CATHOLIC NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 29, 9 November 1888, Page 29

CATHOLIC NEWS.

It is Btated tbat the Empress of Brazil has gone on a pilgrimage to the shiine of the Lourdea to ofLr thanks for the restoration of Dom Pedro's health.

We se: it stated in several journals that the Sisters of Charity are better treated than any o»her of the Mahdi's European prisoners at pi e a .tnt m Khartoum. Pioiid and noble women, their labours everywhere c'jinmanl respect ami admiration.

Dr. Foley. the grandson of an Irish, rebel who fought at Vinegar Flill, and the son of a later day p itriot, has been appointed by his Holiness to the see of Detroit, and Rev. J. J. Hennessey, a sterling Irishman, has been (elected hs Bishop of Wichita.

Lady Florence Dixie's husband, Sir Beaumont Dixie, has been received into tie Catholic Churcn.

Geneial Snerman's son, who is a member of the Society of Jesus, will next yetr be ordained priest. Reports ot the plague. -stricken metropolis of Florida state that the Pries's and Sisteis irmain nobly at their pons, ever ready to care for the sick an I comfort the dying. Such reports do not awaken surprise.

It may not be generally known tbat Miss Mary Stanley, sister of the ftimoui Dean titauley of Westminster, became a Catholic, and devoted lieisa'f to work among the London poor.

It is stated ia the T/nursoi Philadelphia, th-it the Cat'iolic Church ba«, in toat City, by us 1-ist directory sixcy-eight bc'iooN, and in tnese education is given to 25,000 boys and gnls, or a'moat one quarter the number received in the public schools.

The Patriarch of the O.itho'ic Armiuiaip. Sloneigneur Azarian, has had astonishing success iv inducing ihas.hi»ma icai of his country (o return to the one f jld. During the Ust six months thirty thousand have become couverta to the Chuich, including entice villages.

The Pope has instructed the Papal Nuncio at Brussels to aid Cardinal Lavigene to cjnvoko an international conference on the suppression of slave trading. His H jhness promises to send delegates to the co' ferenc-;.

The C-itho ie Bishops of Germany assembled a' Fulda have signed an address to toe hope, in which they severely attack ihjcl,tuse3 in tha new Italian penal code regarding abuses by the clergy, The Archbishops of Cologne aid Foaen are among the signers.

Like Cardinal Manning, the Bishop of Aiadnd has publicly condemned the attitude ot the Iv laa Goverumcat towards ilia Pope and the articles of the new Penal Law lefemng to the clergy.

A committee of llluatiiius Catholics ii Brussels racene every day numcrjus subscriptions ia aid of Cardinal Lmgene's crusade against slavery. Ilia Eminence has repaired to Maestricht to give his blessing to fifteen youn^ laiies on their entrance into the Convent of Missions Iji equatorial Alrica.

Hie ■' Vraie. Fiance"' sa.,s that his Eminence, the Cardinal Archbishop of We-trum-iter, in leceivmg a number c.f Catholic students from the Freucti ficuliien, said that iv England, ttie Catholic religion enjoyed a liberty that France must envy, bat that English Catholic 3 were far from being able to carry out such magnificent undertakings

as those which the Catholics of France, and of the North in particular accomplish.

Pope Leo XIII. is at present occupied with an historical work, fwhich has taken him soxae ye.ars of study ani research to compile, with the be\p of the Abate Pessuto, to whom he has confided the editing. It is a " Codex Diplomatics Ecclesiastics et Civilis Urbis," which will deal with the history of the city ef Rome in the Middle Ages.

It is told of the late Most Rev. Archbishop Alemany, of San Francisco, Cal., that travelling in Spain in 1862, before the canonisation of the Japanese martyrs, be wore his Dominican habit wherever he went. This was a violation of the law in that so-called Catholic kingdom,which has so sorely felt the wounds inflicted by Liberalism, Freemasonry, and English anti-Popery ever since the Peninsular War. The officials of the country peremptorily ordered him to remove his ecclesiastical dress. " Never, gentlemen I" he replied. "I dress as I please in fiee America. I shall, as an American, wear whatever clothes I chose in Spain, Rus3ia or China ; look at my passport ; there is my certificite of citizenship." He suffered no further molestation.

A movement is just now being set on foot for the erection of a gigantic statue of the M&id of Orleans in a prominent place in* or near Paris. Tbe peasant girl of Domremy, who led Charles VII. in triumph to his coronation at Rheims, is already commemorated in a bronze statue familiar to many ; mounted on a fiery charger, and holding her famous banner in her gauntletted hand, she looks oub from the centre of a small square just off the Rue de Rivoli in the Garden of the Tuileries. The Duchesee d'Uzes has just completed a veritable work of art in which Jeanne is represented standing, with. her sword raised and her gaze fixed heavenward.

Cardinal Lavigerie, before leaving London, recently, had an interview with the Prince and Princess of Wales, and with the Marquis of Salisbury. The only person to see him off was Mr. Charles H. Allen, of the Anti-Slavery Society, which has unanimously elected his Eminence a corresponding member. The call of the new Crusade will be sounded by him in all the other European cipitals in the course of the next few months.

St. Walburga's Convent, Elizabeth, New Jersey, baa for its guest an amiable and zealoua South American priest, Rev. Henry Kruse,who hag come to the United Slates for nuns to teach in the schools that Bishop Bchumaker is establishing iv Ecuador. Last year eight nuns of the Benedictine Order left for that place, and the remarkable success they hare met has encouraged the Bishop to bring more of the sama Order into his diocese. " Young ladies who have a vocation for the religious life," says Father Kruse, " will find a pleasant field in Ecuador. The climate is not changeable and is healthy. Our Sisters are Irish-American, Mother Teresa O'Brien being Superior, and the number of scholars under their care is increas'Dg. They would not leave Ecuador now, as they have not been a day sick, and the children have become so dear to them. The Irish have encouraged us wonderfully, and the expenses of bringing the Sisters to our diocese will he met, in a measure, by contributions from that race in thia country. The people in Ecuador admire the United States, and Sisters and priests from that conntry are especially welcome to them, &<* they know well that from them they can learn much in the way of progress in every line."

"iCardinal Manning," says the Boston Courier, '• declares that out of the four million inhabitants of London, one half never set their feet inside of any place of worship, and are to all intents and purposes thoroughly heathen. He declares that ' London ib a wilderness It iB like Rome cf old — a pool lato which all the nations of the world streamed together, and all the sins of all the nations of the world were continually flowing. Such is London at this day.' This is about as severe an arraignment as could have beon brought against Rome in its worst days, and seem 3to imply a pretty severe reflection upon modern Christian civilisation. And the worst of it is tnat the accusation is probably just. '"

A congress of German CathoHcs will meet at Gribourg, in Breiggau, in September. Toe two leading questions to be discussed are religious Orders and the regime of the schools. Dr. Wiadthor3t is ■till in feeble health, but he promises to animate the proceeding* of the Congress by his presence. His utterances, in view of the Landtag elections, will be tantamount to a declaration of the platform of his party, and will disclose what tacKcs they are likely to tollow. Seeing the isolation of the Clericals under the renewal of the National Liberal-Conservative alliance, the leaders of the party are now more in touch with the Vatican. The Pope's letter will be read to the Congress. In it he congratulates the Centrists for maintaining the rights of the Church, and shows that the Vatican is glad the Centrists did not accept Prince Bismarck's promise on the eve of the Septennate struggle implicitly, as the Pope then desired. His Eminence Cardinal Howard, who is at present lying in a dangeroasjstate of health at his house in St. John's Wood, was in his young days a Lifeguardsman, and on the occasion of the Duke cf Wellington's luneral was chosen for his good looks and fine physique to lead the procession. In those days he looked every inch a soldier ; •tanding over sir feet in hn stockings and being built in proportion. His Eminence now occupies the dual position ot Archpriest of St. Peter's and Bishop of Frascati. These posts have never been beld conjointly by one person since the last of the House of Stuart, Cardinal York, discharged the du'ies of the two offices.