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Show CATHOLIC OPINION. We notice that the Rf. Rev. Bishop Scanlan of Salt Lake City oronounces against the reliability of the Catholic church census as furnished bv the Catholic Cath-olic directory for the present year. He refers to the fact that fifty-five of the dioceses in the country are not credited with any gain whatever. This of itself would disprove any claim to great reliability re-liability which the directory might have We also made the same claim not more than a month ago, when we insisted that the figures given 10.976.757 were much too low for the total number of OUio, lies in the United States. Bishon Scanlan Scan-lan s position strengthens' our belief in th? claim that the number is more rroo-erly rroo-erly between 12,000,000 and 15.0OO.0O0. This almost any one familiar with the manner in which the total is arrived at will readily read-ily concede. Church Progress. The French elections have been the political po-litical sensation of the week. The house of socialism is divided against itself in Krance and the ministry of Waldeck-Rousseau Waldeck-Rousseau cannot stand verv much longer. lon-ger. Not a government candidate was returned from Paris. This cannot be ascribed to the fickleness of the Parisian elector, as he has done this very thin" now the third time. The government of Loubet has eaten the monks, and already they have a very bad case of dyspepsia. Soon booby Loubet can go to mass without with-out compromising his political fortunes. Western Watchman. .- Cardinal Vaughan has ordered that in all the churches of the diocese of Westminster, West-minster, on. the day of King Edward s coronation, a high mass shall be sung, followed by benediction and Te Deuni. The pope has dispensed the people of the united kingdom from the Friday abstinence absti-nence that week. This is, a very ff- feetive way of protesting again' xh- h' pheming of the king's oath. W hi!,. " f English king is declaring his ':; in the mass and tranpiil!i;irit;.i;j,,',,' V ! millions of Catholics in Kngl.iti.l j;i'Vt , down in adoration before tin-:-- . .'.u'" j istic lord. Western Watchm.-in. '"' " I Mischievous reports have !..-. , ,,,v . I lated about the Catholic ui !-. : , "' ' f j the effect that IJishop Conaty tr i. ,;V, .'' f resign, that dissension reigns V't;,' f faculty, and that the itistuuu, sufficient funds to pav its n;t . .,.. "' penses. The Rt. Rev. Rector ,. y I stories. Catholics every wlirr-- p ,., s joice. at this denial, if th- !;.!..' r could only obtain the support :' i: Kr,';'. '" religious orders that now keep aw ., . ,',., r it and of the influential Cerm.i.; . i. ,.,.'.1 ' in our membership, its future w, " much more secure than it is. i ..... t". : Observer. ' Fresh instances of torture I.-.- .vil.1. -cure" anrl otherwise by nur to..;.. Jr,'. being furnished to the senate ii.i:m everv day. The latest is the ni 'si -t. fill of all. It relates to the Pu t r ,!..t subsequent murder of a priest , higher purpose, it would seem, jk l:: e; lt of robbery. It is an ex-s..l.'.ier : .:i. i Bert rand f Lynn. Mass.. who mpK. -charge. The priest's name ; k Augustine. He was seized by men ,.r ln f Twenty-sixth regiment at a pi iee e :;..,, Bolo, in Pa nay. They won; in s. i, buried money of the insurgents. .. ;:' was believed he knew where it wis ; creted. They save him the whip: : .r ;. 4, after having kept him confined j:, , ,v. . . g and the victim died from the b.in. .... I The soldier says his watch ar.d i- , f . were taken by an officer, ami he . . v. ; the names of all, officers and pr' o,. i who took part in this frightful r : Ie One is tempted to rub hi.-? eves .u ! ..s himself is it of the Cnited States he is reading when such horror- st;.. him in the face. 1'nless they improved, im-proved, we stand before the r the first time in all our military h: -. , disgraced. Standard and Times. The evangelical crusade again-' W! .-. monism has not elicited the r-. among sober-minded Christians was-.'; f . '. promoters hoped for. There is f strong popular conviction of the re-ritr- ment of clean hands on the ;,.,-t ; : champions of moral reform. The jv t - ) tice of polygamy, which is the grouii.! ., evangelical attack on the cult of Pr ; Smith, is. after all, very little, if x worse, in essence, than the same pr t.;.-.. among the evangelical masses. Tie- ::- f real difference between the two h:. motions mo-tions is that one Is not legalized w -: ; 1 -i the other is. Tandem marriage, e ... . mon among sectarian Christians. wit:i consent and sanction of the very 1 eiei-of eiei-of the present anti-Mormon m"'i:iw::. Is in every sense as reyrehensihle r, character as the more honest custom "'. the followers of Brigham Young. a-M is far more hurtful, morally and sou,i!!y. m its results. Were the preacher to remove re-move the beam from his own eye., before undertaking to extract the mote trorn that of his Mormon neighbor, he woul-t evoke more sympathy for his zeal. ay nothing of confidence in the sincerny . of "his motives .Monitor. |