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forefathers), of the ('hutch. Perhaps it was wide of the mark but it is some basis to INSTANT RELIEF. figure on. in the absence of all other data. (ling to 3rish (antics Prior to 1870, there were Jai Peter's pence collections in the United States, nor, indeed in other portions of the The paper on the necessity of a faith," Catholic world. The collection has fCOUGHS Catholic Defence Society in Ireland, the Cathoof campaign of The plan COLDS real by Msgr. Hallinan before the lic Def;nce Society will be public agi- been regularly instituted to meet the revenlast 27th since its needs of the Papacy, omen Union on June ASTHMA suasion-'lo create and moral tation the of sovereignty, were ues, as a temporal exposition was a powerful pop BRONCHI on cut off. The great religious orders public opinion sound a foster and Catholics Irish grievances many civil f aidrat. justice of the Catholic cause, to have always rendered tribute to the are subjected to. "We are entitled to the before the public gaze the dis- Papal treasury, and undoubtedly the ask." said he, "are we Irish Catholics keep BAL under which Catholics labor, sum total of this tribute has been fully emancipated ? Are we, who are abilities acts on the ise light the to let and under the British Constitution-sup- and the methods of the Ascendancy much enlarged since 1870. Here are some of the estimated posed to be the freest under the sun- Party." needs of the Holy See suffering no disabilities because we are Catholics ? I answer without hesitaThe salaries of sixty cardinals, £60, tion that we Irish Catholics have still Their secretaries, notaries and 000 clinging to us the chains of slavery, officials of the various congregations unthat we are still in some respects Papal finances. Legatand tribunals, say, £40,000 der the domination of the Penal Laws; es and nuncios of the Holy Se 1, 1..60 and in this old Catholic land, we ale of 000 ; Swiss Guards, say 500 still in many respects mere hewers of them, £40,000 Care and repair of wood and drawers of water for our St. £20,000 Peter's the Vatican. and What is the income of the Pope ? Protestant masters. How do I prove personal expenses and salaries it Not by words, but facts and We don't know. What are the expen- Pope's domestic officials, £20,000. Total ed Holy Communion. There was an We don't of ditures of the Papacy figures prove it." How much does the Holy See £240,000. edifying muster of the Children of In giving these demonstrating figur- know:. absolutely need from the 'Catholic emancipaThe Peter's pence of English history Mary. Three aspirants were consecrat really we :-"Are es he says adminworld to on the central was a tax of one penny per house in ted ? Of the sixty members who form istration carry of the Church ? We can England. As a regulation, it was ed and fourteen girls and nine boys the Privy Council not ten are Cathoonly guess the of more honoured in the breach than in were received as aspirants. After the lics. Who are the bigots '? Out No reports are issued. No estimates the observance. 30 or 40 gentlemen waiting on the at are given. Nobody seems to know. The Catholic world of to -day counts ceremonies, all joined in a Hymn to Lord Lieutenant, and supported our Blesded Lady. Father Creagh oftenth a scarcely expense, But let us guess : upwards of 250,000,000 Catholics. If the public civil the is Where When the Temporal Ttaly overturned but, half of these were contributors, Heated. In the evening there was are Catholics. equality ? In the Chief Secretary's Power, in 1870 the Italian govern- and if they gave a penny a head, the Benediction of the Most Holy Sacraoffice, not more than one In every'five ment pasted what it was pleased to yield would be £250,000.-"The New ment. or six is a Catholic. In the Local call "a law of guarantees" and there Century," in it allowed the Pope an annual Government Board, in the nominated Pro- grant of two million lire (£80, 000), salarie t posts there are 34 of total the Catholics, 13 in lieu of the revenues he lost with A daily paper describing a Catnolic testants to the ending of the Pemporal Power. religious function said that the 226, as against £7,500 to theallCathothe through on The touched or so Popes have never entered the sanetury swingAnd "acolytes lics." GREENOUC drawn this compound from the Italing the thurifer " sickening list of the various depart-! great ian treasury. ments. Then there is one of the But. it represented an Italian giOss injustices to Catholics-the exclusion L I WIPED COMPOUND.' Trade Education. But. at the time, of the needs of the Holy Here-Greenough-there was a good from University Proof Mark of Ksy's Compound Essence of nursery See. It was Victor Emanuel's esti- attendance "Trinity College-the at Mass on the Feast of Linesed for Coughs and Colds. mate of what the Pope required to testantism in Ireland-has an endowmpnt. of £60,000 (the confiscated pro- carry on the central administration the Assumption. Nearly all approach -
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