The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-12-26

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| IN Carlow, ireland, in 1918, and went to Texas
IN l.1i. lie was most devout and Jealous
| Catholic. =.
Rev. Father Gesen, c. SIS. r, passed through
Catholic of the l9th) en- route to New Orleans.
| lie was in excellent health, and promises to
return to Texas for missionary work early in
January.
The Redemptorist Fathers Keitz, Cook, En-
right, Grain. Eberhardt, and Shagemann have
| just concluded grand Mission at St. Patrick .
Church, Chicago Rev. P. J. Conway, pastor.
verts, and Rt. Rev. Bishop Foley administered
the Sacraments to 447 candidates.
| Noses Fowler, Esq, of Lafay cite, Indiana,
although not Catholic, has donated half a
! section of the finest land in the world joiuipp
the town of Fowler, for Benedctine con vent
| and college. The lands donated are worth
S2506O. The Abbeys of ST. Boniface, Munich
Bavaria; and st. Meinrad, Ind, will unite in
the establishment OF this ne W foundation.
At the Church of the Annunciation, in Hous
ton, on yesterday, Bishop Dubuis received the
professions OF Sisters Stanislas and Elizabeth.
We regret that it is impossible for us to give
| the particulars in this issue of the Catholic,
bnt will do so in the next issue. One of these
ladies was born in Ireland; the other, Sister
| Elizabeth, was reared by the good Sisters of
the lncarna:e "orG in this soity.-GdirCstOn Ca.
| ttolic, 18Th.
Cathedral building is going on very actively
! in America at the present time. To say poth-
| ing of the New York Cathedral, which, COM
gress, fine new cathedral is being built by
| Bishop Gross, at Savannah, which will cost
$500, coo. The corner stone of a new cathedral
at Erie, Pa, to cost $50 600 was laid lately by
| Bishop Mullen. The cathedral at Boston was
dedicated by Archbishop Williams on Decem-
ber 9th, and the foundation of a new cathedral
I for the diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, will
be laid this fall.
Father James Gore, who has for a number of
| years hsen an assistant pastor of St. Francis
Church, for coloIed people, has been ordered
to Charleston. On Sunday evening, the 2sJh
| nit, he preached his farewell sermon, alluded
in feeling terms to his sojourn in this city, and
said that he would carry with him to his new
! mission none hut the most pleasant Tecollec-
tions. The entire congregation deeply
moved, and sobs were heard on all sides. All
! greatly regret the loss of the Rev. gentleman,
who during his stay had endeared himself to
the CONGRATULATIONS Mirror, Dec. 13
One of the finest religious edfices in the
State of Vermont is the Roman Catholic church
| at Rutland, erected hy Rev. Father Boylan at
a cost of $12O,OOO. In Burlington, Vicar Cen
eral Lynch is erecting convent for the Sisters
| of Mercy. Rev. P. OCarro11 has built a very
! neat church at Earhaven, at q cost of S45 600.
Rev. P. Cunningham, pastor of Middlebury,
has invested abont the same amount in SINH
| lar manner in Vergennes, and Rev. Henry
Land of BrattteborOugh, has his hands full in
providing school accom- modation for the youth
full portion of his flock who were xpelled from
the public schools a year ago for absence on a
church festival
A Brooklyn correspondent of the Tribune
says: Catholics establishing parochia
schools with marvellous rapdity, and soon
they will have all their children under Catho-
lie tuition. The statistics of 1874 show that
they bad then $4,000 children attending the
parochial schools of Brooklyn and ~ 600 those
of New York, and ope-third of a million those
of the United States. The question of taxa
tion is growing serious. Is 1T fair to use the
money of Catholics for the support of schools
from which they derive less and less benefit
| and from which they are determined to with
draw absolutely as soon as possblef This is
| the coming query which must unquesti onably
be some day met and settled at the ballot-boz."
"Why should not Catholics" says the A,e
Maria, - take an interest in Catholic affairs 7
| Many of them do not seek for Catholic news
] do not interest themselves in the church at
| home CT throughout the world-do not know
| what Catholic enterprises are afoot in their
| nidst-and think they do enough for religion
| by subscribing something when solicited. This
| Indifference particularly infects those whom
God has blessed with prosperity. They are
Catholics. But their chief aim is to make their
Catholicity aid or at least not hurt them in their
business. They never think of being prominent
in any project of charity or Piety. They seldom
| INQUIRE of their pastor whether he needs help
for the poor and the orphans he must relieve.
! The question with them is not how to help, bnt
how to keep from being asked to help. Often
| they hold themselves studionsly RlOof from
participation in what interests the Catholic
body"
The New York Tablet, of last week, announces
the death of Dr. Henry J. Anderson, President
OF the Superior COUNCIL society 81. vincent De
Paul. New York and also Of the Catholic Pro
tectory Society He died in India while
making tour of the world. Dr. Anderson
was one of the most Jealous, intelligent and
cultivated Catholic laymen in America, and
| his death will prove an irreparabte loss to the
Catholic works and charities of New York.
The New York Uorld contains the following
brief notice of the Doctor:
| Professor Henry James Anderson died at
Lahore, East Indies, October 10, of a diarrh ga,
| after Rn illness of three days. He was born in
] this city in 1929. In 1919 be entered Column bia