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Show Norway, where not so long since every Catholic Priest found was condemned con-demned to death, and Catholic laymen were deprived of their possessions and exiled, now shows a brilliant example of toleration,-not only to Protestant, but to so-called Catholic nations. Mgr. Fallize, vicar-apostolic of the country, tells that not onlv q m th.a. r-otv,u schools there absolutely free, but that where they exist Catholics are exempted ex-empted from the public school tax. Upon the remonstrance of Mgr. Fallize the laws relating to cremation were recently modified by the legislature, which actually altered articles which had passed the house to remove Catholic Cath-olic objections. Tho Protestant press thanked Mgr. Fallize for his interference interfer-ence in a delicate question affecting liberty of conscience. |