... 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 : ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... NEWS FROM AMERICA. New Bishop of Concordia.—The Very Rev. John F. Cunning- ham, Vicar-General of the diocese of Leavenworth, has been named as Bishop of the diocese of Concordia, Kansas, in succession to the late Right Rev. Thaddeus J. Butler, who died ...

... NEWS FROM AMERICA. New 17car-General of L',lltimore.—Cardinal Gibbons recently announced that he had appointed the Right Rev. Bishop Alfred A. Curtis as Vicar-General of the archdiocese of Baltimore, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mgr. Edward ...

... THE NEGLECTED ITALIANS IN AMERICA. SIR,—In the issue of The Tablet, °voter 28, 1899, page 688, you allude to a pamphlet published in America by the editor of The Milwaukee Citizen, under the title of The Neglected Italians. Please pardon me if I ...

... AMERICA. THB SITUATION protector, Bahry Pasha, has been dismissed from his post of Governor of Scutari, and is to be sent to fill some subordinate position in European Turkey. On the other hand, the commission of inquiry into the grievances of the Greek ...

... THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AMERICA. The United States Census Bureau has issued from Washington a census bulletin dealing with the present state of the Catholic Church in America, from which a few facts of chief importance may be gathered. It appears that ...