Item 2 - Irish Cellege, Rome, 22 May

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Dr. C. Bovlan to — Lay Sisters in the Presentation Order may be solemnly professed, with the permission of the local Ordinary; the Pope seems opposed to the tnglish vicars-apostolic request for the retrenchment of Helycays of Obligation; A Patriarch has beem appointed for the Catholic Armenians in Constantinople; Dr. Dubois, the archbishop of New Vork, intends visitinq Ireland, te collect money for the erection ef a hespital to house sick Irish immigrants. Dr. Slattery has addad a note to the effect that he gave the Roman document concerning the Presentations Sisters to Mrs. Power, then Superioress in Thurles.