CATHOLIC NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 33, 3 June 1892, Page 27

CATHOLIC NEWS.

(From the Liverpool Catholic Times.')

Cardinal Goosskns has just ordained twelve priests for the Congo mission. They were educated at the Congo seminary, Louvain. The Ducheaa de Pastrana, a Spanish lady, who has just died somewhat suddenly, has left a great part of her large fortune to tbe Jesuits. The Holy Father, speaking to an English priest a few days ago, said " I appointed Mgr. Yaughan to the see of Westminster because he is a man of so much energy and zeal." The Bight Rev Dr Gaughran, Bishop of Kimberley, has just opened 8t Leo's College, the fir9t Catholic college in tbe Orange Free State. St Leo's is a massive, stone building, and it nas about 2,000 acres of land attached to it. Tbe would-be murderers of Dean Ponenski, of Koscielee, in Poland, who was fired upon and seriously wounded tbe other day, are said to bave come from Berlin. Tbe outrage was the outcome of a serious Anarchist plot. The Czar has sent the Abbe Lawor, of Guilers, near Brest, the Cross of the Order of Catherine, in token of his pleasure at the kind interest taken by the Abbed in the sailors of tba Russian warships that visited Brest last October. The position of the French Government is just now somewhat self-contradictory. With one band it is trying to stop tbe priests from preaching against Socialism, and with the other it Is trying to put down that section of tbe Sociality which is anxious to clear tbe way for tht social revolution with dynamite. Whilst Mgr. Turniaz, Bishop of Nancy, was preaching in bis Cathedral on Monday evening, April 4, on tbe social question, a disdisturbance was caused by a band of about fity Radicals. About two hundred chairs were smashed, several candlesticks were overturned, and the ornamectel ironwork of the chapels was torn down. Four or five persons were slightly injured. The Protestant traditon is dying, though slowly. Here is an instance. The Echo, a paper which is distinctly anti-Catholic in its general spirit, published on Monday, April 11, a short memoir of Gregory XIII, in its anniversary series. After mentioning that it

had bean alleged as a blot on hi* memory that he bad caused a Te Deum to be celebrated for tbe massacre of St Bartholomew, it added that he did so under a misconception as to its real character, the French Ambassador having represented it as the suppression of a dangerous insurrection. Dr William H. Buddick, a well-known physician of South Boston, United States, has been reoeived into the Catholic Church by the Bight Bey Dr Brady, Auxiliary-Bishop of Boston. Dr Buddick was an Episcopalian, and for a long time believed in "the branch theory." One of the causes which contributed to his conversion was his experience of the resignation with which Catholics meet death. Tbe Bey P. Brugidon, who is the zealous originator of the Episcopal Jubilee offering of a church to the Holy Father, which is to be dedicated to his patron, St Joachim, is io Paris. He has received several large subscriptions which will enable him to continue the rapid building of the beautiful monument which is to perpetuate the name of Leo XIII. in the Eternal City. But the offering will by no means suffice to terminate tbe work. They barely admit of its continuation for the time being. Catholics will take this hint. The thanks of all Catholics are due to the editor of the Pall Mall Qauette for reprinting the account of Mdlle. de la Guerre's wonderful cure in the Grotto at Lourdes. The girl had had two shocks of paralysis and was carried to the bath white as a corpse, her HmDB distorted, her eyes sightless. In one minute she was restored to perfect health, and this under the eyes of an English Protestant doctor. Surely some Protestants reading this in tbe pages of a secular journal, must be constrained to ask whether it is not evidence of the Divine mission of the Catholic Church such as no Protestant sect can show. Of others we fear it must be said " Neither would they be persuaded though one rose from the dead." On Thursday March 31, Mr Johnston of Ballykilbeg asked the Home Secretary a question intended to give a damaging impression about convents. He wanted to know how many deaths of nuns in the convents of the United Kingdom had been registered in the last twenty years, and if any inquests held in convents io the same period. Mr Matthews said be bad no special information on the subject, but the law as to the registration of deaths applied to convents precisely as it did to private houses, and was observed in tbe same way, Then Mr Sexton, always ready to meet an emergency, put a very useful question. Rising in his place he said, amid cheers. " With reference to tbe extraordinary form of this question and tbe sinister suggestions contained in it, I would ask the Home Secretary if he is aware of any reason whatever for thinking that deathß inside convents require in* quests more than deathß outside? " " I know of absolutely no reason," said Mr Matthews, and then there waa another cheer, and Mr Johnston looked utterly dissapointed and disgusted at the turn things had taken. Father Morris, S.J., in his article on "Catholic England in Modern Times," published in tbe current issue of the Month, gives some painful statistics showing the losses which the Church has suffered in England, and, briefly, this is how he accounts for it. The Irieh poor bave so many admirable qualities that, if one evil had not prevailed amongst them, it is not too much to say that they would have converted all the English of their own class amongst whom they have been thrown. They are in their normal state so full of faith, so so attached to theiijpriests, so large-handed out of their poverty, so hard-working, so frugal — as the harvesters used to show— so full of charity, and patience, and fervour, that if drink had not ruined many of them, they would bave been tho very salt of the land. But driak has, in too many instances, kept them in the position of hewers of wood and drawers of water, robbed them of their good qualities, and made them neglect their religion. Father Morris knows what he is writing about, and tbe lesson which his words convey should be carefully pondered by every priest and lay Catholic in Great Britain.