CATHOLIC NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 47, 14 March 1890, Page 13

CATHOLIC NEWS.

SIXTY-FOUR Cardinals have died during the pontificate of Leo XIII. The English Catholic pilgrimage to the Holy Land will take place in the spring. It is announced that Mr. W. B. Vance Packman, late editor of the Church Review, the most respectable of the two chief Rituslistic organs, and an organising secretary to the English Church Union, has been received into the Catholic Church, and has received Confirmation at the bands of Cardinal Manning. Another noteworthy recent convertion is that of the matron of St. Thomas' Hospital, she being the third prominent member of the London Hospital Nursing Sisterhood who has taken that step within the last year. There are two flourishing congregations of Italian Catholics in the archdiocese of St Paul — one in St. Paul and one in Minneapolis. As compared with last year's totals there is an increase in the number of priests in the United States of 345 ; of churches, 67 ; of parochial schools, 410 ; of pupils attending those schools, 67,644. The Bth of February has been fixed as the date for the great Italian pilgrimage to the Vatican to assemble at Rome, Every city in Italy will be represented by a numerous deputation. Cardinal Richard, in a letter which has been read from the Paris pulpits, calls upon the faithful to help him in erecting a monument in the Church of the Sacre Coeur, on Montmartre, to the memory of his predecessor, Cardinal Guibert. As Cardinal Richard says, among the many claims of the late Archbishop of Paris to the gratitude of future ages one of the strongest is the erection of the Church of the National Vow, with its inscription, " To the Sacred Heart of Jesus from devoted and penitent France." It seems that the stronger the war now being waged against religion in France, the more the Christian Brothers multiply. At a recent meeting, the president of which was the Archbishop of Paris, the Due de Broglie showed that in 1884 the novitiate of the Christian Brothers contained but 360 Petit Novices, as they are called, whereas the present year the number is 2,705. Last year the collection made in favour of the institution of the Petit Novices amounted to 330,000 francs. This year they have gone up to 350,000. The Oermania, the Catholic organ of Germany, and the Courier, the Catholic organ of Belgium, say that the Catholic world should take instant notice of the new Kulturkampf in Italy, which seizes upon funds contributed for charity by such vast numbers of nonItalians. Archbishop Gross, of Oregon, has ordered a Triduum throughout his ecclesiastical jurisdiction in order to ward oil the scourge of "la grippe," or influenza. His Grace requests the people to stop cursing, drunkenness, and other sins, for by sin hath death entered iuto this world. The Moniteur of Rome announces that Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro, the Pope's Secretary of State, and General Simmons, the English special envoy, have reached an agreement upon one of the points in dispute in regard to the Church administration in Malta. The Italian Parliament has passed the law which places the property of ail charitable confraternities in Italy under tho administration of Government officials and the local authorities. Under this law the Government will take possession of the property of 8.487 confraternities, having a capital value of 111,951,000 lire, or 22,290,000 dollars.

Sal vini'syoangest daughter (the child of his brief second marriage) is being educated at the Santissima Annunziata school in Florence. Last year her father coached her and her schoolmates for the prizeday performances, and every one wondered at the children's gifts for elocution. Salvim's married daughter has a passion for the stage, but her father will not allow her to adopt the profession. A paragraph to the effect that the Jesuits were about to be withdrawn from Brazil has been going the rounds of the Press. A Catholic paper, having addressed inquiries on the subject to Father Anderledy, the General of the Order, has received from him the following reply : " The news demands a peremptory denial. I have never thoupht of recalling our Fathers from Brazil. It is for God to indicate the moment of recall, if it is to come, and it is in His Divine Providence that we place our confidence." Father Mulbane, of St. Vincent de Paul's church, Mt. Vernon, 0., announced that there was not a mixed marriage in his parish in the year 1889. The Pope recently performed the ceremony of blessing the relics of Padre Pirotti. He walked firmly and without assistance, and appeared to be quite strong. It is pleasing news to all who foßter a tender devotion to the Sacred Heart to learn that Hia Hoi iness Pope Leo XIII. , has given expression to his eagerness for the canonisation of the Blessed Margaret Mary. The Jesuits have established a mission station for the Kaffirs near King Williamatown, South Africa. They have 250 native converts attached to the mission, for whom Father Koenig, S.J., intends building a church. The press is agitated over the announcement that a London lady has taken up the labours of Father Damien and will go to Kalawao to work among the lepers. The Prince of Wales referred to her in a recent speech, but mentioned no name. She is Amy Fowler, daughter of an English clergyman, and a convert to the Catholic faiih. The only school for the leper children of Molokai is a Catholic Bchool taught by Franciscan Nuns. They are instructed in reading, writing, etc., sewing for the girls, and religious instruction for all. After praising words for the devoted teachers, Carman M. Austin, a correspondent of the Torontt Mail, goes on to say : " These children are under the cara of Dr. Goto, an experienced Japanese, who has succeeded in curing several caEes of leprosy when the patient was under hia care from the earlest development of the disease. The sufferings of Father Damien were greatly alleviated in his last days by the use of gurjun oil, which is believed by the physicans in India to be a certain cure of leprosy when used in the earliest stages of the malady.

It is made from a fir tree in the Adaman Islands, and if all that it claimed for it be true, it will indeed ba a Heavea-sent blessing to the Hawaiian people, who are rapidly being exterminated by leprosy." Dr. Dcellinger, the bead of the "Old Catholic" movement ia Southern Germauy, and one of the famons opponents of the doctrine of Papal infallibility, died in Munich on January 10. He was taken witn ipfluenza about ten days previously. Johaon Joseph Ignae Dcellicger was born in Bamberg, Bavaria, February 28, 1780, and received priestly orders in 1822, when he became attached to the diocese of Bamberg. His treatise on " The Doctrine of the Eucharist" came out in 1826, and in that year he was nominated to lecture on church history before tne University of Munich. The substance of these discourses was printed in one volume that appeared in 1828 and in another more elaborate ten years later. la 1845 he began to give attention to politics and went into the Bavarian Parliament as a representative of the University of Munich. Four years after this, in the Diet of Frankfort, he voted for the total separation of Church and State, and in 1861 he delivered a series of lectures advocating the abandonment of its temporal power by the Holy See. Up to this time he had printed " Origins of Christianity," " The Reformation : its interior Developments and Effects," " The Religion of Mohammed," " A Sketch of Luther," " Paganism and Judaism," and " Christianity in the Church," and these were followed by " Papal Legends of the Middle Ages," (1863), and « A History of the Religious Sects of the Middle Ages" (1870). Dr. Dcellinger obtained wide fame by his opposition to the decree of the Vatican Council, declaring the infallibility of the Pope when addressing the Church tx cathedra on questions of faith and morals. AB|he declined to submit lo the decrees of the Vatican Council, he was on April 17, 1872, formally excommunicated by the Archbishop of Munich. On July 28, 1871, he was elected Rector of the University of Munich, receiving 54 out of 63 votes cast. He took a leading part in the Old Catholic Congress of Munich (1871) and Cologne (1872). In the former he showed himself opposed to the measures adopted by the majority for effecting a permanent eccleaieetical organisation of the "Old Catholics" into a distinct sect. He presided over the Old Catholic Congress, at Bonn in 1874. He was appointed President of the Royal Academy of Science in Bavaria,