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will reap the fruit of your labors. we shall 1'. 

 honest pride in setting before them the first n 

 of the university, the generous, high-minded, much- 

 beloved Bishop Keane." 



The Rev. Dr. Thomas .1. County, pastor of the 

 Church of the Sai-red Heart. Woive.-ter. Ma., 

 chosen by the Pope to succeed Iishop Keane. Dr. 

 Conaty had won a national reputation for hi.s effect- 

 ive work in connection with the Catholic Summer 

 1 of America, of which he was president 



On Jan. 17, in Albany, N. V.. occurred the some- 

 what rare event of the 'ordination of a Hebrew as a 

 priest in the Catholic Church, when Charles William 

 Oppenheim was so honored. At the conclusion of 

 the ceremony Bishop Burke alluded to the fact that 

 in olden times the priests of God were chosen from 

 the descendants of Aaron. 



Karly in the year the Rev. Thomas O'Gorman, 

 Professor of Church History at the Catholic Univer- 

 sity in Washington, was appointed bishop of the 

 diocese of Sioux Falls. 



On Feb. 10 the Rev. Michael Callighan. director 

 of the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary, for the 

 Protection of Immigrant Girls, in New York, died. 

 His life was devoted to the befriending of immi- 

 grant girls. 



One of the greatest prelates of the American 

 Church, the Rt. Rev. Peter Richard Kenrick, Arch- 

 bishop of St. Louis, died on March 5. He was also 

 the oldest American prelate, and the only one who. 

 up to that date, had lived to complete his golden 

 jubilee as bishop, lie was ninety years of age. 



The Rev. Michael J. Hoban was consecrated Bishop 

 of Alalis in Scranton. Pa., on March >:;. 



The Rt. Rev. Stephen Vincent Ryan. Bishop of 

 Buffalo, died on April 10. at the age of seventy-one. 



On May 11 Archbishop Kain, of St. Louis, was 

 1 with the pallium. 



In July the Rev. Edward J. O'Dea, up to that 

 time pastor of St. Patrick's Church. Portland, Ore., 

 appointed the third Bishop of the Diocese of 

 Nesqually. 



The Rt. Rev. Martin Marty. Bishop of the Dio- 

 cese of St. Cloud, died Sept. 111. 



Canada. The Manitoba school question was set- 

 tled by the adoption of provisions whose terms were 

 made known in November, 1896. The settlement 

 provides that religious teaching shall be conducted 

 in public schools where a majority of the trustees 

 authorize it or a certain number of" parents petition 

 for it. Such religious teaching shall take place be- 

 tween half past three and four o'clock in the after- 

 noon, and may be conducted by any Christian 

 clergyman whose charge includes any portion of 

 the school district, or by a person duly authorized 

 by such clergyman. In any school where the aver- 

 age attendance of Catholic children is a certain 

 number the trustees, if the pan-nts of such children 

 so petition, shall employ at least one duly certified 

 non-Catholic teacher. Under the same circum- 

 stances, regarding non-Catholic children, the trus- 

 tees are required to employ at least one duly certi- 

 fied non-Catholic teacher. Where the schoolroom 

 accommodation does not permit of Catholic and 

 non-Catholic pupils being placed in separate rooms 

 for the purpose of religious teaching, such teaching 

 of Catholic children shall be carried on during the 

 prescribed period of one half of the month and that 

 of the non-Catholic children during the other half 

 of the month. Where 10 pupils in any school 

 speak French "or any language other than Enir- 

 lish '' as their native language the teaching of such 

 pupils shall be conducted in French (or such other 

 language) and English. No pupil is to be per- 

 mitted to be present at any religious teaching un- 

 less the parents or guardian of such pupil desire it. 



Archbishop Fabre, of Montreal, died on Dec. 30. 

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Russia. So far ti: >r has shown (; 



sition to lay a retraining hand on the ;._ 

 schismatic Ru ian Church, a;. 

 half way the conciliatory spirit of Leo XIII. I. 

 have occurred which, though comparatively ol>- 

 must, considering the prevail; 1 and what 



has hitherto taken place in Russia, be looked upon 

 as unusual. 1. The Mtdiur of Kroze and famous 

 destroyer of crucifixes in Samogita received a seri- 

 ous warning concerning his attitude toward Cathol- 

 icism. '2. At Kra-kovie, in Samogita, the parish- 

 ioners had been striving for twelve year- to get per- 

 mission to erect a new brick church in place of their 

 oid wooden one. At length they got orders from 

 Gov.-Gen. Orzewski, of Wilna, to build a new 

 church, but of wood. Once more they appealed 

 to the Minister of the Interior. Goremykin, and 

 then it transpired that he had already signed a per- 

 mit for the erection of a monastery church, but Or- 

 zewski had destroyed the order and issued his own 

 decree. It is said that Orzewski received a repri- 

 mand which nearly caused him to resign. 3. Go- 

 remykin, at the request of the Czarina, granted per- 

 mission for rebuilding at Ostrog a church which 

 had. as far back as 1880, been confiscated and dis- 

 mantled. 4. The Catholic bishops had endeavored 

 to persuade the metropolitan archbishop, Kozlow- 

 ski, to present a memorial to the Czar on the sad 

 condition of the Church and the ameliorations de- 

 sired. The archbishop, fearing banishment to Si- 

 beria, refused the request. Later came a sudden 

 command from the Imperial Chancery to the arch- 

 bishop to submit the memorial to the throne. Such 

 events are looked upon by the Catholics of Russia 

 as opening bright prospects for the Church. 



France. The shrine at Lourdes was visited by 

 more invalids in 1896 than in any previous year, 

 the national Catholic faith in the miraculous power 

 of its saint having spread abroad. The most won- 

 derful cures have been related, embracing supposed 

 incurable maladies, deformities, etc.. and even af- 

 flicted infants, too young to exercise faith, have, it 

 id, on presentation at the shrine, been made 

 whole. 



The national jubilee granted to France by the 

 Holy Father on the occasion of the fourteen hun- 

 dredth anniversary of the baptism of Clovis, the 

 first Catholic King of France, began on the first 

 Friday of December, 1896, in Paris, and closed on 

 Christmas Day. Some of the details are interest- 

 ing: At nine o'clock of the first day of celebration 

 Cardinal Richard, Archbishop of Paris, sang pon- 

 tifical high mass in the Basilica of the Sacred 

 Heart, on the heights of Montmartre. and at sun- 

 down the bells of all the churches in the city pro- 

 claimed the beginning of the jubilee. Next day 

 the cardinal addressed instruction to the audience 

 on the motive of the great jubilee, which was " to 

 obtain from God that he preserve France in the 

 faith of her forefathers, a complete, active, strong 

 faith, so that Catholics should prove to be the sons 

 of light." He ended his allocution by repeating 

 the old cry of France : " Long live Christ, who 

 loved the Franks ! " After mass the cardinal sol- 

 emnly renewed the vow consecrating France to the 

 Sacre'd Heart and to the Blessed Virgin. 



In October the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris 

 appointed Pere Ollivier. the famous Dominican 

 preacher, to the post of Lenten preacher at Notre 

 Dame, thereby continuing the tradition which con- 

 nects the great order of ' Preaching Friars " with 

 the cathedral pulpit. 



Denmark. A retired Lutheran minister of Den- 

 mark, the Rev. Henning Jenssen, predicts that the 

 Lutheran Church of that country will probably 

 soon return to Catholicity. The "New World" 

 has printed a translation of Mr. Jenssen's writing 



