CATHOLIC NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 13 July 1888, Page 29

CATHOLIC NEWS.

Propaganda has succeeded in an appeal against the Italian Government for the restitution of about £3030 sequestrated a few years ago. Miss Dora Grant, a near relative of the late General Grant, was received into the Church by the Very Rev. Father Witts-Russell, O. P., on the feast of St. Joseph, in the church of the English Passionists, Avenue Hocbe, Paris. The Vaterland, of Vienna, announces the conversion of Count Moltke-Huitfeldt, one time Danish Plenipotentiary to Paris, and of. the Provost of the Copenhagen Oithedral Chapter. The importance of this latter conversion can hardly be over-estimated ; after the Bishop of Copenhagen, the Provost is the first ecclesiastic in the country. Besides his official status, which was heightenei by twentyfive years' occupation of the post, the new convert was the author of several theological works of high repute. These successes for the faith are due to the labours of the Jesuit missionaries, who stats that the number of conversions is very consoling. The Pope has appointed Cardinal Monaco la Valetta, Bishop of Albano, Administrator of Frasca.i diocese. His Eminence will represent Cardinal Howard. The Holy Father refrains from appointing another Bishop to Frascati, and another Cardinal Archpriest for the Chapter of St. Peter, hoping that Cardinal Howard may yet recover. The Right Rev. Dr. Navarre, M.S.H., who was consecrated in France, and has returned to New Guinea, bears the title of Bishop of Pentacomia, Vicar-Apostolic of Melanesia, and Administrator of Micronesia, with the exception of the Caroline Islands. Quite a number of Marist Fathers have recently baen sent from New York into Northern Winconsin to labour among the Belgian Catholics of that district. Iv lialy, France, and Spain, St. Zita is invoked not only by servants, whose special patron she is, but abo by mispresses in search of faithful attendants, and in all their domestic trials. Her feast is celebrated by the Church on April 27. The first church in the United States to be placed under the patronage of St. Peier Claver is now in course of construction at Sheboypan, Wis. The following is from the Darjeeling News :— "lt is really a pleasure to anyone interested in our educational Institutions in the hills, and the advancement and development- mental and physical, of our youngsters, to notice the very great change for the better that has taken place in the administration of St. Joseph's Seminary now St. Joseph's College, and in the class of pupils in the Institution since its traubfer to the Jesuit Fathers. The College and its play-ground are immediately below the Bengal Secretanan, and open to public view fr>>m almost evoiy p*rt of the station, and anyone walking on the road, which runs immediately above bus only to lojk down and see as fine a lot ot bojsa- play as can be found almost anywhere. They look strong and htalihy n.nd the vigorous hearty way they enter into their amusements, and their j iyous shouts show that they are well fed and well cared for, and that their College life is a happy one. The Institution is administered hy a principal of sound knowledge and wideexperienc,the Rev. Father Depelchin,who,webelieve,founded thesuccessful St. Xavier's Colleges of Ualcut' a and Bombay, has had good reason to be proud of his work, and has now been brought from Central Africa to found St, Joseph 8 College at Darjeeling, and by six other Fathers, French, German, and Er.gli&h, of sound learning, and longexpenen :e aided by three lay Brothers, who look after the physical wants and comforts of the pupils, From the first we said tae College would be a success and a boon to parents and the rising generation of all India, and even beyond, and we are glal to find that our prediction is in a fair way to being fulfilled. If we live to see the proposed new College buildings at North Point ertcted, we will, we feel sure, live to see the prediction fully fulfilled." On Sunday, May 7, another youthful Bishop was added to the ranks of the Irish Hierarchy, in the person of the Most Rev. Edward Mdgennis, the new Bishop of Kilmore. The Archbit-hop of Armagh was the Consecrating prelate. Seven Bishops attended the solemn ceremonial in the Cathedral at Cavan, and the gathering of the general clergy anil laity was enormous A fellow-student of the new Bishop, the Rev. Thomas Findlay, of the Ordi r of Jesuits, preached the Consecration hirmo , and the youthful prelate was placed among his piiests and people with all the eclat th .t should surround so auspicious an occasion, and presag) a uspful and happy episcopacy. We wish Dr. MagenniH long yais of l'fe at d strength. His diocese has been Borely tried by ihe loss of the reverend occupantsof the seat to which 1 enow worthily succeeds. He bnngp to the ancient see of Kilmore ihe strength of the. suffrages i f a fai bful pnesthood, and we are sure that his piactical mind will [ ryer >ye treming with good projects in the service ot leiigiou ;.n 1 rountn , to the united cause of which we cherish the hope that his uloquuui tongue and ready pen will do loyal and bnlliaut strvue for mtny, many >tais. A celebrated event in the modern history of the Catholic Church is called to mind by the appearance in Madrid of Faiher Motara, a delicate looking man 37 years of age, who has created a/ urtre by his thoughtful, worn face, cli quent preaching, and marvellous knowledge (fjMßguagfs. He speaks and writes thoroughly twenty-two tongues, IWcWnd has gone »\ild over him, and his sermons h ive so moved the Queen, pi mcetseb, and ladu s of the court, that more funds than he can w~ 1 di-pose < f have been subscribed for a convent chapel which he is building at Onate, in the Basque highlands This young priest is the same Edgar Mortara, a Jewish Child, born in the States of the Cnuroh whose education and al.egcu forcible abducion from his p» ents by Papal authorities caused suci a se isation thnty yean ago.