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Show '-f"1-. Church ' ' ;j; 1 1 , - which oyer I I universal- i " I : " J V CHURCH CALENDAR. , I ' j Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pente-, Pente-, . cost. E. L. Thess. i: G., Matt. xiii. 1 Sunday. Nov. 16. St. Josaphat. ; Monday, Nov. 17. St. Gregory. , Tuesday. Nov. IS. Dedication of the Basilicas of Sts. Peter and Paul. "Wednesday, Nov. 19. St. Elizabeth.-Thursday, Elizabeth.-Thursday, Nov. 20. St. Felix of Valois. Friday, Nov. -21. Presentation of B. V. M. Saturday, Nov. 22. St. Cecilia. An Electric Rosaiy. ; St. Mary's church, Syracuse, has a unique illumination for the Blessed Virgin's altar in the shape of a rosary of electric lights. It is a heart out-. out-. lined -with white lights, interrupted at ; ( each ten by a red light. From the j apex, through the center of the heart, t is a string of lights, supporting a ; . smaller heart and cross. The medal and crucifix are in green lights and the connecting: chain in red. ! -. A Paulist Social Plan. J ( The Paulist Fathers of New York . have arranged a course of free lec-. lec-. tures to the people. What is most . noteworthy about it is that the se- ries will be given under the direction of the department of education of the j Borough of Manhattan. It began early ; In this month and will go on without , ' Interruption until the Christmas holi-' holi-' days, -when a second course will be announced. Two lectures, usually il-; il-; i lust rated by "views" and experiments, I are given weekly, on subjects as wide-I wide-I ly separated as the formation of coal, i the management of the mint, the art i of making stained glass, and the his- ' tory of Egypt. The lecturers are i nearly all specialists In their own ! themes, and the idea, says the Provi-i Provi-i ; dence Visitor, is to have the Faulist i Fathers co-operate with the city gov-1 gov-1 j ernment in its efforts to raise the t ; tone of the general population by look-i look-i : Ing after the people of their own dense-I dense-I j ly crowded district, i ; , i ! Roosevelt Certainly No Bigot. 1 ' President Roosevelt has showed pret-1 pret-1 I ty clearly what manner of anti-Cath-' ; olic bigot, he is. The other day he . appointed General Smith, a stanch ! Catholic, on the Philippine commission, j He had previously appointed him and j Bishop O'Gorman on the Taft com-, com-, mission. He has since appointed Bish-' Bish-' op Spalding on the committee on ar-1 ar-1 : bitration for the settlement of the coal j strike. A few months ago he ap-. ap-. ! pointed Archbishop Ryan a member j ' of the Indian commission. And no-. no-. ; body in the President's party or out of it questions Mr. Roosevelt's wisdom wis-dom or motives. After all. it pays 'in this country to dare- to do the right. Western Watchman. : Elind and Deaf Sister. j I Mi j New York, Nov. 10. Madeleine G. j ' Wallace, the first blind and deaf wo-man wo-man ever admitted to the cloister of a I Roman Catholic order, has taken her ! final vows as a sister of St. Dominic at J I the convent in Newark. Two hundred ; ,"! friends of the young woman and cler-j cler-j j gymen from many cities were present at the ceremony. Died in the Faith. : ; The late John Dillon, editor of the i j New York World, was born and bred a i j Catholic. Like many others, however, ' It his religion was not deep-seated enough i to stand the test of prosperity. He died ' ! outside the church, professing no reli- , ' gious belief. Catholic Citizen, j This is a mistake. The late John A. ! j Dillon received the last sacraments , j j during his illness and was buried with 1 I j the rites of the church and buried in a l i Catholic cemetery. It is pretty hard 1 to make an infidel of an Irishman or ( an Irishman's son. Western Watch v , : man. i i J ; Gift From Ex-President Cleveland. ; The Catholic collect, Villanova, near ,1 Philadelphia, has; "received a valuable 1 ,j gift from former President Grover i i Cleveland., - It consists of 200 volumes t and wi'.V'make an important addition - to a.ri."already excellent library. It in- : djcates Mr. Cleveland's appreciation of ! 5 the honor lately conferred upon him by i Villanova. At the last commencement ! he received - from the institution the : I degree of doctor of jurisprudence. The ' i books are on a variety of subjects and ! j admirably chosen to meet the needs ' 1 1 of the students. Bishop Vaughan Is Dead. ! The Right Rev. William Vaughan, , 1 Roman Catholic bishop of Plymouth, 1 England, and uncle of Cardinal . Vaughan, is dead. Bishop Vaughan was one of the best 1 known of the Catholic clergy in Eu-! Eu-! rope. While he never reached the " height which his illustrious nephew has i attained, the bishop, in his sixty-four 1 years of work as a priest, has won . ! for himself many honors, and could 1 ', ' count many of the highest officials of 1 Europe among his friends, lie was 1 born in London Feb. 4, 1814. He was ordained a priest in 1S38. -He became bishop of Plymouth in 1S55. ' Catholic Jubilee at Cleveland. 1 Cleveland, O.. Nov. T. A six days' 1 celebration of the fiftieth anniversary ' of the consecration of St. John's Ro- man Catholic cathedral began in this f city today. Pontifical mass was cele- f brated by Bishop I. F. Horstmar.n, and a sermon preached by Archbishop Ry- j an of Philadelphia. A dozen promi- ' nent prelates from the province are . 1 present, and the visiting priests num- ber 200. Cleveland, O., Nov. 9. This was the biggest day of the several being taken for the observance of the fiftieth anni- f versary of St. John's cathedral in this 1 city. Pontifical mass was celebrated by Bishop Denis O'Donaghue of In- 1 dianapolis at 10 o'clock. Others pres- ' ent at the mass were Archbishop Elder i of Cincinnati, Archbishop Ryan of Phil- i adelphia. Bishop Maes of Covington, i Ky., Bishop McQuade of Rochester, N. i Y.. Bishop Herstmann of Cleveland i and Vicar General Byrne of Boston. j The sermon was by. Bishop McQuade. ; In the afternoon a parade of 10,000 ' Catholics, representing several cities i and the city's parishes, occurred. Inci- j : dental "to the celebration. Rev. D. J. i ' : Stafford, rector of St. Patrick's church, ! Washington, D. C, preached at St. : Agnes church tonight on "Christian : : Charity." Iri6h Dominicans of XVII Century. , : Thanks to the tireless energy of that J devoted-scholar, Father Arthur Cole-t Cole-t man, the Irish public will shortly find j i within their reach that rare historical I work, "The Irish Dominicans of the i Seventeenth Century: By Father John f i O Heyne, O. P." Father Coleman has I : supplied an English translation, and I . ' his object in bringing out the present ! i edition is to preserve O'Heyne's work ' , for the benefit of posterity, as after a long search in. some of the conti- 1 nentaf jnd home libraries only two copies, and these not in all respects perfect, were discovered. Since the work of reprinting Father Coleman's edition was commenced, however, a perfect copy has been found in the j British Museum, so that Father Cole- i 1 cian will be able to provide the read-: read-: tux public with a full and truthworthy text. . In Father Coleman's reprint of O'Heyne, the "Foundation of Derry Abbey" is the first item in the contents con-tents sheet, and the first chapter is given to "The Friar Preachers in Ulster." Ul-ster." Irish Catholic, Dublin. St.. Vincent de Paul Society. If a census of the best Catholic opinion opin-ion were taken, there is little doubt but that the Society of St. Vincent de Paul would prove to be the favorite one among all the religious organizations organiza-tions for the laity. Its work is so Christlike, its spirit so broad, its potency po-tency for the s3nctification of its members mem-bers is so marked, and its influence in dissipating anti-Catholic prejudice is so magical, that it easily outranks any other lay association.' Indeed, membership member-ship in this society may be looked upon up-on as a mark of noble Christian manhood. man-hood. We are gratified to know, too, that a similar society for women it" is to be called "The Daughters of. the Queen of Heaven," or, more briefly, "The Queen's Daughters" has been quietly but effectively doing its holy work in St. Louis, Mo., for some time nast. Its spirit and purposes would have delighted the heart of "good Monsieur Mon-sieur Vincent.i' as the Parisians called the saint; it is capably officered, and that it is rapidly growing in numbers may be inferred ' trom the announcement announce-ment that a general convention of the members will probably be held in" St. Louis in 1904, during the Louisiaiia Purchase World's Fair. . There are thousands' of women in all parts of the country who would gladly consecrate conse-crate a portion of their time to the work of the "Queen's Daughters" if they knew more about it. Thank God there is no lack of zeal among our Catholic women for the spiritual and corporal works of mercy! Ave Maria. Example of Christian Charity. Many papers published a. press dispatch dis-patch recently which stated -that a drunken soldier entered the church at St. Mary's, Kan., and destroyed vestments vest-ments and other articles in thp'sanc tuary, and that threats of lynching were freely made. "A correspondent writes that, after "landing the scoundrel scoun-drel in jail, Father De Smedt -visited him a few hours later, withdrew the complaint, gave him some good advice, ad-vice, had him well fed, and arranged to convey him to his company, which had gone on. If this is not Christian charity, where can it be found? The culprit, however, was re-arrested by the authorities and fined $300 and sentenced sen-tenced to six months in jail. There were no lynching threats. England and Her Schools. England claims to be better provided pro-vided with schools than America. Ninety-five per cent of her children are on the school register. About half of the pupils attend church schools, and the church schools are considered able to turn out good citizens. In fact, the English statesmen believe that religion re-ligion is one of the conserving powers of society, and they are perfectly willing will-ing to recognize in the most practical manner possible the good work accomplished ac-complished -in church schools. There are about 325,000 children being trained under Catholic auspices, ajid the burden bur-den does not .. rest with the. parents alone. After advancing their school rates, they are entitled to a share of the funds. This is not miraculous generosity on flfie part of the government. govern-ment. It is simple jusvfee, and it should not, therefore, ,e unworthy of the consideration of -those who aim at a just distribution bf the public funds in no matter Vhat country. t Niagara University Alumni. Th,e various branches of the alumni of' Niagara university will hold a general gen-eral meeting at their alna mater Tuesday, Tues-day, Nov. 11. The meeting is held at Niagara Falls every three years; the intervening years at different cities. The association includes many men eminent in church and state among. its members. The faculty of the university expects to entertain at least 300 of the old students. Among those who will attend may be mentioned Rt. Rev. James E. Quigley, D. D., Bishop of Buffalo; Rt. Rev. Tames . F. Loughlin, D. D., of Philadelphia; Very Rev. P. McHale, C. M., Brooklyn; Rev. D. J. Stafford, D. D., Washington; Rev. M. J. Dorney, LL. D., Chicago; Hon. Louis Haffen. Borough of Bronx; Hon. John J. Feely, M. C, . Chicago; Lawrence O. Murray, J. U. D. New York; Rev. F. J. Nugent, Des Moines; eVry Rev. James McGill, V. C. M., Germantown, Pa.; Rev. M. A. Taylor, LL. D.. New York; Rev. F. S. Henne-berrv, Henne-berrv, Chicago; Rev. J. ,P. Donovan, Hartford, Conn., and many others. Priest's Plan For Workmen. Murano, in North Italy, has given the first example in the peninsula of erecting homes for workingmen. "For each laborer a home and garden," gar-den," was the motto of the parish priest, Dan Cerutti. He proposed first a savings bank - for his people. The idea gained favor, and there are now 257 associates, with a fund of 29,876 lire (about $6,000). Then he thought of erecting houses, which would assure comfort and moral safeguards. Nineteen Nine-teen were opened towards the middle of August, making twenty-six in all. The houses are of different styles and surrounded by gardens with flower plots. After a while the tenants become be-come owners. Don Cerutti has had the houses insured and the lives of the tenants in such a way that, if they die before having paid the full value of the home, the children come to possess pos-sess it absolutely, without further-payment. Public attention .has been awakened awak-ened by this undertaking. Signor Luz-zati, Luz-zati, author of a law now before parliament parlia-ment to provide similar houses on a large scale, wrote a flattering letter to the zealous pastor. So did Professor Profes-sor Toniolo, the great Catholic leader. The opening of the homes was made a religious ceremony, presided over by the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice. A very large number of persdns received holy communion. , Something Good For France. William . Wilberforce Newton whoever who-ever he may be is sure that the religious reli-gious faith of the French people is neither dead, not preparting for "the hurried funeral which Zola had portrayed por-trayed before the. Dreyfus judgment broke in pieces his dream of the mil-lenium mil-lenium beginning in Paris with the dawning of the twentieth century." Mr. Newton thinks that France is awaiting await-ing the advent -of some great prophet who will come to. inspire and guide the nation. -He may .be at present some boy .playing marbles with his schoolfellows, but at ' the right time, the right guide and leader sent from God will appear. Religion cannot be dead in France; it cannot die out as Zola, pictures it in his trilogy of "Lourdes," "Rome" and "Paris," because be-cause religion is a natural instinct of the human heart and is inborn in each new generation and in each new human hu-man heart. There have always been, prophets since the world began, and these seers and messengers to humanity hu-manity from God will appear in the future as they have appearad in the past, telling of those good things which are yet to come to the son of man..' The robbers of old, it is said, when they beheld a beautiful boy in the streets of Jerusalem or in the hill country of Judea, peered into his face to see if they could catch any traces of the divine Messiah, who, it was promised, should appear to the world in the fulness of the times. Let - us hope that William Wilberforce Newton New-ton is himself a man of prophetic foresight, for France certainly needs a saviour. May the Lord hasten his coming. Catholic Transcript. |