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Show His Eminence Cardinal Moran is starting in July for a tour among the islands of the Austrian archipelago, devoting special attention to those of Fiji. In the capital of these, Suva, His Eminence will open the Catholic cathedral. Another object of the tour, which will last five weeks, is In doubt the encouragement of the large numbers num-bers of persons who recently became converted from Wesleyanism to Catholicity. Cath-olicity. , Austria, France, Spain and Portugal, Portu-gal, says a current dispatch, are likely soon to lose their right to veto the election of ecclesiastics from those countries to the cardinalate. The Vatican Vat-ican is considering the privilege with a view to its obolition. The Papal Nuncios in those countries have been instructed to explain that while such a right was justified as long as the Pope was sovereign of Central Italy, it should not be exercised now that he is deprived of his temporal power. If the negotiations are not successful the Pope is determined to proclaim the right inoperative until the Papacy is reinstated in its temporal dominion. The question has Been brought up because it is feared that France which is at present hostile to the Vatican and friendly to the kingdom of Italy, might unduly interfere with the election elec-tion of the next Pope. New World. The Holy Father and ex-Queen Natalie Rome. An investigation of the report re-port published by an American news agency that ex-Queen Natalie of Servia, mother of the dead King Alexander, Al-exander, had written to the Pope about entering a convent is found to be based on the fact that the Pope, on receiving the news of the tragedy at Belgrade,, merely conveyed his condolences con-dolences to Queen Natalie, adding that he hoped she would find in religion re-ligion sufficient consolation tq enable her to endure her affliction. Queen Natalie replied, thanking the Pope for his paternal solicitude and recalling recall-ing with emotion her visit to the Pontiff Pon-tiff in May of last year. HIx-Queen Natalie met at Biarritz, Fiance, early in 1902 the Abbe Saul-anges, Saul-anges, who converted the queen from the Orthodox Greek faith. The queen was received into the Catholic church by the Abbe Saulanges on April 13, 1902, in a little chapel at Berck, a small seaport town in the north of France. The convert is said to have displayed great emotion on being received, and since that time it has been reported several times that it has been reported several times that she had determined to enter a convent. Catholic Standard and 1 lmes. o Several riots arising out of collisions collis-ions between Catholics and anti-clericals are reported from several towns in the French provinces in connection connec-tion with religious processions. At Brest an anti-clerical mob attempted to seize the host from the hands of the priest as the procession was about to re-enter the cathedral. A free fight ensued, in which fifteen persons, mostly most-ly women, were injured. Less serious troubles took place at' Nantes and Angers. The Holy Father was the other day the recipient of a unique offering. Baron Ba-ron von Mathies, of Hamburg, at a private audience, on his return from the far East, presented to his Holiness one of the wooden tablets on which proclamations against Christians were formerly displayed during the times of the Japanese persecutions. Baron von Mathies acquired this in-tehesting in-tehesting relic in a village on the shores of Lake Biwa, near Kyoto, and had it suitably framed. The Pope was most interested in hearing both the Japanese text and the Latin translation read to him. The tablet belong to the sixties of the last century. cen-tury. New World. Now gomes the Rev. Dr. Hillis, Beecher's successor as pastor of Plymouth church, is Brooklyn, to join the army of those who believe there is something lacking in our public school system. Dr. Hilis even refers to the system as "Godless." A few years ago Catholics who made a similar remark were called all sorts of traitors. Dr. Hillis proposes to introduce a moral system of his own in his congregation to supply the wants of public school teaching. "It will, in a measure, make up for what the public school refuses to give my children," Dr. Hillis declares. de-clares. Thus our Protestant friends, one by one," are gradually coming around to the Catholic position that it is unsafe to divorce religion from education. ed-ucation. Catholic News. |