of greeting upon I the occasion of his jubilee. His holiness asked concerning the health of Arch- pj- bishop Corrigan. I To Form Catholic Union. Two hundred delegates, representing all the Catholic organizations of the diocese of Newark, met in Institute hall, Newark. N. J.. on last Sunday 5 y and took action, on the plan of Bishop I McFaul of Trenton for the unification ? of the Catholic societies of the United , States for mutual advancement and the preservation of the rights of the citizens citi-zens of that faith. i Won't Eat Meat. j Dispatches from Dublin say that t there is a universal determination , : among the Catholics in Ireland not to 1 j avail themselves of the pope's dispen- I X , sation permitting them to eat meat on f Friday, June 27, in celebration of King Kd ward's coronation. The pope, they say. has granted the Catholics of the British empire a dis- : pensation from abstinence on that day, the day after the coronation, and also ?. on Saturday. June 2S, the Vigil of St. e Peter's and St- Paul's day, and Cardl- nal Vaughan has been directed to pre- j scribe coronation prayers. Bishop Neumann. i , The inquiry court that has been in vestigating the sanctity of Bishop Neumann Neu-mann for the purpose of presenting i proofs to Rome with a view to having i the bishop raised on the altars of the Catholic church; has abmost completed its work. The court held nearly all its meetings in Pittsburg, some of them being held in the cloisters of the Re-demptorist Re-demptorist Fathers, of which order ! Bishop Neumann was a member. For two weeks, however, the court has held meetings in Philadelphia. Tuesday, April 23, the final act of the inquiry court was performed, viz., the opening ' - of the tomb in which the remains of ' the bishop rest by Archbishop Ryan in the presence of the entire court and several special witnesses. This tomb is in St. Peter's Catholic church. Phil-. Phil-. dclphia. Bishop Neumann died In 1S52. Sick Calls by Telephone. Among the regulations of St. Tal-r;ek's Tal-r;ek's parish, Montreal, is the following l'jactical advice concerning sick calls: "ICxcept in extremely urgent cases, ' sii-k calls should be delivered by per- S'T.al message, and not by telephone. Kxperience has taught us that tele-Phone tele-Phone calls are subject to many inconveniences. incon-veniences. ' ; "Excited or inexperienced persons often go to ihe nearest telephone and X give a wrong number or defective in- formation. The priest is thus misled, cannot find the place, and has no clue i , l" .correct tne error. The result Is that the sick - person is sometimes dead before be-fore the mistake is discovered. For a hurried call, the surest, and quickest way is to call a cab and come for the '".ir1- In ordinary cases a messenger should call at the presbytery and deliver de-liver the message personally to the priest, and not to the porter. In case of the priest's absence, the call may b left with the porter, taking care to give name, street and number, stating whether the case is urgent or not. It is wrong and unwise to sav a call is dangerous when it is not. People who do this sometimes share the fate of the boy who shouted wolf, wolf, when there .as no wolf, and who was devoured A when the wolf came, because no one believed him.. Sick calls should not be deferred to evening or night when they tan just as well be sent early in the day. - ! I; . Priest and People, i "A priest is not an angel," said a New Zealand priest at the close of a sermon to a large congregation re- j cently. "He is only a man: he is hu- ., i n an. He has the faults of human na ' ; tore but his life is given to you. His hand is the anointed hand which gives you the sacrament. Respect your i ; priests. Be proud of ihem. if they i have faults, leave their faults to God " That," says an amiable and thought-ful thought-ful correspondent, "is just what so ; many Catholics do not do. Some per sons are so constituted that, as Eliot has said, they constantly fix their j f ' . ejes upon the spots upon the sun, and 1 : , t n,,t uPn its glorious radiance. We are 1 ,,nr,t to take the self-sacrifice and 1 ' filling service of the priest in much I ; : ' ihe samp unthinkng, ungrateful, gra- I tutous wsy as that in which we accept I f : -: ' - , light and air. Possibly it is in consequence conse-quence of this airy appropriation, as a natural heritage, that we are so free with our criticism and so stingy with our gratitude. It should ve vice versa. When sickness assails us and death faces us the priest is the only one whom we can call, knowing that the call will be obeyed. Other friends may fail us. The prist-never friils us. -.His J telephone is never sniked. No matter , hew cold the night or late the hour at which the urgent ring comes, it is answered. an-swered. Truly, indeed, we ough to re-si re-si ect our priests. "The order of Melchisedech," with the wonderful of which it confers, carries car-ries with it the blue ribbon of all earthly earth-ly dignity, but it carries also, with it a great power of human loneliness. When he dons the garb of his supernatural knighthood the priest is out by a wall of separateness from the fair garden of human love. He must go alone and lonely and practically homeless through the world. The life of the priest affords the highest ideal that the world holds today of the Christian charity embodied in the nrimary commandment com-mandment of the positive school, "Live for others." Altruism can go no further. fur-ther. In common gratitude the least that Catholics can give to their priest i-s profound respect and wide indulgence, indul-gence, instead of cold non-appreciation and flippant criticism. New Zealand Zea-land Tablet. Catholic Summer School. The Catholic summer school of Amer-",aiVhich Amer-",aiVhich is Pmatie;:ly located at Cliff Haven, N. Y., on the Historic shore of Lake Champlain, near Plattsburg, has plans for several new buildings, to mT before the coming session, which, this year, will extend over a Sept 5f nine weeks- from July 6 to A special course in philosophical studies stu-dies will be conducted by Rev F P Siegfried of St. Charles' seminary, Overbrook, Pa., assisted by Rev. Thorn ' as OBnen, S. J., St. Francis Xavier college New York City, and Dr.. James t ox, from the Catholic university, Washington, D. C, and special studies m literature will be in charge of Dr Conde B. Fallen and Rev. Hugh T Henry. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Interesting Events Briefly Told in "Church Progress." mrf',?I?n1 'BrIcn of Cincinnati by her JZ?rhJ St' Joseph' orphS" r 'Tthe u.',U? Sistrs of the Poor and city oundltng asylum of that clianol It e0i,ff rntly done in the hi- fhli SS' Joacl)1ni and Anne. Chicago, hLthRman artlst- Archillas Disl, has crftics1 6 ThUSe f much miration of an critics, rtie expense of the work wa borne by the MarHedLadies' sodality. ' Fathers Telt that the Benedictine i-attiers of Arkansas are to establish a rh-r'V of their order at Muenster. in the diocese of Dallas. Tex. During the past Veek there was on exhibition In the Museum of Art Defro?" Brother" t e- bot?,nic,al Hcction'made bv Ynl, hr Junnau P?ter' the director of St. Josephs college in that city, it com i f? ?ear,y rm disti" specimens, c- Lnd so 'U n parts of lhe countrr. and some 6-JO collected in France. Bids have been received for the new St Martins convent at Newport. Kv The cost of the same win be ?l,OO0. The new chapel in Calvarv ecmeterv It is ynder construction on the hisrhest point in the country and built of Bedford IS. COSUnS Wh6n comPleted sum of 4 - tv??6 llCathoIic fedles of Brownsville. hefVe- ,n .conteniplation the estab-luthemwornen.a estab-luthemwornen.a hmer Uged and de!iti- T'TlRctJor Uo cnu-ch at Layton cost fuSoSi lct" The cdifice wiU An event of unusual interest will take h? tnie,rre f ,he Knihts of Colum-.1 Colum-.1 -.. oonfrrPd on an immense cla.ss. Jt will be the first time this interesting inter-esting degree has been given west of .ew ork. The degree will he conferred rLS"dl,JIaster Edward H- Do-Ve of about ; 600 expects to have a class of By the will of the 'late T. A. Win-rig of Newport. Ky.. the :sum of 2. was left to bt. Josepn s orphanage at that place. The Catholic citizens of Kansas Citv respoaded generously to the appeal for rehe, made necessary by the recent great fire. The Knights of Columbus gave SiOrt. e SrV ln,cent dfi Pau' society $50 and the Catholic Ladles' - Aid sorietv con-tributerl con-tributerl large quantities of clothing. AVork on the new Sacred Heart orphanage, orphan-age, which is under construction near Mountain View cemetery, in Bessemer t-olo, is in ogrcssing satisfactorily. The work of erecting the new Catbe-rtral Catbe-rtral of the Sacred Heart at Newark N -nivancing most favorably. p..'!rJl"'ri 'ovtu mission given by the Paulist 1-athcrs in the Church of Our Lady of Mercy. Philadelphia, 3 2.11 confessions con-fessions were heard, about twelve converts con-verts were received and the Total b-jje1rlJelK'-' society gained ten new mem-Plans mem-Plans for the new church of Our Lady JU-.fLarmtl- Chicago, are completed. Jhe iite for the same was purchased m t, years ago, costing $50,W0. It j ajj'iiiMu io ine convent and chV.rc'h.A: patent on a student's chair. The rhair N provided with different attachments the principal one being a ,0nk support in front of the reader, which can be lowered or raised, and which can in an instant be put out of the way by sliding it behind the panel of the back. One of the arms lias a shelf for books or a convenient sn--face to write notes on. Pnder Ihe rieht arm is a case lor books, stationary, etc rSr etc!" irm & matCh box' asi' Mrs Elizabeth Lubbe's will, wlfich left about SS.Wj to St. Elizabeth's hospital hos-pital and a like amount to St Violin's orphanage. Catholic institutions f Covington, Cov-ington, Ky has been sustained by the courts of that state. On Sunday last Archbishop Williams n' Boston was present at a solemn high r;: 'V vaiiieiirai, celebrated in i,i. P V,n,? t?-haYlnZ attained his Sdth irthday. On luesday he was tendered a banquet. Rt. Rev. J. L. Spalding of Peoria was one of the sneakers at the big memorial meeting for Governor Altgeld. which was held at the Auditorium at Chlcaeo. Other speakers were Clarence S. Harrow and Congressman John A. Lenti of Columbus, O. The Cnitcd German Singing societies participated. Miss May Agnes Carlin, the IS-vear-old daughter of P. J. Carlin, a well" known I Brooklyn contractor, has received the ' habit and white veil at the Convent of the "Visitation. She entered the convent six months ago. Miss Carlin inherited a ' large estate from her mother, who died 1 a few years ago. I Catholics of Spokane. Wash., are much elated over the beginning of work on 1 the new church of Our Lad of Lourdes. The published programme of exercises I of the Grand Army of the Republic for the coming Memorial day in New York, contains the name of a man who has had a remarkable history. Kev. William A. Olmstead of Notre Dame university, Indiana, In-diana, who is to take part in the celebration, celebra-tion, was -a gallant soldier of the Army of the Potomac during the civil war. He was breveted a major general of volunteers, volun-teers, and the honor was well deserved. vi The approaching consecration on Mav 11 of Bishop-elect W. J. Kenny Is the all-absorbing all-absorbing topic among Catholics at St. Augustine, Fla. The event promises to be the most elebarote of its kind ever witnessed wit-nessed in the south in so far as the attendance at-tendance of church dignitaries is concerned. con-cerned. The Algerian missionaries, founded in 1S),S at Algiers, have spread to the Sahara. Tunis. Upper Congo. Nyassa, Victoria Nyanza, Soudan and Jerusalem. A Welsh Catholic writer enumerates no less than twenty-five plants and wild flowers of that country, which, for centuries, cen-turies, have borne the name of the Blesstd Virgin. The. proposal to prevent women from tending at bars in Glasgow is exciting the liveliest Interest. It is warmly supported by trade societies. Th" two dioceses of Patagonia, South America, contains 103,000 Catholics, have fifty-five priests and forty-four schools. . Owing to. a prohibition issued by the French minister of marine, Lantssan. tin-battleship tin-battleship conveying President Loubet to Russia had no Catholic chaplain. The Earl of Denbigh has offered a silver sil-ver cup to the Catholic Boys' Brigade of London, with the suggestion that open competition for the prize should take ;luec in ambulance work among the various va-rious companies of the brigade. Bishop Hanlon of Cganda, Africa, recently re-cently presented the holy father with a walking stick made out of a piece of solid ivory found in that country. v Aside from the thirty-six foreign missionaries mis-sionaries laboring in the kingdom of Siam. fourteen native priests are engaged in exacting service. There are now a,000 Catholics in that country. The island of Curacao, Dutch West two priests, twenty-two Catholic schools and five hospitals and asylums conducted by Sisters. Father Albert Strocbcle, now striving to convert the negroes of St. Andrew's Land, off the South American coast, reports- the Baptist ministers peculiarly hostile to every attemrt he makes. Sir. J. F. Dell and Miss Cissie Pearce, receirtly members of the Knglish Church union, vill, we are informed, be received into the'Catholic church on Sundav next at the Church of Our Lady of Help of ChrisLmsX Kentish Town, by Rev. M. J. Howlett, rector. The unexpected action of the Bavarian government in Trbldding the Prince of Thurm to grant a'Syhim to the Sisters of St. Clare, just expeljed from France, has astonished the Catholics of that little klnsdom. f- Senor Aguerra, the new Spanish ambassador ambas-sador in Rome, and the MarqClis de Ayer-be, Ayer-be, who has been sent on a special mission mis-sion to Leo XIII by the cpieen recent, are working together to establish a'-vconcil-iatory arrangement with the hoty see and- the ecclesiastical authorities in Spain. k i The bishop of Vilna having been deposed de-posed by the Russian government, ano imprisoned for having published a circular cir-cular persuading Catholic parents not to send their children to the orthodox schools. Cardinal Rampolla has addressed a diplomatic note to the Russian government, govern-ment, protesting In strong terms against this violent and arbitrary act. 4 The Dublin county council recently entered en-tered into an arrangement with the Sisters Sis-ters of Our Lady of Charity of Refuse, High Park, Drumcondra, for the building of a home for habitual female inebriates. The ancient land of Mesopotamia is known to all readers of the Bible. It is not so well known, however, that it contains con-tains 66.0i0 Catholics, has foreign missionaries. mission-aries. 155 native priests. eighty-four schools and twenty-four charitable institutions. The diocese of Ispahan, Persia, contains con-tains 14,000 Catholics, has twelve missionary mission-ary priests, sixty-five native priests, forty-seven Catholic schools and three hospitals hos-pitals and asylums. There is now scarcely scarce-ly a large city on earth which does not show the cross of Christ gleaming in tho heavens. The death of Cardinal Missia, prince archbishop of Goritz. has removed one more member of the Sacred College appointed ap-pointed by Pio Nono, Cardinal Missia is, in fa-t. the 140th cardinal who has departed de-parted this life since the elevation of Leo XIII to the pontifical throne. There are now alive only three cardinals who owed their appointment to the predecessor of! Leo XIII. The archbishop of Albi, France, takes a firm' stand against schism and revolt, and addressing a Protestant director, says ihat he hopes the Protestants will not misunderstand his views, nor his at- titude ?n regard to any vital questions re- garding the Catholic church. j During the year 1897 there were S75.n76 oinns rccoruea in the Mexican republic, and 257,f.SS children were baptized in the Catholic church. During said year there were S1.000 civil marriages and 39.164 ecclesiastical. ec-clesiastical. There were 455.000 deaths, and the total population of the republic was 12.631,840. j, Zurich, Switzerland, recently elected Dr. Tschudy. .leader of the conservative Catholic party, superintendent of educa- I tion. He is the first of his faith to gain such distinction for nearly two centuries. I His election was brought about bv a split between the dominant Protestant partv and Social Democrats. In his medical practice also Dr. Tschudy had always shown himself the friend of the poor. All parties admit that he is a capable man. |