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Show j-l -f .f .t H 1 ttTflOlK MD. I 1 , I g ! The Rev. Edward Henry Bryan, late ... j Vicar of 'Helsall, Yorkshire, England, has been received into the Catholic I Church. y ! " 0 j Sees of Dubuque, yvt Wayne and g I Columbus have not yet been filled, all , i reports to the contrary, notwithstand- 1 ! ins. g The Rev. Francis Marahetti, D. D., e j the new auditor of the Papal Legation, i in Washington, has arrived, and is at j ! present in charge of the legation. Archbishop Martinelli and Dr. Rooker e being absent and in the west. S A sister of T. m! Healv, M. P., recently re-cently made her profession at the Convent Con-vent of the Dominican Nuns, Pieter-maritzburg. Pieter-maritzburg. Natal. The ceremony took 1 place in the private chapel of Bishop 1 Jolivet, O. M. I. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Shahan of the ' Catholic University, Washington, will 2 lecture at Windsor Hall. ' Montreal. on June 11. His subject will be: "A Cen- 3 tury of Catholicism." , The "American Union" bastard descendant de-scendant of the A. P. A. wants the I. Bible in the public schools. What Bible? a Is it the Bible that the "higher criti-" criti-" cism" of the l'rotestant sects has torn to shreds, or the old-fashioned Bible of the Catholic Church? ; , Ella May Clemnions, sister of Mrs. "r Howard Gould of New York, at pres- ent at work among the Chinese lepers of San Francisco, has offered her ser- " vices as helper in Father Conrardy's . mission colony in China, and had them accepted. ; Among a class of 150 Indians recently I received into the faith of Bishop O'Gor-r O'Gor-r man at the Rosebud agency, South Dakota, Da-kota, was Two Strikes, a famous Sioux chief now in his eightieth year. 1 According to the official record, 1,500 ; converts have been added to the 1 Church in Westminster diocese alone ; during the past twelve-months. These figures show a slight increase on those of the previous, year. The Priests of the'Arch'diocese of Cin-' Cin-' cinnati have voted to present the venerable ven-erable Archbishop Elder with an episcopal epis-copal residence. His Grace is the dean of the American hierarchy, and deserves de-serves well of the zealous clergy under his obedience. The golden jubilee of the first convent con-vent established in South Africa was recently celebrated at Grahamstown. This convent was established by Sisters Sis-ters of the Assumption from Paris, who opened a day school and boarding school for young ladies. Reports, from Manila state that some of the non-Catholic, missionaries who went to the Philippines have fallen victims vic-tims to tle dangerous fever so common on the islands, and are now being, tenderly ten-derly nursed by the self-same Sisfers whom they were engaged in villify-ing. villify-ing. Madame Nevada is a fervent Catholic. Catho-lic. While she was singing in Paris in 1844 she was baptized in. the Church of St. Michael,, her godfather being Chas. Gounod, the celebrated musician. Since then she has always been, like Modjes-ka Modjes-ka and Anderson, an exemplary Catholic. Catho-lic. - . & It is practically settled that the Portland Port-land (Ore.) University .building and fifteen fif-teen acres of ground surrounding it at University park will soon 'pass into the possession of the Oregon City Archdiocese, Arch-diocese, and that the railroad to St. Johns will be electrified 'and a spur extended to the university grounds for : the great school to be established there, j The Midland Review- says that contrary con-trary to expectation, most of our Catholic Cath-olic journals admit that Judge Don-ahoe's Don-ahoe's criticism of newspaper poetry is timely, just and to the: point Judge Donahoe is a Middletokn (Conn.) man, and the criticism referred to a.oneared in a recent number of Donahoe's Review. Re-view. Milton E. Smith of Branchville, Md., writes to the Pittsburg Observer to say that he knows that Mrs. Dewey has not abandoned the Catholic faith. Let us hope that the matter will now drop. It is, a question interesting only to the lady herself and to those who hope to make political capital therefrom. there-from. , ' The late Richard Storrs Willis was for a generation a leading Catholic of Detroit, prominent . in many useful functions of citizenship.. Hs brother, Nathaniel Parker Willis! whose "Pen-cilings "Pen-cilings by the Waysile" was one of our early-day successful literary works, was a poet and essayist. "Jennie June" was his sister. ' . S Four colored Sisters ; of the Holy Family, accompanied by Mother Austin Aus-tin and Sister Ann from New Orleans, ! arrived at Stann Creek, in British Hon- duras, on Monday of Holy Week and were met by an anxious and enthusiastic enthusias-tic crowd. The Sisters went to Hon-' Hon-' duras at the invitation of Bishop Hop- kins and ivill teach in the Catholic public pub-lic schools of Stann Creek. The Mother promises to send two. more Sisters, if possible, to help in the abundant harvest har-vest to be gathered chiefly among the Carib population. A commodious structure for the use of the Sisters of Mercy, and to be known as St. Catherine's Home, is to be erected at First street and North Carolina avenue southwest, Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, This property faces Providence Prov-idence hospital. Ground 'was broken recently without formal exercises. The new structure is to be of brick and stone and three stories in height. 5 ,; -The first anniversary of the blessing of the House of Cavalry, the hospital for poor cancer patients, at No. 5 Perry street. New Y'ork, will be celebrated cele-brated on Tuesday, June 12. In the absence of His Grace, Archbisr p Cor-rigan. Cor-rigan. who officiated at the blessing of the house one year ago, the Right Rev. Bishop Farley will attend the ceremony and give benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 4 p. m. A Seventh Day Baptist organ complains com-plains that "Archbishop Ireland wants to have Sunday enforced upon all people in this country." While at the same time he knows, continues the complainant, that Sunday rests on no 1 other authority than that of his Church. Very true. But what higher authority is there for any other orthodox ortho-dox article of Christian belief or practice? prac-tice? The brother of the late Marquis of Queensbury is the Rev. Lord Archibald Archi-bald Douglas, a Catholic priest who now devotes his life to the care of orphans. or-phans. Father Douglas, his sister, Lady Gertrude, his mother, the late Marchioness Mar-chioness of Queensbury, and his brother-in-law, Sir..Beaumont Dixie, were all converts from Calvinism. But the late marquis was a blatant infidel as well as the patron saint of the pugilists. pu-gilists. - The Abbe Boeglin, quondam editor of the Moniteus de Rome is the Innomin-ato Innomin-ato of "The Sun," he- has mariy pen- names: In the Sun he signs ''Innominate" ''Innomin-ate" in the Brussels Patriote, "Fide-lis," "Fide-lis," in the Journal de Roubaix,, "Tiber," "Ti-ber," in the Fribourg Liberte, "Courte-ly," "Courte-ly," in th$ Faris Univers-Monde, "Lu-1 "Lu-1 ' : cens," in the Vie Catholique, "Riche-ville," "Riche-ville," in the Justice Sociale, "Penna Vera." If he has any more pseudonyms they are not yet discovered. The Catholic Knights and Ladies of America held their biennial convention ! at Chicago last week. The organization ! j has a membership of 8, '()). Archbishop ; j Kain of St. Louis is spiritual director of the order. It has lew members in the east. The mercurial Frenchman hos been 1 . given a chance, by a Parisian publica-' ' tion, to cast a vote expressive of his j opinion as to the greatest soldier, the greatest poet, the most learned savant, ; etc., etc., of his country during the nineteenth century. The battle has raged over the whole of France, the ; fiercest competition being over the great Frenchwoman. In this class I among the four who are in the lead Is I Sister Rosalie, a recently deceased Sis-j Sis-j ter of Charity, on whom had been conferred con-ferred the Legion of Honor bravery as j a nurse on the battlefield. 1 j It may not be know n by -all that in the English army and royal navy the I four religious branches at present re-j re-j ceiving official recognition are the I Church of England, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian and Wesleyan. Every recruit re-cruit on his enlistment is required to declare himself as belonging to ,one or the other of these four branches of the Christian Church and is entered ac-oordingly ac-oordingly for parade service. In the event of having no choice, he is usu-i usu-i ally entered as belonging to the Church of England. Archbishop Averardi. the Papal delegate dele-gate to Mexico, has been transferred to China by the Pope. For many years the Vatican has striven to have a diplomatic diplo-matic representative at Peking. -It-is reported that it has succeeded at last, through the good will of Russia and Germany, and that Archbishop Averardi Aver-ardi will 6e empowered to negotiate a species of concordat between the court Peking and the Roman pontificate, and so to define the relations of -fie two powers, the one spiritual, the other mundane. The relations of the Catholic Catho-lic Bishops and missionaries in CJhina to the law and to the public authority-will authority-will have to be satisfactorily settled. |