The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-05-12
CATHOLIC NEWS.
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

RELIGIOUS NOTES.
The Archbishop of Paris will bt
among the next creations of cardinals
A handsome monument has beer
erected in the Catholic cemetery Of
Des Moines in memory of Fathe,
John T. BRAZIL.
Four colored Sisters of Charity ar.
rived from Baltimore, Md, the other
day to take charge of the colored
orphan asylum at Kansas City.
Rev. A. J. Wagner, for many years
pastor of St, Patrick's church in Tolana,
ILL.,. has been assigned by Bishop J.
Spaulding to take charge of St. Mary's
church in Champaign to succeed Rev.
I. s. Heating, who goes to Ottawa, to
fill the vacancy created by the appoint
ment of Father Ryan to the bishopric
of Alton.
The Pope last Friday received a party
ofSpanish pilgrims. 1t was expected
that the audience would be made the
occasion for Carlist demonstration
but nothing Of the kind occurred. The
Pope, in his address to the pilgrims,
highly praised the Queen regent and
exhorted all political parties in Spain
not to disturb the general concord ex-
listing in their country.
A we'll known Anglican clergyman,
MIR. Rivington, has become Catholic.
He was a member of the Society Of
"Cowley Fathers and was formerly
stationed at Philadelphia. He was re-
ceiyed into the Church Oh Easter Sun
day at Rome. An old friend having
written to him lately to inquire wheth-
er or not the report was accurate that
he had become convert, he answered
that it was true and that his one regret
was that he had not done SO years ago.
The colored people Of St. Paul will
have the pleasure ofa church for them,
through the Jealous efforts of Bishop
Ireland. There are many Catholics
among the negroes OF our city, who
have come here from the Catholic parts
OF the South. The whole colored race
besides will now hav. q chance of hear
ing the teaching Of tie Catholic Church
from one of their own priests. She has
ever been the friend If the cOlored PEG.
pie, repeatedly condemned the slave
trade, and in the various plenary coun-
ellis, held in Baltimore. has shown g
tender solicitude for their welfare. In
the last council over which Cardinal
Gibbons presided, and Of which Bishop
Ireland was so distinguished an orna-
ment, the Catholic Church set apart the
first Sunday in Lent as day On which
a collection should be taken up in every
church in the United States in order to
furnish the means necessary for the
evangelization of the colored race. In
opening in St. Paul a church for che
ceiored people Bishop Ireland is only
carrying out the divine 1niunctions,
eco and leach all nations The old
Swedenborgian church on Market
street, between Fourth and Fifth, has
been secured. 1t has been thoroughly
renovated, provided with chairs. has
an altar erected III it and It's platform
neatly carpeted in red. The electric
light. for the first time introduced III
church in st. Paul, is quite All interest
ing feature If the improvements, The
mission is under the patronage of St.
Peter Clayer, a Spaniard, who spent
forty years III laboring the negroes Of
South America, thus winning his
crown Of charity, The SERVICE will. be
conducted by Rev. J. f. Slattery. presi-
dent Of st. Joseph's seminary, Balti-
more-an institution in which young
leyites will be prepared to labor among
the colored people.