... DIVORCE IN AMERICA. The amazing discovery is announced, says the New York correspondent of The Daily Tele,zraph, that probably one divorce in every five which have been granted in New York during the last twenty years is invalid, and that those who married ...

... 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 : ...

... LEO AND AMERICA. This renewed persecution of the Chul-ch was a source great affliction to the Holy Father, and he published energetic protest against it in an Encyclical dated August 5 The state of the Church in America had long engaged attention, LA ...

... AMERICA DOCET. Certainly the Church in the United States is being brought very prominently before the attention of the Holy Father in these days. Only a few weeks ago he sent Mgr. Agius to be Apostolic-Delegate in the American Possessions in the Philippines ...

... 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 ...

... IRELAND AND AMERICA. Writ;ng under this heading in the current Irish Ecclesiastic2l Record, the Rev. M. Shinnors, 0.M.1., says : We are inclined to boast sometimes of the Greater Ireland beyond the seas and of our ten or twenty million brethren who live ...

... 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 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...