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Show I RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Among the, 12. SHS-priests in the United j States whose names are given in the j Catholic directory for 1903. Murphy has j an even 100. representatives, followed by Walsh with 7J, Ryan 73. Kellv 7, O'Reilly 64. O'Brien 71. Smith 51. O'Connor O'Con-nor 62, Brady 54, Fitzgerald 42. Sullivan Sulli-van ,ri6. Lynch 42. Quinn 4'.i. McCarthy 3". Burke 36. Byrne 27, Mueller 27, Hickey 2.1, Carroll 30, Kennedy 38, O'Connell 27, O'Neill 20. Brennan 23, McCabe 24, O'Sullivan 2.". Barry 26, Daly 23. Gallagher 2P. Meyer 36. Murray Mur-ray 27, Ward 20. and Schmidt 17. Every letter of the alphabet is represented, even X. though by only one name. Over 600 names have the prefix Mi', over Hon that of O', while Van and Yon claim nearly 100. By a pathetic and unforeseen coincidence, coin-cidence, the charming reminiscences of the eminent Catholic novelist. Mary A. Sadlier, by her daughter, Anna T. Sadlier, in Donahoe's Magazine for April,' "Mrs. Sadlier's Early Life, Her Books and Friends," but briefly precede pre-cede the announcement of her lamented lament-ed death. Mrs. Sadlier was a contributor to The Pilot nearly half a century ago. Her first serial, a prize story, "Willy Burke," was republished from these columns in book form and seven thousand thou-sand copies sold within six weeks. She also wrote an historical novel. "The Red Hand of Ulster,': for The Pilot. This is not the moment for a critical estimate of her work. It is enough to say that her books have borne the test of the years, and many of them are or immense value as faithful pictures of Irish-American life in the middle-decades of the century.. Their spiritual influence is of a nature to set their author au-thor among those who instruct others unto justice, and who are destined to shine as stars for all eternity. The Pilot. -? Rev. Dr. John Zahm of Notre Dame, Ind., provincial of the congregation of the Holy Cross of the United States, has arrived here, after visiting the branch of the order in France, which is among those ordered to disband. He is continuing making arrangements to send a lara-e number of the' members to the United States. When Father Zahm was seen at the Academy of the Holy Cross here, which is the second largest in France, the place showed sie-ns of confusion and disorder following follow-ing the notification to disperse. Packers Pack-ers were hastily filling trunks and taking tak-ing down the paintings of founders and other valuables, some of which will be shipped to the United States. Father Zahm spoke more in terms of pity than bitterness. . He said this and other academies represented the life work of those who had been ordered to disband. dis-band. The effect would be particularly particular-ly severe on the old men and sisters of the formal orders. They, retain only their personal belongings be-longings and lose their schools and properties and bilildings. and hereafter will be unable to wear the habit of the order and continue work as members of the congregation. Those who are able to travel will take up, new work, and are. going to the United States, Canada and India. As the result ;of Mr. Zahm's visit, 100 brothers "and priests and 1Q0 sisters are going to the United States and about the same number to Canada. He says most of them speak French and German, so they will be distributed distrib-uted among the colleges and will teach. Those who are going to Canada will settle in the French provinces, where they will understand the language. Dr. Zahm has not yet determined on the points where those who. are golne-- to the United States will be located. They will begin leaving soon in groups. The Roman Catholic archbishops meet in Washington on April 22, and so i do the trustees of the Catholic university. univer-sity. They will witness the installation of the new rector of the university, and the laying of the corner stone of the new Paulist House of Studies, which is to be a training school for Catholic mission priests. The greatest question to come before the archbishops will be the demand from Rome for American missionaries in the Philippines and in Porto Rico, and a ejuestion hardly second sec-ond to it is Italian spiritual care, the numher of Italian Catholics coming to America at this time breaking all records. rec-ords. At Atlantic City at the end of April the Catholic Federation of lay societies will meet. Some new societies will come in, and the organization will . be much strengthened. Special efforts will again be made to demonstrate that the Federation's purpose is not political, polit-ical, and not' un-American. At least 200,000 increased membership will be reported: ... The Roman Catholic church suffered severely in Cuba by " reason of the downfall of Spanish political power. Bishop Sbarreti, now apostolic delegate in Canada, found hard conditions in Havana and was. nt -'timec nut to if severely to make financial- ends meet. Cuba has now been nut, as an independent inde-pendent province, .under the laws of the plenary council of Latin America, and two new dioceses have' been formed, making four in all on-the island. is-land. Santiago remains -the see-city of the archbishop, with jurisdiction over the diocese of -Havana . and -the . two new dioceses, which are to- be Pinar del Rio and Cienfuegos. . Bishops are to e named for these new sees - at once, and Archbishop Chapelle, who is apostolic delegate for Cuba as well -as head of the archdiocese of New Orleans, Or-leans, has been directed to spend much time in Cuba during the next two years in an endeavor to set matters right. New York .Evening Post. . ... I |