CATHOLIC NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 13, 26 December 1890, Page 15

CATHOLIC NEWS.

A school for deaf mates has been opened in the Kildare House, at Chinchcuba, La. It will be in charge of the Dominican Sisters. The Archbishop of Alexandria tas consecrated at Port Said a cathedral dedicated to Bt, Eugenia— the first Catholic Cathedral built ia Egypt for thirteen centuries.

The Protestant Conservative Press in Prussia and even the Socialis a are in favour of the return of the Jesuits.

The Catholics have won a decided success at the elections for the Diet of Lower Austria. They secured fifteen seats oat of twenty. In the last Diet they held only eleven. The Pope has decided to create secular nuncios, to be attached to the Papal legations in Europe, who will enter society from which the ordinary nuncios are at present forbidden.

At a meeting of German clericals in Cologne the question of the expulsion and the recall of the Jesuits was discussed at length. The meeting endorsed a monster petition to the Beichstag to allow the return of the Jesuits to their hoaees.

There were forty-three converts confirmed at St. Colnmbkill's Church, Chicago, on October 1. Among the number was a young man who occupied a position in one of our prominent banks. The cashier of this bank being a Sunday-school teacher, whose mission it appears is to inculcate bigotry and hatred of all who do not worship at bis erroneous shrine, discharged the young convert simply because he became a Catholic.

A convent has been built at Biskra, Algiers, for the Order of the Brothers of the Sahara, founded by his Eminence Cardinal Lavigsrie, and Tonareg fugitive slaves receive agricultural training there. It is intended to found villages of Christian Touaregs along the TransSabaran Railway when it is built. The wandering natives will settle around the stations, and will thus become amenable to civilising influenceo.

The Very Rev. Charles A. Viaaani, 0.5. F., Commiasary of the Holy Land, will leave New T >rk a ionly fjr an extended tour of the Holy Land. His obj.-ct will be to select a good route for an American Catholic pilgrimage. la the spring of last year Father Vissani conducted the first American Catholic pilgrimage through the Holy Land. On his return to New Yoik he will begin at once the enrolliog of the pilgrims, and he expects that the party will start in the spring of 1892.

Dr. Windthorst at a conference at Cologne with the leaders of the Rhine Catholics, decided to entirely dissociate the centrist policy from that of the socialists and to begin an active war agtinst the socialist party throughout the country. Meetings of Catholics in Baden, Wurtemburg and Bavaria already mark the fervour of the agitation. Although the congress at Halle excluded the religious question from tbe socialist programme, the anti-religious character of socialism waa openly avowed by the speakers.

The following notification from the Thirty-seventh General assembly of German Catholics, recently held at Mannheim, has been made to the Duke of Norfolk by the Baron van Buol, the President of the Assembly : "It was moved by Dr. Windthorst, seconded by Dr. Porach, and unanimously resolved, that bis Grace the Duke of Norfolk be requested to express to tbe Catholics of England the deep and sincere sympathy of this General Assembly of the Catholics of Germany with them upon tbe occasion of the irreparable loss which the Catholic Church in England, and the whole world, has sustained by the death of Cardinal Newman."

The feasts of the following saints have been extended to the whole Church ; the day of the mouth adde-i to the name fixes the time when the feast is to be kept : S. John Damascene, Confessor and Doctor (hitherto Confessor on I j), Maicb 27 ; Double, ti. Sylvester, Abbot ; November 26 ; Double. S. John Capristan, Confessor ; March 28 ; Semi-double. In the Office of the Faast o f the Hacred Heart, rmsed last ytar to a Double of the First Class, an addition is to be made to toe Sixth Lesson, stating that Clement XIII. granted the Feaat to a few churches, Pius IX. to the whole Church, while Leo XIII. raised it to a Double of the First Class.

At Brooklyn, N.Y ., Bibbop Loughlin celebrated his golden jubilee of the priesthood. Catholics and Protestants united to honour him, and the greatest dignitaries of the Church in America assisted at the Pontifical Mass last Sunday. Tne clergy of the diocese presented him with a purse of 20,000d015. Cardinal Gibbons, in the course of bis sermon, highly eulogised the Bishop. He said : " What is the present condition of the diocese of Brooklyn ? It possesses 200 priests, 150 churches and cbapels, many of them elegant and imposing houses of worship. It has 118 schools and academies, where 28,000 children of both sexes are receiving a sound Christian education, It has aeylumß, hospitals, and other benevolent ins'itutions, amounting to twenty in number, with a Catholic population estimated, in round numbers, at a quarter of a million. And all this work has been accomplished during the life and under the supervision of one man, the modest prelate who is the centre of our thoughts to-day, a prelate who lives, thank God, to contemplate the fruit of his labours in the evening of his day.