THE CHURCH.
There are now five Negro priests in the Catholic Church in the United States; three are in the Order of St. Joseph, one is a member of the Holy Ghost order, and the fifth is attached to Archbishop Ireland’s diocese in St. Paul, Minn.
On Sunday afternoon, October 30, the societies of the Holy Name of the Roman Catholic Church made a big demonstration in Washington, D. C. One feature of it was the parade, with several thousand in line, including delegations from Baltimore and other nearby places. There were many colored men in line, but there was no semblance of “jim crowing.” Each marched with his own parish members of whatever color. There was a full share of colored mounted marshals and two of the six bands were colored, but the colored bands were not leading colored contingents.
This was in striking contrast to the action of the local committee of the World’s Sunday School Congress here last May, which barred the few colored delegates from the parade altogether, while in other places they were segregated as far as possible.
Two thousand Negro Baptists have been meeting in Little Rock, Ark.
The M. E. Conference at Nacogdoches, Texas, opened by singing “And are we yet alive!”