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Show RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. The Pope was in good health March 6, notwithstanding the sensational newspapers' reports as to his being very sick. On the above date he transacted trans-acted all important business connected with the affairs of the Church. During Dur-ing one hour he was in consultation ; with Secretary of State Cardinal Ranw nolla. and two hours with the Under .Secretary of State. Of course at" the Pope's extraordinary age anytKingmay happen at: any moment, but'false reports re-ports should not be circulated. 'in--place of the crest which formed the background of the throne of the late Archbishop Corrigan has been put that of Archbishop Farley's his successor. suc-cessor. The new crest tells smybolically the history of trie Archbishop's career. The shield is violet on a crimson background. back-ground. The Roman beretta Indicates that the Archbishop studied for the priesthood in Rome, Below this and crowning ' the shield are double episcopal epis-copal crosses, with the mitre and cro-zler, cro-zler, symbols of his office. The shield is divided by a golden cross. In the upper right and lower left quarters is the eagle holding a ring in his bill, the insignia, of St.' John, whose name 1 the Archbishop of New York bears. In . the upper left and lotver right I quarters are the winged arm, bearing ' the lily, the emblem of St. Gabriel, from whose church Archbishop Farley was taken. In the centre of the cross is a branch of shamrock, symbolic of the trinity. The Archbishop was consecrated con-secrated on Trinity Sunday, hence the shield bears the words "Nons nobis Domine." The Very Rev. John A. Zahm, provincial pro-vincial of the Order of the Holy Cross, of Notre Dame, Ind., has purchased several thousand books which will be added to the library of the University of Notre Dame. The purchase includes a number of editions of Dante's works, which will give Notre Dame 4,000 volumes vol-umes of Dante, the largest collection in the United States, The Methodists are to have a daily paper. At a Methodist ministers' meeting in Philadelphia last week the plans for a morning paper to be published pub-lished six days in the week were explained ex-plained and discussed. The paper is toY- be called "The Penn Square Ga zette." The capital stock is $600,000, and $250,000 of this isito be preferred. The paper is to have no sporting news. It is to ,be smaller in size than the present daily sheets and will be printed print-ed in large type. No advertisements are to be admitted' on' the first and editorial pages, and certain advertisements advertise-ments are not to be admitted at all. There is truth in the reports that fatherly appeals from "Leo XIII have had much to do with the decision of the Crown Princess of Saxony to abandon aban-don a career of folly and sin and to ! take up her residence alone at a sanatorium. sana-torium. Feeling that it is the office of the Minister of Christ to reclaim the wayward, His Holiness used his influence influ-ence to bring the 'infatuated lady to a sense of the misery she was causing caus-ing herself and others. As soon as he had hown a delre to reform, Hi Holiness pleaded for her with her parents, par-ents, and now they have consented to help her in efforts to amend her life. She will, i tis hopedr place herself definitely defi-nitely under their guidance. Four pamplets have just" been Issued by the new Catholic Truth Rcciety of Philadelphia. They are: "What Catholics Cath-olics Do Not Believe," by Archbishop Ryan; "Sergeant Jones and His Talks About Confession," by the Rev. G Bampfield; "The Use of the Holy Pictures Pic-tures and Images," by the Very Rev. D. I. McDermctt; "The Claims of the Catholic Church In the Making of the Republic," by Cardinal Gibbons. The society explains that it would like to further if possible the proj ect or . placing stands or porches in the .churches, where such pamphlets and other good Catholic literature can be obtained by the people for a small sum. Anyone wishing information about the cost and details of erecting such stands and about the terms on which the pamphlets of the Philadelphia Philadel-phia society may be obtained should address the Rev. William C. Currie, 242 j Twentieth street, Philadelphia. An appeal of great merit comes from the Sisters of Mercy of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. In 187S schools were opened at Sacred Heart, Oklahoma territory, ter-ritory, 'where the children of the Pot-tawatomiea Pot-tawatomiea were instructed in English and prepared for the sacraments. Rt. Rev, Isadore Robot, O. S. B., then prefect apostolic, succeeded in securing the Sisters of Mercy for Indian Territory,, Terri-tory,, who willingly embraced the opportunity, op-portunity, spending three days in a prairie schooner, reaching their future home, whence so many souls were-to go forth to bless the parishes that wer" springing up in Oklahoma and Indian Territories. Today they have schools and academies In Krebs, I. T Oklahoma Okla-homa City, Shawnee, Ardmore, El Reno, and the present year they opened a hospital in South McAlester, The number of the Sisters is" limited, hence they appeal to those, young ladies who are .desirous of consecrating, them-XVZt them-XVZt t0 003 t0 correspond with the e!,0thr Jupenor, St. Mary's academy, Sacred Heart, Oklahoma : Territory, ' : Reception of the Cardinal. j vJiletJAusti"ian,Ambassador an3 Mme. von Hengelmullef' entertained recently at a beautifully appointed dinner; com-' plinlentary .to Cardinal Gibbons, when the table and other decorations carried .the.c?r"nars colors. The haroness received her guests in a gown of pale green chiffon pailleted with silver and crystal, mvlted to meet the cardinal were: . The Spanish . minister, Senor Ojeda; the Belgian minister and Bar-I Bar-I Ivl'f :"oncneur. Justice and Mrs. White, Senator and Mrs. G. P Wet-more, Wet-more, Senator Eugene Hale,- General and Mrs. W. F . Draper. Mr. aid I Mr! Robert Patterson, Miss Hitchcock, Miss g5i' iss JosePnlne Patten. . Miss fenyder, Mrae. Von Hengelmuller'sVuse guest; Miss Nellie Patten, Baroness Von Palm,. Mr. Elliot Gregory of New York and Mr. Edward Morgan.,' 4 nfTiilVil lve sPIendor and solemnity of the Catholic church, Rev. J. f Re-is ' Canevin was recently consecrated as coadjutor bishop of the Pittsburg diocese. dio-cese. ; The ceremony was held in the cathe-' cathe-' iiral which had ben elaborately decora deco-ra te&.,for the occasion- Archbishop P. J.VRyan of Philadelphia officiated as consecrator and ceiebrant-of the pontifical pon-tifical mass, assisted by Archbishop Elder El-der of Cincinnati and Bishop Phelan of Pittsburg, and Right RevP. J. Donahue, Dona-hue, bishopof Wheeling, preached the sermon. As an evidence of the high esteem in which Bishop Canevin is held, he. was presented with a purse of - $10,000, "of which $5,000 was from the congregation of St. Paul's cathedral and $5,000 from the clergy of the diocese. All the. vestments were gifts of either friends or societies. .. . -i- - I - "Tlve"! V Trans tookt Unal ww? in the ' Sacred--Heart'. convent" at -Albany,- N. Y., last . week: '- 'They were ife'sdames Walsh," Gibson - and Hamlin of St. Louis; Mesdames He'aly and Burn of, Canada; Mesdames Finnegan, Kelleher and Gleason of Boston; Mesdames Carrol Car-rol and Devlin of Detroit: Madame Mangold of Cincinnati and Madame Tracey of New York. The oldest -member-of-the Cistercian order has just died in the Abbey of ; Mehreran, Austria, in the person of the venerable lay brother, Constantine Lu-thi, Lu-thi, who was aged over 100 years. |