The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-03-29

hundred thondSnd; Algiers. two hundred
ami thirty Thousand; the independent negro
three tlioceses Egypt, in the two dioceses Of
Alexandria and Cairo, thirty Thousand the
Cape, twelve thousand; Tunis, fifteen thou
sand; Tripoli, three thousand five hundred ;
Morocco, seventeen Thousand the bishOpric of
st. Thomas, on the Gulf of Guinea thirteen
| Thousand the Apostolic Prefecture of St.
Lonis, in Senegambia, ten thousand; and the
newly erected PREFECTURE Of Senegal, in West
Africa, three hundred souIs. IS
australia has Catholie population of four
millions, with twenty-one Dishoprics. New
Holland and Van Diemans Land have three
hundred and twenty-five thousand Catholics in
nine dioceses, and the remaining Australian
islands, ninety Thousand in eight dioceses. The
metropolises of these seventeen bishoprics is
Sydney.
The extent of the dioceses differ considerably
Twenty-six have a population Of more than a
million Mexico more than two millions seven
dioceses have between half a million and a
million three hundred and seventy-seven be-
tween one hundred and five hundred thousand;
the remainder less than one hundred thou
sand-lndeed, some have less than one Thousand
souls.
+ The two oldest bishops are the Bishop of Rio
Janeiro and the Archbishop Of Freiburg, both
above ninety. The youngest is the Bishop OF
V1ch, IN Spain, whose age is twenty-six.S
The total number of secular priests is about
three hundred and twenty-five thousand, of
whom two hundred and sixty thousand live in
Europe. Italy has one hundred and fifteen
one thousand eight hundred, Germany thirty
Thousand, the British Isles four thousand.
The ecclesiastical orders and religious con-
gregatiOns have eight Thousand houses for men,
with one hundred and twenty thousand men,
beers. The female orders have one hundred and
sixty Thousand members. Next to Europe.
converts. Those Of North America contain
more than ten Thousand inmates; South
America has number equally great Asia 10
represented by four thousand; Africa and AUS
troll fnrpn fbx.r OBJ A.
The Catholic Church counts two hundred
milliOnsof Catholics; the Protestant confession
about seventy millions. The countries OF the
German Confederation lin 1867 had twenty
fom million four Thousand Catholics, and
twenty million nine hundred and ninety-two
thousand eight hundred Professionals.
Ihe Greek schism has thirty millions of adj
herelts. OF other Christians there about
fifteen millions. In the whole world there are
about seven millions of Jews. of whom, three
hundred and titty-three thousand live in Aus
tria, two hundred and eighty-four thousand in
Prussia, and one hundred and ninety two thon-
sand IN other States at Germany. The world
seventy millions of Mahometans and
rom seven to eight hundred millions of hea-
thens.
-. The -Ecumenical Council has Interested not
only Catholics, but schismatics and heretics.
Several bishops of the Greek Church have
written from Constantinople to the Pope,~ex-
pressing their wish to take part in future coun-
cils and some of the High Church Unionists
have done the same. OF course, their request
that they cease to be schisrnatic or hereto, and
subject themselves utterly, entirely to the
Catholic Church.
communication from Rome states that a
MONK Father Curci, who enjoys some reputa-
ton in Italy for eloIuence, recently insinliated
i'll sermon that the Emperor Napoleon was
acting hypoeritically in the services rendered
to the Holy See.~A painful sensation WAS in
created in Rome, and the French
Ambassador had conversation with Cardinal
Antonelli on the subject. The Roman Secre-
tary OF State at once declared that the Pope
had already administered a severe reprnand.
The London Standard of FEBRUARY 20 says that
% 1t Will be remembered that the Bishop of
London stated in the Upper House of Convoca-
ton, on Tuesday, that two of the clergy Of his
diocese had announced to him their intention
to sece<le to the Roman Communion. We I'M
derstand that the clergymen referred to are the
Rev. Messrs. Akers and Hammond, two of the
curates OF the parish of st. GeOrge's-in- the
East"
The France maintains that overtuxes have
been Llade to Cardinal AnteneH respecting the
establishment of the post of the Papal Nnncio
at Berlin. Cardinal Antonelli neither objected
nor assented to these overtures, but brought
forward certain objections arising from the ex-
ceptional position Of the Catholics in the Duchy
of Posen.
The parish of Savonnieres has been visited
by an epidemic which has carried OFT many VIC
Tins. The Archbishop Frejus has been indie
the dying, and has himself personally visited
the sick, administering to them such help as
was needed
N. Holzapfel Arch-Priest of Reifuitz, lately
deceased, has bequeathed a princely patrimc-
NAL fortune of seventy thousand farms for the
foundation of an institution for the deaf and
dumb in the Duchy of Carnola -,.-~
THE PORE ON FEMALE EDUcAT1oN.-The
Pope has addressed a brief to NJ. Dupan-
loup, Bishop of Orleans, complimenting
that prelate on the position he has taken up
with respect to the education of girls.
One of the plans which these writer's in
their cynical daring have adopted, is to
pervert the youth In order the better to at
tain their object, which is the ruin of re-
igion and authority. They are now carry
ing out this plan most perseveringly, either
by corrupting education or by insidions al |