. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. ted by the various religious professors. Pupilsof this institution are admitted communities in the Maritime Provinces enjoy a to degrees in Arts on the satne conditions as deservedly high reputation. The distribution of those prescribed for the students of St. Francis the Catholic population in the several dioceses is Xaviers College. The admission of four young shown appro
. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. ted by the various religious professors. Pupilsof this institution are admitted communities in the Maritime Provinces enjoy a to degrees in Arts on the satne conditions as deservedly high reputation. The distribution of those prescribed for the students of St. Francis the Catholic population in the several dioceses is Xaviers College. The admission of four young shown approximately in the following table, based ladies of St. Bernards Convent to the degree of on statistics given in Hoffmans Catholic Direc. during the present year (1897), marks an tory for 1897 : epoch in the history of Catholic education in Halifax io 000 Canada. Thus the Congregation de Notre Dame, Antigonish 73,000 which was the first to found a Convent School in g^ j^^j^j^ 60,000 Canada, and also in the Maritime Provinces, is Chatham also the first to have its convent graduates Charlottetown admitted to University degrees. It may here be mentioned incidentally that the Sisters of the Total 293,000. The Must Rev. Ui. Obrien. DOCTRINES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH THK MOST RifV. JOHN WALSH, D,D., Arclibisliop of Toronto. I HAVE been asked to contribute to theCanadian Encyclopedia a brief expositionof Catholic doctrine and belief. I do sowith much pleasure, and hope that thisauthoritative statement of what Catholics dobelieve will help to remove prejudice, and impartsome useful religious knowledge. We are con-fident that if our separated brethren knew ourdoctrine better, they would like us and our religionall the more. In the space at my disposal I cangive only a summary of our doctrine, bat I shallendeavour to make that summary as completeand clear as possible. As I am expected to giveonly those doctrines that may be considered dis-tinctively Catholic, it will
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