ROMAN CATHOLIC CHTKCH. 



KOI "MANIA. 



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for this work. Slit- has since finished a mother 

 fur the order at Andalusia, I'u., ami n- 

 1 <(iiite a number nl' recrn 



' her new order was introduced liy Uishop 

 lieimessy, of Dubnqiie the Sisters of tin- ll<>ly 

 -de\oted to teaching in tin.- parochial 

 schools. 



Cardinal Manning's Message. Cardinal 



Gibbons, (.11 May IN. received tin: following 

 ;_:e I iy phonograph from Cardinal Mau- 



Biag: 



Y<>ur Kimnenee: The Catholic ('Inuvli in 

 send- it- jfrotitiora to you, and to tho Catholic Cimreh 



in Aineriea and to all the citizens of the 1'niteil 

 State.-, and hopes that we may al \\a\s lie of ouu heart 

 and cue mind, and lieeome OIK- fold ofunn Shepherd. 

 lli:sitv Ki>wAiu>, 



Cardinal Archbishop. 



The School Question. The great test case of 

 The State of Ohio vs. The Rev. Dr. P. F. Quigley, 

 for resisting the compulsory education law, was 

 decided on May 7, in the lower court at Toledo, 

 against the defendant, ami a fine of $25 imposed 

 Ex-Judge Kdinimd F. Dunne, for Dr. C^uigley, 

 made an earnest plea in defense of the natural 

 right of the parents to educate their children, 

 and the case was taken on appeal to the Circuit 

 Court, which sustained the judgment. It now 

 goes to the Supreme Court, the grounds being 

 that the Ohio Constitution recognizes the nat- 

 ural law in the matter and forbids the compul- 

 sory law. 



the School Question in Canada. The Do- 

 minion Supremo Court refused to sustain the 

 Winnipeg law abolishing the Catholic separate 

 schools. Under this decision the Catholics again 

 receive the pro rata share of taxation for educa- 

 tional purposes. 



Felicitous Commemorations. lit. Rev. 

 John J. Williams, the first Archbishop of Boston, 

 celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his 

 consecration as bishop on the llth and 12th of 

 March. There were appropriate ceremonies 

 participated in by the clergy and laity from all 

 parts of New England. 



The Catholics of West Virginia celebrated the 

 twenty-fifth anniversary of the ordination of Rt. 

 Rev. John J. Kain, Bishop of Wheeling, July 2. 



Rt. Rev. Bishop Vertin. of Marquette, had an 

 equally brilliant jubilee celebration, Aug. 31. 



Bishop Heiinessy's jubilee in Dubuqiic. Sept. 

 \'], was the most remarkable event in the history 

 of religious commemorations in Iowa. 



The great celebration of the year, however. 

 was that by the aged Archbishop Kenrick, of 

 St. Louis, of the fiftieth anniversary of his con- 

 secration as bishop. Nov. '50 and Dec. 1. The 

 Cardinal, a special envoy from Koine, and the 

 hierarchy with few exceptions, participated in 

 the juln'lee. The archliishopisthe oldest officiat- 

 ing bishop in the world. 



Four Great Monuments. A monument to 

 Father Junipcro Sorra, founder of the California 

 Franciscan missions, was erected June 3, at 

 Mon.erey, overlooking the spot upon which he 

 landed in 1770. It is a gift to the city from 

 Mrs. Leland Stanford. 



St. John's College, Fordham. N. Y., celebrated 

 its golden jubilee on June 2 I by the unveiling 

 of a bronze statue of its founder, Most Rev. 



.Ii.hu Hughes, Archbishop of New V..ik. Ar-h- 

 lii-!iop Kyan, of Philadelphia, was the orator. 

 The state of If airland erected a monument 



on June :{, at Old St. "Mary V, the capital of Cath- 

 olic Maryland, to Leonard Culvert, the iii 

 ernor of the colony, and the man to fu 

 claim religions lil>crty in the New Wi,rld. 



A marble statue of Pope I.i-u wo* unveiled at 

 the Catholic Cuiver-ity, Sept. 5,'H. 



Other Notable i:\eiiK-Thcnew St. Mary's 

 Cathedral. San Franci-co. the largest aim 

 church edifice on the Pacific <-..;, aider 



Archbishop Kiordan, at a cost of $300,000, wa 

 dedicated on Jan. 11. 



The Dominican Convent, O'Neill City. ' 

 was burned in February. St. Mary's Hoepital, 

 Rochester. N. Y.. was destroyed I he'samc month, 

 but through the heroic actions of the Sisters of 

 Charity all the invalids were resci.< d. 



On March 1!), George I'arsons Lathrop, the 

 author, and his wife (daughter of Nathaniel 

 Hawthorne) were received into the Church by 

 Rev. Alfred Young, of the Paulist order. Being 

 asked publicly for his reasons, Mr. Lathrop gave 

 them in a letter to the " Independent." 



In April the Catholic University at Washing- 

 ton was enriched by the gift of $400,000 worth 

 of New York city real estate. Rev. James Mc- 

 Mahon was the donor, and the endowment was 

 to establish a school of philosophy. 



A great mass meeting to further American 

 Catholic history, held in the Academy of Music, 

 Philadelphia, Hard) 31, was presided over by 

 Rev. Dr. Horstmann, and addressed by Cardinal 

 Gibbons, Archbishop Ryan, and Hon. John Lee 

 Carroll. It was practically decided to establish 

 Catholic historical societies all over the country, 

 with a great central library of reference in Phila- 

 delphia. 



On May 9 the Catholic editors of the United 

 States met in New York and formed a national 

 association. 



On May 17 the corner-stone of a new theologi- 

 cal seminary for the archdiocese of New York 

 was laid by the Most Rev. M. A. Corrigan near 

 Yonkers, in the presence of a large multitude. 

 The building will cost $600,000, and its library 

 will be one of the finest in America. 



Cardinal Gibbons conferred the pallium upon 

 Archbishop Katzer, of Milwaukee, Aug. 20. 



The Father Drumgoole Memorial Church, 

 Mount Loretto, Statcn Island, erected in honor of 

 the newsboys' benefactor, was begun on Sept. 13, 

 in the presence of 20,000 persons. 



St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, celebrated its 

 centenary Oct. 28. 



ROUMANIA, a monarchy in eastern Eu- 

 rope. The reigning King is Carol 1, born April 

 20, 18:1!), son of Prince Carl of Hohen/ollern- 

 Blgmaringen. He was elected Domnul or Prince 

 on May 'I', 1 , ISTili, and was proclaimed King on 

 March" 2(5. ls::i. His marriage with Pr: 

 F.I Isabel h of Neuwied being childless'. Prince 

 Ferdinand, born Aug. 24, 1865. the young' 

 of Prince Leopold, elder brother of the King, 

 was selected as heir and accepted by the Assem- 

 bly. The legislative body consists of a Senate 

 of" 120 members, elected for eiirht years, and a 

 Chamber of is:! Deputies, elected by the peo- 

 ple, divided into three classes of voters, for four 

 years. 



