CATHOLIC NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 16, 16 August 1895, Page 23

CAT HO LIC NEWS.

The Catholics won a most notable victory at the municipal elections in Turin, carrying their entire list. It seems to have been definitely decided that the Consistory will be held in the early part of September. A large sum of money baa been sent to Borne by the Emperor of Austria as a contribution towards the foundation of a new GreekRuthenian College, Cardinal RampoHa, Secretary of State to the Holy Father, hat written to the Cardinal- Vicar, in the name of his Holiness, a letter urging that the Catholics of Rome should actively prepare for the next municipal elections in the Eternal City. The Bishop of Dijon in a pastoral letter ordered public prayert for the soul of the late M. Carnot on the 24th Jane. The sacred writings, says the Bishop, speak of prayer for the dead as good and holy. He alludes to the example given by the noble Madame Carnot in having a Funeral MaBS said at Notre Dame. Considerable excitement has been caused in Canadian politioal circles by au announcement msde by Mgr Gravel, the Catholic Bishop of Nicolet, that Lord Carnarvon, when in office as Colonial Secretary in the Tory Government, had given an assurance in bii own name and in the name of the Queen that the Catholics of Manitoba would have tbeir separate schools. Ths Princess of the House of Liechtenstein wholis(entering the Benedictine Monastery at Prague to take the veil, is partly English, her mother having been Miss Mary Fox, the adopted daughter of Lord and Lady Holland, who married Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein some yeara ago. The Prince lost his wife in 1878. At the age of ninety.fi ve years, fifty-seven of which have been spent in the servica of God, Siflter M. Ellen West is said to be Blowly passing to her rest at the Convent of the Oblates of Provi dence. Baltimore, U.S.A. Taia venerable religieuse is known ma the oldest proftegeci Sister of any order in the States, if not in the world and at her golden jubilee, May 6, 1888, Cardinal Gibbons crowned her with a wreath of gold. Mgr Lagrange, Bishop of Ohartres, died recently. he deceased prelate was vicar-general and biographer of Mgr Dupanloup. Mgr Lagrange was one of the most learned of the French epicopate, and a strong advocate of practical reforms among the clergy. He was a personal friend of Leo XIII, who recantly gave the Bishop his etrong approval for laying the convent of false visionaries in his diocese UDder inderdict. A novel ceremony for Scotland was performed on the lanncbing of the Urania-a lart>e and exceedingly handsome steam yacht— from the yard of Messrs D. and W. Heoderson, Partick. The vessel was bleßsed by Right Rev John A. Maguire, D.D., Bishop-Auxiliary of the archdiocese of Glasgow, and as the vessel left the ways she was named by Misa Haynes, daughter of the Spanish Consul. The Daily News says :-" Since the recent shocks of earthquake there is scarcely a street in Florence in which there are not lighted shnoee, or ' tabernacles,' as they are called, containing figures of the Madonna and Saints. In some of the streets there are as many as fourcr five of these shrines. In front of the images are rows of candles burning, and also a hanging lamp which burns thronghout the night. Garlands of evergreens and flowers are placed round the shrines, and in many cases hang suspended across the streets." The health of the Archbishop of Paris is so precarious that it is believed that a coadjutor will Bhortly be appointed, with right of succession. Cardinal Richard was himself the coadjutor of his predecessor, Cardinal Guibert. The name of Mgr Pelge, Bishop of Poitiers, is mentioned as the candidate likely to be accepted by the Pope and the French Government. The Bishop was formerly VicarGeneral of Paris. Cardinal Bourrieu, Bishop of JtioJez, will, it is stated, b j transferred to the vacant archbishopric of Toulouse. Momiguor Kabis, Apostolic Pro-Vicar of the Cop's in Egypt has forwarded to the Pope particulars of an extensive movement in favour of a return to Catholic ucity, which has been set on foot

among the dissident Copts and various Eastern Patriarchates not yet nnitel to the See of Borne. The Holy Father has addressed to tbe Copts an Encyclical. The Very Rev Henry Ignaiua Dudley Ryder, Supeiior r.f the On. Tory, Edgbaston, baa been, specially honoured by kis Holiness Pope L-o XIII, who has been pleased to coofer uionhim the degree of D.D. honoris causa, as a mirk of favour upon tre English Oratonanp, and in recognition of Father Byder'B distinguished services to theology and modern controversy. Tbe Very Rev Dr Rjdcr is a grandson of the late Bishop Byder of Licbfield, and i 3 relate! to the late Dr Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Winchester, and Cardinal ManningHe has c ntributed many articles to the Dublin Review and other works of his have been published, The Voce Delia Verita remarks fiat the renaiisancn of piety i n the hearts of modern Romans ia seen in many ways, and notably in the late Christian renewal of the pretty cuitom of placing the image of a Madonna in Ihe shops of Rome, before which a tiny lamp i 3 kept constantly burning. The Madonna dei Negozianti was banished from many a tradesman's place of business Bines 1870 ; but they are now again turning with humbled hearts towards the Refuge of Sinners. It is announced from Forli that G»ttei Salvatori has confessed that he was the assassin of the late Count Ferrari. A Rimini corespondent gives a most edifying description of the Count's death. The regret felt in the city was, he states, indescribable. The deceased , having been generous and affable with all, was extremely popular. On his death-bed his last utterances were words of pardon for his Msiilant. Ha fervently embraced the cross aad recited the prayers for tbe dying with the priest who attended him. Her Majesty the Quten of Italy has presented the English Church of St Silvestro with a brotze altar-lamp of exquisite workmanship and great value. The rector purposes having the royal gift placed before the alta* of the Blessed Sacrament. That Queen Margherita is a most devout Catholic ia a well known fact. That she deplores the present state of affairs in Italy is also no secret. Bhe was heard to say with intense sadness at the time of the Holy

Father's Jubilee : " All Christians are fre« to kneel at his feet and ask his blessing ; but I am denied this consolation." Her Maj.-sty reads every word written by Leo XIII. with tbe deep?s' interest. The many persons who attended the mid-day Bervicu at St Winefride'a Well, on a recent Wbdnegilay, were witnesses to the recovery of speech in a most remarkable manner by an interesting girl named Katie Long, 14 years of age, daughter of William Long, a knockerup, of Stuart street, Bolton. T aree years ago tbe girl was mgaged [n a laundry in Bolton, and beiugsent upstairs on an erran I in tbe gloom of evening, she waseo frightened that she fell in a d^ad faint, and when she was brought around it was found that she had entirely lost the power of speech. She remained in that pitiable condition, unable to articulate a single wort, until this fateful Wednesday, when bathing in St Winefride'a Well for the second time since her arrival in the town, she felt a peculiar sensation in the throat. On emergmg from the water she found that she was abe to speak plainly and distinctly wrhout any tfltart. Tbe case created a profound sensation among the crowd of worshippers who were in the We 1 at the time. A letter from his Eminence Cardinal Logue was read on Sunday, June 23, in the churches of his diocese commending ta his people an appeal by the Holy Father to Irish Catholics to assist him in his efforts to secure the reunion of Christendom. To this end Cardinal Logue writes : The faithful can effectually contribute both by their prayers and by furnishing the Holy Fatber with the material nv-ans necessary to give practical effect to his charitable design by founding schools in the Ea6t which would remove the two great obs'acles to reunion, ignorance and unreasonable prejudice. We should indeed be wanting in tbe Christian spirit were our zeal for a cause so Bacred and to grand not fired by the example of the saintly old man whose vigour of mind despises difficulties, whose energy takes no becount of t-il, whose ardour in the pursuit of what tends to God's glory and the salvation of mcD, neither sufferingp, nor declining strength, nor the weight of over four score years, caa aba'e. Lecturing the other day at the Palace of the Catholic Faculties at Anger, M. Bruneticre, the Academician, returning to those ideas

oa the subject of science which, being expressed & fewmoathi since, caused such a storm to break over his head, said : " Science is, like religion, art, and manufactures, one of the forces which help to maintain social institutions and bring them to perfection. When* ever one of these forces has endeavoured to take the place of all the o hers, society has suffered." Mgr. Parquier, Rector of the Faculties, presid(d at the meeting, and, referring to M. Brunetiere's audience of the Popr, which led him to write his much talked-of article on ibe '■ Bankruptcy of Science," said while addressing the Academecian : " The Sovereign- Pontiff still more than Mr Gladstone ia worthy to be called the 'Great («io) old man.' You brought back from your journey to Rome Bcma magnificent pages, which obtained for you almost the auie >le of a confession of the faith— avent le foi." M. Brune'.iere is not jet a professed Christian, although he has come to be a firm believer in the benefits of Christianity to mankind."