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Show 6 1 Religious Intelligence . ' : lliflll 's a rcsu e visit of Rev. James Sulli- VI VI ran, S. J.. to Mexico, it is probable that a Cath- olic church presided over by an English-speaking CIT priest will soon be established in the, City of Mex-. Mex-. ico. The need of such an institution has long lshop Mat been .felt, and with each month prows more imperative im-perative as American and English Catholics go v (Sj.ccl . jnt0 1hc C-tv jjje jPsuits 0f tiie city of Mexico ai-'o'of u- appreciate this and invited Father Sullivan to con-: con-: ino Jim 3uct missions there recently. He says: "Spanish ; Lii)d;iy and is the universal language of the priests of the r the capital's churches. There are hundreds of Eng- c'lulvh'" lish-speaking Catholics in the city, and although j'ljiss'is-thi' ne mass i-s same in all the churches of the will say at world, it is but natural that they would prefer to 1 ilie "w i t- confess to one who speaks their own tongue. Mex- jne. ' lie ico is becoming so Americanized that a person from p l u01' 's counr.v can casilv get along without know- Mck iii'vctt ing the language 'of the natives." Father Sullivan timistie v was 1he first English-speaking prist who had spok- i k-nvor to en in the Ciiy of Mexico for more than eight years. 'no'iMit was anilounce,l 1uat Father Sullivan would give ,'," "jl'.g, y n a mission, and persons from all parts of the city omised u crowded the church at each lecture. Hundreds of :it wm v persons confessed to Father Sullivan, and, all in ' w 'th tt e e "ns husiest six weeks he has ever '( dHi d wit fpeiit. The city has many Catholic churches, and ) i!.Hi. an it is thought that the archbishop of the diocese will ciing it vc gladly install a corps of American, or at least i. tcdly. English-speaking, priests in one of them, co alter tl .; operty, v ''the i'hii' .' From i's- earliest establishment the Sovereign t. and tha Fontitf. Pin- VII. and after him his successors, ithout the have enriched the Association for the Propagation 1 lutuit t pf !ir, J'.jJ), with many and precious in diligences. 'riaUfor ''irttJlf rs and pasioral letters of over three Htz Hssurc hundred bihops have exhorted the faithful to al estate rontribule o 1'iis society. On the Uh day of De- 'lnnpins t feinber. 14, Cardinal Gibbons wrote in the rame on" that pf ,llf Thi'''1 Council of Baltimore to the iflicicnt to ' j fentral committees as follows: "Gratitude imposes that sor Bpoii us the highly pleasing luty of. acknowledging at the wc : j-mbliely the signal services renlered to the infant Tnahf " Church of the United States by ihat holy work, ihe : iit.lv beti Association of the Propagation of the Faith. f the oath the gr:;in of mustard seed sown in the virgin soil a of j. m T,'f America has siruek deep root and has grown into her'caii' 8 I1II,1,-V 1n'' whose branches spread from the f the an borders of the Atlantic ocean, even to the shores strong i) rf 'ho Fai-ihY. it is. gentlemen, owing chiefly to the ing much co-operation of your admirable society that we are ", lo' ,u indebted for this happy result.'' ' In full in ' ssod to ' 1 'Dearly The news of the acceptance by His Holiness, ceting of Pope Pius X. of the official invitation to the Vati- i Thursd; can to participate in the World's fair to be held ent' bn- ' -n ' ou's next vr'ar 'Uis UOf'n voeeived in YVash- Trish and ington and by the exposition authorities in St. th'i cath . Louis. Xot only will an exhibit be installed, but mtributed Cardinal Satolji is expected to be a guest of the ihseriptioi Archbishop of St. Louis and the exposition, as the !u'"o of representative 'of the Pope during the life of the ;on out i World's fair next summer, and definite arrange- ino l can incuts for his participation in the exposition are -ndition a new being effected. The collection of the exhibit o wcJeth vjiich will be sent to St. Louis will be under the oi.erty v. direction of the liev. Father Ehrie. prefect of the "We own Vatican Library, who will select such objects of HT'ifn i'i1ci'('st relating to the Vatican as will be most 'op'ny appreciated by and instructive to exposition visi- his prope i trs. Cunt Ludovico Pecci. a nephew of the late .rporatinr ' pope Leo XIII, will loan interesting relics of his V'pnld'V ? l,n'le' significant among Avhich will be many ju- rpnratior ; hike, jrifts. In accepting the invitation to have -.A pan f the Vatican represented at St. Louis by an ap- vhVu ior1 propriate exhibit, the pope, through his cardinal s 'well' as secretary of state, Raphael Merry del Val, ex- i-wk in fr , : presses himself as smxious to do everything -in his ' i'aib!'Ula'i- Vmvvr "lo Prolnote the welfare of the great Amor-' v have. 'can rP'e' and to show his sincerest sympathy in aid subs the development of every enterjiriVie which may be he names conductive, under the blessings of God, to the true 'i Viil i; : regress and honor of so noble a nation," and in !on. eaiii the selection of an exhibit for the exposition gives p's.maliy. assurances 1 hat care will be taken that it shall nZ,lui2l ! k(i !?ucl as WM Perve as a token of his expressed in- vre new I tercet in America. nd fhrou , i oinuTs ye I vifi more than ordinary interest will be These ' the coming to this country of. Mademoiselle Mulot, Tin -s-1 1 ' ,J'c'c1rePS oJ? a Pcnol for Mind children at Angers, !,,.!.' MVii , France. She comes here for the purpose of dem- vim o'V( onstrating her system of instruction at' the St. ioek in f ; Louis exposition. Accompanying her will be one wiake ol" Ilcr PuPils- Before going to the exposition she m 'up ti- 'iH pay an extended visit to Very Kev. G. Goupille, n i ne ro ; C. S. C. the exiled president of the college of .r. Mn m I -t,ui,Iv lloar laris who is now making his home -tally eha ' w'1" the members of the order at the University of st ' of th Xotre Dame. Mine. Mulot is well known in France, i.itht'"tth v,"'re !,as sl'K'nt teeii years in perfecting a hiireh. c stem of instruction unique in modern methods ;hinsr wes for ihe blind. She has worked out an especially tho7iraPif;' ? r'' ioal and rapid method of writing, and this she o ' i-s Indi w .SMrnv to t,)p American public. Her pupils, after ' leaving her school, are qualified to teach, and for ; this receive the endorsement of the French govern- i J ' mcnt. - , i ' ailunan. ' - i:h.'!p m 1lox' G,J.or;0 A. Dougherty, assistant pastor of ';!;. e the t; Augustine's church. Wasliington. has been ap- the.- call; ' pointed private secretary and assistant. to Bishop .l.le sum O'Connell, rector of the Catholic University of -M- .'-p-ilv America. The appointment was made bv Mon- dnti. !- Pignor O'Connell, with the consent of Cardinal Gib- t ! to a i h'ns. who for the present will ahow Father Dough- Ei-hot 'ty to retire from parish work. Father Doughertv t th 1'c','n ilSM"'ifll0(1 w'th St. Augustine's church for l.osan av : K.re. lhaii twelve years, and his selection as secre- lor.i.eed tary and assistant to Mgr. O'Connell is regarded- !n l s a recognition of his earnestness and ability as a . tteimou i worker. oelalisi j . priate on , T Kivr"un With a!1 lhp d5fniit-v and Pomp which character- t ha pel. IZCS lIie wlcbration in the church. St. Bridget's The .-u church, Pittsburg. Pa., on Sunday began its golden' Jiatz ha i jubilee celebration. Among those present were the davVve! j!aPal legate to the United Staes. Mgr. Diomede widespre; Faleonio; lit. liev. Eugene A. Garvey, bishop of 'Social ' Altoona, and Pt. Pev. P. J. Donohue, bishop of tlor Kr " ; loling. At the morning str-ice Pontifical High j ro.'ia'in.. : Iass was celebrated. Mgr. Faleonio presided on the rifthi , the throne, Bishop Garvey was the celebrant, and tiiK i ge l pa. Pev. J. F. Regis Canevin, coadjutor bishop of "tf,E,Itt . the Pittsburg diocese, preached the sermon. Pre- ti;e free. ceding the sermon Father Martin Kyan, the pastor, last twq ; announced that the debt which had hung over the rm-h pro" church for fifty years was paid and the mortgage !" ev. an. could be burned. H.aiuner breath"'? n Associated Press dispatch says: "It is now mareir u - considered to be assured that Pope Pius X, who tiie daw.; already has created Mgr. Callegari, Bishop of ti'dund Padua, a cardinal, is about to call him to Rome !teci'Jfr"e . definitely. The Pope is now centering all his at-- sociaiisn tention upon the relations between the Vatican and seady tc France, his present most ardent desire being to tvintr' a.racaDS Put a stoP to the anti-Catholic p'erou J " campaign carried on by the French government iinn? it i end of arranging a definite understanding between drofimer tt)C prcr)Ch republic and the Holy See on questions "''Soeia Ju Pending. He hopes that the beatification of which c Joan d'Arc, which will be the first ceremony of its stability kind to be performed under his pontificate, will aid t rebuffs n "tilfillment of his wishes. From this concili- one n: fltory disposition of the Pontiff the inference is eommor drawn that the Vatican may be able to find a solu- t he twi f jon 0 tje Jiffculties so as to allow President Lou- ess'ntia hen te visits the king of Italy, to pay his re- Uauty fpects also to Pope Pius. Should this occur it pleasing i yould be the first instance since the fall of the morals Koran ; . I neigh bo " the un: temporal power of a Catholic ruler going to the Vatican while a guest at. the Quirinal. lit. Rev.' Denis M. Bradley. D. D., Bishop of Manchester, X. H., died last Sunday, after a lingering lin-gering illness,. aged 57. He was the first bishop of the diocese. Bishop Bradley received his education educa-tion at Holy Cross jcollege, Worcester, and was made Bishop of Manchester, June 11, 1SS4. He organized the -diocese, which comprises the state of Xew Hampshire, and is at the present time a most influential one. He built the cathedral at Manchester, Man-chester, founded several churches and hospitals therej as well as churches, colleges and hospitals in all parts of the state. |