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He thanks Hudson for sending him an Ave Maria. Then he explains the organization and prospective development of the Catholic University College and a Public School which were recently founded for the benefit of Catholic students in England. He recommends these schools to Americans who want an English Catholic education. :: X-2-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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He thanks Hudson for the Ave Maria and the notice of his works, also for the donation to the Indian Mission of Pondichery. Would like to accept the invitation to Notre Dame extended by the Superior General. Funds at the present are much needed at University College, so he may come as a beggar. :: X-2-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Capell writes in response to Hudson's letter offering him a position as Rome correspondent for the Ave Maria. Capell is willing to accept Hudson's offer. He will send a specimen letter on request. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 32mo.

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He places at McMaster's disposal a report of a visit to Ward's Island. He would be obliged if it were published in the Freeman's Journal. The bearer will hand McMaster a copy of Sunday's Herald. :: I-1-n L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Capes sends a biographical sketch of Bertha May Ivory :: X-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Capes had the address of the Ave Maria sent to her by Sister Frances Raphael of the Stone Dominicans and she urged her to submit articles she had written to Hudson. She gives her ideas on the type of writing she proposes to do for the Ave Maria. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 9pp. 16mo.

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Capes thanks Hudson for returning her manuscript and the number containing the story Hudson printed. :: X-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

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Capes submits several articles for the Ave Maria. :: X-3-b A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

Scope and Contents Cappellari [Cappelari] acknowledges Fenwick's letter of April 8 in which he exposed the impudence of John Baptist Fauvel and his evil conduct. Cappelari is not surprised since Fauvel while spending 3 years in Rome was a deceitful pilgrim and although he begged to be advanced to the priesthood under the title of missionary, he could not obtain this from the Sacred Congregation. While the conduct of the man deserves condemnation, the Sacred Congregation thinks that he should not receive a...

Scope and Contents Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal of Baltimore has written to the Sacred Congregation that the Catholic missionaries find that many of the Indians in Michigan have not contracted matrimony, or have done so with person in the first degree of affinity or with persons not baptized and the missionaries are unable to apply remedies to the situation because they lack faculties. When this was brought to the attention of Pope Leo XII, he decided that all the faculties for the revalidation of ...

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Cappellari acknowledges Rese's letter of January 20 from Cincinnati in which he announces his arrival and the several councils which he has attended on matters concerning the welfare of the Church, in that region. The Sacred Congregation will not fail to consider well the matters sent to them by Rese. The Cardinal renews his interest in the affairs of the diocese. Castruccio Castracane signs as secretary. no. 3. :: III-2-g L.S. Italian 1p. 8vo.

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Cappellari acknowledges Rese' letter of April 18, concerning the progress of the Leopoldine Association. He will take into consideration what Rese has suggested for the advantage of the Association. He asks Rese to notify Canon Francis Schmid that he thanks him for the services presented for him by Rese and the great things he has done. Castracane signs as secretary, no. 2. :: III-2-g L.S. Italian 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Cappellari expresses his great satisfaction in learning from Rese's letter of Dec. 10 of the establishment of the Leopoldine Association. Rese will understand this. Knowing Cappellari's interest in the missions, Pope Leo XII approves the establishment and grants it indulgences and has written an Apostolic Brief stating the indulgences granted. With his letter to Archbishop Hugo Pietro Spinola, the nuncio at Vienna, Cappellari, is sending the Brief of the Pope, since he has no other way....

Scope and Contents The Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda Fide has been informed of the agreement made Oct. 9, 1826 between Bishop Henry Conwell of Philadelphia and the trustees of St. Mary's Cathedral of that city. This agreement and the declaration of the trustees tends to destroy episcopal power and ecclesiastical discipline in that diocese. After considering these matters the Sacred Congregation on April 30, 1827 decreed that the agreement and declaration should be made know to all the bishops of the...

Scope and Contents This letter is to inform Fenwick that two Dominicans, Fathers William Harold and John Ryan who have been living in the diocese of Philadelphia have been strongly urged by the Sacred Congregation that since they have been ordered by the Holy Father to depart, they should go to Cincinnati and there perform their sacred ministry. Fenwick is so informed that he may receive these two men, show them evidences of benevolence, propose to them that they remain there and serve for the good of...

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The Sacred Congregation would be greatly pleased to learn of the condition of the diocese over which Fenwick is placed and for that purpose asks him to send it a report of the diocese following the rules set down by Pope Benedict XIV to form and content. Castruccio Castracane signs as secretary, no, 19. :: III-2-g L.S. Latin 1p. 8vo.

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Cappellari has written to Msgr. Luigi Lambruschini, the Papal Nuncio at Paris to pay to Rese 50 scudi for his expenses on the trip according to their agreement in Rome. If Rese will call on the Nuncio he will receive the money. Signed by Archbishop Pietro Caprano as secretary, no. 2. :: III-2-g L.S. Italian 1p. 8vo.

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Cappiek encloses a clipping from the New Orleans Republican in which a vicious attack by Daniel Ullman against the Catholic Church was made. He requests that McMaster answer it. Clipping enclosed :: I-2-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Cappon has $429 for the purchase of a house in St. Joseph, Michigan and hopes for $500 in the collection at his next visit there. Cappon trusts a priest will be sent at Lefevere's earliest convenience. The people there have presented Cappon a house and lot for $900. Cappon suggests that Lefevere advance $400. Cappon will continue to collect to pay for the loan, and should a priest be settled there, the borrowed money would be returned in a very short time. As many in St. Joseph are Germans...

Scope and Contents Cappon sends $38 for the Propagation of the Faith, $30 from Niles and Bertrand, $8 from St. Joseph, Michigan, by Father Joseph Van Watershoot. Cappon has the deed of the future priest house in St. Joseph. He intends to open an additional subscription list to cover the mortgage, and asks for the safest way to lift the mortgage. Cappon learns with great joy that Lefevere has no objection to a mission by Father Louis Van den Driessche. Cappon wants to know what extraordinary faculties are...

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The walls of their church are rising. The people are well disposed as reflected in their offerings. Cappon wishes to mortgage the church for two or three thousand dollars, on which, if Lefevere will procure the money, Cappon himself will pay the yearly interest. If Lefevere does not wish to send the money, he asks him to send the papers necessary to raise the amount elsewhere. :: III-2-l A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Cappon received $32 for the seminary from Niles and Bertrand congregation. He expects to bring the money sometime in January. He understands Lefevere has received a petition from Niles for an Irish assistant priest. Cappon feels proud that Lefevere did not answer it. The petition contains many a lie to get subscribers. With some well-disposed, it was to get Father John DeNeve back; some others to get an Irish priest. They intended to send the petition to the Archbishop of Cincinnati John...

Scope and Contents The Holy Father Leo XII in the audience of June 24, 1827 ordered Caprano as secretary of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda to tell Fenwick that he has been granted the faculty of dispensing for ten cases from the impediment of disparity of cult, and of affinity in the first degree in the collateral line for very grave causes and of legitimation of the children provided that the contracting parties promise to have the children baptized and educated as Catholics and intend to live...

Scope and Contents Fenwick asked if Catholics who, in order to escape the publications of the banns, attempt marriage before a magistrate or Protestant minister must contract marriage before a Catholic pastor and renew their consent. This question was laid before Pope Leo XII by Caprano in an audience of May 4, 1828. The pope ordered the following instruction to be sent to Fenwick. If it is evident that the decree of the Council of Trent, 24 Session, Chapter 1 de Ref. Matrimonii, has been published or observed...

Scope and Contents Capranus acknowledges Rese's letter of Feb. 24 in which he asked that Capranus propose to the Cardinal Prefect that Barron be permitted to remain there and to return as soon as he thinks proper. The Cardinal grants the permission on condition that the Archbishop invite him and that he remain in the diocese with a priest as assisstant. This permission is given publicly by the superiors of the Collegio Urbano to avoid scandal and the Archbishop is to take the proper steps to avoid scandal....

Scope and Contents Bishop Fenwick at the throne of His Holiness, tells him that infidel savages in his diocese came to him asking that their infant children be baptized and he asks His Holiness for permission to give them the sacrament. The reason for this action at the time is that these children might die before they reach the age of reason and be lost if not baptized. A second reason is that the adult Indians by this action show that they are well disposed and that they themselves will probably be baptized...

Scope and Contents Caius has incurred several impediments of consanguinity and affinity by illicit intercourse from which children were born and then against the advice of the priest has entered into civil marriage with one, a counsin of the second degree of kindred, to whom he wishes to be legally married. This party is now with child by subsequent sins and he asks the dispensation to enable him to marry her promising to fulfill any penance imposed by the Pope or by the Bishop of Cincinnati. In the audience...

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Caprotti thanks Hudson for sending a copy of the Ave Maria. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Owing to French persecutions, the Capuchin houses of Ireland have been overcrowded with refugees from France. In order to meet this condition an appeal is made to the public for funds. A committee to handle the fund is named in the document. Among papers of Father Daniel E. Hudson, C.S.C. :: X-2-g Printed 1p. 8vo.

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Carayon's conscience impels him to inform Lefevere of the unbecoming conduct of Father Francis Xavier Pourret of the Detroit Diocese. :: III-2-j A.L.S. French 2pp. 8vo.