The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-06-30
CATHOLIC NEWS.
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

RELIGIOUS NOTES.
Mgr Cecc,ni, Archbishop of Flor
ence. is dead.
There is rumor that Bis shop Clifford
Of Clifton, England, will be made Z
Cardinal
The Pope will soon issue an import.
ant encyclical, dealing with the true
and false in liber y.
Count Moltke-Huitfeldt, minister
plenipotentia of Denmark, in Paris
has been received into the Catholic
Church. The conversion of the head
of the chapter of the Lutheran cathe-
dral at Copenhagen is also announced.
The 215th anniversary of the discoy
cry OF the Upper Mississippi River by
Pere Marquette was celebrated Satur-
DAY, June 16, by the Davenport, Iowa.
Academy of Ma ural Sciences. An his
torica} grafton Was delivered By j. NJ.
Dearmond and appropriate papers
read,
On July 10, Father Schmittdiel, rec
tor at St.. MicEael's Church Monroe,
Mich, will celebrate the twenty-fifth
anniversary Of his ordination to the
priesthood. The same day will COM
plete q passionate at st. Michael's COW
ering quarter of century, he having
been appointed it's rector upon being
ordained.
The Archbishop of Paris has refused
TO allow Verdi's requiem to be given
in Notre Dame on the ground that la
dies Of the opera would sing in it. The
Archbishop Of Dublin, DR.. Cullen, af-
terward Cardinal, some years ago in
vited a whole italian opera troupe en-
gagged at the old Theatre Royal to sing
in the cathedral choir, and five s}lllings
was the entrance fes.
Irish American Catholics are always
generous toward their church, and their
generosity has nothing selfish about it,
either, as wltnessSt Anthonv's Church,
in New York, which was dedicated
with great pomp recently by Arch
bishop Gorrigan. The congregation is
overwhelmingly Italian, but the church
was largely paid for by the contribu-
tions of Irish American Catholics in
other parts of Gotham.
There is great excitement in the
Catolic world over Che PRONUNCIATION of
the new criminal code OF Italy. which,
if rigidly enforced TO It's letter, might
result in imprisonment or exile Of the
Pope. This code is explicit in it's re-
quirement that all ecclesiasties shall in
no way interfere with politics or criti-
else in any way che acts Of the Govern
ment of Utnberto. Violations of this
act are to be punished by imprison-
ment for three months or year. There
is no possible exception made.
AT All audience granted by the Roly
Father to the pilgrimage from Lyons,
France, the pilgrims presented to his
Holiness several beautiful gifts, among
which were magnificent chaice and
an artistic py-z, which the Pope used
during the Mass he celebrated on the
Sunday following in the Sistine Chapel.
Another pilgrim presented to the Pope
100, 600 francs for the establishment OF
{. Chair OF Philosophy, to be called the
ssChalr of Leo. Kill" The same gem
tleman begged the Pope to give him his
white silk cap as a souvenir Of his pill
grimage. The Holy Father graciously
complied With the request, and then
the gentleman presented him with a
new one.
We don't know whether any Of our
readers remember MI address delivered
in 1S43 by john Quincy Adams, Of
Massachusetts,, on the occasion OF the
laying Of the cornerstone of the Gin
cinnati Observatory. That great ora
LOl T6ulaIhS Oh tilo CCCCSlOl CAluO tAS
observatory shoald be "a beacon Of
true science that could never be OBJ
scured by the dark shadows Of super
stition and intolerance synbolized by
the popish Cross" He expressed his
hope that the Gross would never be
seen on those heights, And now-such
is the irony of circumstances-the site
Of that observatory is the home of the
Pass1onist Fathers, whose religious
dress is conspicuous for a badge Of the
Gross, whose monastery is dedicated to
the Holy Cross, and surmounted, as all
monasteries are, by the emblem of SAL
walton. Not far from the convent is a
church served by the Fathers, which is
Dedicated to Mary Immaculate, and,
of course, cross-mounted.
A correspondent recently wrote to
the Irish Ecclesiastical Record, inquir-
ing as to the extent OF the obligation to
give to children at Baptism only names
OF saints. 1t was asked also if the be-
stowal Of such names as Sheridan"