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Show 1 ( 1 1 v -1 Church ' , ! : : . I universal j - ! I CHURCH CALENDAR. j - Sunday, Aug:. 30 Twelfth Sunday I efter Pentecost. St. Lawrence, M. 1 i .' Monday, 11 St. Tiburtlus and Su- I i eanna, M. M. I Tuesday, 12 St Clare, V. i Wednesday, 13 St. ' John Berch- I i 1 man. C. 1 i Thursday, 34 Vigril Fast St. Euse- 1 ; lius, C. 1 Friday, 15 Assumption, B. V. M. I Saturday, l St. Hyacinth, C. GOTTI MADE PREFECT. Pope Selects the Cardinal to Head the Propoganda, Home. July 29. The pope has ap-: ap-: pointed Cardinal Girolamo Maria Gotti prefect of tho congregation of the Propaganda fide. In succession to Car dinal Ledoehowski, who died last Tu"s- iaay. Cardinal Gdtti is prefect of the "acred congregation of "bishops and of regular discipline. Ordinal Agliardi was appointed nre- !-. nv,,,, Vl lne tungregation or the propaganda in place of Cardinal incent Vannutelli. I , Cardinal Vannutelli will replace Car- ' alnal Gotti as prefect "of the sacred congregation of bishops and of regular discipline. , The selection of Cardinal Gotti to MH-,oi the late Cardinal Ledoehowski , , in the most important post in the gift "f the pope is universally regarded as indicating the pontiff s personal -wishes ; as to the personality of his successor i C ardinal Gotti has long been considered j the most likely of the cardinals for suc- I cession to the papal throne. I lRT- Gotti. the new prefect was ele- i d 10 th? college of cardinals in io. He is a Genoese by birth and as a Carmelite bare-footed monk, the general of his order. His father was a aock laborer at Genoa. His elevation to the sacred college came as a reward for the skill which he displayed in arranging ar-ranging various difficulties with regard to the interest of the church in Brazil after the overthrow of Dom Pedro. 1 , He was educated at the Jesuits col- 1 loe m Genoa, ioined th r-,-!.- ider and quickly became its head. Stones are current that years ago ; Gotti was hailed by an aged Carmelite fs future pope. His election to the head of the Catholic church would constitute con-stitute a fulfillment of the old prophecy J , ?lish SL Maach'. according to ; nich -Ignis Andens" that is to say flmm t h or bIazjn& firejs j Fjmbol of the next pope. I 1 Jt is related that in 1S96 several car- I 1,na,s anJ other dignitaries in Rome f 1 ere weighing the chances of various I possible popes when one of th- most I celebrated members of the sacred col- I le?e startled his hearers by saying: , . I "I do not thing any one of your can- '"dates will get the tiara. In my j ! - T"110" no cardinal now prominent in S ln church, the head of a group or party, will be elected. f "The man uho has th best chance ii 'f success is a cardinal who has not j yet been talked about a man whose part ls llttle known and whQ hag hitherto not been identified with papal iwlitics. I think I know his name! Un-I Un-I ! . t greatly err. he will have the ma- I ; "Tn? cardinal fn question the most, capable of all the princes of the church I -is Cardinal Gotti, lately internuncio I at Iv' de Janeiro. Cardinal Gotti is j xni y ,n every way t0 succeed Le I 'J lwt him for the first, time the. I "l,,r Qa" ana studied him closely. I I ?vas gruels, by the dignity of his oear- nP- by the sureness of his judgment 4 and by the profound impression he pro- I fluced upon those around him. 1 . "Bear his name in mind. You will hear much of him." ! PROPHECY OF StTmALACHI. I Should Be Dear to Every Irishman, Says Cardinal Moran. Speaking recently at Maynooth col- I " Cardinal Moran of Sydney, Aus- tralia, said: f "yesterday a friend of mine put into I my hands a memoir of Oliver Plunkett -with whose venerable and saintly Parrie 1 hav? not been unfamiliar. The I "ame of that venerable martyr to Ire land's faith should be ever revered and f celebrated as a promoter of tmper- anw .Jn this fair land. There U one remark that I thought I would set ; for,h- is that this venerated mar- I Tjr had consulted the greatest literary . euthority of his day. the distinguished ! Kenedictme. Mabillon, as to the au- thenticity of a prophesy of old, and the (Jer'ly -f Mabillon to that venerable primate of Armagh was that that prophecy pro-phecy of St. Malachi was undoubtedly genuine, and he risked his authority on the genuineness of that prophecy nd that prophecy should be dear to evn-I evn-I ihman. At the dying moment of St I Malachi he was seen to shed tears, and I th"se standing by asked why he thus J wept, and the reply is given in that I authentic document: 'Woe is me said I , l- Malachi:. -alas for my ruined coun- I tiy. a as for the Holy Church of God j ",w J,nK' how lons dost tho" forget Uf- Hw'v long, my country, art thou i -onsumed Avith sorrow"' iifir.ii i nn terrible 1 'Us iphne. long shall she be purified. 1 ' ' 'ul 'wards far and wide Khali her niagnifuence shine forth in cloudless I : -'0'T. ami oh! Ireland, do thou lift up I xh? head. Thy day also shall com i , a dar of . a week of ceurjes ! '""lualmg the seven deadly sins of thy enemy shall be numbered unto thee -Then shall thy exceeding great merits bave obtained mercy for thy terrible ; fop 'et so s through scourges as K Great and enduring. Thy enemies who I are m thee shall be driven out and 1 j humbled, and their name taken awav I i J,ut inasmuch as thou art depress"d. J so mch thou shall be exalted, and "J ry shall not pass away. There I .shall be peace and abundance within I lnt"ir boundaries, and beauty and I strength in thy defenses.' j "After this Malachi was spent for a Iv while. Then, with a loud and joyous voice, he exclaimed: 'Now, O Lord clost thou dismiss thy servant in peace" I ll is enough. The church of God in I Ireland shall never fail, and though I - ; 1(?n shall it be desired, my country S' vhall one day stand forth in its might ,:i , and be fresh in its beauty like the rose ! i "I need scaroely remind you that seven centuries from the death of Mal- ? achi have Just come to a close and when we look back over the last fifty years that have rolled over our coun-S coun-S try we cannot but see that the fruitful zeal of the clergy of Ireland has already al-ready begun to bear its fruit, and those P ants that have been sown, those . Plants that have been spreal through the length and breadth of the country i ii ";e spreading their branches far and wide even into the remotest extremities of the world." . I Norwalk Priest Leads War on Vic. James H. O'Donntll, rector ' of St" n'fh" 4curch' and on f the ablest ana beet known priests in this vicinity, iias begun a crusade against vice 1-rcady 1-rcady severaJ viciou rnrts h-w'w,, y ----- -, -zir z,. broken up by the police since the crusade cru-sade began, and the proprietors of others oth-ers are keeping quiet, in the hope of escaping the priest's scathing remarks. Before actually beginning his crusade cru-sade Father O'Donnell declared he had found in Norwalk more corruption than in any place he had ever been in. Prayer services were announced to be held, at which he said all should offer up prayers for the abatement of the evils spoken of. The first was held Friday night. At the masses Father O'Donnell said that he had found the vast majority of the Norwalk people good, law-abiding and reverent people, but that there was another class that he purposes to deal with. These offenders were arraigned ar-raigned as being guilty of irreligion, intoxication and immorality. Michigan Catholic. CONVERSION AND WEDLOCK. Miss Van. Alen Becomes a Catholic and Marries Peter Collier. TllO l jlf 4. . . . . .. Catholic church is Miss Sara Van Alen the granddaughter of Mrs. J. J. Astor. She belongs to an exclusive Newport pet and the New Tork Astor aristocracy, aristocra-cy, and was about to be wedded to Mr Peter Collier, jr., a Catholic,, AYhen she broached the matter to her father, he . said . the only objection he had to the marriage was the difference of religion between herself- and her . intended. ' ather." she answered him,. "I have removed that objection by becoming a catholic myself." She had seriously considered the question of the true church, and some months previously, after due instruction, had been received into the church. Her father accepted the situation and gave his permission. The marriage of the couple took place Saturday at the Van Alen villa, Newport. New-port. Bishop Byrnes of Nashville, Tenn., officiated, assisted by Rev. William Wil-liam B. Meenan. pastor of St. Mary's church. After the ceremony a nuptial mass , was celebrated at St Mary's church by Bishop Byrnes and Father J Meenan. Catholic Schools Win in Chicago. The Catholics of this city are making mak-ing great sacrifices to maintain the efficiency ef-ficiency of their Catholic schools. It cannot fail to be encouraging to them to receive from time to time such evidences evi-dences that their sacrifices are not in vain as that given by the examination for entrance to the normal school held i a few weeks ago. St. James' high school passed seventeen seven-teen candidates, the highest average being 95.3 and the lowest 76.4. Seven of these successful candidates had averages aver-ages of 90 and over. St. Gabriel's high school sent up sixteen six-teen candidates for the examination, and of these fifteen passed. One of the Pupils of St. Gabriel's scored the highest high-est average of any of the candidates; her average was 97.5. This young lady scored 100 in chemistry, music and American history, and 98 each in five other branches. St. Elizabeth's high school enjoys the peculiar distinction of being the only one of the schools which passed all their candidates If sent up. . j Some" months': ago," when;. reference was made publicly to-the much higher percentages of success at this examination exam-ination by pupils of the Catholic schools than by those of the public schools, Superintendent Cooley answered answer-ed this by saying that this was due to the fact that the Catholic ar-hnnia con up only a picked few, while the public high schools sent up the entire class. If we remember that only sixty-six passed the examination this time from the whole city, and that nearly two-thirds two-thirds of these came from the three Catholic high schools above mentioned, we see at once that Mr. Cooley's argument argu-ment furnishes no explanation at all of such a result. The total number of pu- i piLs in these three Catholic high schools ' was, of course, nothing like so great as the number in the public high schools; yet these three schools were able to select se-lect from their pupils a much greater number competent to pass the examination examin-ation for the normal than the public schools were able to select from their vastly greater number. New World. Truth About Father Cashing. Less than two weeks ago Father Cushing endeavored to call on President Presi-dent Roosevelt at his summer quarters at Oyster Bay, and have an interview with him. Father Cushing has been a source of trouble in Catholic circles e'er since 1888, and it is the opinion of many that he is insane. He was a priest in the Denver diocese some twenty twen-ty years ago, .and was removed because he was not deemed a proper person to have charge of a parish. For this he blames the bishop, and has been making mak-ing bitter attacks on him through the press, and through officials, both civil and ecclesiastical, ever since. The wide publicity which has been given these declarations of Father Cushing. and the eccentricities of the priest, have .all these years been a grief to Bishop Matz and all Colorado Catholics. Newspapers all over the country, not knowing the origin or merits of the controversy, and not knowing the mental condition of the priest, have published accounts of his odd doings and his vitriolic utterances, and always he is connected, with the I ienver diocese. All's Well Along the Rhine. The latest census of Germany shows that the Catholics of the empire are increasing proportionately more than any other religious body. In 1890 the evangelicals numbered 31.026,810; in 1900 them.numbered 33,231,1 04-a growth of about 13 per cent during the decad-. In 3890 the Catholic population numbered num-bered 17,671,929; in 1890 they numbered -0,.i21,441 a growth of 13 per cent. This will do well enough for Germany, where the faithful are supposed to be moving away from Rome jn gigantic blocks. Yhen we are more than holding our own in the very heart of Protestantism, Protestant-ism, and at a time when special efforts are being made to turn the tide against us. there is no need for despair This pious emperor is grateful for the good will and nice words of the Roman pontiff, pon-tiff, and altogether it inav be set down as entirely true that all's well along the Rhine. Catholic Transcript. Floww of the Holy Ghost. One of the rarest and most wonderful wonder-ful I orchlda known is a native of the settlers there named it Flor der EsDir-itu EsDir-itu a"to Slower of the Holy Ghost) and those who have seen it readily Vi, Places from .a, decayed log or sometimes some-times from the crevice in a rock. The hea,futalk reaches several feet in heighth and the flower stalk, which Ifte7noXthe bU,b' 2 The flower is pure white. Inside the-flower the-flower right in the heart of It is a perfect image of a dove with drooping wings, snowy breast, gold-tinted head and crimson beak. No effort of the 1 mag nation is necessary to see the re- semblance. It is a perfect image, exquisitely ex-quisitely beautiful in tints, and giving off an odor which no perfumer oould imitate, |
