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Show I ; j - ! HE UISIK WORLD. f M It is rumored that Omaha is to be made an Archdiocese. The late Cardinal Mazzella was the lie was a theologian, and the author of a claseic on the Church. He was at one time a professor at Woodstock College, but during the latter years of Iris life resided permanently at Home, foremost member of the Jesuit order. -i - The traditional resting place of the remains of Ireland's patron saint, at Downpatrick. has recently been covered villi a huge memorial stone, weighing about seven tons, taken from the mountain moun-tain side of Slieve-na-Largie. On the upper surface is carved an Irish cross, -with the name "PHtric" in Irish characters char-acters of the ancient Celtic form. Captain McKinley, a first cousin of the President, was married in the 3i-maculate 3i-maculate Conception Cathedral of Denver. Den-ver. Colo., to Miss Rt-gina tjuigley of Indianapolis, Ind. Captain McKinley has since become a convert lo the Church. He hae contemplated becoming becom-ing a Catholic for some years, and the matter iva.s finally settled after his marriage to Miss Quigley. At a. meeting of the fri- nds and ad'-- ad'-- anirers of the late Rev. Dr. McGlynn, held in Worcester. Ma.. is w as aecided to bold a memorial service in that city on April 2S. It is understood that the speakers will be William Lloyd Garrison Gar-rison of Doston, and Rev. Fathers luev and Burt sell of New- York. The memorial will be in the nature of a tribute from the Single Tax men and not from a Catholic ttandpoint. 8 A religious census has been taken r.f the City of Philadelphia. The work was done thoroughly, and 4.o00 numerators were employed, (living live to every Catholic family and four to every Protestant, the result is as follows: Catholic. 316.4G6; Methodists, 337..S04 : Episcopalians, 103..F1-; Presbyterians, Presby-terians, J02.:5fiO; Baptists. 100.T4S: Lutherans. Lu-therans. Tl.oOS. This shows that Archbishop Arch-bishop Ryan presides over one of the greatest Catholic centers in the world. i A Rome correspondent writes: The J Os??rvatore and Voce report the generous gen-erous words of that most Protestant of Monarchs, the German Emperor, when visiting the newly-restored Benedictine Ben-edictine Abbey of St. Mary Laach. that great Order, which has merited s go well of civilization, and still merits ( ko well of the Church, he said: ""N here-evrr here-evrr Christian virtue is found, and Christian greatness in its splendour, there are found also the traces of the Order of St. Rent-diet." It is now settled" that Archbishop Ireland will deliver the dedicatory address ad-dress at the unveiling of the Lafayette monument at Paris on July 4. The address ad-dress will be spoken in French and w ill 1.e non-religious in character. Ambassador Ambas-sador Porter will act as president, and the other American ambassadors in lnmne as vice presidents. Commis sioner General Peck will make the address ad-dress of presentation to France, and Mr. Frank J. Thompson, secretary of the Lafayette monument committee to the exposition, will speak on behalf of the school children, and the monument will be unveiled by forty-seven American Ameri-can girls, w ho will pull tri-colored cords simultaneously. Archbishop Kain, the energetic metropolitan met-ropolitan of St. Louis, knows how to tell a good story in introducing Archbishop Arch-bishop Keane to a St. Louis audience) recently he related how he and the for-v for-v mer rector of the Catholic university, while in coliege together, had been named the two canes, and how their fellow students had resolved this title into "the two sticks." Carrying this similie further, he remarked that he bad heard himself compared to a hickory hick-ory cane, w hile his grace of Damascus had at the same time been likened to a sugar cane. The Cleveland Universe makes note of he fact that in Springfield. O., where there are 1.075 Catholic families and about lO.noo families of all other denominations, de-nominations, the total number of births reported in 199 was 718. Of these 216 were reported from Catholic families. The birth rate for Catholic families was? one for every five, while for the remainder of the population it was one for every twenty. In commenting upon the statistics the health officer of Springfield says that "such conditions result in the downfall- of nations." In T many sections of New England the figures are more startling than those reported from Ohio. s A religious census of Xew Haven, Conn., undertaken by a Trotestant society, so-ciety, ah'ws that the Catholics are far lit the lead. The number of Catholics is set down as 41.900 in a total population popula-tion of 9G.SC1. The most populous Protestant Pro-testant sect is the Congregational, which boasts 14.190. It is a noteworthy fact that while the figures for the com- j l ined sects of Protestants Is- about 6.500 1 more than those given for the Catholics, yet the latter lead in churchgoing members mem-bers by over 7,000. There are more : J foreigners than native born in the city. and of the immigrants nearly one-half are Irish. The appointment of Very Tlev. Denis O'Donoghue as auxiliary bishop of In- j fii.maiK.lis. breaks the line of French -- bishops that has ruled the diocese since ks establishment, and he will also be Indiana's lirst bishop from among the I people. The appointment, however, does not necessarily imply that he will be the next bishop of Indianapolis, as the Papal brief dies not give him the right f succession, which some auxiliaries n.ioy. Father O'Donoghue received the appointment at the personal request 'f Rishop Chatard. |