The Catholic World.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 11, 16 March 1899, Page 27

The Catholic World.

AMERICA -A Council for the Latin AmericanCnurcheß.— A Brief of his Holiness, Cum diutiimiim, has been published. It was addressed under date of Christmas Day to the Archbishops and Bishops of the various countries of Latin America and to put forward the design of their holding a general council The happier relations now existing between the Papal See and the governments of various Republics of Latin America, and especially j the fortunes of the Church in Brazil, which have steadily advanced since the abolition of the Empire, all create a hope tint a new and far greater future may,be reserved for the Latin-American Churches duriuj. the !2Ut!i century. The conferences of the Archbishops and Bishops will be directed to the preparation of this future. ! ENGLAND.-Generosity of the Duke of Norfolk —The j Duke of Norfolk is building at Arundel new Catholic schools to I accommodate about three hundred girls and the same number of infants. The extensive restorations and additions to the castle which have been in progress for a number of years, employing some four hundred workpeople, are still far from complete. j The Bishop of Hexham declines a Presentation.— On the celebration of the golden jubilee of the ordination to the priesthood of the Right Rev Dr. Wilkinson, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle (England), no less than 2000 guineas were subscribed for a presentation to him. The aged prelate refused to accept any such tribute personally, though he was willing to allow that anything which might be contributed should go towards some good work in the diocese. It being known that the Bishop took an especial | interest in the welfare of the Tudhoe Home for Girls, the committee j agreed that the sum subscribed should go towards that institution. A Benefactor of the Sisters of the Poor. -The late Mr. E Kersey. Newcastle, bequeathed £1300 to St. Joseph's Hojie for the aged and infirm under the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor Newcastle. ' FRANCE -The Cross of the Legion of Hono dr.— Scour Etienne-Murie, Superioress in the seamen's hospital at Cherbourg has received the Cross of the Legion of Honour in consideration of thirty-six years of devoted hospital service.— The same distinction has also been awarded to the Abbe Briel, Cure of the Church of Saint-Gengoult of Toul, for his long and faithful services as a priest and especially for the devotedness displayed during the war of 1870. Proposed Demolition of a Church.— ln the French Chamber of Deputies, recently, M. Dejeante, Socialist, submitted a motion for the demolition of the Chapelle Expiatoire, the well-known chapel in the boulevard Malesherbes, Paris, erected in atonement for the execution of King Louis XVI. and Queen Marie Antoinette The deputy demanded urgency. M. Charles Dupuy opposed the ! motion as raising a number of contentious issues of a moral order and the proposal was rejected by :332 votes to 150. ' I Catholics and the Paris Exhibition— At a meeting recently j held at the Catholic Institute in Paris of the members of the principal Catholic Confraternities of the city it was resolved that those | amongst them which represented more especially the intellectual i and social side of Catholicism, should take part as largely as possible in the special sections in the Exhibition of 1900. There was a thorough di-cusbion of the matter, and though some were inclined to regard the bcheine with disfavour, the idea was warmly taken up Cardinal Richar 1 willingly gave his patronage, and a strong cotn- , mittee to organise the work has been formed, presided over by M>r P.'johenard, which includes Cotnte Albert de Mun, Vice- Admiral Lafond. and MM. Alexis Delaire and Antonin Pages amongst its active me übers. An appeal has been issued, in which it is pointed out tint the Catholics of France cannot well stand outside an exhibition which will illustrate the results of social efforts during the century. Placed in altogether new condition they have wonderfully adapted themselves to their changed cireu-nstances, and multiplied ! their Confraternities and Associations. In the sections devoted to j Education. Social Economy, and Colonization, there will be ample 1 room for Catholics to s>iow what they have accomplished by associa- , tion^. and missionary labours. Missions in Foreign Lands-— An extraordinary development of successful work during the past year has been shown by the returns of the French Society of Foreign Missions. The number of adult heathens baptized in 18'.»8 actually rose to 70,9(2 as against

4(>,826 in the previous year, and what is more the returns are not quite complete, as those from West Cochin China and other parts had not been received in time for the report In ]s'.)| the numbers were 25>,<J00, and in IMid they rose to nearly :>'.),oO(i. but the increase of last year is out of all proportions to that of preceding years. Jt is interesting to note tlrat considerably over one-third of the missionary clergy to whom the^e splendid results are due, ."> s l out ot 1(>51. are rative priests. Chinese. Indo-Chinese, Japanese, or Indians, a fact which is sometime^ lost sight ot when speaking of eastern missions. NOVA SCOTlA— Heroic Conduct of Priests— Rev. Fathers l,e Dore, Chaisstm and Ca?son were seriously injured duriner the progress of a disastrous fire m St. Ann's College, Church Point, Nova Scotia. There were over one hundred pupils in the college when the fire was discovered, and the three priest> risked their lives in labouring for their t>afety. ROME-— A Painting of the Holy Family.— c ome time ago the Pope offered a pri/.e of X. 100 for a well painful picture of the Holy Family. Consequently a large number of the Italian painters who exhibited at the Exhibition of Sacred Art at Turin chose this subject for their pictures, but none was judged to be good enough to deserve the prize. The Pope has therefore decided to re-open the competition and to make it international The Pope and the Peace Conference.— it is rumoured (a Rome correspondent says) that his Holiness objects to the presence of any Catholic ecclc c^stic at the Czar's Peace Conference since the Holy See was ignored in sending out invitations. The Universality of the Church. — A remaikabic example of the influence of Rome outside of Italy, and indeed beyond the j limits of our Western civilisation (writes the Rome correspondent of the I'll of) is furnished during this week in the Church of Sant' Andrea della Valle. Here, during the Octave of the Epiphany. .Masses in divers Rites are celebrated and ■•prmona are. preached in vaiious languages. For example, on Fndav last, Jamnry <>. High Mass was celebrated in the S> ro-Maromte Rite and mi Saturday (to-day) in the Greek Ruthem.ui R'te To-morro ,\ tin 1 M,m will be celebrated in Greek on Moiid .y by a liu'garian Hi -hop: on Tuesday ry an Armenian in his own rite on \\ ednu-,l, iy in the Greek, on Thnrsd i> in the v yu,m on I nH.iv hy an An! imaiidiite in the 0 reek-Slav Kite; on in the C,n.i do ,n and on Sunday m Armenian. A General Pilgrimage — v Council ot < aid n.il- pi\-idel over by Cardinal Jacobin 1. ha^ decided I'< ni.nk vie llom- ot tli^ nineteenth century by coun-ellm^ a general pilgrimage to Roni'\ UNITED STATES.-A Unique Service-* >u January n a unique service took place in the Catholic ( liureh at Boulder, Montana. United States. The church \mis dedicated lo the worship of God under the patronage of St. • 'atherme and the tuneral services of Mr. Mulviy. who^e muniticint gitt built the church, were performed on the same occasion Mr Muluy diul on the day before the date set lor the dedication, and the Right Rev. Bi-hop Brondel ordered the church to be blessed m the presence of the dead benefactor. Resides cancelling the debt of th* I'oulder Church, Mr. Mulvey willed generous sums to the Catholic institutions of Montana. Death Of a Nun-— lister Teresa Fox wps but i"d m Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo., on Januaiy '.). She died at St. Vincents (seminary on January <"> of an attack of influenza. Sister Teresa was sister-in-law of the late lfeniy < >eorge. the gieat advocate of single tax. Her sister, the w idow of Jlemy (uoige. and the hitter's son. Richard F George, vere with Sister 'leres.i at the time of her death. ha\mg been telegraphed tor when she was taken ill M^ter Teresa Fox was burn on Novembei .n>. Is 11. in Sydniy, New South Wales, and went to California with her widowed mother when she was 17 years of age. She became a Sisti rof Charity ot St. Vincent de Paul foityjenib. n-o. and muco I^ S 7 was looattd m St. Louis. Sister Teresa served as nurse during the civil war, and it was not until alter its close that her sifter, Mr*. Geoige-, who had in the meantime mariied the late lit my Gtoijje in California, knew whether she was dead or aliw . A Chaplain for a Leper Camp— r i he Rev. i. p. CL.fi'ey. of the Archdiocese of New ()i lean:-, has aw opti-d the post ef chaplain at the Leper Home, Indn.n Cam]) Plantation, ibcrville P.irish, Louisiana. Father Cldlley is a young man. and in assuming this post of duty he add* another name to the honour roll of noble priests who have engaged m the most, sell -sacrificing- work which suffering humanity calls for. Sisters Volunteer for a Leper Colony.— Two Sisters of the Order of St. Francis, Sister Flavinana and Sister Bonaventure, left

Syracuse, N.V., January 2(i, to join the leper colony of Molokai Twelve Sisters have already gone from Syracuse to the leper colony. The order has male this self-sacrificing' work an important branch of their mission labours. The Sisters (saya the Monitor') who go to Molokai volunteer for the work and their act is one of pure selfsacrifice. The heroism of the noble men and women who are caring 1 for the p'ague-stricken unfortunates of Hawaii's isle of death is one of the glories of the Catholic Church in this century. Sisters Fiavinana and lionaventure will never return to America — all who enter Molokai leave hope behind.