CARDINAL HINSLEY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 65, 19 March 1943, Page 5

CARDINAL HINSLEY

RELIGIOUS LEADERS PAY TRIBUTE Recd. 9 p.m. London. March 17. Religious leaders pay tribute to Cardinal Hinsley, for whom solemn Requiem Mass will be sung in Westminster Cathedral on- Monday. The body will be taken to the cathedral frem Buntingford on Sunday afternoon. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a broadcast, said: “Cardinal Hinsley was a devoted citizen to his country. The note of patriotism in his speeches was always strong and clear, but he was convinced that his best service to the country was to help it follow faithfully that natural law which is the law of God for His creation. He was eager to co-operate with other Christiana, whether or not they were of his communion. He served nobly in the cause of co-operation in Christian wi.ness. All whose aspirations are set upon Christian Britain mourn his passing. Many of us also mourn the loss of the kindliest and most warm-hearted friend." The Rev. Dr. J. S. Whale, Moderator of the Free (Church Council, said: “There was a warm humanity, a moral directness and a fine Christian simplicity about Cardinal Hinsley which made itself felt far beyond the bounds of his own communion.” "Cardinal Hinsley, in private as wen as in public, spoke with deep moral passion against persecution, especially against the persecution of the Jews in Europe,” the Chief Rabbi. Dr. Hertz, laio. “No one felt more deeply than Cardinal Hinsley the ou rage of the Nazi onslaught on humanity. No one gave nobler utterance to England’s horror of the well-planned and systematic slaughter of myriads bv the ghouls of Berlin." “The death of Cardinal Hinsley will cause a deep sense of loss in this country," says the Evening Standarc diarist. “His apnointment was « happy choice for Rome and for England, for there has been no more formidable voice raised against th? iniquities of the Nazis and Fascist.than that of the sturdy cardinal fron Yorkshire.” Last year Cardinal Hinsley receive.’ the honorary Degree of Doctor ol Civil Law at Oxford, on which occasion J. G. Barrington-Ward, M.A Public Orator, in the course of hi: speech, said: "Here you have a mar raised to so great eminence, whonr you know to have been outstanding during the time of war among hu fellow-leaders and teachers, not onh of his own Church but also of th whole State, continually and with al his power sustaining and helping th< most ancient of all causes, that o liberty and humanity. ... I presen to you therefore the most eminen man. Arthur Hinsley, Cardinal, Arch bishop of Westminster truest leadei of h’s Church as of his country, in tern<*rter and *»xemnlar of the Britis! spirit, so that he may be granted out highest title and admitted honor! can a to the degree of Doctor in CM Law.”