The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-05


every night In rellearsing a drama en-
titled Rebecca's Triumph to be given
February IL, 10 and l6 for the benefit OF
the Church. TO ~reconpense them for
their hard work Father Ter Woert has
promised that they snail have a dance
ON the evening of the 18th.
st. Johns Catholic Club is now in a
better condition numerically and finan-
cially than 1t was for a long time. 1T is
probable more active work will be done
this year than ever before and the MEM
berss look forward to a big jump in meme
bership.
ST. MfchaeI;s.
The Holy Name Society of St. Michael's
church is arranging a production of Irish
Outlaw" ON March 16, II and IS. 1t will
be under thu direction of Joseph P. Clos
sey. The play has been practically writ
ten for the occasion, and new and spe-
cial scenery for the production will be
painted by Artist f. DsLane.
The return game between the Eiizapeth
T.. A. B.. and the St. Michael's bowling
teams will be rolled on the ST. Michaels
Club alley in this city on February 16.
All saints.
DR.. Mortimer and Mrs. Lampson of No.
2o3 Pacific avenue have notified Rev. Jo-
seph H. Meehan Of All Saints, that they
intend presenting the new church with.
two side affairs. They will be known as
those of the Blessed Virgin and of st. Jo-
saph. They will be of b%utternut wood,
topped with canopies to correspond with
the main altar.
~. AIoysIus.
Father Sullivan of st. Aloysius' Church
will announce from the pulpit at 1890
o'clock mass Sunday morning the full
particulars of the dedication of the new
church. He will give the names OF the
speakers and all details of the celepras
ton.
st. Jesepb's.
Owing to the Hines of Father Corcoran,
the children's mass at 9 o'clock at st.
Joseph's will be held at the same hour
in the upper church, instead of as usual
in the basement.
From Fvsrywiaerr.
Rev. Patrick Cody of st. James R. G.
Church., Newark, celebrated this week the
twenty-1fth anniversary of his passionate.
The celebration took place in the parish
hall, where an interesting programme was
given. At its conclusion Tax Commission
er Cody, one of the oldest parishioners,
made an address and presented the pas
tor with a check for 81, 500, a token of the
parishioners' appreciation of his work
amongst them.
The Catholic clergy and laity of his
archdiocese will ext May celebrate the
tw%enty-fith anniversary of the elevation
to the episcopate of Archbishop Michael
Augustin Corrigan. There viii be a jubi-
lee beginning on Wednesday May a, and
extending over the following Sunday.
1t will close on Sunday evening with a
pontifcal high mass in ST. Patrick's
Cathedral, New York.
Preparations for the celebration are al
ready under way. 1t promises to be one
of the most memorable events in the his
tory of the Catholic Church in this
country. The feature of the celebration
will be the high mass in St. Patrick's
Cathedral.
Prominent men from all parts of the
country will be invited to attend. There
will be presentation addresses and SER
mons, with a banquet at the end.
Archbishop Corrigan's archdiocese in
cludes, besides New York, the counties
of Westchester, Putnam, Duchess, Ulster,
Sullivan, Orange, Rockland and Rich
mond and the Bahama Islands. The
Catholic population of the diocese num-
bers between 100000 and 100000 persons.
Committees are already preparing the
details of the jubilee. Bishop Farley is
the head of the clerical committee, and
Col. John McAnerney, long a resident of
this city has been appointed chairman OF
the lay committee. The prime movers IN
the celebration are Judge Joseph f. DAILY,
Stephen Farley, J. d. Crimmins and the
Rev. M. A. Taylor.
1t is reported from Washington that
Catholic laymen of the United Staes are
about to present to Monsignor Mart1nelh
n~s 1s-o 10 en- - VTnn1In-
ciamento regulating the marriages of
Catholics and ProteStantS. The prellm1-
nary papers of this petition have, it IS
said, already arrived in Washington, and
are in the hands of a committee awaiting
the approval of certain Bishops before
being placed in the hands of the delegate.
The petitioners. it is claimed, desire that
Monsignor Martinelli max universal
rules regarding the conditions on which
the Catholic Church will permit one of its
mbe to marry a non-Catholic. and
also the nature of the ceremonies with
which such a marriage may be ATTENDED.
The Catholic laity has long contemplated
this step, but the present action has. it is
said. been FASTENED by Archbishop Kahn,
of St. Louis.
Roman Catholic prelates all over the
country. and indeed all over the world,
nave ordered all parishes, Institutions and
officials to prepare exact statistics and
forward the same, the purpose being. &c
make one of the features OF the .ap-
preaching commemoration of the close
of the nineteenth and beginning of the
twentieth century the publication of Off
cial statistics of the Church. These sta
tistics are intended to be a powerful re-
ply to the anti-religious leaders of the
world by displaying the forces of the
Church. The other feature of this com
memoration is to be spiritual revival
and his is to be accomplished by the
holding of an extraordinary number OF
missions. In order to get ready for these
missions none are to be held in some
diocese during the preceding year. Car
dinal Jacobini is now in correspondence
with all high prelates in the United
States and Canada concerning the exact
form that this commemoration shall take
in this country.