Untitled

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 23, 6 March 1891, Page 15

The Congregation of Rites has been occupied with a number of processes of Beatification in their various stages — those of Maddalena of Cano&sa, foundress of the Daughters of Charity ; of Jean Martin Moije, priest of the Missions Etiangeres and founder of the Sisters of Providence ; of Giustina Bezzoli, Benedictine, who has been popularly honoured without official sanction, in the Diocese of Arezzo ; and of Nun/io Bulprizio, the young Neapolitan labourer, who died at twenty-one. All public honours have been forbidden to the Venerable Julie Billiart, foundress of the Sisters of Notre-Dame. And a revision has been ordered of the writings of Hjilon&Anede Saint Coloman, and of those of Marie Marguerite de Lajemmerais, foundress of the Bistera of Charity of Montreal. Mr. Cunningbame-Graham, M.P., whatever be his deficiencies in other respects, has a right to speak with authority on matters connected with the American Indian trouble. He has had considerable experience of life with the Redman both in North and South America. Writing in the Daily Graphic be lays down the conditions on which vit may yet be possible to save the tribes from extermination. " I would," he says, " even at the eleventh hour, secure the Indians in a fertile territory, and prohibit any white man from settling amoug them, except he were a man of proved good character. 1 would in that territory ma<te it a criminal offence to supply drink to any Indian. I would exclude sll missionaries except those of the Roman Catholic faith, for in my experience of missionaries and Indians the Roman Catholics alone have seemed to me to understand them." What is the secret of the Catholic missionary's success ? Does it not lie in the fact that he is always prepared to sacrifice himself for the good of those to whom he preaches ?— Liverpool Catholic Times,