... THE POPE AND AMERICA. A letter from the Pope to the Bishops of America of the Latin race, dated Christmas Day, says the limes Vatican correspondent, was published in Rome on Wednesday evening. In looking back over his long pontificate the Pope says that ...

... CATHOLICISM IN AMERICA. A writer in The New York Freeman's Journal, Mr. J. M. Lucey, gives a very interesting account of the progress and development of Catholicism in the United States during the past year. He observes, among other things : ...

... THE IRISH IN AMERICA. Mr. Sarkville West, the British Munster at Wasfungton, has formally called the anention of the Government to the utterances et die Irish leaders in this cosetry. Hts corn mesicaties is couched in a friendly spirit, and contains no ...

... Louvain and America. The Rev. T. Jenkins, General Secretary of the National College of the Immaculate Conception at Louvain, gives the following account of the work done for America. The number of priests sent to the missions of North America, and, indeed ...

... THE CONTEST IN AMERICA. The contest over the passage of the Armstrong I aw, compelling New York railways to carry bicycles as baggage, began in November, 1895, when the chief consul of the New York State division of the League of American Wheelmen wrote ...

... ENGLAND AND AMERICA. a daily paper has given publicity to what Purports to be a letter addressed by Cardinal Vaughan to has brother, the Rev. Kenelm Vaughan, we think it right to give the letter itself. We imagine that the version referred to was a t ...

... THE POPE AND AMERICA. There has been issued, says The Aew York Freeman's Journal, an official statement in regard to a letter sent March 10 last by the Catholic Bishops of the province of New York to the Pope, expressing their gratitude for the letter ...

... CENTRAL AMERICA. THE REPORTED ASSASSINATION OF A JESUIT PRIEST IN GUATEMALA. A Reuter's telegram from New York states that the reported assassination of Father S.J. (misspelt Gilliett in the telegram) turns out to be totally devoid of foundation. Nevertheless ...

... THE POPE AND AMERICA. His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons recently sent a letter to the Holy Father, in the course of which he said in the name of the American hierarchy : Passing over other matters, we need hardly say how much light your Holiness's recent ...

... PREHISTORIC AMERICA. T HE editor of this excellent translation of the (t.) Marquis de Nadaillac's l'Amerique Prtfhis' lorigue informs us in a prefatory note that the results of all the most recent discoveries in American archaeology have been added in ...

... THE PUFFAIA IN AMERICA. The march of civilisation bids fair to improve the red man and the buffalo, his principal means of support, simultaneously off the face of the earth. or at least of that part of it which lies within the boundaries of the United ...

... AMERICA AND THE JUBILEE. His Eminence Cardinal Schiaffino, Honorary President of the Jubilee Committee, in a letter addressed to the Bishops of St. Paul's and of Richmond, United States, says : My Lords,—Your presence in Rome of me a twofold gratification ...