The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-12
RELIGIOUS WORLD.
Notes of Interest About the Sew.
eral Denominations.

The difference between Portugal and Bel
GUM regarding the Congo will be left to
the arbitration of his Holiness, Leo XIII.
The Pope has created a commission of
three Cardinals to look after the expendi-
lures of the Vatican and to devise means of
retrenchment. Leo desires that the strict
est economy shall prevail in all depart
ments of the Papal government.
The death is announced of the venerable
Visitation nun, Sister Mary Agatha Rus
sell of ST Paul, MINI. The convent in that
city was one of her foundations
Sir Andrew Stewart Chief Justice Of
the Superior Court for the province of
Quebec, was confirmed recently by Cardinal
Taschereau in the chapel attached to the
palace. His Eminenee was attended by
Monsignor Paquit and Rev. Able e.
ATSenault.
The long-expected Papal encyelieal has
been distributed among the ArchbiShOps of
Europe for translation among their respect
i've floeks in the different languages. The
translation into English mas been entrusted
to Archbishop Walsh of Dublin, who has
just returned from the Eternal City. The
title of the document is "The Condition OF
Norkingmen."
The priests and people of st. Louis are
making great preparations for the eeieDra-
ton of Archbishop Hendricks episcopal
golden jubilee. The event will occur next
November, and the hierarchy Of the United
States with a vast number of priests VIII
doubtless seize the unique occasion to honor
the lllustrlous patriarch prelate OF the
West.
Writing Of the growth of the Catholic
Church in America the Meriden Comm
Journal says: The growth of CathOlcty
IN New England has aStonlshed all who have
given the matter any consideration. While
IN 1889 there were not probably more than
100 Catholics in New England, no BiSh p
and but one priest. to-day there are in the
same New England one Archbishop, six
sutfraSan Bishops, more than $50 priests,
and a Catholic population of more than Il
million and three quarters. In Boston
alone there are thirty-siX churches and l25
priests, mlnistering to population OF more
than 200,0 900 souls; nearly one-half Of the
population Of Boston.
The accounts of the Society for the Pro-
pagatOn of the Faith for 1890 have just
been published. The contributions OF the
faithful last year show large increase on
those of 1889, and are the highest recorded
since the foundation of the society. The
following are the figures: 1899, 7,072,S1l
francs, or 92S2. 912; 1882 SOL, 9l8 francs, or
9261, 664; increase IN 1890. 530893 francs, or
Ell, 258. Among all the countries which
contribute to the fund France comes first
The growth of the Benedictine order in
the United States is said to date from the
year 1916, when the late Venerable Arch
Abbot Boniface WINNER arrived in America
with four students and several labOrerS from
Bavaria to found a monastery in this cOuR-
try. To-day the order in the United States
comprises TWO congregations, the American
Cassnese and the American Helvetian Con-
gregatiOns, and the mission of the French
Benedietines in Indian Territory. The or
der counts among its members Bishop Louis
NJ. Fink of LeavenwOrth, Kans.; Bishop
Rupert Seidenbush of ST.. Cloud (resignrd,
and Bishop Martin Marty of Sioux Falls, ).
OAK.
The order in the United States numbers
4 Bishops, Arch-Abbot, abbots, l indie
pendent prior, superior, 3l3 priests, I dea-
cons, 66 cleries. 30 nOYleeS, BOB lay brothers
and nUYiceS-a total membership of 64S.