EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23882, 9 August 1939, Page 16

EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

SCOTTISH ARCHBISHOP GOING TO NEW ZEALAND (From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, July 10. The Archbishop of St. Andrews, Edinburgh, the Most Rev. A. J. McDonald, 0.5. C., is to attend the Eucharistic Congress, which opens in Wellington next February. He expects to reach Auckland on January 25 by the Arawa. Archbishop McDonald, who is 68 will be the first Scottish prelate to visit the Dominion. He is well known throughout the United Kingdom as a powerful speaker. He is an' antiCommunist, and on several occasions he has conducted anti-Communist lecture campaigns. Immediately before he was appomted to the See at Edinburgh he was the Abbot of Fort Augustus, in the quiet seclusion of the Highlands. Formerly an abbot, and now a monk, of the Benedictine Order, he is one of the few so elevated to an archbishopric in the United Kingdom. He began his priesthood in Liverpool. Others who are going to the Congress from the United Kingdom are Mr and Mrs F. J. Sheed and the Rev. Dr James O'Mahoney, the distinguished Capuchin professor of philosophy at Cork University. Mr Sheed, who is an Australian, is head. of the Catholic publishing firm of Sheed and Ward, and is one of the foremost lay speakers in the co.untry.