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Show CATHOLIC OPINION The Catholic press of the country is having much to say of a flattering nature regarding the statue which the Knights of Father Mathew propose to erect in Forest Park as a memorial to the great temperance advocate from whow they take their name. It seems to be the unanimous opinion that this tribute should be paid Father Mathew in the city where his followers are so strongly banded together. Some of the papers that have commented upon the project are propnsying that a bright page in the book ot temperance will be turned on the day of the unveiling of the statue. The school "agitation in England will hav th,e effect of. drawing the Catholics of Lngland and Ireland closer together and of establishing closer relations be-, tween the Church of England people and Non-lconformists. The line of cleavage will be the old one separating Protestant England and Rome. Denominational education edu-cation can be described as a system designed de-signed to intensify and perpetuate antl-Catholic antl-Catholic bigotrv. In 1 ranee at present there is only one ground for divorce where the man is Defendant: Conviction of felonv. There ff.iTi where the woman is defendant; Infidelity and conviction of crime carrying car-rying with it loss of civil rights Thev now propose to add three additional grounds: "Incompatability," "mutual consent" and "repeated demand of one Partles- The future of womanhood woman-hood in France is portentous of disaster. ? While the poor are perishine with cold in New York the coal Cons are careering over southern seas in their million dollar yachts. Two things will inevitably result from the great strike-ihe strike-ihe consumption of hard coal will be re- wn?L(Tf;ha'1; and tht Protective tariff will be lifted from anthracite coal. We bombariipd Manila in the far east-the east-the European powers are bombarding Puerto C'abello in the near wesct. Th? the WtLPeintVheJir'lt nish ship to hl in, the ,harb"r of Manila tore the Monroe doctrine to tatters in its murderous trajectory. s The latest advices from Rome leave no room to doubt that Bishop Quiglev of Buffalo has been selected to be a?ch- se&nf ChiCaS- " ,S a e00d nd" ' In setting aside" Bishop Spalding who was the first choice of the clergy province for the see of Chicago . the propaganda doubtless considered the -afcS of the bishop of Peoria and his often ex pressed desire to be relieved of the routine rou-tine duties "of episcopal administration. Personally' we feel quite, sure Bishop Spalding would prefer to remain in the city whose fame and properity are linked with his name. The decision of Rome was glad Christmas tfdinrs for the Catholics Catho-lics of the dlecese of Peoria. j Father McGradv has written an open , letter to Bishop Maes defending his so-cialiet'c so-cialiet'c views and his magazine articles in praise of Darwin, 5la and Renan. In his address at the reception tendered ten-dered him in Omaha, Archbishop Keane stated that Omaha was to be an areh-lepiscopal areh-lepiscopal see and Des Moines the seat of a bishop. This has been anticipated, but the statement is for the first time made by one in a position to know. - The first American ordained in the Philippines is Rev. William H. Stanton of Missouri. Father Stanton is a Jesuit and was ordained by Bishop Garcia on Aug. 10 last. Out in Omaha they have arrested a man whose specialty was robbing Catholic: Cath-olic: churches of candlesticks and other rejigious articles. On him when searched were papers showing that he served in the Philippines. We suppose he contracted the habit of taking souvenirs sou-venirs when doing duty in our "colonial" "colo-nial" possessions. Evidently the habit once gained of rifling churches is a hard one to control. American Herald. American Catholics" should not be more Papal than the Pope in the matter mat-ter of church interests in the Philippines. Philip-pines. The Observatore Romano published pub-lished in its issue of Dec. 13 a Papal Bull the full . text of which we shall soon lay before our readers introducing introduc-ing sundry modifications and reforms in the organization and discipline of the church in the Philippines, as a result of the change of government. The Bull recalls and praises the initiative of the United States in sending a special spe-cial commission to Rome for the fair and friendly adjustment of religio-po-litical difficulties. Yet only last week one of our esteemed contemporaries was classing Governor Taft with Na poleon Bonaparte as an enemy of religion. reli-gion. Boston Pilot. In some respects the Church of England Eng-land is the most Protestant of the "wayward sisters" that broke away from maternal control in the sixteenth century. Sir William Vernon Har-court Har-court said of it recently in the House of Commons: "The difference between the two ecclesiastical systems (the Catholic church and the Church of England) Eng-land) is that the Church of England is a lay establishment. It was made by the laity, the appointment of bishops is by the crown and the ultimate appeal ap-peal on matters of doctrine is to a lay tribunal." Western Watchman. An editor who died of starvation was being escorted to heaven by an angel who had been sent out for that purpose, pur-pose, says the FIndlay, O., Courier. "May I look at the other place before we ascend to eternal happiness?" "Easily," said the angel. So they went below and skirmished around, taking in the sights. The angel lost track of the editor and went around hades to hunt for him. He found him sitting by a furnace fanning himself and gazing gaz-ing with rapture upon a lot of people in the fire. There was a sign on the furnace which said: "Delinquent Subscribers." Sub-scribers." "Come," said the angel, "we must be going." "You go on," said the editor, "I'm not coming. This is heaven enough for me." Catholic Sentinel. : After years of negotiations the longstanding long-standing difference between the Vatican and Emperor William of Germany as regards the training of candidates for the priesthood of Alsace-Lorraine has been satisfactorily adjusted. It has been agreed that the Vatican shall organize a theological school in connection with the University of Strasburg, under the same rules as those at Bonn and Bres-lau. Bres-lau. It is a strange condition of things that the church should be receiving privileges in Protestant Germany, while in Catholic France she is being persecuted perse-cuted and coerced. American Herald. The crying scandal of this industrial age is the ostentation of wealth. The other day Senator Clark built a million-dollar million-dollar house. for his grandbaby. Not to be outdone, Carnegie has erected a three million-dollar residence for his baby. The fact that these men do these foolish things is proof that their wealth is an accident and their , descendants will not be able to hold it. The third generation of such men will very probably prob-ably live in flats. Western Watchman. In an interview at Pittsburg on Saturday Sat-urday last Cardinal Gibbons expressed the opinion that the church in this country would not be taken from the jurisdiction of the propaganda; that she has prospered under that rule in the past and he could see no good reason rea-son for a change. The only change that would possibly prove desirable would be an extension of the jurisdiction jurisdic-tion of the delegate apostolic Western West-ern Watchman. The late archbishop of Canterbury was considered an infidel by most of the people of the Church of England. It is very doubtful if he believed in a personal God. He owed his elevation to bis advocacy of disestablishment in England. He left behind him a large estate, all of which he willed to his wife and children. Western Watchman. The Catholic press of this country,! Canada, Great Britain and Ireland has had much to say regarding the statue of Father Mathew which the Knights of Father Mathew propose to erect in Forest park. They all say that the project is one that should be emulated in other cities , and towns throughout the world, and particularly the English-speaking world. Commenting upon the fact that the. unveiling will occur during the World's fair, some of the papers aver that the temperance lesson les-son that will be given by the Knights of Father Mathew and affiliated organizations organ-izations on that day to the vast crowds that will be assembled here will be a grand one, a luminous one,, and one that will never be forgotten. Western Watchman. i ' The people of England are clamoring clamor-ing for easier divorce. At present there is only one legal ground for divorce in England, as in the Greek church. They want to broaden that ground and establish es-tablish most of the grounds held sufficient suffi-cient Jp the United States. Europe is copying after this country; but it had better draw the line on our divorce laws. ; We say again: God help the women Western Watchman. |