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Show RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Items in Ecclesiastical Circles Gathered Gath-ered From "Church Progress."' DOMESTIC. : The congregation of St. Joseph's church. Homestead,. Pa.r-has decided - to build a new church by their personal labor instead of letting the job by contracts con-tracts Contractors have offered to buitJ the church for 132,000. but' the congregation congrega-tion believes it can save $18,000. The mea .will work under the direction of the architect and the pastor. , 3 -Sister Mary- Dolors Marshall of the Order of. Visitation of the Blessed ir-gin ir-gin Mary, a member of the little band of Sisters who were placed in charge of the Mount De Sales academy and convent. con-vent. Catonsville, Md.. when it was fmin.led a half cpnturv atro. died there last week, aged 72. Her mother was a Virginian and her father a Greek, who came to this country on a visit, but subsequently sub-sequently settled here, eventually changing chang-ing his name from its Greek form to Marshall, its English equivalent. During the past summer season about 630 children were entertained for a week at the Paulist parish summer- home. New . York. These children were sent in seven difterent batches, and during some weeks there were nearly 100 children cared for at a time. Besides these there were over 100 more children who were entertained for a day. The amount expended ex-pended in the work was over $1,900. Rev. Father Kalman Kovats,' pastor ot St. Stephens (Magyar) church, McKees-port. McKees-port. Pa., has been honored by special recognition from Emperor Francis Joseph of Hungary. Kalman Szell, president of thp cabinet of Hungary, has sent an official' offi-cial' letter conveying the personal thanks of the emperor for a special resolution of respect to the emperor from the Magyar priest and his congregation on the occasion occas-ion of his. birthday celebration at Buda Pest on Aug. 18. St. Xavier parochiaTschool. Cincinnati, now harbors more than 1,000 children daily, and a few tardv ones still continue to arrive. The Parochial society is growing, grow-ing, and with it the fund. The children's coming entertainment, "The Cruise of the Polar Star." will help to swell the fund, which must reach $6,000 before the school can be declared self-supporting. A beautiful beau-tiful statue of the Sacred Heart was placed in the main hall this week. Rev. Father Thomas Merendino, who is in charge of the Italian Catholics at Thurber. Tex., has received from the Italian Consul in New Orleans authority to act in his name concerning the military obligations of young men subject to the Italian flag. Archbishop Keane dedicated the new church in Haverhill, la., last week. The new building is worth $20,000 and is a fine brick , structure. Thursday the cornerstone corner-stone of the new hospital in Sioux City was' laid. Archbishop Keane delivered an address at the ceremony. The new institution in-stitution is to cost $35,000. A generous friend of St. Martin's academy, Newport. Ky., has donated to that institution a magnificent life-size statue of the Sacred Heart. The comer-stone of a new $250,000 building, which will practically double the working capacity of St. Mary's academy, Notre Dame, Ind., was laid last week by Bishop Alerding of the Fort Wayne diocese, in the presence of a largo gathering of visiting prelates, alumni, students and friends of the institution. FOREIGN. The Rev. Frederick Alfred Ingle, B. A.,--of St. John's college, Oxford, lately curate cur-ate of Great Ilford, Essex, and formerly of Falmouth, has been received into the church at St. Mary's, Clapham It is credibly stated from Rome that Mgr. 'Zaleski is to succeed Mgr. Falconio as apostolic delegate to Canada. It is also stated that Mgr. Sbaretti will succeed suc-ceed Mgr. 'Zaleski as apostolic delegate to India. It is announced that Bishop Favier of Pekit; has had a stroke of apoplexy, affecting af-fecting his left side.; High official .honors .hon-ors had been conferred on him lately by the Chinese government. It is stated thatthe renewed ministerial minis-terial attempt to force' on Italy a divorce law is to be uncompromisingly pushed by the Masonic party, whose hopes have been quickened by the late successes of their French brethren. Even liberal journals jour-nals admit that for the present such law is. not called for at all. In Germany many zealous Catholic pastors pas-tors have, the several decades past, been successfully devoting themselves,, in addition ad-dition to the other duties of their office, to the. work of organizing workingmen's unions. .The same is--true, in a large measure, of priests in Switzerland, Austria Aus-tria and France. The Abbe Gayraud, who had notified his intention of interpellating M. Combes not be able to take his seat on the 'reassembling 're-assembling ot parliament. His medical adviser has ordered him complete rest for a month at least-President least-President Loubet will, it is stated, visit the Quirinal, ignoring the Vatican. This is supposed to be a ruse of the church's enemies to force both the pontiff to attack at-tack the French republic, and King Emmanuel Em-manuel to quit the Dreibund and join the Franco-Russian coalition. Pope Leo XIII. on Wednesday, received Archbishop Bruchesi of Montreal in pri-j pri-j vate audience. The pontiff showed great interest in Canada and spoke in flattering flatter-ing terms of Premier Laurier. The archbishop arch-bishop presented to the pope a diocesan offering of $5,200. 7 In the conflagration of the town of St. Pierre, Miquelon, N. F., the cathedral at that place was completely destroyed. At a recent convention of men from all parts of Alsace-Lorraine, at Stras-burg, Stras-burg, it was decided to form a political organization of the Catholics. A committee com-mittee was elected whose duty it shall be to elaborate a programme of principles based on the official programme of the Center party, and adapted to the special needs of Alsace-Lorraine. Cardinal Ferrari, archbishop of Milan, told the convention of the Catholic societies so-cieties of Lombardy, recently held at Monza, Upper Italy, that he has appointed ap-pointed and maintains at his own expense ex-pense six chaplains, whose sole duty it is to devote themselves to the labor question and to the organization of workingmen's unions. In Belgium the institution of labor la-bor chaplains has existed a number of years. |