CATHOLIC NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 31, 23 November 1888, Page 29

CATHOLIC NEWS.

Bey. Father Bvvvo, S.J., left Selma, Ala., for the fever-stricken city of Jacksonville, FJorida, where he goes in response to a telegram calling fur ms assistance.

Tbe Holy Father grants an indulgence to the faithful every timo that they recite ihe ej iculatory prayer, " My God and my all."

The head of the Franciscan Order has memorialised the Pope in favour of the beatification < f Joan of Arc. The Rheims committee has iaßued a circular to the French Bishops asking them to promote subscriptions in their diocese, for the equestrian statue of the heroine by Paul Dubois, to bo pUced in the Catherdral porch. The will of Archbishop Lynch has been probated. Although ha had lived iv Canada many years, and held a position of distinction in the Church, his will shows that he diel poor in thin world's goods.

By a special decree the Pope has granted a plenary indulgence once a month to those who re ite tbe little office of the Blessed Virgin.

The Hoiy Father has presented the organ given to him aa a Jubilee offrfiing by the diocese of San Gallo, in Switzerland, to the Augus.iuiau CJhurch at Carpineto ; and his Holiness has presented to Cardinal Moran, lor his Cathedral at Sydney, a beautiful altar, a gift from the diocese of I'aibes.

A Papal Nuncio has been commissioned to present the Golden Rose to the Princess liegent of Brazil.

Ihe. great tragedian, Barry Suldvan, who is dying in England, wa« a> tended by the Very Rev. Hugh McDonald, Provincial of the titdemptonsta. An order of knighthood for women, the members of which will be known as •' iiatrone del Santo Supolcro," has been instituted by the Holy Father.

A Press dispatch says the Pope, assisted by Abbot Peseuto aa editor, is wiiung a history of Rome in the middle ages. Particular attention will be pail to the period of Gregory the Great.

According to tne Standard' s Constantinople correspondent, the invitation addie-aed by tue Holy Father to the Armenians to join ihe Catholic Church, is likely to lead to important results. The Porte, he Btates, is encouraging the Armenians to adopt Catholicity.

In nonour cf the Blessed Virgin, the Pope has ordered, through the Sacred Oongicgation of Bites, a Proper Office and Masß for the Ffchst of the Holy Rosary, and has enjoined it on all clergy, Beculai and legular, as «n obligation in future.

Ine Cathol c pipulatio'i of Connecticut is about 200,000, or a little less than ont -thiid ef the entne population of the State.

Mr. Luke Kivm^ton, la ely leceived inio the Church, and the au'hof of a book wmch almost dis<r\e3 to stand beside Cardinal Newman's " Apologia," is at piesent iv Lugland. He contemplates juiuitig tue Bjciety ef Jesus

A priest of Piopolis, 111., Father Enzlberger, hai compiled a full return, from which it apneats that the total number of parochial Gertna'i Catuolies is 1,075.068 or making allowances fjr incompleteness, under 1,500,000. ibete aie 865 enar-ly Geiman parishes and 1,063 " mixed "' parishes under German cleigy.

The auth ritn j s ot Ly.^ns, France, in the 17th century, dedicated their city to tue Blebsed Virgin, bince that time the vow has beea annually repealed on the feast of the Nativity of the Motner of God. This year the cciem^nies hive been splendid as usual. In ihe evening the greater part of the town was illuminated.

Mgr. Sclnaffino has pr^sen'ed to t .c Vatican a memorandum on the eveumaluy ot the Pope leaving Rome, lie approves Be gium aa a Papai residence, owing 'o us neutral and Catholic character, but he is not in tawMir ot i be se > clion i>f B lgium except under a guarantee tiem the Piweis. He appiuves eK-paituri- Irom t^omeo'ily in the event ot a rigorous . pp'.ication of the penal code of war with Fiance, when th, Va'icm wuuld becoibe an obj ct of suspuion.

Lute German p.ipira gave an ac-u-unt of ihe recent conversion of Ernest Von Oir, major in the German army, formeily tutor to the ht li ot tiaxony's throne, a gentleman, a beau-ideal of an officer and woishiupi.d by his men. "From ncisjful arms or acts of prowess done in tournameit or tilt," re goes iutj a life of alms and prayers in the sjciu'-un of a Geiman convent.

It is a fact not g-neially known that the first Catholic Church in Aikanaas was established ut Arkansas Post by tbe French nearly 200 years ago

The Ca holic newsboys of New Orleans have a chapel of their own, which they attend every niommg to hear Mass, which is celebra, c ' ai 5 o'o.o> Lani.d i!y.

London baa lately se^n the extroardinary spectacle of the appeara'lee, on tl.e vime patfiiin and :n t'io same cause, of two Human Ciihohe cauliual9, a lirge number of the bishops and clergy of the English ( huii h, and It ad ing c eigyraeu eif the various Noncontormist holies. Tuis pia^tical lhu-tr.ttion ot Chustian unity was called out by ih; ele 1 c to stir up pub.ic f • nug to tae point of active inteiiLrenc witfi Ui s aAc-ti d. i. Afnca.

ur^ce M. Hanle-y, of Boston, daughter of Colonel Hanley, of that city, is ab jul iv en ci ilie convuut of ie OuUr ot Je-ius aud Mary, at Qu. bc,as a nun. Mts li nley ia bu. eiglueeu years of age aod recen ly graduated Iroui the t-chool ot the convent with the highest honours. Sue is well k iown for her remarkable cuie on August 18, a' tne mission church of Our Lady ot Perpetual Help in Roxbury. yhe had biin tor years a cnpple, aud was taken to the chuich in a carnage, but was able to walk home unassisted. Her cure attracted

widespread attention. She is new leaving a home where she has beep surrounded by every luxury, and will devote the rest of her lify to the Church. The Catholic Diet, or Congres?, while in Bession at Freiburg in Baden, and its committee unanimously passed a resolution to the effect that the temporal sovereignty of the Holy See ought to be restored, and that all the temporal powers of the world would be acting in their own interests by promoting this cmi. The proceedings of the Diet were brought to a close by a speech from Herr von Wiudthorst, who, re r ening to the resolution just mentioned, remarked that the Austro-Germau alliance was one < f th-i most glou us achievements of Prince Bismarck, whiln trie accession of Italy to t >is W(jiie of peace was also a most gratifvin^ fao< ; but tue restorat on uf ttie Pope's temporal sovereignty would tend t) secure the in untun.inue of peace still more. A f rieidly and energetic word from the Impei lal Chancellor, backed by Austria, couli do m eh for ih- Pope, wnue the act would mike the bust impresu mon the Jatholics of Germany, and wonld be hailed by sensible statesmen in Ita'y as * m -an-t of combating the revolutionary danger. The Courier de Bruxelles announces that in Belgium also, probably in Louvain, a Oath ) ic Congress will shortly be held in support of the temporal independence of the Holy See.

The Pope in a letter to Herr Muller, of Coblen'z, the President of the recent Freiburg Congress, expresses his thanks for tt.e resolutions in favour of the restoration of the temporal power of the Pope, and says they afford comfort and much needed consolation to him in the midst of afflictions and carei resulting from a wearisome and perilous conflict.

The Holy Father has been greatly pleased with the proceedings of the Catholic meeting at Freiburg. The moderation and the tact shown by the various speaker?, and especially by Herr Windthorst, have met with the cordial appreciation of Hib Holiness. It has been Baid that the Vatican intended by means of tbia meeting to create some embarrassment for the German Government, and to prevent, if possible, the Emperor's visit to Rome. The surmise is absolutely false. The meeting takes place every year; theTatican never interferes with ouch gatherings ; and as to the Emperor's visit, the Pope would not be anxious to prevent it, particularly since he is well aware of the real object of the journey. The public rebuke administered by the Emperor Francis Joseph, at Belovar, to Mgr. Strossmayer, the Apostle of the Slavs, could meet with no other response from a prelate of spirit than thai which it received, "Tour Majesty, my conscience is clear." Iv wißbing •' Godspeed " to Russia, Mgr. Strossmayer was doing little more than the Emperor himself when at a bn^quet in lioloul 1 of thj Czu's birthday he drank " to the health of his vicar brother a^d triend, the Emperor Alexander, whom God protect." B sides, it 18 not th< j province of the Emperor of Austria to accuse a bish >p of the Churcn of having acted against the interests of religion and the Holy See. Of his comduct as a Christian prelaie, Mgr. Strossmayer's own conscience, and his spiritual superior must ke the judges. M. Smile de Laveleyo supplies many interesting facts about Bishop Strossmayer in the Becond chapter of his " Balkan Peninsula ":—" In religion Strossmayer is a Christian according to the Gospel, an adversary of intolerance, a friend of liberty, of enlightenment, oE progress in all foims, entirely devoted to his people, aud especially to the poor." "In him we admire the virtues of the saint with the tastes uf tbe artist. " All selfish fueling is crus' ed out, no egotism and no ambition ; his life is a daily devotion, he has no thought which is not for the good of his fellows and the future of his couatry. Who has done more than he for tbe reawakening of a nationality, and with so much insignt and efficacy ? Among the noble figures who in this age bring honour to humanity, Ido not know his superior. Croatia may be proui of her eon."