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Show RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Rev. Stephen Van -de Burgt. O. F. M., ex-provincial of the province of Holland, died recently at the age of 52. Card.inal Gibbons left Cincinnati for New Orleans, where his eminence will visit his brother, as he does each winter. win-ter. The college of the Jesuit Fathers at Cienfuegos. Cuba, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is $60,000. There was no insurance. Socialism has another grievance against the church.' The pope s organ, Observatore Romano, condemns the present revolutionary movement in St. Aloysius conference' of the St. iVncent de Paul society, Glasgow, has this year secured the services of -Father Michael Maher, S. J.. prpfessor: of mental philosophy at StonyhtU;st.- ' to deliver the annuti sermon in aid of the poor. The Catholic societies of Indianapolis Indianap-olis are discussing the feasibility of erecting a building to be known as the Catholic hall, for a general meeting place. A meeting of delegates from the various societies wiH be held on Sunday, Feb. 19, when the matter will be taken up in its various phases. f Mother Marry of the Fassion (formerly (for-merly Helen Mary Phillipine de Chap-potin Chap-potin do Neuville). whose death is announced an-nounced was the foundress of the Institute In-stitute of the Missionaries of Mary, or Franciscan nuns, who number at present pres-ent more than three thousand religions and have ninety houses in various countries, including England and Ireland. Ire-land. Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan, wife of the rrulti-millionaire of New York, has just given a fine farm to the Good Samaritan Samari-tan hospital At Suffern, N. Y. Mrs. Ryan founded . the hospital several I years ago and contributes largely to its support. She also built the handsome church at Suffern and ,111 other ways scattered benefits on the town where her summer home is located. By general consent, says the Monitor Moni-tor of San Francisco, the effigy of Friar Junipero Serra will be one of the two historical figures representing California Califor-nia in the group of American immortals iu Statuary hall at the national cap-itol. cap-itol. 'No other selection is rationally 1 ossible at first choice. For the second there is a wide range of claims to pick from. Cardinal Gibbons and a delegation representing the Knights of Columbus held a conference here today-regarding the financial difficulties of the Cath-I Cath-I olis University as a result of the fail-! fail-! ure of Thomas E. Waggaman. As an outcome of the conference, the Knights of Columbus will contribute to liquidate the debt of the university. Returns from the annual collections ordered by the archbishops " for the Catholic university are coming in. and there is every reason to believe that the amount will swell to $150,0o0. About $10,000 has been received during the past week. Of this $7,732 comes from the. Archdiocese of Philadelphia, and is more than $1,000 above the amount given last year. The Cleveland diocese dio-cese sends $1,988. Sir John Nutting, a Dublin Unionist, who obtained a baronetcy some time ago as a reward for a generous contri bution of $100,000 for Unionist party purposes, has made an offer to provide $20,000 to endow scholarships for Catholic Cath-olic students of Trinity college. The Catholic bishops wrote rejecting the proposal, which is declared to be a mere political device. "Trinity college col-lege is-110 place for Catholics," say the bishops. ' "The Rev. Paschal Robinson, O. S. F., of St. Francis' church. New York City, who returned to that city lasht week, from Genoa. Italyf on the Prinz Oscar, of the Hamburg-American line, had the unique experience of being practically practic-ally the only cabin passenger on board. It was truly a case of splendid isalo-tion. isalo-tion. Father Robinson is a son of the late Nugent Robinson, who in his day v.as a popular story-writer, and has left much work of abiding value. Msgr. Adalbert Anter, provost and . parish priest, of Lauban. in the diocese cf Breslau, Germany, will celebrate this jear the seventieth anniversary of his ordination. When 10 years ago he celebrated cele-brated the sixtieth anniversary, the pope made him a prothonotary apostolic aposto-lic and the emperor decorated him. At the age of 94 the venerable man is hale and hearty, and well able to administer his large parish. It is stated that among recent converts con-verts in Germany, in addition to the princess dowager. of Hesse, aunt of the Emperor William II, who has already ben mentioned, are Wilhelmine . von Hillcrn, the novelist, who has been' living liv-ing for years at Oberammergau; the dramatic poet, Martin Unterweger. and his wife, the well known authoress, Rosa Stolle; and Dr. Ludwig Seid-1. formerly a Protestant preacher, and until a short time ago professor in the gymnasium of Breslau. Rt. Rev. Edward Fitzgerald, bishop of Little Rock, Ark., celebrated the thirty-eighth anniversary of his consecration conse-cration this month. . He has been. a. bishop longer than' any other American Ameri-can prelate except Archbishop Williams of Boston. Bishop Fitzgerald was stationed sta-tioned for ten years at St. Patrick'. parish. Columbus. He did much toward organizing the cathedral parish, purchased pur-chased the ground and present belong ing to the cathedral and had the cornerstone cor-nerstone laid in IS66. President Ttoosevelt. is to be the guest of honor at the banquet of the New York Friendly .ons of St. Patrick, to be given on the "coming 17th of March. The president- will be escorted to Del-monico's Del-monico's by the famous Sixty-ninth regiment. The souvenirs will be blackthorns black-thorns out from the original tree from which Fin Mac Cool, the strong man of Erin's most strenuous, age, got his historic his-toric shillelah. The one for the president presi-dent is a beautiful stick that has been carefully polished by four generations of the O'Briens of Thomond and then dried in the turf smoke of a mountain cabin. The semi-annual meeting of the board of directors of the Catholic Knights of America was held in Chicago Chi-cago last week. Supreme President D. E. Kelley of Memphis; Tenn., presiding, pre-siding, The board were much gratified grati-fied at the progress of the' order in the past six months, during which time the membership has reached and considerably con-siderably extended over the D.OOO mark'; their collections from a single assessment assess-ment have also overtoDped considerably consider-ably the $10,000 mark, and, the general fund has exceeded all previous records, going over $6,000. A statement of the receipts of the Society for the Preservation of the Faith among Indian children for the year 1904 will be of interest to the Catholic public. The total receipts were $22, 70S. 75. t The following returns merit particu-lar:notice: particu-lar:notice: lar notice: v From the association of the Holy Childhood $3,863 56 From the special appeal of the bureau for 1904 3,113 51 From the Marquette league .. 600 00 Included in the responses to the special spec-ial appeal of the bureau is a donation of $236.40 from the Ludwig-Missions-Verein of Munich, Bavaria.. , ; It. should . !v? utatod that the returns froni lhe'dioi:ese of Cleveland ($2,3i6.7j I were received too. late to be noted in our statement for 1904. Notwithstanding most earnest efforts to propagate the society among the people, the receipts for 1904 have fallen below those of 1903 by $9,725.66. It will be seen how. necessary it is for our promoters- to persevere in their work, and for all who have at heart the salvation sal-vation of souls to lend their aid to the Society for the Preservation of the Faith Among Indian Children. WILLIAM H. KETCIIAM. Director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian In-dian Missions. |
