to be reckoned with, and may become dominant at any moment, as it has in the past, and the past is always liable to recur; in fact, it is seldom wholly absent from the present. The vicissitudes of the French Church have been many and at times most appalling, but it has again and again, like the Phoenix, risen from its ashes, endowed with new life and vigor, ready to expend itself for the salvation of souls, both in and out of France, and to fecundate society with a spirit of true Christian life and manhood. CHURCH AND SCIENCE Catholic teaching is opposed to science, is a favorite cry of the worldwise of to-day. Father Rickaby, S. J., has a little set of questions to put to these Magi. He asks: "With what particular branch of science does Catholic teaching clash? What particular knowledge have you of that particular branch? What particular knowledge have you of Catholic teaching?" Try it on the next one who assails you with the popular but false assertion. 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Extension Departments: New York, Park Ave. and 93d Street; Brooklyn, Montrose and Graham Aves.; Albany, St. Patrick's Institute. AN INCIDENT A party of sightseers, all of whom were non-Catholics, decided to visit the churches in the town through which they were passing. From church to church they went, arriving at last at the only Catholic church in the place. When the group emerged from the sacred edifice one of them said: "How strange! Scarcely a word was spoken by any of us while we were in there, and think how we laughed and chattered while passing through the other churches." The others did not attempt to explain the reason of their silence, but all admitted that there was a mysterious something that checked the flow of conversation and forbade levity of manner before the Catholic altar. A Catholic to whom this incident was related suggested that the hush and decorum. was due to the invisible but real Presence in the tabernacle. Did the visitors feel the influence of Our Blessed Lord's nearness? Cardinal Vaughan. in his volume "The Young Priest," asserts that "the Eucharist sometimes becomes sensible to persons entering into Its presence. I know several cases in which Protestants received the grace of conversion in consequence of the sensible and very powerful influence of the Blessed Sacrament during a visit made through mere curiosity." Opportunity makes some meni, while other men make opportunity. Everything 3 St. Malachy, B. C. W. 4 St. Charles Borromeo, Abp. C. Th. 5 St. Zachary F. 6 St. Leonard, H. S. 7 St. Willibrord, B. C. Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost Gospel, St. Matt. xxii. 15-21: of Tribute. S. The Coin 8 Patronage of the Bl. V. Mary. F. 13 St. Diego, C. S. 14 St. Stanislaus Kostka, C. Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost Gospel, St. Matt. ix 18-26: The Ruler's Daughter. S. 15 St. Gertrude, V. T. 17 St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, B. C. Th. 19 St. Elizabeth of Hungary, W. 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