The Irish standard., 1886-07-24
CATHOLIC NEWS.

Rev. s. Dooling, prefect of discipline
in St. Viateur's College, Illinois, visited
in Minneapolis and St. Paul recently.
The Rev. Father Joullet. late assist.
ant OF St. Cecelia's parish, Chicago, will
90 to Joliet and form new parish
from part of st. Mary's.
A new church is in the course of er-
ection at the corner Of Hoyne avenue
and Ambrose street in st. Paul's par
ish, Chicago. 1t will be 74x140 feet,
brick. with stone trimmings, gothic
style, and will cost in the neighborhood
OF 100000.
The committee in charge of the unfit
cation Of parochial school books has
about completed it's labors, and will, it
is understood, recommend the follow
ing: Saddler's Geography and United
States History, Harvey's Grammar,
Appleton's Hygiene and Physiology,
Spaulding's Bible History and De
Harbe's Cdtechism.
The magnificently wrought Golden
Rose which the Pope soleinnly blesses
every year on The fourth Sunday of
Lent. for bestowal on some Catholic
parsonage of royal blood as a mark of
his personal affection, or as token of
his recognition Of some good quality or
special merit in the recipient, has been
sent to Queen CHRISTINA, of Spain.
Some months ago Howard Kretsch-
mar, the sculptor, made known his in
tention OF presenting to the Chicago
Historical Society magnificent mar
ble bust Of Father de Smet, the famous
missionary, who was one Of the pion-
eers of illinois. The bust is now fiji
ished and viii soon adorn a niche i'll
gile rooms Of the society.
The bishops Of the Provincial Coun-
Gil of Milwaukee say well that during
the Middle Ages the Church organized
workingmen into guilds. and before the
sixteenth century the misery they now
endure was unknown" We have re-
peatedly asserted that the root of all
labor troubles is to be found in Pro-
testantism. A religion which mag
niies the present and minimiZes the
hereafter must necessarily prove a
nursing mother Of communism. WE est
ern Watchmazl.
1t is believed in Chicago that the
first Bishop Of Quincy will be either
Father Gilligan of St. Patrick's, or
Father Hodnett. of St. Malachi's, and
that the Bishop OF Belleville will be
either Father Kalvelage, OF St. Fran
cis' or Father Peter Fisher of St. An
thony's. Father Gllligan, one of the
prospective Bishops of Quincy, is a
young man scarcely IS years of age. He
was assistant 10 Father Conway, at ST
Patrick's, in Chicago. Father Hod-
nett is one OF the most learned and en-
terprising priests in the archdiocese
g,II; reputation as pulpit orator.
know nothing more touching
an the piety of the Irish poor for
their dead, and their traditionary
clinging to the sacred places of rest of
their ancestors. 1t may be true tn; Ill
their wakes there have been abuses,
which the zeal of the clergy has now
pretty we'll extirpated; there may have
been, occasionally, tumultuous scenes
of party conflicts at buria]s, which af-
ford good materials for writer's Of Irish
rolnances, fonder of mems frai]ties
than Of their virtues. But the long
and silent train that will for miles fol-
low the bier, and join in carrying it
despite of modern churchyard and
cemetery tempting on the way-to the
ruins of some abbey church. or the
green mound on the site Of an old
chapel; the respectful demeanor Of
every passer-by; the carelessness about
manner compared with the soljcitude
about place; the true Catholic SIM
plicity of the tombstone inscriptions
(still ever running in the old form,
.'Pray for the soul of ~---''); the care
for full Office, and months nind,'
and all anniversary on the part of tie
survivors,-these are evidences of a
Catholic land, edifying and consoling.
Ave Maria