"LAND OF LIBERTY"

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1937, Page 7

"LAND OF LIBERTY"

By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright.

COMPLIMENT TO ENGLAND CREATION OF CARDINAL

Vatican City, Nov. 17. Dr. Arthur Hinsley, Archbishop of Westminster, has been created Cardinal. "It is owing to his regard for England that the Pope wishes to have an English cardinal," said Dr. Hinsley referring to his appointment. He told interviewers that the Pope looks on England as the classio land of liberty and regrets the estrangement between Italy and England ln the past two or three years. "Quite definitely my appointment has no political signiflcance," stated Dr. Hinsley, "but there is no doubt that the Pope wishes to promote peace in every way." The Daily Telegraph's Vatican City correspondent says that the creation of five new cardinals makes the total 69 in the sacred college, leaving only one vacancy. Such a full college ha3 not been known for some years. Thlrty-one of the Cardinals will be Italians. Dr. Hinsley will be created a cardinal at a Vatican Consistory, together with four other eminent churchmen, including Archbishop Pizzaro, who represented the Pope at the Coronation of King George VI last May. Dr. Hinsley, who is 71 years of age, is the son of a joiner and builder at Carlton, Yorkshire. He was educated at Ushaw, and graduated Bachelor of Arts at London University in 1889. He was the first headmaster of St. Bede's Grammar School, Bradford, and from 1904 till 1917 he was an exceedingly popular parish priest at Sutton Park and Sydenham. In 1917 he received his first really important appointment, being made rector of the English College at Rome, and became agent for all the English diocesan bishops, except the late Cardinal Bourne. During his thirteen years as rector he was appointed successiwly domestic prelate to the Pope, tituiar Bishop of SebastopolJs, ' tituiar ArclibLshop of Sardes and Apostolic Visitor to African Missions in British territory. In 1930 he left the college to become Apostolic Delegate in Africa. His delegacy lasted four years and he returned to Rome, being appointed a canon of St. Peter's, to the surprise of those who expected that he would be made a cardinal. In March, 1935, he was appointed Archbishop of Westminster, the highest ecclesiastical position in the Roman Catholic Church in England, thus succeeding Cardinals Wiseman, Mamiing, Vanghaa and Bourne.