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Show I THE (ATHOLfC WORLD. I Rev. Michael Dougherty has been appointed ap-pointed rantor of St. Alphonsns' Church, Langdon, N. D. The Pope's physicians are violently opposed to his taking part in the New-Year's New-Year's Mass at the Vatican. ! Rev. Father Hund of Cold Springs, ! Ivy., has left his charge and entered the j Trappist Monastery at Gethct-ame. ' Lady Margaret Howard died at Arun- del Cai.le. England, cn Nov. 10. She was a sister of the Duke of Norfolk. A portion of St. Joseph'j? parish, Bid-defcrd, Bid-defcrd, Me., has been set.off into a new parish, with Rev. Father Bergeron in charge. It is claimed that there are now fully 20,000 Catholic soldiers in the Philippine?. Philip-pine?. Thev have, however, only two chaplains. The Pope has appointed, as Bishop of Allahabad, India, Father Vittore de Bologn'i, a distinguished Capuchian j missfcoraary. Mgr. Skrhrnsky, who has been deg- nated- by Emperor Franz Joseph as i Archbishop of Prague, is barely 36 I vears- of acre. I The debt on St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, has been decreased S 10,000 so far this year. The entire debt is now $300,000. The Caifholic societies of Pittsburg diocese are going to federate on the j principle cf the government of the United States. A feast to 2,000 poor people was re- j c-euiiy ,,ni'.i .u e city of Mexico, in i honor of t:::e return of Archbishop Al- t-aron from Rome. j Four masked men entered the resi- dence of Rev. J. F. Stanton of Clinton, I Ind., recently, and forced him to give I them his valuables. ' - j General Brooke, military governor of ! Cuba, has issued an order declaring J that hereafter civil marriages only shall be legally valid. Rev. Daniel J. O'Cailaghan. who was ordained, a Priest cn Tuesday, Dec. 6, nas ccen arroir.'tea assisutnt pas.tor or the Cathedral of Fargo. The Eighth regiment of New York, although meetly non-Catholics, has selected se-lected Gis their chaplain Rev. Father Dooley, who accompanied them to Cuba. Mgr. Locatelli, formerly auditor of the Papal Nunciature at Vienna, will be pent to Washington as a councillor to the Apostolic Delegate, Mgr. Mar-tinell'i. Mar-tinell'i. Faither W. A. McDermott, known in letters as W'alter Lecky, is on the road to recovery. His physicians, however, nay that he must not soon again devote himself to literary work. Rev. Andrew M. McLaughlin, O. S. A., died recently at. Lansingburg, N. Y., from typhoid pneumonia, contracted while he was attending sick calls. He waa a native of Philadelphia, and was 36 years of age. Very Rev. CanonTlogers P. P. Ar-dee. Ar-dee. County Louth, and Rev. Thomas Cassidy, P. P., Monasteirboiee, have come to this country on a mission, authorized au-thorized by Hi Eminence, Card'inal Loguer. to collect funds fc-r the national caithedral of St. Patrick at Armagh. A new Catholic scAtJement is about to be established in Tennessee, for which purpose 22,000 acres of land have been purchased- near Winchester, in that state. Rev. L. Van Nee is at the head of the movement. Bistiop Byrne of Nashville is also interested. , Father Mathews, the chaplain of the Irish Fusileens, who was captured with the remainder of Ivi9 battalion at Nicholson's Nich-olson's Nek, and whcee story of, the capture- ha'3 arousad much comment, is on of the thirteen Catholic priests who are regularly connected with the chaplains' department of the British army. There are also six Presbyterian ministers cni the regular army rolls, the remainder being clergymen of the Church of England. Altogether there are ninety-nine regular chaplains. It is not often, says' the London Daily Chronicle, that a nun has a fortune of $450,000. Such a sum has recently come into, the posisesion of a member of the community of SiiHers of St. Vin-vent Vin-vent de Paul at Origny. In that listtle French 'town, familiar to many English visitors, a basket manufacturer of the name of Burlureaux throve so well that he opened shops for his wares in Neweastle-on-Tyne and in Leeds. By-thrift By-thrift . he accumulated the fortune which now devolves by his death on his only daughter. In her hands it becomes- at once the patrimony of the poor. Father Walworth concludes in the January issue of the Catholic World Magazine a most Interesting series of reminiscences of the state of religion in England- fifty years ago, while he was a Redemptorist missionary there. The story in the present number is of the trip across the Atlantic as he came with Father Bernard, the great Redemptorist Re-demptorist missionary, who was the first to inaugurate missions as they are now understood in this country. Father Fa-ther Bernard was undoubtedly a great man as well as a great missionary. Father Fa-ther Walworth says that it was his desire and design to establish a house of the Redemptorist Order in the United Unit-ed States, where English would be the prevailing language, and from which missionaries understanding: English well could be supplied. In this-project he failed, and on his failure hangs one of the most interesting chapters of ecclesiastical history iri the United States. |
