The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-09-15
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RELIGIOUS NOTES.
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Ss 81 Boston's thirty fourth Catholic
! church is being built.
4 # There are now about $50 Sisters Of
Mercy in the Diocese of Hartford
Conn.,.
Nicola, Iowa. population sOO) is build.
ing a brick and stone church to cost $40.
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Iniyouth one has tears without grief
in old age, grief witout tears.--Abbie
Roux.
Pope Leo has ordered the observance
of September 80 as a day for special
prayers and expiation.
TITS an effect of Gods mercy not to
deliver us wholly. from temptations and
nperfections.- st. Bernard.
Rt. Rev. Mgr. Preston has been ele~
waited to the rank Of Parliamentary
Apostolic by the Holy Father.
Mother Pancratia, for twenty years
past connected with st. Mary's Acad.
envy, Denver, has been recalled to Ken
lucky.
Council Bluffs, Iowa. has now two
beautiful churches costing $4,000 and
$4,000 each, and is now building new
hospital.
The Pope, assisted by Abbott Pessuts
as editor, is writing history of Rome
in the middle ages. Particular atten-
ton will be paid to the period of Greg
orY the Great.
w. J. Onahan is in Washington, and
rumor says if change is to be made in
the Chicago post office, Mr.. Onahan's
chance Of being made postmaster are
very good.
The safe conservatism which ever
moves lest it fail, i abhor; it is the dry
rot in the Church. and my heart goes
out to the man who never tolerated it
in his calculations. Safe conservatism
would have left the Apostles in Pales
tiEe.--Archbishop Ireland.
Meriden, Ct. has followed Boston's
example and thrown s.Swinton's Out
lines" out of the public schools, and the
Catholic pupils of Lowell protest
against any further use Of the lying
textbook in the schools OF that city.
Swinton has evidently got to go, de-
spite all the efforts of fanatics and
bigots to retain him.
The Papal consistory that was to
have been held this month has been
postponed until November. Several
new cardinals, among them the Pope's
major-domo, Mgr. Macchi, will then be
created. The new bishops of the
United States will be preconized, and
lis expected that the vacant Canadian
sees will be filed.
Mr.. Oswald Ottendorfer, the editor
Of the Stats Zeitung, has offered the
Sisters of the Sacred Heart of New
York. recently burned out, the free use
for year of his handsome property on
Western boulevard, covering two
blocks. There are two large houses
one of stone and one of wood, on the
premises, which the Sisters think will
be spacious enough TO accommodate
their $50 pupils.
Rev. Cure Sentenue, of Notre Dame,
Montreal, recently, urging on the moth
or the necessity OF teaching their daugh.
tiers all kinds of housework, said:
.sTeach them to become good house, |
wives, to be able to manage a house
hold. to cook, and to make and mend
clothes Ii women were wiser, if they
had received an education. more Chris
tian, more in conformity with the ne
cessities OF live, how many husbands
would be better and more devoted to
their families. which would to-day be
happy instead of being plunged in mis-
cry"
1t was announced lately that, through |
the influence of Queen Margaret of |
Savoy, the venerable sanctuary near
the Quirinal containing the room in
which st. Stanislaus Kostka lived and
died. was preserved from the destruc-
ton with which the building was
threatened in order to make room for
royal counts The same privilege, how
ever, is not to be extended to the little
chapel adjacent, which is consecrated
to the Blessed Virgin, and in which
Leo XIII. said his first Mass. 1t is re-
ported that the destruction Of this sa-
cred edifce will take place before the
close of the year. At the same time
these modern improvers ~ will destroy
all that portion Of the building through
which communication was made be-
tween the room of st. Stanlslaus and
the neighborlng Church of st. Andrew,
wherein the body Of the holy novice
rests.
"A friend who made pilgrimage to
Knock on the Feast of the Assumption
informs us that thousands of pilgrims
were there from America. Australia,
France, Spain. England, Scotland and
all ,,orto nf Tro1an1 The QnnrnachoS To |