The Catholic World.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9, 1 March 1900, Page 24

The Catholic World.

AUSTRIA— A Catholic University.— The Catholics of Austria have an association for erecti' g a Catholic University at Sal/burtr. The Catholic I'nivers-ity fund amounts to a million marks. BAVARlA— Appointment of a Papal Nuncio— Mgr. f'esare Sambucetti, titular Archbishop of Corinth, and Secretary of Ceremonial, has been nominated by his Holiness to the Apostolic Nunciature of Uavaria. It may be remembered that Mgr. Kambucetti was the Prelate appointed by Leo XIII. as delegate to England on the late occasion of the Ojieen'* Jubilee, and it was then said that he was one of the most distinguished-looking representatives present on that occasion. BELGlUM— Catholic Joarnalists and the Holy FatherThe liclyian Catholic journalists have this year renewed the handsome New Year's gift of a goodly round sum which they offered Pope Leo XIII. last year. Subscription lists were opened by every Catholic journal. This, of course, is in addition to the usual Peter's Pence subscribed. 1u a special audience granted the Belgian journalists last year when they presented their New Year's gift, his Holiness remarked that the money would be devoted to the needs of the Syrian, Chaldean, and Mclchite patriarchs who were in sore want.

CHINA-— Condition of the Church in the Celestial Empire— Monsignor Favier, Vicar-Apostolic of Pekin, iB expected shortly at Rome. Thanks to his tact, Pontifical diplomacy, and the efforts of M Pichon, French Minister at Pekin, the condition of the Catholic mission iv the Celestial Empire is highly satisfactory. ENGLAND— Beginning the New Year well.— Midnight Mass was celebrated in all the Catholic churches in London in connection with the new year, and the congregations were everywhere large, the majority, and. in some instances, all receiving Holy ComJ union, which, by special concession was administered to the ithful uu lhi» ue-^aciun. Cardinal Vaughan attended the proCathedral, Kensington. At St. George's Cathedral Bishop Bourne assisted at the service Canon Murnane preached at the Church of the Sacred Heart at Camberwell It is to be hoped (says the Xew Era) that a new year begun so holily by the Catholic world will be specially blessed and that the new century, which is about to dawn, will witness still greater advances in the progress of Catholicity than the memorable century which is closing and which has been marked by two such notable events as Emancipation and the restoration of the English and Scotch hierarchies and the Tractarian and Romeward movements. Overlooking the Bristol Channel —The Church of the Immaculate Conception, Clevedon. is perched on a cliff and overlooks the Bristol Channel. Catholic mariners, passing up and down the Channel, are able, even at a great distance by means of telescopic advantages, to see the statue of Our Lady Star of the Sea, which occupies a niche in the front of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, and which looks down on all pa&ssrs by as well as all the mariners up and down the Bristol Channel. The Franciscans here are doing a noble work for God and souls. It was in 1880 that these Fathers, expelled from France, their native land, turned their back on their own ungrateful shores and crossed over to enjoy some of England's liberty. Clevedon was one of the places they settled in and they are now nourishing here. They also have fine, friaries at Ascot (Berks) and Woodford Green (Essex). Destruction of a Church at Cardiff— The Church of the Holy Cross, Cardiff, wa* practically destroyed by fire on Thursday afternoon, December 2<, the outbreak being attributed to the heating apparatus. The organ, which was ruined, was valued at £500, and the church itself cost about £1,300 to build. Death of a Venerable Priest —The death is reported of the Rev. A. Cruickshank, 1). P., the sad event taking place on January 4 at St. Bernard's Abbey, Leicestershire. In early life Father Cruiekshank was brought up and educated as a Protestant, like all his family. He was sent to Rugby School, and passed with distinction through its course of studies. As an earnest and thoughtful student of the religious controversy of the day he became a Catholic soon after the establishment of the Hierarchy. After hi-! reception into the Church he went to the English College, Rome, to study for the priesthood. After a distinguished career in the tbeologic.il schools at RR O in» he was ordained priest, find was appointed Vic< -Rector of the <\>ll,gio I'io, which Pius IX had founded for convert-. After a few y ears in that office he went to England and vva- appointed on the st.iiF of Warwick street Chnn;h. London. The h .rassmg duties of a priest oa the nil sion m those days did not suit hi- som< w hat delicate constitution, and after a time he went to re-irY at the Abbey of Mount St Bernard, Leicestershire, wheie lie dwelt lor mar y quarter ot a century. A Venerable Priest- — A correspondent of the London Tahl.t w me* •Itm ty mtere-t your reader* to know that the Rev. Or Rymer does not staid alone as the representative of the clergy of the old London ]">iMncr. '1 h. Ie is living at Newport. Me ot Wight, the M>ph» iv ct the Rev. Joseph Hunt, bj wboe efforts M. 'Marys, Moor field-., wan bjir — iho Key. Joseph IW.cr, who was b>>m pi Is] -, „,,} oidan.cd priest September 2'>, l^.i't, by the s-iintly Bishop Griffiths. 1 think he must b, 3 the oldest repre-i>ntau\e ot the clergy ut the 01.l Lou ion Ihstrict ' FRANCE— Ordinations of ex-Military Officers— Tnree ev-Infrtntryolficer- who had p,i-s. d ibiough the famous military College ot St Cvr. the French bandhui-t. were ordained deacons at St. Sulj.ue ncently ly his Eminence. Cardinal Richard They are theConite dtj Mireinoin-I'argiu'-i, M de lioi-marnni and M. Quillet. The eldest son ot Genoa) I'enel, Governor ot La 17 le in the Aisne. one of the strongly t .rtified to vns of France, also received deacon's ordeis Minor orders were conferred in the chapel of the Seminary, the principal ordn.a'ions taking place in the Church of St. hulpice' Ihe chun It wis thronged on the occasion w ith friends and relauvi s of the students, many otners, including leading (' tthohes-, attending the imposing ceremonies which gave li.i new prie ts and .*>S deacons to the Church in France and elsewhere. An alarming incident-— The Christmas functions in the cathedral at Meaux: were suddenly interrupted by an alarming incident Mgr. de Bney. the Bishop, who was about to address the vast congregation on the subject ot a monument to his illustrious predecessor Bos.-vet, mddenly full from his throne in an apoplectic lit. ile was carried to bis episeopil palace, and according to the latest news, has rec jvereil consciousness, GERMANY— Prince Max of Saxony.— Prince Max of Pax my, who is a pri> st (-ays a B rim correspondent) has been Hppointrd by Liberal papers to every vacant episcopal Se». He was lately made lii-hop of Metz and Mayence, and Arcbbis-hop of Cologne. Tbe Prince himself ue-ires to live and work quietly among bis Catho.ic toilt r» at Nuremberg One of the most -prominent and uspected Catholic- pi elates of the (ierman Empire said lately, as to these appointments of the Pi nice 'Prince Max is doing mu(h greater and more splendid woik for the Catholic cause as a simpl ■ labouring-priest at Nuremberg than he would do

as Archbishop of Cologne.' Two of the Prince's ancestors have been bishops of Germany and Austria. One of them was Prince Clemens Wenceslaus. who was Bishop of Freising, Augsbourg, Ratisbon, and Elector of Treve*. The four dioceses over which he ruled as an excellent Bishop and regent, covered an area larger than the kingdom of Saxony. The Catholic Press in Fatherland.— At the awakening of Catholic life and activity and Germany, the Catholics of the Fatherland were represented by three papers. Now the number has swollen to over 300 The power of the Press is generally appreciated. It is held that wherever error, heresy, and false reasoning find a way. so can truth, dogma and equity. Catholic journalists are banded together in a society under the patronage of St. Augustine. They have trequent conventions to di«ou.sß and decide upon one common programme by which close contact between the Catholic Pre«a and the Catholic people may be assured and maintained. SCOTLAND. -The Archdiocese of Edinburgh— in the year 1 8, sO there were in the Archdiocese of Edinburgh and in the four suffragan Sees of Aberdeen, Dunkeld, Galloway, Argyll and The Isles, 162 priests, 307 churches, chapels, and stations, and a Catholic population of 110,000 ; in 189!) the numbers were :— priests, 233 : churches, etc., 3G'.» ; Catholic population, 133,400. SOUTH AFRlCA.— Missionaries for Rhodesia— The Very Rev. Father Sykes, S.J., Prefect Apostolic of the Zambesi left Southampton, on February 3, for South Africa. He took with him a party of lay brothers. After a short stay in one of the Jesuit houses in Cape Colony, Father Sykes hopes to get to Rhodesia and Buluwayo by Beira. THE PHILIPPINES-Liberation of Clergy.-The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs has received a telegram from the Spanish Consul at Manila, announcing that the steamer Uranus has arrived there from the island of Panay, having on board the Rishopof AVega, 117 monks and priests, five officers, and 11. "5 civilians, who have been liberated. UNITED STATES —Honouring Archbishop Ireland.— The Commercial Club of St. Paul recently gave a reception in honour of Archbishop Ireland. Rarely, if ever, has there been such a gathering in St. Paul : all the representative citizens and many leading inhabitants of the State came together to do honour to Archbishop Ireland as the representative of all that is best and greatest in American citizenship. Among those present were the Anglican Bishop (Dr. Gilbert), the Mayor, two Judges, and the Senator for the district, all of whom were members of the reception committee. Several speeches were made in which the Archbishop was eulogised in glowing language : and it was pointed out that he had made the City of St. Paul known throughout the whole world. Bishop Gilbert's speech was as cordial as any. He said, in the course of it, that he came to pay a tribute of affection, admiration, and honour to one whose noble life, splendid achievements, and exalted patriotism h id been an inspiration and guide to him as it had been to all. Everywhere he went he had found the name of Archbishop Ireland known, honoured, respected and loved. Archbishop Ireland, who was deeply moved by the speeches and by the extraordinary enthusiasm with which he was greeted, said in the course of his reply • As my friends and fellow - citizens you greet me ; as your ftiend and fellovv-cit'zen I thank you. I am deeply moved l>y the words addre-sul to me in the name of so mmy citizens' of St. Paul and Minnesota. Not to appreciate the v.ilnc of t his evening s manifestation, not to experience from it the thrnl of joyous gratitude would argue that mine is not a mind to Hpprt'huui nobility and generosity of thought and action in fellowman. th.it mine is not a heart to Foften beneath the warmth of kindness, to v ibrate in response to the touch of disinterested friendship. 1 have arlently loved my cty, my state, my country. I have nh\ a_\s deemed it my urgent duty to do whatever was possible tor (he benefit of my fellow citizens, without distinction of race or creed The minuter of a Church whose principles are for me inviolable, to the spiritual welfare of whose children I am pledged by my onlination vows, I have nevei believed that I must not see in mm outside the ranks of that Church, my fellow-men and l)i others. His Grace then went on to say that for him humanity \\;is the mark of man's brotherhood, and to its remotest frontiers humanity received his love. While his primary field of work was the strictly spiritual, yet he held that his field was likewise in the whole ran»o of human interests moral, intellectual, social, and even material. To his mind religion embraced the whole man. As a bishop of the Catholic Church and the sternest upholder of her teachings, he was greeted by fellow-citizen* 1 , most of whom were non-Catholic*. This t bowed that they had all learned the great lessons of piaetieal Christian charity and of practical American citizenship. While each one held fast in his own conscience to what he believed to be the truth, he r'f-pected the consciences of others whom (!od. not man, should judge. They sincerely loved one another in the brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of the great God. Faithful to the letter and spirit of the American Constitution, they admitted and proclaimed equal civil, political, and social lights for aU American citizens. In no other city in America was there less evidence of religious strife or dissension than in the city of St. Paul. His visit to Europe convinced him that for the whole people there was more pocial liberty, greater extension of social and political right?, richer rewards for industry, more fruitful opportunities for talent in America than in any other country of the world. Ibey should be the most satisfied of peoples. Unless they frittered away their opportunities America was sure to become a great nation, and the opening of the twentieth century would b« for her the opening of an era of prosperity such an she hail never before dreamt of, such as no other nation might hope to attain.