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Show Riligicus Inte'fiasence . . Archbishop Quigley of Chicago has invited the Dominican Fathers to establish a branch of their order in Chicago. Tt is understood that a number of priests in Xew York City will go to the new mission. Archbishop Quigley has now added to his province the Paulists. the Passionists and the Re-demptorists. Re-demptorists. Cardinal Moran, Archbishop of Sydney, has I written a letter to his coadjutor describing his first audience of Popo Pius X. "I have had a great many audiences during the last thirty years." lie remarks, "but I never before was received with so much cordiality. ::" He appears to be the very embodiment of earnestness and simplicity. affection and piety. f Miss Mary T. Collins, for twelve-years a teacher in the Chicago public schools, one of the leaders in the work of the Teachers' federation, and a school pension trustee, has become a novice of the order of Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and is now at the mother house of the order j at Mount Carmel, near Dubuque, la. j St. Ivatherine's handsome new church at Baltimore, Balti-more, erected at a cost of $o0,000, was dedicated the other day by His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons. It is designed in the French Romanesque, and is quite an addition to the architectural structures of the Monumental City. f Commemorative of its twenty-fifth anniversary Br. '21, connected with St. Anne's church, Buffalo, has issued a most complete address and business directory. The booklet contains a history of the organization, names and addresses of recording record-ing secretaries, place and time of meeting of all Buffalo branches; officers of Central council, together to-gether witlrexcellent portraits of many officers of j the association past and present, and a list of mem- j bers of Br. 21. The work was compiled by Joseph Ehnes, recording . secretary of the .branch, and proves. him to be a most painstaking official. Ernesto Biondi, one of the best known Italian sculptors and creator of "The Saturnalia," which was so much appreciated at the Paris exposition, has been definitely accepted to model the monument which is to be erected by international subscription subscrip-tion to the memory of Podc Leo XIII. on top of Semprevisa, the highest mountain of the Lepini chain, the roof of which is at Carpineto, the late Pope's birthplace. The figure wilt represent Pope Leo, in bronze, standing aud blessing the land and sea. It will have an enormous pedestal, with bas reliefs in the style of Babylon, representing the whole world of sufferers and destitute persona aspiring toward the Gospel, which will be represented repre-sented by an enormous figure of an angel, on whose wings the statue of the Pope will arise. The whole work is symbolical in conception, and is expected to be most effective. 4 The French Court of Cassation has given a judgment that is causing perplexity in 'government circles. Some time ago a school near Valognes taught by a Sister belonging to an authorized congregation con-gregation was closed. A few days after the building build-ing was let to a lady who engaged the services of a "lay" teacher and reopened the school. This teacher was a secularized member of the same religious re-ligious congregation, and the authorities brought the affair before the local tribunal, which decided in favor of the school. This decision has been confirmed con-firmed by the Supreme Court at Paris. That the Catholic church is continually looking look-ing after the welfare of the workingman was brought vividly before the public again by the report re-port that Archbishop Quigley of Chicago had decided de-cided to have mass said in the downtown district of Chicago at 4 o'clock on Sunday mornings. This mass will be for printers, newspaper men and others oth-ers who work nights. For a long time it lias been realized that something some-thing must be done in the religious line for tho night workers of the business section of the city. A large number of these workers are Catholics, and they have beeu compelled to wait from 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning until 6 and 7:30 before they could attend divine services. It is to enable them to go immediately from their places of work to church on Sunday moriiing that the orchoishop had ordered ord-ered the eafly morning service. This will probably prob-ably be the first step toward establishing some place where the night workers may have a resting place after their hours of work under Catholic auspices. Mr. James Keeley, managing editor of one of the Chicago daily newspapers, recently said that the "day workers always have some place in which to seek recreation. The night worker who does not want to go from desk or typewriter or linotype to bed has only one place open to him the saloon." Recently the Y'oung Men's Christian Association adopted the plan of keeping its rooms open for all night for the accommodation of the night workers, work-ers, and within two weeks over 300 night workers had agreed to join the association. This movement is most commendable. The time has now come for the Church to establish reading rooms, gymnasiums and other places of Christian amusement for these young men. |