The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-08-17
asoroIng Star and Catholic messenger.
noMEsr1c CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE.
ANOTHER CONVERSION.

ANOTHER CONVERSION. ~
We have lust received the particulars of
another conversion to CathnIcity. wafer
Ross, Esq q member of the ritnalistic
branch of the Episcopnlan denomination,
was received into the Catholic Church by
the Right Rev. Thomas Foley, ID. d.,
Bishop of Chicago. Mr.. Ross belongs to
an old Pennsy lvania family of distinction
in the legal circles of our State, and, we
are informed, is u cousin of the Hon. Judge
Ross, of Norristown, Pa. He is himself
well rcad scholar both in secular and in
sacred learning. lie first studied law, and
was n member ofs the Philadelphia bar.
Subsequently he studied theology in the
celebrated Episcopal Seminary of Nasir"-
tab, Waukesha County, Wisconsin.-PhR-
ade1phia Standard.
BENEVOLENT REQUESTS.
On Teusday last, the will of the late Mr..
John McCourt, was filed and admitted to
probate in the Orphans Court. Among
the benevolent requests made by the tes-
tator, there is one in favor oil st. Mary's
Orphan Asylum, Oh Franklin street, and an
other in favor of ST. Nincents Male Orphan
ASYLUM ON Front street. To each of these
excellent institutions the deceased gives
5000, the interest per annum alone to be
used.-Baltimore Mirror.
AN ENTERING WEDGE.
From the Cincinnati Telegraph
The report of the proceedings of the
Councilmen of this city, contains the fol-
lowing important resolution
Catholic C1e,gymsn for the House of Refuge
Mr.. Mcintyre introduced the following reso-
Whereas, 1t is q well known fact that all
Catholic children confined i'll tho House of
men Of their faith;
Whereas, The conscences of snch Children
are thus violated, because the law of the
Church to which they belong requires such in
structon; and
Whereas The deprivation aforesaid is vi
olation of the Constitution of the State, which
secures 90 all liberty of conscience; therefore
" ResoRred, That Catholic olergymen be per-
'mitted to give religious instruction to Catho-
lie children confined in the House of Refuge
at such times and as often MS instruction is
given to non Catholic children by Protestant
Clergymen." Resolution adopted.
We are grateful to this portion of the
legislature of the city for their prompt and
just action to remove the stigma of reli
.gious tyranny from public institution.
After delay of twenty years, the bolts of
bigotry which excluded Catholic priests
from this place, are being drawn, and there
is promise to Catholic children, that there
will DO the same free access accorded
to them, as has always been granted to re-
presentives and teachers of the Protestant
religion. Our agitation of this shameful
denial of religious freedom to Catholics,
has not been truitless. The grievance was
undeniabe, and the Councilmen by their
unanimous vote to blot out this foul ipj US
tice, have done themselves honor. Our
appeal for religious equality has met with
aresponse which Catholics will not soon
forget, and of which, when an opportunity
comes, they will not fail to show full ap-
probation. The bolts that shut out SO
long, from the House of Refuge, all Cath
Ole instruction, may not yield softly and
readily to this first pressure of law which
has been brought to bear upon them. They
have grown stiff and rusty by their many
years of disuse. But the next meeting of
the Aidermanc body, to whom this resolu
ton will be presented, is expected by it's
approval to add to it the force of law, which
the officials of this juvenile prison will be
compelled to obey. 1t now remains with
the Alderman to swing tho doors wide
open, that the Catholic children may re-
ceive all the instruction, and attend at that
form of religious worship, which con-
science demands. We look for the same
unanimty on their part, as the Couucllmen
exhibited at their last session. Cincinnati
can then be pointed to as the centre of re-
ligious as well as of political reforms.