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Show RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Rt, Rev. Bishop Oradin, first Catholic bishop of St. Albert, died June 3. at St. Albert, Manitoba. His sec included tho entire territory of Alberta, and he was the senior bishop of Canada, having been sonsecrated In 1S39. s With his letter of congratulation to the pope, President Roosevelt has sent to bis holiness a full set of his own "works, each volume containing his autograph and an appropriate sentiment of presentation. A rumor has reached the states via London that Mgr. Falconio, the papal delegate in Canada, has been definitely selected to succeed Cardinal Martinelli as papal delegate in the United States. Miss Mary Burns of Nashua, X. 1L, has presented the pastor o the Immaculate Immac-ulate Conception church at that place with a check for $10,000. Plans for the new edifice will be begun at once. It is only about thirty-six years since the first mass was said in Salt Lake City. The. celebrant was Rev. E. Kelly, and the place an old adobe building. The Mormon capital was then under the spiritual spir-itual jurisdiction of Rt. Rev. Eugene O'Connell, bishop of Grass Valley, CaL The Popular Bank of Leo XIII has been founded at Madrid in honor of the papal jubilee, to aid the working classes. Its patrons are amongst the highest of the nobility, and have been long interested in circles of the toilers. Amongst them are the Marquis de Urquijo, the Marquis de Mlna and the Duke of Sotomayor. Two thousand "and thirty-two men went to communion together on Palm Sunday in the church of St. Nicholas, Madrid. The bishops have been received with "filial veneration" during the visitation visi-tation of their dioceses a further contradiction con-tradiction of the calumnies of men like Mr. Sydnev Brooks, who writes in the North American Review (May 1902) about the corruption of Spanish priests and the hatred of the peophWor them. A recent correspondent of the Spectator quotes the late Cecil Rhodes as having stated some time ago: "1 have great ad-miration ad-miration for the Catholic church. It Is', in my opinion.' the one logical religion of the world, and if I had time I should like to become a Jesuit myself. I know many Jesuits in Rhodesia, and have so great a respect for them as a body that 1 take off my hat to them, each and all." Mr. Rhodes' estimate differed , considerably consider-ably from the one last year expressed by Waldeck-Rousseau. The Catholics of the United States last year contributed J77.O00 to the Catholic foreign missions, while Italy 'was satisfied satis-fied in contributing $62,807.08. Turkey contributed $6,472.61. Russia and Poland 0!72. Africa $7.315.13 and Tndia about $1.0. Canada donated $2,829.64. Mexico $3,OS4.37 and Central America and West Indies $2.- 075.93. England $12,078.04. Austria $15,866.60. France $791.2.16. fi2. Germany $75,098.96 and little Belcium $68,390.30. Rev. Father Limbrek of tho German-Holland German-Holland foreign missionary society writes attractively of conditions In Wil-liamsland, Wil-liamsland, German New Guinea. The mission mis-sion has been in existence only six years, yet considerable progress has been made. Mission stations now exist at St. Joseph In the island of Tamlee on the mainland, at Kokan in the island of Aly, at Mo-numbo Mo-numbo and at the Bay of Bogia. For the most part the inhabitants -are cannibals, can-nibals, and Father Limbrek cheerfully writes that "one of these days some of us may be roa.sted and eaten." Schools are conducted at every station. S :, New South Wales statistics show that 123,605 Catholics habitually attend Sunday Sun-day services in that country, a third more than the Church of England can show, half as many again as can be shown by the Methodists and nearly eighteen times the number exhibited by the Baptists. Much improvement in the condition of Dr. Austin O'Malley, head of the faculty of Notre Dame University, was reported today by the physicians of St.. Agnes' hospital, where Dr. O'Malley was taken on Friday. Dr. O'Malley is suffering from an acute case of stomach trouble, and it was thought at first that an opcBatton would be necessary. The patient, however, how-ever, has shown so much improvement that his speedy recovery is looked for, Abraham Slimmer, the well known Hebrew He-brew philanthropist of Waverly, la., has arranped to surrender his home and surr rounding park in this city to the Sisters of Mercy of Dubuqe for the establishment establish-ment of a hospital, which they have agreed to have in operation by Oct. 1. In the" meantime, an extensive addition will be "made to the already commodious building. The property as it stands, to which the Sisters of Mercy have been given a quit claim deed, is valued at $00,000. 'V President Morrlssey has announced that the formal presentation of the Laetare medal to Dr. Murahy would be made at Notre Dame on the evening of June 18. The same evening the exercises of the graduating class will be held and the commencement address delivered by William Wil-liam P. Breen of Fort Wayne, a former Laetare medalist. Several ecclesiastical dignitaries have been invited, and an effort will also be made to have the living Laetare medalists present. President Morrissey will make the presentation. The June ordinations at the cathedral in Baltimore will take place June 21. They have an added Interest from the fact that the second colored man ever ordained to the priesthood in this country will receive, re-ceive, holy orders on that day at the hands of Cardinal Gibbons. The colored candidate candi-date is the Rev. J. -Harry Dorse j-. a student stu-dent at St. Joseph's seminary. He was mised to the diaconate Just fall by Bishop Alfred A- Curtis. The first colored man ordained in this countrv was the Rev. C. R. - Uncles, in the cathedral. Dec. 13." 1891.1 Father Uncles, who is a member-bf the Josephite Order, is now stationed in Delaware. Another colored priest, Father Totton; who died a few years ago in Chicago, Chi-cago, from, the effects of the heaat, was ordained abroad. -. FatheM Dorsev was born In this 'city twenty-eight vears ago. ! and, was; educated at-SC Paul". He will labor -among his. own people.- ; . At jthe end 'of the fifteenth ceijtiirv there were less than 4.000X0 of reople "speaking "speak-ing English; at the end of .the sixteenth there -were 6.000000.. . at the end of the seventeenth there, were SOO.OipO. at, the end of the eighteenth there were 21,0M,!X and now there arc 116,tVi;iHYV During the corresponding-centuries the progress of French was as follows: I0.on0.ooo. ROOO.OfiO, M.i00;O00.' Sl.on.ooo and 52.-WO. Thus, for fK) years French-led easily and at the end of the last century was 10.000,000 ahead. Npw.it is 6l.0OO.0O0 behind. 1 Like most people, the' Pope has his'Jif-tle his'Jif-tle weaknesses a love for sweat meats. This is well known In Italy, and at his jubilee a-, motherly peasant woman gave expression -foe ; him by -a present of an enormous pile of sweets. . wrapped In a huge, colored cotton pocket handkerchief. It is Said at the time that none of the Pope's many presents pleased him more than 'this. . - - " v ' |