NEW CARDINAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25395, 27 December 1945, Page 7

NEW CARDINAL

CHOICE CRITICISED APOSTOLIC REPRESENTATION MELBOURNE. Dec. 26 The choice of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Norman Gilroy, as a cardinal was criticised by the Minister of Immigration and Information, Mr A. A. Calwell, who urged the claims of the Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Mannix. Mr Calwell said the news that Dr Gilroy was to be created a cardinal would he received with very mixed feelings by Catholics in Australia. While there would be congratulations for the new cardinal, widespread consternation and bitter resentment would be felt that the honour which rightly belonged to Dr Mannix should have gone to a compartively junior member of the Australian hierarchy.

Unfortunately, said Mr Calwell, during the war the Vatican had to depend on a representative whose ability and limited knowledge of Australia and the Australians had ill-fitted him to influence and advance the Australian Church. If the Catholic Church in this country had come of age to the extent that it could now claim an Australianborn cardinal, the time was surely overripe when it should have an Australianborn apostolic delegate. Mr Calwell added that for reasons which appeared to him to be valid he hoped that the influence of the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Panico, in Australian Church politics and in affairs generally would cease with his early return to Rome.

ELECTION OBSERVERS ALLIES FOR GREECE (Reed. 6.35 p.m.) WASHINGTON .Dec. 25 Government officials announced that more than 600 Americans would soon go to Greece as election observers, after training in Greek history and politics. They would comprise 100 teams and would proceed to observation points throughout Greece. It was added that Britain was sending about 100 teams and France about 40.