The Irish standard., 1886-12-04
CATHOLIC NEWS.
Church Notes.

cost 81, 100000.
The new parochial school at Amber,
Pa, was opened Nov. Is.
Georgetown College, D. c., will cele-
brate it's centenary in 1889.
Redemptorist Fathers are giving a
mission in St. Joseph's Church, Somer
vile, Mass.
The new St. Mary's Church, Paw
tucket, r. l., will be dedicated on
Christmas Day.
The holy season of Advent began last
Sunday. ALI the Fridays of Advent are
fasting days Of obligation.
The Church of Our Lady Of the
Springs, at Hot Springs, Ark, will be
opened on Christmas Day.
Dominican Nuns from Racine, Wis,
have established a convent and acad-
emy in Pocahontas, Ark.
In Mexico the first thing usually done
by society after it's first organization
is to purchase burial-ground for the
members.
At one time in Washington, Ind
there were eleven Catholics engaged
in the saloon business now there are
but three.
The new Church OF st. Anthony, Wy
andotte, Kansas, was dedicated on
Sunday, November Z, by the Rt. Rev.
Bishop Fink.
ST. Mary's Church, New Albany, KY,
is nearly completed, at a cost of $26, 600.
1t WAS opened for public services on
Sunday, Nov. Fl.
The annual convention of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union of the diocese
Of Springfield, was held at North Ad-
ANS, Mass, Nov. rs.
Bishop Lalleche, Of Montreal, has is
sued a pastoral condemning the Riel
agitation and placing the Liberal organ,
La Sentinelle, under ban.
On Sunday, Nov. Is, the temporary
chapel of St. Anthony of ,Padua, at
Gray's Ferry, Philadelphia, Pa, was
opened with solemn services.
The 1T. Rev. Bishop Hennessy re-
Gently dedicated new church at Storm
Lake, Iowa. The altar, which cost
$500, is the gift Of q nom Catholic.
Six of the students at the college Of
the Church Of the Assumption, SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, were received into the
franciscan order of priests recently.
On Sunday, November %, Dominican
Fathers, under the direction of the Rev.
FL. -McI<enna, opened a Jubilee mission
in St. Vincent's Church, South Boston.
An addition is being built to ST. Ter
esa's Church, at Summit, N. j., the
Rev Father Vassallo, rector. The di-
nlensions Of the new building are 48x30
feet
The annual Charity Ball in aid of the
Home for Destitute Catholic Children,
will be held in Boston about the middle
Of February next, just before Ash We'd
nesday.
The new parochial school connected
with St. Patrick's Church, Hyde Park,
Pa, was opened December l. Sisters Of
the Immaculate Hearty of Mary will be
the teachers.
The first book review in periodical
ever written in the world was written
by Jesuit. Father Chietiet was the re-
viewer, and his journal, the first ever
issued, was the Journal des Sayants.
The Young Mems Catholic Associa-
tiation, of Boston College, has secured
the services OF the Boston Star Quar-
tette Club, to give an entertainments,
one of the semi-monthly course, in Bos
ton College Hall, on January Is.
The now St. Mary's school building,
erected at cost Of nearly $4,000, at
Michigan City, Ind, was dedicated the
week before last by Dean Oechtering,
Of the diocese. a large number of
priests took part in the exercises.
AT a meeting Of infdels, held in New
York recently, Col. Bob Ingersoll, who
presided, called one Of the delegates a
damned liar" Now, as Bob doesn't
believe in hell, what died he mean by
the expression? Or did he not, by that
expression, tacitly admit the existence
of hell?
It does not take long to make a for
tune in Catholic journalism; at least
we conclude that it doesn't from the
fact that within a few weeks three
Catholic papers which had been in ex-
istence few years, ceased publication,
their owners doubtless retiring with fat
bank accounts. Next Boston Re-
public.
Sister Euphemia and Scholastica, of
the Congregation of the Holy Cross,