CATHOLIC NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 14, 22 January 1892, Page 29

CATHOLIC NEWS.

(From the Liverpool Catholic Times.) There are 17,000 Scandinavians in Brooklyn, most of them Catholics A new parish under the pastoral care of Bey, Claudius Hypohte Dumahut, a French priest, is being created for them, and a new cbnrch being built' A Catholic Congress was held at Lille week ending- Nov. 21; The situation of the Church in France was carefully considered, and Catholic action, independent of all parties, determined upon. The recent religious census of Vienna gives the following results:— There are in the city 1,195,107 Catholics, 41,943 Proteitanti , 118,495 Jews, and 8,943 members of other denominations. The death is announced in the Carmelite Convent, Njtting-hill of Sister St.Philip, in the world, Teresa Hope, youngest daughter of the late Mr. J. R. Hope Scott and Lady Victoria, eldest sister of the Duke of Norfolk. The German Catholic Afriha Verein, or association for promoting Catholic missions in the German colonies in Africa, has only been two years and a half in existence, bat in that short time it has collected and expended a sum equivalent to £120,000 sterling. Oa the occasion of a recent pilgrimage to Borne a priest preI sented to the Pope a grand nephew of Pare Lacordaire, 0.P., who took part in it. On hearing the name, Leo SHI., who gave him his blessing, took him by the band and then carressing hia head, said: " Lacordaire I a great name, a saint. ! It is a great honour for a family. My dear child, always ba true to such a great memory. Eleven students are now preparing for the priesthood in St. Joseph's Seminary, Baltimore, Md. Their woTk is to be exclusively among the coloured people in the United States. Plans hare been drawn for a new seminary to accommodate sixty students. The Epiphany Apostolic College, also in charge of the Josephite Fathers, Baltimore, reports fifty-two students. The Supreme Court of Ottawa has rendered judgmant unanimously, holding that the Catholics of Manitoba can maintain their separate schools. The decision is to the effect that the Public Sohool Act passed by the Manitoba legislature prejudically affected the rights and privilege* of Catholics in respect to their system of denominational schools, and therefore violated the Act admitting Manitoba into the union. The Annie Dominioaine for November relates the cure of a laysister, Sister Julienne, at the Dominican Convent at La Oh&tre (Indre) by means of the Salve Regina and the Rosary, after a fall downstairs which was followed by the gravest consequences, tuber. cnlosis having supervened. The patient was almost at the point of death, and the cure, described by Father Xavier Faucher, 0.P., was instantaneous at the moment the word " Maria " of the anthem was chanted on Sunday, September 13th, the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary. Over thirty-two French Bishop* have expressed their determination to support Mgr. Gouthe-Soulard, Archbishop of Aix, in hit attitude towards the Government. All the French Cardinals, with the exception of Mgr. Bernadou, Archbishop of Sens, have a'fo written to him congratulating him upon his recent action. The Bey Aug. Muller, S.J., has appealed in behalf of the Leper Asylum established by him at MaD galore, in which there are at present some forty lepars. Father Muller is pursuing an interesting experiment. The patients are subjected to wh»t is known as the Mattei treatment, and it is claimed by some visitors who hive seen the results at Mangalore, that it is a valuable specific foi leprosy. Father Muller's present appeal is for funds to enlarge the hospital,

and provide accommodation for the many new cases applying for admission. The Archbishops and Bishops of Austria, who have just held their annual conference, have eigned a joint pastoral letter in which they point oat that the Holy Father cannot enjoy spiritual independence without tampoial power. The letter condemns the irreligious tendencies of the age, and inculcates on the faithful that they should tend their children to none but Catholic schools. It also recommends the founding of a Catholic university. Amongst the fellowships lately given away in Oxford are twoone in Magdalen and one in Corpus— which went to Catholic members of the University. Tha curious point about this is (the London correspondent of the Glasgow Herald points out) that these two are the first Catholics elected to Fellowships since the Reformation, except the appointments of James 11, to Magdalen. There were, prior to this, it is true, two Fellows who were Catholics, and both distinguished men ; but they joined Catholicism after their election as Fellows. A case of alleged stigmatieation is reported from Louisville, U.S.A. Mrs Mary Stuckanberg, of St Cdcilia street, a convert, the wife of an artisan, is stated by a correspondent of the New York Herald to have bad her hands, feet, and side impressed with the stigmata: Since Maj, she suffers every Friday in these wounds the pains of crucifixion. An investigation, attended by Dr John A. Ouchterlooy , one of tha leading physicians of Kentucky, and a Catholic, was held on Friday, September 25 th. During the trance-like state into which she falls about 3 o'clock \nd remains about five hours, she presents all the usual phenomena of stigmatisatiou. Neither the physician or priest have been able to detect anything like fraud. Vicar-General Bouchet and Father Buffo, of St Charles Borromeo's, are reported as declaring that there is no doubt as to the extraordinary nature of the manifestations, and expressing their belief that Mrs Stuckenberg is perfectly sincere. The case is the subject of a semi-official investigation by the priests of the diocese of Louisville, with the sanction of the Vicar-General. The alleged stigmatica is about 25, and has no children. The new General of the Dominicans, Moßt Rev Francis Andrew Fruhwirth, was born in Styria, at Sainte Anne-sur-I'Aigen, near Feeing, not far from tbe Hungarian frontier, on August 21, 1845. His eldest brother is a secular priest at Hartberg, in the diocese of Seckatx. He received his early education in the Petit Seminaire of Grai, received the habit September 13, 1863, wbb professed on September 13, 1864, went to the Minerva College, Rome, in 1868, and after bis return to Grai was in 1872 made simultaneously Sub-Prior, Procurator and Lector. In 1876 he was elected Prior of the Vienna Convent before he had completed his thirty-first year, He was reelected in 1879, and on April 20, 1880, was named Provincial of Austria, and during his four years tenure of that office so rose in the estimation of the Nunciature and in Ministerial circles as to be on the point of being named Bishop of Gurk (Elagenf urt). Cardinal Ganglbauer, Prince-Bishop of Vienna, nominated him Consistorial Counsellor for Matrimonial Causes. In 1889 he was, for the third time, made Prior of Vienna, and on April 21, 1891, for the second time nominated Provincial. His election to tbe highest office in the Order, that of Master-General, took place on September 19. On Friday, November 6, the Council of St Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society held its half-yearly meeting at Herbert Hou9e, Belgrave-sqaare, London. The Marquis of Ripon presided. A long and animated discussion took place about the Maori mission in New Zealand, and the secretary was reminded that bis report contained no reference to that mission. The reply was that he fully expected that his Lordship Bishop Luck would be present to give them an account of wbat was actually being done out there. Lady Herbert stated that she had recently received letters from a friend travelling in New Zealand, who spoke enthusiastically of the good work being done out there by the few missionaries, who are overtaxed. It was stated that a tribe of nearly 2,000 Maoris had asked for instruction, and were only waiting t he i arrival of a " black-robe" (missionary) to instruct and receive them into the Church. The Bishop of Salfohd replied that negotiations had being going on for some time between Bishop Luck and himself, that he had journeyed to Rome specially on the mattery but that he regretted to say that there were still some difficulties to be cleared out of the way before any more missionaries could be pent out. The Bishop of Emmaus, Colonel Giles, Canon Bamber and others having spoken in favour of sending out more missionaries with as little delay »b possible, tbe chairman, Lord Ripon, proposed the following resolution : " That the Biabpp of Auckland be informed that the council is most anxious to meet bis wishes, and will do its best if the necessity arises, to collect the funds to enable it to do so.'' The resolution was seconded by the Bishop of Emmaus and carried unanimously. In thk course of an appreciative article on the canonization of /■the Blessel Louise de Mar iliac, who in connection with St Vincent de Paul, founded the Order of the Sisters of Charity, the London Daily Telrgraph of Friday, November 20, payß the following graceful tribute to the noble work of these devoted nuns : " Probably neither St Viacent de Paul nor his gentle assistant ever thought that the institution which they founded would become cosmopolitan in its

attributes and its influence, and that from the central home in Paris, established on the moat modest of lines, there would be tent forth detachments of Sisters of Charity to the uttermost ends of tha world. Wherever pain and misery and wretchedness afflict humanity, there are these blessed women to be found— really beatified during their lives, since they earn tbe benedictions of those whom they have tended and succoured. In hospitals and prisons, on the battle-field and on board ship, in the haunts of fever and pestilence, the Sister of Charity is always to be found, and her snowy veil and wimple are as so many white doves which fleck the gloom of the Valley of the Shadow of Death." Yet there are bigots who are continually endeavouring to thwart and reader abortive tho mission of these angels and ministers of grace.