CATHOLIC NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 16, 18 August 1893, Page 20

CATHOLIC NEWS.

(From the Liverpool Catholic Times.) Twinty-voub adult coloured converts were confirmed recently by ArchbishoD Ireland in St Peter Claver'e Church, Bt Paul, Minnesota. The V#ce Cattolfoa of Trent announces that Baron Scbleinitz. of Mertenburg, hag abjured Protestantism, and entered the Catholic Church. The new cunvert is one of the most distinguished writers in Germany. The latest nomination of Cardinals has raised tha existing number of members in the Sacred College to sixty- three. Of the Cardinals thirty-four are Italians, seven French, five Austrian, five German, foux Spanish, two Portuguese, two American (Taschereau and Gibbons) one English, one Irish, one Australian, and one Belgian. There are two hundred and fifty Catholic students at Harvard University in the United States. They have followed the example of the Oatholic students of Yal* and organised a Catholic club, of which • descendant of Thomas Addis Emmet was elected President. The founder and honorary secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is, says the Harvest, the Rev Benjamin Waugh, a Nonconformist minister and editor of the Sunday Magatine. It is interesting to note that his son, who a few years ago was received into the Oburcb, wag recently ordained priest by the Bishop of Leeds. Is not this a reward from the Divine Hand for Mr Waugh 's love for little children 1 The Trappist Fathers are about repossessing the ancient monastery of Montafaro, near Corunna, having secured a large tract of territory adjoining. Their presence in this part of Gallacia is very opportune, and will do much to starve out the Socialistic propaganda which has been very activ* for some time past amongst the simple inhabitants of this mountainous region. This will be their third foundation in the Peninsula — one in the suburbs of Madrid, and another, also recent, near the railway station of Yenta Banoe, in New Castilla. It is possible that several priests will take their seats in the Palais- Bourbon after the General Elections. Ecclesiastic* to the front who have all but consented to pose as candidates are the Abbe* Nordez, Director of the Confeiences of St Genevieve, and the Abbe Gamier. This is the fifteenth time that the Abbe Gamier has been asked to allow himself to be made a Deputy, and until now he has Mfused. Other prießte, less well-known, have already entered the lists. The Abb 6 Patureau, Vicar, of Mottreuil-Bous-Bois, ia of these. The Most Rev Dr O'Donoell, the Bishop of Raphoe, who presided over the committee of shareholders which has recommended the retirement of Mr Healy and Mr Dillon from the Board of the Freeman's Journal, is the youngest Bishop in Ireland, and was known for some time after his consecration as " the boy Bishop." He is a deep scholar, his chief attainments being in the region of theology, Celtic literature and archaeology. A secret Consistory was held on Monday, June 3, when the following pre'ates were created Cardinals:— Monsignor Lecot, Archbishop of Bordeaux ; Monsignor Graniello, Archbishop of Cesarea Del Ponti ; Monsignor Bourret, Bishop of Rodee ; Monsignor Bchlauch, Bishop of Grosvarden ; and Monsignor Sarto Bishop of Mantua. The last named was simultaneously nominated Patriarch of Tenice. The Holy Father also provided for several vacant Episcopal Seep, and delivered an allocution, Yesterday was fixed for the public Consistory. His Eminence Cardinal Moran quitfcad Rome on Thurday, June 15, en rouce for Ireland, via Naples, in hopes that the second sea voyage may restore bim to complete health. As we said in last week's letter, »lthough much benefited by hia stay at Frascati, his Eminence is still very weak. Overwork is partly the cause of his poor health, for night and day before leaving for Rome, and even on board ship, we are told, he worked constantly at a history of Australia, which is now in the Press, and which will be a brilliant proof of the distinguished Churchman's erudition. Eere is an abbreviated list of the expenses which newly-created Cardinals have to incur when in the Eternal City. A printed lißt is delivered, the amount of which — comprising the Bull, offerings, and amounts to different employees of the Pontifical Court — is 722,223 lire (or francs). To the domestics of the Secretary of State 485fr 94c is duly offered and accepted. Upon the delivery of the hat 3,630fr 65c ; for the Cardinal's ring the sum of 3,630fr 65c must be given to the Propaganda Fide Congregation to be used for charitable purposes. Consequently the total amount which a new Cardinal must txpend is H,ooßfr 82c, There are other expenses which may be called concomitant, such as the purchase of furniture, chapel ornament?, carriages, horses, etc ; so that a Cardinal de Curia finds himself obliged of necessity to spend at least 50,000 lire at Rome. In the current issue of the Idler is published an interview in which M, Zola recounts the impressions made upon him by his visit to Lourdes. He had not realised the hopes of some fervent French Catholics by becoming a convert to the miraculous efficacy of the water, but it is evident tbat he has returned from the shrine in a reverent, not a scoffing spirit. He acknowledges that he received the kiodißt Resistance from the clergy, who allowed bim to consult every

document in their possession. "Contrary Io what one is made to expect," said he, " I did not find among them aggressive and oaten* tatious proselytism. Everything is conducted in a dignified, quiet, unassuming manner. " He saw extraordinary cures effected, and he attributes them to the power of faith, but in a natural rather than a supernatural sense. In his book he intends to trace how, owing to disappointments with the scientific development of oar time, men have returned with greater conviction to the belief in the existence ol something more powerful than science. In other worda, if not an actual believer, he appears to have cast aside scepticism. But we are not reassured as to his future by the announcement that he is preparing novels on " Neo-Catholicism " in Borne and corruption in Paris. Burely M. Zola as a novelist has dabbled enough in vice, and ought now, at least, to abandon bis efforts to out-herod Eugene Sue and Paul de Eock, Dom Sauton, of the Benedictine monastery of Liguge, is now pursuing certain studies in the Paris hospitals. He wears secular dress, and enjoys the title of doctor, having studied in these hospitals and obtained hia diploma from the medical faculty of Paris before entering upon his noviciate at the Benedictine Abbey of Solesmet. All this is for a purpose. The true monk is there, and the missionary, and perhaps a hero after the pattern of the heroic Father Damien. His life is to be spent as an apostle among the lepers, and as a doctor alßo, armed with the Utest discoveries of medical science. Hence his reappearance in the Paris hospitals. He speaks with enthusiasm of Father Damien, and also of an American lady, Misi Kate Marsden, who recently went to Siberia to tend lepers there who, driven from every civilised centre, had sought refuge in woods. " I will," he saya, " with God's help do what this hero aaa done and what this heroine is doing ; but I will do it differently. I will go out to the lepers as a doctor as well as a missionary." Dom SautoQ has received the Papal blessing on his work and an indult accrediting him to the ecclesiastical authorities of the entire world. He leaves France accompanied by his brother, now vicar of Nogent-le-Rotrou. From him we learn that leprosy is not as extinct in France as is generally supposed. There are at the present time some leper patients at the Paris hospital of Saint Louis. A few details concerning the cause of canonisation of 8t Margaret Queen of Scotland, whose feast was celebrated on Saturday, June 10th* 1893. Some writers have considered it ao error to assert that Pope Innocent had canonised St Margaret in the year 1251, fur io reality the canonisation did not take place then, since at the end of the fifteenth ceatury we find the Scotch petitioning Pope Innocent VIII. to proceed with tbe cause, and that Pontiff ordering that all the customary evidence should be taken. This we learn from Britaldi, in his Ecclesiastical Annals for the year 1487 — not 1426. Tbe name of St Margaret was afterwards placed in the Roman martyrology . Her feast which was first celebrated ad libitum with simple ritual or semi* double ritual, by a decree of Pope Innocent XI., dated February Ist, 1679, was transferred to July Bth. It is to Pope Innocent XII. that we owe equipollent canonisation — that is, a canonisation without ceremonies, bat equivalent to one with ceremonial. Oq September 15th, 1691, Innocent XII. ordered that the Office and Man of St Margaret be celebrated throughout the Church di Precetto, and with semi-doable ritual. By another degree on February 21st, 1693, he ordered that the fete be celebrated henceforth on Jaly 10th, with the same semi-double ritual, and the name of Sc Margaret was thin placed on the martyrology for that day. Finally, by decrees oa the 27th of March, and May 15, 1624, tbe Holy Father granted double ritual on the saint's day in certain countries, Scotlan i especially,

Mr Charles Goldsmith's Scotch Stores Hotel, Ghristchurcb, offers admirable accommodation to visitors. The manner, indeed, in which the house is frequented proves how highly and deservedly it is appreciated. Messrs Brown, Ewing and Co, Dunedin, are now opening their first shipment of spring goods, A special shipment has blso been received by the firm of Irish napery which ie offered at extremely low prices. It should bi welcome news to people of waak digestion that digestive bread made according to Montgomerie's patent malt pro* cesslis now to be bad in Dunedin. It may be ordered in any quantity of Mr W. Wright, King and Union streets. The bread in queetion is pure wheaten bread, inviting in appeal ance and most agreeable to the palate — an immense improvement in every way on the brown bread so far produced. The highest recommendation, nevertheless, that the article possesses is its health-preserving qualities. Biscniti and rusks are to be had also containing as well the patent extract of malt Jin which the virtue lies. Mr Wright, who has purchased, the patent rights, ia tbe sole maker iathe city. Housewives and others will be pleased to know that an excellen cement (Bock'a Fireproof Cement), for the meiding of gliisware china, and metal articles, may be obtained in the city at a very small cost. Tbe cement is sold in bottles at a shilling each, and has been' tested, with most satisfactory results. Ask your tradesmen for it, or apply to R, Bock, sole agent for New Zealand, No 82, Tory street. beady for immediate use. Resists both fire and water. — Advt. A statistician who has been looking into the matter of divorce has found that the proportion of divorces to population ii least in Ireland — only one divorce to 400.000 inhabitants. Ia tbe United States tbe proportion of divorces is ominously large, 88.71 to every 100,000 population, the largest known, in fact, save ia Japan, the figures for that happy empire being 608,43]divorce3 to 100,000 popala* tion. — Edinburgh Catholic Herald,