Cardinal Alexander Barnabo Prefect of the Propaganda Fide has sent a rescript authorizing them to allow Requiem Masses to be solemnized on anniversaries of societies to pray for the departed. It is dated July 3 and will be printed with the acts of their Council, now in press. Today Purcell also received a letter from Barnabo asking the advice of all their prelates as to the nature of vows made by Visitation nuns. Are they solemn or simple? The greatest uncertainty exists as to vows of all religious communities in this country. Lefevere remember the scene with the Spanish superior of the Sisters of Charity in Baltimore some years ago. Father Francis Joseph Rudolf Rudolph of the Diocese of Vincennes has established a community of Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis and pretends that only the Pope can absolve from their vows. The same seems to be held by the Superior Father Leo Meyer of the Brothers of the Christian Schools of Mary Society of Mary near Dayton, Nazareth, Ohio. Father James Keogh has granted as professor at Mt. St. Mary's Cincinnati by Bishop Michael O'Connor of Pittsburgh. :: III-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. 11