The Irish standard., 1888-06-02
CATHOLIC NEWS.
RELIGIOUS NOTES,

Most Rev. Dr. McAllister, Bishop 0
Down and Conner, Ireland, has arrive'
in Rome.
Cardinal Gibbons has again urged tn
Vatican not to condemn Henry George
writings.
The Rev. Charles Wappenberg, S. j.
died at St. Xavier's College, Cincinnati
Tuesday, Nay Is.
1t is stated that Cardinal Manning i:
not we'll pleased with the visit of Mgr
Persico to the British Isles.
Father McFadden, whose sentence
was recently increased, is said to be one
of the ablest orators of the Irish priest.
hood.
Princess Marie, of Hoherzollern-
Hechjngen, died Of syncope Tuesday
May II, in the convent of OLIVIA at Dan.
tiZic.
The Emperor of Brazil did not find
time to call upon the Pope during his
stay in Rome, circumstance that gave
rise to considerable comment.
Sister Mary Francis Clare, the ''Nun
of Kenmare,'' who has been in the
South, is now on her way to New York
City, her health being restored.
There is rumor that Cardinal Man
ming IS to be made life peer. In our
opinion Cardinal Manning has too
much sense to accept the honorable"
title.
The Vatican has received dispatch
from the papal nuncio at Paris stating
that the disputes between France and
the Vatican have been satisfactorily
settled.
At the next commencement at the
Christian Brothers College, in St.
Louis, Father Foley will receive his de-
gree of nj. a. and deliver the Masters
Grafton on the occasion.
The ordinations at st. Joseph's Sem
mary, Troy, N. K, took place on Sat
urday, May 2G. Two priests were Or
dained, the Rev. Messrs. John E,
Shaughnessy and Anguste M. Pellieux.
1t is said that She Right Rev. DR..
Clifford, Bishop Of Clifton, England,
will be made the English Cardinal resi-
don't in Rorno RI o,,ccac1 +c tho ofi;o;o
duties left vacant by the illness Of Car
dinal Howard.
The stone of the new St. Vim
cent Hospital at Indianapolis, a struct-
ure to cost 500, 600, was laid a week ago
last Sunday, and addresses were made
by Bishop Chatard, Governor Gray and
ex- Governor Porter.
Mother Augusta, superior OF the Sis
tiers of the Holy Cross, has been in Bal
timore some days from the mother
house, Notre Dame, Indiana, visiting
the three houses of the order in that
c1ty-Holy Cross Academy, st. Cecilia's
and St, .ioseph's.
Rev. Edward J, Sourin, S. j., Of St.
Ignatius Catholic Church, Baltimore,
died recently in the eightieth year of
his age. He was one Of the best known
priests in the country. Father Sourin
was born in Philadelphia. His educa-
tion was acquired at Emmittsburg. He
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poetry with grace. He was at one time
assistant pastor of st. Mary's, and
St. Johns in Philadelphia, and later
was pastor Of the Philadelphia Cathe-
drai.
Mgr. Persico, the Pope's special
envoy to Ireland, was interviewed in |
rdon by a representative Of the New
''s'3 I'D. In answer to a number |
=" :. .tlons put to him Mgr. Persico
1clared that on the occasion of his
second visit to Ireland he had found
that the edict from Rome had been re-
ceiyed with the respect due to the head
Of the Church and to the Holy See.
He had not, indeed, encountered as
many difficulties as he had anticipated
in seeing that the clergy obeyed the
instructions from Rome. In 50 far as
was concerned, there had
been practically no resistance to tie
Pontiff's authority, and the priests
seemed inclined to obey faithfully the
commands of the Church to abstain
from giving their countenance to the
system. The only difficulty which he
had experienced was with regard to the
Ian Of Campaign. Although it Is con-
trary to the rules of the Church for
priests to question any ruling laid down
by the Vatican, yet he had found many
of them inclined respectfully to seek
controversy on the subject and to urge
that as it was purely a business policy
it was altogether outside the domain of
the Church. Mgr. Persico declares
that he quite understood the difficulty
of the clergy with regard to the Plan of
of Campaign, for most of them were