CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 33, 13 December 1873, Page 12

CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE.

A great religious revival is- taking place, and the " Sons of the Crusaders" ar«* showing that- they are stronger than the "children of Voltaire." " Save France and Borne by. Thy Sacred Heart "'■ is the cry that goes up from F-rance to our Divine Lord." "We deserve our . punishment," says Fraace. It is s^rere, our pride has been humiliated,, our luxury rebuked, our infidelity, and materialism have been oui scourges, but we le^ent. A Prussian commander at Munich gave orders-prohibiting the troops to take part in the procession in honour of the Blessed Sacrament on Corpus Christi. This order was reversed by the King of Bavaria, which action called forth expressions of gratification from the Holy Father. The sisters of the King, the Empress of Austria, and the Queen of Naples, are devout Catholics. Monsignor llermillod has appealed to the Federal Assembly against his expulsion from Switzerland, and asks for a termination of his illegal exile from his birthplace and proper home. A new church dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is in course of, erection at Turin, Italy. It will be the first church in this part of that country dedicated to the Heart of our Lord. The diocese of Cortona, Tuscany, has been consecrated to the Sacred Heart. An English Catholic Orphanage. — The distribu ion of prizes to fche pupils of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Orphanage, at Blackheath, near Lor don, took place July 23. In thi3 useful and admirable institution one hundred and twenty fatherless boys are carefully educated, and are afterwards put out into the w,o*id, where many of its former pupib are now occupying good positions in life. It is supported by the voluntary contributions of members of the Roman Catholic Church, who rightly recognise the value; and indeed the necessity, of such an nstitution for the orphans of. their faith, who are, on account of their religion, deprived of many opportunities of obtaining the educational assistance which is open to others. About 350 ladies and gentlemen assembled yesterday afternoon, amongst; whom was the Earl of DenVgV Xkp proceedings, concluded with a very agreeable concert, iai

the coarse of which the boys sang several choral pieces with a spirit, » good taste, and effect which showed that their musical training had been carefully attended to. — ' London Telegraph;' - • - The « Cork Telegraph ' says;—" Last week Archbishop Manning formally, opened the new Roman Catholic Chapel in Roxburgh road, Harrow, and celebrated' the- first Mass which has boon said in Harrow probably from- the time of the Reformation. The new chapel is dedicated to our Lady and Sfe. Thomas a. Beckett, or, as styled by th«modern Catholics, 4 Sir Thomas of Canterbury,' who is said by his biographers to have spent some of his youthful days at Harrow as a visitor with Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, at his manor of Harrow-on- the; Ball; and his not a little remarkable that the tamething is true of the Archbishop, who dedicated and opened! the .Church, who was himself a Harrow boy nearly half a century ago. Dr~ Manning took advantage of the occasion to preach a sermon upon' the character of Thomas a- Beckett, as the champion of the Church against any encroachment on the part of the State upon- its power to appoint its own ministers." , . , Mgr. Mermillod wittily observed the other day : "Had I erected- ' barricades, shot priests and) petrolized monuments in Paris, I should^, be received with eclat in Switzerland^ but as I built churches, hosv pitals- and charity schools in Geneva, Geneva. exiles me to Franco ; butthen, you know, I erected barricades against the devil." Catholicity in India.— The ' Bombay. Catholic Examiner ' of June61, states that during the year 1872 there were 45 conversions of Protestants to Catholicity . in the "Vicariate Apostolic of Coimbatore, India., £v many instances the converts were persons of high positions. A remarkable coincidence is related regarding one of these conversions t On May 1, 1872. a Protest ant lady was received into the, Church at Coimbatore, and on the same day her brother was received < into the Church at Madras. The Bishop of Little Rock, Ankamae, is about procuring Sister* to open, a hospital and a reformatory at that place, and to re-open a<. school at Helena, closed since 1869* He has also broached the project . of building a new Cathedral. OChe ' lowa Catholic Advocate' says :r-The Catholic parochial schools of Davenport are at present in a flourishing condition. They have had in thepast a severe_atruggle for existence, but thanks to the-, perseverance of the pastors, the future is- full of hope. Those established are well attended, and we trust to w-itnesa ere long the erection, of two l«w buildings. Already have the people of St Marguerite's* erected a fine brick, schoolhouse, which when the lower story is finished and the fui niture arranged, will seat fouE hundred pupils. St Anthony's, and St Kunigupda's schools are well conducted and financially euc- . cessful. •' Archbishop Lynch of. Toronto has published a- pastoral, in which .he condemns and forbids " all plays and theatrical representations" in* the educational establishments under his jurisdiction. He says furthermore: — "No responsibility rests more painfully on my. conscience than that of our educational establishments. If in the ages of Faith, many became a scandal to the faithful, we must be doubly watchful in. our. age that our educational establishments, especially those conducted, by religious orders, should be as the ' field of ewent smelling odor which the Lord hath. blessed.' (Gen. xxvii. 27.)" The corner stone of the new St Henry's church, near Rose Hill cemetery, Chicago, was laidiby Right Rev ..Bishop. Foley on June 2. Itj will cost 80,000dols, and has an Orphan Asylum adjoining. Rev. Father Welvart, one_of the expelled Jesuits from Germany, is thepastor, and conducted services on the occaeipn.~ ; Right Rev.. Bishop "Williatnß has. purchased the Baptist church in, North Bennett street, Boston, for the use of- the Italian and Portugesecongregation. The Rev J« Ignatius, late Portuguese pastor at New-. Bedford, will have charge of the new church. \ An Indianapolis paper says .—"lt is a noteworthy fact that the Catholic Church, as a,general thing, in e\ery large city, in course, of, of I time almost invariably finds itself, in possession of the most valuablechurch property in the place. Nor is there ever any litigation about their property inside tne church as- is the case in most denominations. The course of the church in this city is no exception to- the general, rule." • Within one year past, about seventy thousand dollars have been applied for the Catholics of Albany to Parish schools ia that city. Something less than a century ago, the saintly Bishop Cheverus. was refused lodgings in Northampton, Macs; to-day the Catholicsthere own a fine church and the Mausioa House property, which they propose to make a still larger one. About two years ago, Joseph Jones, who keeps the Tarn O'Shanter saloon in New Haven, Conn., lost a gold watch and chain and a valuable diamond pin. These he had not heard from until lately, when. Rev. Hugh Carmo ly came to him aud restored the watch and chain, which had- been giv-en to him by the penitent in the confessionak The German Catholic Uuion numbers, in the United States, over two hundred and thirty thousand members. A new Catholic Church was started in Parma, Ohio, on, the Feast of Corpus Christi. The new Church of St.. Agnes, Forty -Third street, N. Y. makesthe forty-third Catholic Church on Manhatten Island. Bishop Persico, of Savannah, G-a., has- gone to Canada to become the Tiicar General of the many, orders and congregations of religeusea in the archdiocese of Quebec. A Colony of Hollanders, arrived in Martin County, Mm., from. Troy, N. V., last Fall. The « Winnebago City Press ' notices this industrious and hard working Colony, and the exertions of the Rev.. Father Havermans, under whose direction it was undertaken. 1 Rev. Father N. D. Young, of St Joseph'*- Monastery, Somerset, Pa., the oldest member of the Dominican Order in America, celebrated his eigthtieth birthday by a reception to his friends in the priory... ' The Catholics of Poughkeepsie, New York, having purchased a.Church from the Universalists, in a fine location, and it will shortly bededicated by Archbishop McCloskey, on the name of St. Mary's. TheBet. Edward McSweeney, of Now York, will assume pastoral charge* -