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Show . .-. Religious Intelligence. Bishop Dougherty of the diocese of Vigan, in the Philippines, has opened a college and seminary there. ' ' -f - . Beginning on Tuesday, Oct. IS, the Catholic Knights of Iowa will hold their annual state convention con-vention at Sioux City. The state meeting is held every two years. . , Property known as the? Ives Farm at Monroe, Mich., has been purchased by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart. The purchase price was $14,000. . . v, f-; .... Marquette college, Milwaukee, has opened the present year with. 202 students, the most favorable record in its history'. " f- , The growth of the Church in the city of Cleveland Cleve-land is well manifested by the dedication last week of St. Philomene's. the fiftieth Catholic house of worship in that city. ;' :- About another week's work will see the new auditorium in Carroll hall, Washington. I). C, completed. com-pleted. St. Patrick's new rectory is finished and the new windows have been placed in position. lectures were commenced in the Catholic university uni-versity on Tuesday of last week. Dr. McCarthy of Philadelphia has assumed the chair of American history, recently endowed by the Knights of Columbus. Co-lumbus. ' - . It is stated on what is quoted a reliable authority au-thority that a new diocese will soon be established in the state of Wisconsin. . t A new. clerical organ, to be -called the ' Roman Journal, will make its appearance "on Oct.' 1, in place of the semi-ofHcial Vatican organ,' the Voce ':Dolla Verita, which recently ceased publication. ! : ... f : ' - . ! . - A news agency under the direction of a promi-. promi-. nent prelate has been formed at Rome (according ' to cable reports) to furnish Vatican news to the press throughout the world. -Circulars are being sent to all the papers of the world inviting subscriptions sub-scriptions to the new agency, which it is designed to make a reliable source of information. : .?.".- Notwithstanding the rain of the morning and the threatening sky of the afternoon, fully 15,000 persons not all of whom were Catholics wit-'nesscd wit-'nesscd the coremoivy of blessing the graves at Holy Sepulchre cemetery, Rochester, N.fY., Sunday afternoon, aft-ernoon, Sept. 25. ,. .', " ' . . ? . '- " , Emperor William has not '.failed' to embrace every opportunity at his disposal to" manifest his good vill for his Catholic subjects and the Holy See. The telegrams of greeting that were sent to him by the recent great Catholic convention "of Regenburg were answered for the" first time by the emperor himself. A Baltimore lady, whose name is withheld, will .in a few days present the cathedral at Richmond, Va.. of which Rt. Rev. A. Van do Vyver is in charge, a magnificent gold chalice and platter costing cost-ing $3,500. . ' ' ' The International Catholic Truth society has done a timely piece of work in translating the official of-ficial account of the "Rupture of Diplomatic Illations Illa-tions Between the Holy See and the. French Republic." Re-public." " According to a forthcoming report the diocese of Detroit contains a Catholk population of 100,-."40, 100,-."40, attended by 20H priests. There are seventy-seven seventy-seven parochial schools and institutions of advanced ad-vanced education, taught by 405 .teachers, with an enrollment of 1!V52 pupils. f Perhaps the most picturesque character at the banquet tendered Rishop Lenihan was Rev. Matthias Mat-thias Ilannon of Darlington. Wis. Father Han-non Han-non was ordained priest' in 152. and visited Dubuque Du-buque and Des Moines when they were very small villages. He knew Bishop'Lonihan when lie was an infant, and in friendship for him he endowed a chair at St. Ambrose college. Davenport, at a cost of $5,000 to educate priests free of charge, for the diocese of Great Falls in perpetuity. Father Hannon has known five generations of the Lenihan family in Dubuque county. In the Chapel of St. Mary's seminary. Cleveland, Cleve-land, on Wednesday evening. Oct. 5. took place the investiture of the two new monsignon ot' the Cleveland diocese, the Rev. Chancellor George F. Houck. and the Rev. Dr. X.' A. Moes, rector of St. Mary's seminary. The ceremony was witnessed by nearly 100 piests. .. .. On the eve of the Canadian election. Sir Wilfrid Wil-frid Laurier's favorite nephew, Romaul Launer. whose father is the member of parliament tor l'Assomption. has left the world and entered the Dominican monastery at St. Hyacinthc. He was only 24 years old. |