CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 35, 27 December 1873, Page 12

CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE.

A correspondent of an English Protestant journal describes as one of the principal fruits of Sir Battle Frere's mission to Africa, the discovery of the work a Catholic mission id doing ou the borders of the desert. At Bagomoyo they found a French mission established whore nine or ten of ihe Kevj Fathers aud Sisters were instructing and caring for 250 children, many of whom they had resauftd from slavers. The branch establishment at Zanzibar has a school where the boys learn trades, malting the mission self-supporting. It is is intended that these form a settlement, iv which will be the nucleus of a society to Christianize Eastern Africa. The Pope, Italy, and the World.— A Paris correspondent of a New York paper reports MucHahoa aa saying to him that he accepted the presidency of Franco to save the army and rescue the Government from a combination of power and profit. He added : •' There is no icason why the preseut regime, in its amended constitutional form with a military executive who should reign over the country and rule over the army, should not become established in France. When the words empire and republic become synonymous with discipline, every citizen a soldior and every soldier a servant of the republic, wtanelioff and strife > will cease in the country." He likewise said : " Evervthini tnat can be done to enwra the Pope's safety and the necessary liberties of he Holy see, shall be done. It v directly against- the interests of Italy to expel Ihe Pope for were he to take refuge elsewhere, the Catholics of all the world w-mld be uuitod »g linst Italy." The 'Suturdiy Review ' asks of the Jea« ts, " Why does mankiad ■ > vehemently and persistently detest them ?" The answer is very simple. All who really know, amounting to several millions throu'l*. out the world, love and resect tuein, aud us to the rest, me Jesuits are true disciples of Hijn .vho iiaa said; "If they hare hated Me. they will also hate you," •