The Catholic World.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 5, 2 February 1899, Page 10

The Catholic World.

BRITISH NORTH AMERICA •— Trappists at Klondyke. The Very Key. J. Rene, S.J., Prefect Apostolic in Alaska, left Montreal recently for Dawson City. Father Rene was on his way back from Rome, where he went to visit the head of the Jesuit Order, and to obtain special permission from the Pope relative to their mis.-inn in Klondyke. When seen by a reporter for one of the Montreal pap rs, Father Rene said that the object of h'B visit to the Holy Father was to obtain permission to bring the Trappist monks into the Klondyke. ' They are the best known land workers in the world, and I know from experience,' said he, 'certain paits of Alaska are quite suitable for cultivation.' FRANCE —The Pope as a Poet.— The Latin poem entitled ' The Baptism of Clovis,' which was written by his Holiness Pope XIII. in 1897, has been set to music as an oratorio by the Director of the Paris Conservatory. It was produced with full orchestral accompaniments for the first time on December 15, in Rheims Cathedral. The four leading parts were tak< n by well-kuown artists, a special dispensation having been granted by Cardinal Langenieux for the introduction of female voices, otherwise prohibited in his diocese. The choir was augmented for the occasion by 150 picked singers of both sexes. GERMANY. — Baron Von Hertling. — Baron von Hertling, a prominent member of the Cathotic party in Germany, who was President of the International Catholic Congress held at Fribourg last autumn, was in Rome in December. He was received, together with his two daughters, in audience by the Holy Father. He is mxlited with being empowered to urge German claims on the Vatican to the detriment of French influence. This is wholly gratuitous. The Baron peems to have been engaged in seeing the eights of Rome, and in visiting his numerous friends in the Erernal City. It is a .id that be will in all likelihood be selected as President of the Gtrui an Reichntag. SYRIA— The New Patriarch-— The newly elected Patriarch of the Syrians in communion with Rome, Mgr. Rihmani, is a very learned man. lie hxs dUcoverad an ancient document entitled The Tfitamint of Jcmix Cluist which is "believed to date from the earliest Christian tim. j s. Next year he will publish an edition in Syriuc with a La'ia translation. ENGLAND.— A Church with a History. — Powers are being sought from the Top >, writes a London correspondent, to seU the structure and site of St. Miry's Roman Catholic Church, Moorlands. Situated as it is within a stone's throw of Broad Street Station, the £200 000 that is said to have been offered for it does not seem to be excessive, consideri' g the extent of the bite. St. Mary's is most widely known, perhaps, as the church where Weber was buried in June, 182<>, two months after the first and eminently successful production of 'Oberon' at Cogent Garden. In 1844, as will be recalled, the remains of tlw- mus-iciati were removid to Dresden. The pre.-ent church dates from 1817-20, when it was built at a cost of snmeihiug like £2<5,000 trom designs by John Newman, an outlay rendered necessary by the destruction in the ' No-Popery ' riots of 1 7 SO of the earlier cnapcl iv llopeinaker btreet. The scholar ami Cardinal, Dr. Wiheuian, selected St. Mary's for his pro-cathedral in 1852, two years after his appointmjjii, to the see of Westminster. UNITED STATES.— Consecration of a Trappist Abbot.- \ The rare ocremony of the consecration of an abbot by the Trappist monks took place at the monastery of the order at Gethsemane, Kentucky, a few months ago. Father Edmund Obreoht was consecrated by Bishop George M'Closkey of Louisville. ITALY— Salesian Missionaries— About a hundred Salesion missionaries and nuns left Turin recently for South America. PERU.— Conferring the Pallium-— Mgr. Gasparri, the Papal Nuncio to Peru, early in December imposed the pallium on the Archbishop of Peru, Mgr. Tovar. President Nicholas de Pierola was sponser f - r the Archbishop ROME.— Another Latin Poem by His Holiness— The Pope has just finished, s' ys the Daily C/nuuticu, another rather lengthy Latin poem, entitled 'Carmen Seculars ' (• The song of the century '). It will btt published at the s.me time aa his Imeyclical, alho just complettd, agtinbt Anarchy. There is something amazing in such mental iictivity at so advanced an age, especially when we take into consideration the qnality of the Pope's p.'emg, the la^t of which, a sonnet on the death of the Empress of Austria, is exceed- J ingly beautiful and touching. I