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of St. Stephen's Church, New York city, who 

 had been suspended hy the Most Rev. Arch- 

 bishop Corrigan tor insisting on publicly preach- 

 ing that private property in land is a crime, 

 was excommunicated for refusing to go to 

 Rome when summoned by the Prefect of the 

 Propaganda. In France no change except a 

 slightly favorable movement took place in the 

 relations of the Government to the Church. 

 In Germany an entente cordiale was arranged 

 between the Pope and Prince Bismarck. His 

 Holiness advised the Catholics of Germany to 

 support the Septennat bill in the interests of 

 the peace of Europe. Herr Windhorst and the 

 Center did not at first sympathize with the 

 policy of Rome in thus by a concession miti- 

 gating the tyranny of the Kulturkampf. But 

 the matter was settled by firm protests of 

 loyalty and reverence to the Holy Father on 

 the part of the ex-Hanoverian Chancellor. In 

 Italy some commotion was occasioned by the 

 rumors of a coming triumph of the party of 

 Conciliation. Padre Tosti printed a pamphlet 

 favoring a modus mtendi between the Vatican 

 and the Quirinal. Several Italian deputies 

 were in favor of it, and the tenor of u Le Moni- 

 teur de Rome,'' the semi-official organ of the 

 Vatican, did not disapprove of it. Numerous 

 articles and pamphlets were written on the 

 subject of the possibility of the restoration of 

 Rome to the Holy See; but apparently nothing 

 practical came of them. In England, particu- 

 larly among the Tories, a movement to estab- 

 lish diplomatic relations between the Court of 

 St. James and the Vatican seemed to have 

 some force. Catholic opinion in Ireland had 

 become so crystallized in favor of Home Rule, 

 that it was felt that some attempt must be 

 made to counterbalance its influence at Rome. 

 Mgr. Persico, formerly Bishop of Savannah, 

 was, with Mgr. Gualdi, sent to Ireland. But 

 his utterances seemed to show that he was 

 satisfied that the archbishops and bishops of 

 Ireland were right in their championship of 

 the cause of the people. The Duke of Norfolk, 

 the head of the Catholic family of the Howards, 

 is looked upon as the leader of the Catholic 

 anti-Home-Kule party in England, while Lord 

 Ripon, an equally devout Catholic and a convert, 

 is one of the chiefs of the pro-Irish movement 

 in the Liberal party. In Venezuela a straggle 

 between the Catholic and Radical parties re- 

 sulted in the exile of the archbishop to San 

 Francisco. On January 30, 1887, Cardinal Fer- 

 rien died at Rome. On February 17 Rt. Rev. 

 Pfraengle was installed as abbot of St. Mary's 

 Monastery, Newark, N. J. On January 26 

 Cardinal Jacobin! died at Rome. On March 4 

 Father IKvkx, General of the Society of Jesus 

 for thirty-three years, died in Rome. On March 

 17 Cardinals Gibbons and Taschereau received 

 their hats in consistory; and on March 25 Car- 

 dinal Gibbons took formal possession of his 

 titular church of Santa Maria in Trastevere. On 

 March 27 was published the brief of the Holy 

 Father addressed to Bishop Ireland in favor of 



the total abstinence movement. On March 29 

 the Holy Father, as a mark of his approbation 

 of the Most Rev. Archbishop Corrigan's man- 

 agement of the McGlynn revolt, conferred on 

 him the rank of bishop-assistant at the Ponti- 

 fical throne. On April 10 the Holy Father sent 

 out a brief relating to the founding of the 

 Catholic University. On April 12 the ancient 

 cathedral at St. Augustine, Fla., was almost 

 totally destroyed by fire. On April 15 the 

 Rt. Rev. Matthew Haskins was consecrated 

 Bishop of Providence, R. 1., to succeed Bishop 

 Hendrickin by the Most Rev. Archbishop of 

 Boston. On May 1 the Rt. Rev. P. D. Ludden 

 was consecrated Bishop of Syracuse, N. Y., by 

 the Most Rev. Archbishop Corrigan, D. D. On 

 May 22 the first church in New York dedicated 

 to St. Thomas Aquinas, the saint and philoso- 

 pher, whose doctrines Leo VIII has specially 

 promulgated, was blessed by Bishop Loughlin 

 in Brooklyn. On June 3 the grand cathedral 

 at Providence, R. I., was formally opened. On 

 May 21, during Queen Victoria's Jubilee cele- 

 bration, Mgr. Ruffo-Scilla, the first Papal en- 

 voy to enter the English court since the Refor- 

 mation was received. On May 27 the Rt. Rev. 

 Lawrence Scanlan was consecrated Bishop by 

 the Most Rev. Archbishop Riordan. On July 8 

 was published in " The Catholic Review " the 

 circular of the Most Rev. Archbishop Corrigan, 

 in which was announced the excommunication 

 of Dr. McGlynn. On August 2 the Redemp- 

 torists celebrated with reverent splendor the 

 centenary of the death of St. Alphcnsus Ligu- 

 ori. On September 2 the abbey of St. Mein- 

 rad (Benedictine) at Indiantown, Ind., was de- 

 stroyed by fire. On September 17 the centenary 

 celebration of the Constitution of the United 

 States was closed with prayer by Cardinal Gib- 

 bons. On October 2 St. Michael's church, New- 

 ark, was consecrated by Bishop Wigger. On Sep- 

 tember 23 Most Rev. Z. X. Leroy, Archbishop 

 of New Orleans, died in France. On October 

 9 the pallium was conferred on the Most Rev. 

 Archbishop Gross, of Portland, Ore., by Cardi- 

 nal Gibbons. On October 17 the Rev. Dr. 

 Kerner, who had come from England to serve 

 the Italians, was killed in New York by the 

 falling of his unfinished school-house. On Oc- 

 tober 28 the Rt. Rev. Maurice F. Burke was 

 consecrated Bishop of Cheyenne, W. T., by 

 Archbishop Feehan. On the same day Rt. Rev. 

 Nicholas Matz, coadjutor of the Bishop of Den- 

 ver, was consecrated by Archbishop Salpointe. 

 On November 2 Cardinal Pellegrini died. On 

 November 30 Rt. Rev. Thomas Bonacum was 

 consecrated Bishop of Lincoln, Neb., at St. 

 Louis by Archbishop Kenrich. On the same 

 day the Rt. Rev. Richard Scannell was conse- 

 crated Bishop of Concordia, La., by Archbishop 

 Feehan at Nashville. Archbishop Lamy, of 

 Santa Fe, died in that city on February 14. It 

 was announced early in February that the new 

 Bishops of Alton, 111., and Belleville, 111., were 

 the Very Rev. Father Janssens and Rev. James 

 Ryan, of Ottawa, 111. On February 25 Rt. Rev. 



