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Show j THE CATHOLIC WORLD j Sir George White, commander of the British forces in South Africa,- was born in County Antrim, Ireland. The Westminster Gazette states that Miss Adeline Sergeant, the novelist, has become a Catholic. It appears she was conHrmed by Cardinal Vaughn in his private chapel on Friday, the 27th ult. She is one of the first converts of Father Maturin. ' The diocese of Brooklyn lost two of its priests by death last week the Rev. Thomas F Cumiskey. assistant pastor of St. Malachy's church, Van Sielen and Atlantic avenues and the Rev. John Crimmins, assistant pastor of St. Teresa's Tere-sa's church, Classon avenue and Sterling Ster-ling place.' The Right Rev. Monsignor Nicholas Cantwell. vicar general of the archdiocese archdio-cese of Philadelphia, and'rector emeritus emer-itus of St. Philip Neri's church, Queen street, below Third,- died at the rectory-adjoining rectory-adjoining the church early on Nov. 9. The venerable pastor was in his 87th year, and had been connected with St. Philips' church as rector and rector emeritus for fifty-five years. General James R. O'Beirne of New-York New-York has received a letter from Father Craft describing the funeral of Rev. Mother Mary Anthony, assistant general gen-eral of the congregation of American Indian Sisters. She died on Sunday, Oct. 15, while attending services in the chapel at Pinar del Rio. Cuba. She was buried Oct. 17 by United. States soldiers. sol-diers. ' ' Funston is hurrying back to Manila, and is troubled only, at the thought that perhaps the war may be over before he arrives there. Well, a new country has been taken possession of since he left, and there are many churches still untouched un-touched by the hand of the looter. Mrs. Funston may need a change of petticoats. petti-coats. Father Phelan in the Western Watchman of St. Louis. . "C. S. Gleed, senior member of the law firm of Gleed. Ware & Gleed. of To-peka To-peka Kan," according to the Catholic Citizen, "states that his firm had received re-ceived absolutely no intimation from General Funston of any purpose to be-, gin any legal proceedings against Archbishop Arch-bishop Ireland. Mr. Gleed said that he had simply received a personal telegram tele-gram from General Funston requesting him to ascertain if Archbishop Ireland Ire-land had been correctly quoted." German Catholic papers . all enjoy large circulations and all make money, dull and stupid as most-of them are, Jiays the Western Watchman. ' The reason is, ' the German -priests support them by- urging their people, to subscribe sub-scribe for them. They know that after the parish school they are the greatest proofs of the German tongue. The vast majority of English-speaking priest would not worry if a Catholic paper never entered their parishes. "President Hadley is a man of the hour," says , the Catholic Transcript. "Ritualistic services were to signalize his advent to Yale. The plan miscarried, miscar-ried, indeed, but the fact is not robbed of its significance. The worship of the future is to be according to fixed forms. The tendency is toward ritualism, and Yale cannot "call a halt for. a long time even within her own walls. But behind all this is the great question:. What is a ritual without 'a sacrificial worship? wor-ship? It is like faith and .works without with-out charity." , .The Rev. Dr. David G. Wylie, the pasotr of the Scotch Presbyterian church in New York, j-.t the weekly meeting of the Presbyterian ministers, uttered a warm eulogy of the Catholic church. Newspaper reports say that it almost took the breath away from some of the old-fashioned Calvinists. but in general was well received, and Dr. Wylie Wy-lie was thanked for his paper, the title of which was. "The Services of the Roman-Catholic Church to American Civilization.' Civ-ilization.' It was the same which Dr. Wylie read some time ago before the Presbyterian ministers of Philadelphia, and was the fruit of much historical research. . -4 In his pastorial letter to his clergy, on the jubilee of the Anno Santo, Mgr! Isoard, Bishop of Annecy, protests against the systematic disregard of the rights of French Catholics by successive succes-sive governments in France during the last twenty years. He says that in the questions of administration, great and small, "those in office, from the lowest to the highest, when dealing with Catholics, Cath-olics, adopt an exastly opposite line of conduct to the one they would adopt if .dealing with non-Catholics. 'There is, "he says, "no kind of outrage or blasphemy that, has not been proffered against our Holy Faith. Until within the last few months those in power contented themselves with tolerating and tacitly approving of attacks upon religion.' Now it is the chiefs who lead the way." "As a bluffer. .'.Fuss-and-Feathers Funston is not a howling success,'-' says the Union and Times. "We'll bet a big apple that threatened . libel suit against the San Francisco Monitor will never materialize. Funston knows better, bet-ter, unless he could be sure of getting an Apaist jury with whom -the more the truth, the greater would be the libel. Meanwhile, Editor Connolly is not losing much rest. He names his informant, as to ' .vestment-grabbing Funston. He is Mi'. Thomas :.Fox 'a I thoroughly reliable man," according to Mr. Connolly vi-.o;':,va3 with the volunteers vol-unteers and vouches personally for the story concerning Funston and the church vestments." Slattery ia financially strapped down in Australia and haa given up lecturing. lectur-ing. He has been literally strapped many times before, but a brief stay in a sanitarium always enabled him .to take the road again. This time his period pe-riod of retirement means a full stop. He says he would like to open a hotel, but two difficulties have presented themselves. He .has no money, and he cannot get a license. The Antipodeans would give Slattery a license to lecture; but they will not give him one to open a public house. Any ragamuffin can rail against the Catholic Church; but a man must have some character to open a dram shop in Australia'. Cardinal Gibbons started last Sunday night for New Orleans, La., where he will officiate at the marriage of his niece. Miss Katherine Gibbons, a daughter of his brother, John T. Gibbons, Gib-bons, who is a prominent resident of New Orleans. Miss Gibbons was educated edu-cated at St. Joseph's Academy, Em-mittsburg, Em-mittsburg, Md. The Cardinal left at 10:5 o'clock in a private car over the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He was accompanied ac-companied by the RewJohn D. Boland pastor of St. Vincent's church, and the Rev. William A. Reardon, pastor of St. Peter's church. At Washington Bishop Van De Vyver of Richmond. Va., joined join-ed the Cardinal. Bishop Foley of Detroit De-troit joined the party at Cincinnati, O., on Monday. The Cardinal and his party expect to he gone ten days or two weeks. Governor Roos-?velt of New York, speaking of Mayor McGuire of Syracuse Syra-cuse to a reporter of the New York World, says: "1 have been greatly interested in-terested in the result of the election in Syracuse. What is the secret of Mayor McGuire's popularity? Although he was not .backed by the labor element this year, as in 1897, he seems to have had. no trouble in winning. He has proved himself to be one of the strong men of his party, and doubtless will receive consideration, at their hands , next year. I cannot understand how it is that Syracuse, a normally Republican Republi-can city, selects a Democratic mayor, , unless it be the unbounded popularity I of Mr. McGuire." . The Right Rev. Louis de Goesbriand, Bishop of the Diocese of Burlington, died last Friday at St. Joseph's Providence Provi-dence Orphan Asylum, in Burlington, Vt. The venerable prelate, .who was the oldest bishop in the United States, succumbed to old age. For several years he had been. in failing health,, and in 1832 gave up active work In the diocese, requesting that a 'Coadjutor Bishop .be appointed. Since which time he had grown feeble rapidly, until the 'end came. The cause of. the. death of this good man was old age, he having devoted his life to the strains of a missionary mis-sionary on the western frontier in Ohio, especially near Toledo, and In this state of building up the Catholic faith, where aid was scarce and work was arduous. How well he accomplished his life mission mis-sion is attested by the handsome churches, numerous costly schools and large amount of property in" Vermont now controlled by the Church. Responsibility for- the desecration of Catholic churches by soldiers in the pay of .our government is not to be shirked by certificates of good conduct given generally by officers . of the army; neither is it met by the statement that the occupation or destruction of churches was a necessary act of war or that the looting of them, which is not denied, was the work of unknown Chinese or Filipinos, says the Monitor of San Francisco. The patent fact is that large quanuties of Church furniture, furni-ture, vestments and sacred vessels have been brought here from Manila by American soldiers and on government transports without, so far as we know, I any attempt, on the part of either the I military or civil officers to prevent it. ! Apart from the.aorilege. there is no question that these vestments and 'Church plate an-j stolen property. |