The Irish standard., 1888-07-28
CATHOLIC NEWS.
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
Cardinal Gibbons is taking two
weeks vacation in North Carolina.

Cardinal Gibbons is taking two
weeks vacation in North Carolina.
On Sunday, July Is, the corner stone
of the new Catholic church at Lake
Linden, Mo-, was laid.
Wednesday a week ago was the
eighteenth anniversary OF the didni-
ton OF tae Dogma of the Infalilbllity
Of the Pope.
Rev. Father Sully, S, j., succeeds
Rev. Thomas Campbell, s. j., the new
provincial of the Jeslits, as president
Of St. Johns College. Fordham, n. Z.
Rev. Father Fulton, S. j., late pro.
yincial, has been appointed president of
Boston College and pastor Of the Church
of the Immaculate Conception in that
city.
st. Mary's parish, Rockford. Ill, is
taking steps to organize parochial
school. Father Murphy has made ap-
ipeaIs 70 his parishioners to contribute
funds.
Brother Joseph, project Of st. Jo
seph's Commercial College, St. Joseph,
Mo-. has besn lying dangerously il! with
paralysis for three weeks past, and it is
doubtful if he will permanently recov-
81.
Rey. 6. Wuelfiing, D. D., of Rox
bury, Wis, Will be added to the staff
Of Professors Of Mt. Sc. Mary's OF the
West, Cincinnati, on the re~opening Of
Che Seminary next September after the
summer vacation.
Rev. John Mccain of the diocese of
Down and Connor, ireland, who was in
this country on collecting tour. died
suddenly the other day at Philadelphia.
Heart disease is supposed to have been
the trouble.
Cardinal Gibbons is said to be the
favorite Of English, German and Rus
sian cardinals for the highest office in
the Church when the present Pope
Leo dies, An American Pope would
be q decided innovation.
The Church is pushing for the open
regions of the Upper Congo. The Por~
tugese steamers recently carried from
twenty to thirty Jesuit priests and nuns
to labor in Africa for the prODagatiOn
OF the faith.
The nun who nursed Emperor Fred
erick in the last days Of his illness be-
longs to the order of St. Charles Barro-
meo, which has q house at Potsdam.
Her na mo in religion is Sister Hedwige;
in the world she was Princess Radzi
will
Rev. Charles M. Piccir.illo, S. j.,
prefect OF studies and professor OF Sa.
cred Scripture at the College of the Sa~
cred Heart of Jesus at Woodstock,
Nd, died at the college recently. after
lingering illness, OF a complication OF
diseases.
In consequence OF the Liberal vio-
tory in the Rome municipal elections,
several Of the cardinals are urging the
Pope to adopt a more corciliatOry at
titude toward the Italian Government,
and to give authority TO Catholic voters
to take part in political elections.
Rev. Dr.. Clea,y, lately returned from
a second visit 10 Rome, will become
Archbishop Of Toronto and the head
of the ecclesiastical council os the Cath
olic Church in the province. He is not
the senior, but Bishop Walsh, Of Lon
don, declines the Archbishopric.
1he Catholic Home OF Chicago says
that the Freenan's $ Journal and Catho-
lie Review OF New York, and New
York itself, are all secretly working
against She success OF the Catholic Uni
versily. Cause, Jealousy that Washing
ton was preferred to Gotham as the site
Of the university.
The Golden Rose has been sent by
special messenger to Brazil, and will be
presented to the Princess Regent by
tbs Nuncio Apostolic in the name of
the Holy Father. We sincerely pray
that by next year England slaYes in the
Island OF Saints will be liberated, and
that the is'olden Rose may be sent by
the Holy Father to O'Brien or Dillon.
At Holy Cross College. commence
ment day, runnor was current to the
effect that Rev. z. j. Garrigan, Of
Fitchburg, Mass, had been offered the
yice-yectorship OF thu new American
Catholic University at Washington.
The rrmor has since been further con-
tirme<I. Father Garrigan has been Of
fered, aud the probabilities are that he
will accept the position.
Twenty years ago there was neither
priest nor monk in Wyoming Territory.
There mayhave been few Catholics, for
Catholics can be found everywhere; but
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