OCR Text |
Show 4 Garibaldi's sons is dead, and he died a Catholic. Cardinal Moran was refused permission to send a Catholic cnaplain with the Australian Aus-tralian troops that went to the Trans- I vaal. Sir Charles Tupner has reopened the Manitoba school question, and says he is going to press it forward until justice is done to the Catholics. ' -- Archbishop Riordan of the San Francisco Fran-cisco archdiocese, and his brother. Father Riordan have left Rome and have gone on a visit to the Holy Land. The total presentation in cash to Archbishop Arch-bishop Duhamel of Ottawa. Canada, on the occasion of his jubilee amounted to nearly $10,000. The French laity gave $l,0tj0. The site of the American University at Washington when purchased a few y'ears ago cost $100,030. It is now worth $1,500.-000. $1,500.-000. Speculators have recently sought to obtain it but without avail. During ISflfl eleven Catholic- churches were built in Texas. Eight others are contemplated in the near future. This is t a phenome-nal growth in that great state. Several convents have a!so been erected. The students of the lay department of j the Catholic University are more numer- I ous than ever this season. Among them are two Germans, who came from Europe Eu-rope to study electrical engineering, and , two negroes. i According to the statistics of the forth- ' coming Catholic Directory the Catholic population of the United States, Jan. 1, 1WO. was 10.2CO.000. It is safe to say that thia figure represents chiefly the active practical Catholics of the country. -Priests in makine thplr rtmnrtj tn rtidinne col- J dom 'take account of strays. j Rev. Father Mulhaney. the "leper ' priest" in charge of the Havana lazaretto, I arrived a Jacksonville, Fla.. last week, from Cuba, and started for New Orleans. ' wher? he will investigate some suspicious cases. He has 500 leprr cases in Havana and thinks that the-disease is Increasing Slowly. ' .7 i. ' . Bishop . . Rademacher's' life insurance policies haye been : found.- He left the entire amount. $15,000, to apply on the diocesan general fund. The church debt was- what js said to have caused his mental; and ' physical tr ..lbles and his '.'"nth, ,, .- . |