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Show I 11 j I I which oyer- ' rg ' jf cometh the I UnmrsaL 5- RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. j A Rome dispatch says that Bishop- elect. Rook er has arrived in Rome and that the Philippine islands diocese for j which he will be consecrated will be j Jaro and not Neuva Caceres, as first announced. The Order of Salesian Fathers cares for upwards of 3000 lepers in Colombia, Colom-bia, South America. When Father Albert, Al-bert, the visiting superior, was in South America he visited, it Is stated, 30,000 sufferers from this disease. Rev. Denis Kearney, for many years chancellor of the Pittsburg diocese, died in Pittsburg last week. He was born at Carlow, Ireland, in 1827, ordained or-dained in 1856 and in the same year t came to Pittsburg. j The work of converting the Navajo Indians has been begun by the Sisters I of the Blessed Sacrament. At present t they have one school at Fore Defiance, ! Arizona where they teach 49 children, j . only three of whom are baptized. Stricken with smallpox while minis- Si tering to one of his congregation, Fa- q j Liier cuciuey 01 iioiy Trinity cnurcn, j Middletown, O., has recovered. His parishioners held a meeting the other evening. The men presented him with ! a purse of $1000, the Married Ladies' sodality with $1500, and the Young , Ladies' sodality with $300. The officious Daughters of Liberty, i a female A. P. A. organization at Louisville, Ky., are backing a suit to 1 obtain damages from the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, that city. The i Sisters some time ago took charge of j two fallen girls from Hardin county .; and the Daughters of Liberty charge : : . that the Sisters kept them in cruel I! ! confinement. They also claim that the ! ! nuns have so hypnotized the people of j Jefferson county that a fair trial can- i not be had. After a lapse of 365 years, an abbot : has been again enthroned at Buckfast j ; Abbey, Buckfasteigh, England. Right Rev. Charles M. Graham, D. D., Bishop j j of Plymouth, celebrated Pontifical j j Mass in the abbey, once the home of ! I the Cistercian monks and now of the Benedictines. Some Cistercian monks were guests on this occasion. The ; newly elected abbot was presented to the bishop by the abbots of Erdlngton and Dourges (France), and the ser-; ser-; mon was delivered by the Right Rev. Mgr. Walter Croke Robinson of Lon-i Lon-i don, j The Greek Catholic church has, ac- ' cording to the Missions Catholiques, ! just made what Is described as a veri- 1 muro vuuiiucat iu conversion en masse of more than 15,000 separated Greeks belonging to the districts of Ackar, Hosu and Safita, The decision j by which these people have abjured ; their errors and returned to the bosom j j of the Church was taken some time i 1 1 ago, when a deputation was sent to ' t : Mgr. Doumani, Greek Catholic Melch- J lte, Bishop of Tripoli, to petition that they might be received. Already the , bishop's zeal and activity have merited merit-ed the compliment of persecution j from the schismatics of the district. . The bishop himself has been ill-treat- : ed, two of his priests have been pois- l oned, others have had their beards I cut, and many presbyteries have been i j pillaged. I j Mgr. Dennis R. O'Connell, rector of ! the Catholic University of America, i ! "will return to Rome on June 1 and I ; ask Pope Leo XIIL in the name of the i American archbishops to call for a j general collection in all the Catholic j 1 churches in this country for the bene- i ! fit of the universitv. Tho fnnri tmo : j raised will be used to establish, schol- ' arshlps, erect new buildings and im- j I prove the tone of the university. Such j ' a collection would result in the amass- j ' ing of a large sum. There are 10,689 j j churches in the United States, which ! would average $1000 each. Mgr. j I O'Connell will return to the United t I States in the fall to' take charge of j the university. There will be no vice I rector. I Very Rev. Dr. John A. Zahm, pro- vincial of the Holy Cross order, has imported phonographic records which r on May lBt enabled the faculty and I students at the Notre Dame university r to hear the voice of Pope Leo XIIL In solemn benediction and the responses sung by the cardinals and the members mem-bers of the Papal court, as heard at the Pope's jubilee celebration, March 3d. The cylinder was presented to M. Bettini, a distinguished scientist, the day the provincial left Paris. Dr. j Zahm also was presented with a rec- I , ord of the Hail Mary, the Pope's fa- i vorite prayer. The one condition on which the Pope permitted the cylin-j cylin-j ! ders to be made was that they Bhould 1 i ; not be used for commercial purposes. From the government blue book on elementary schools which has Just been issued in England, it . appears ! that the number of Catholic parochial . t schools on the government grant list ! j is 1056. These schools provide accom- : modation for 403,064 pupils, and have I 333,588 on their rolls, the average at- ; tendance being 269,191. Of the pupils ! enrolled 508,817 are on the "free list," I only 20,970 paying fees. The teachers j in these schools number 8032. The j total grant paid to these Catholic j schools in England last year was $1,- 391,000, or a little over $5 per pupil in average attendance. The cost of 1 similar education lacking the all-im- j portant religious instruction in the - public elementary schools supported by public taxation was, in the same year, $15. The amount of the grant i given by toe English government to hL . - j "1 1 .. - . I " """ ' ' " '' Catholic and Anglican schools is determined de-termined by the official report of the government inspector on the efficiency of each school in his district. Under the new education act the grant to these schools is considerably enlarged, so as to relieve those who have hitherto hither-to been obliged, for conscience' sake, to support these schools by their voluntary vol-untary contributions. A somewhat similar system might with advantage be established in this country. And it will be established, too, as soon as our non-Catholic fellow citizens have realized the necessity which exists for religious education in our primary schools. |