The Catholic World.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 07, Issue 23, 7 June 1900, Page 24

The Catholic World.

CANADA-— An Interesting and Edifying Incident— A. Canadian paper reports an interesting and mo«t edifying fact which, we (/ire Maria) believe, had never been published before. According to our contemporary, when Archbishop Bruehesi, of Montreal, visited Saint Jacques de l'Acbieran in IS'.ts, he addressed the people on the subject of religious vocations, and requested all those who had given a pon or a daughter to the services of God to rise from their seats. Immediately the congregation rose as one man I Ihere are other parishes in Canada that could claim a record almost as glorious. ENGLAND.— The Salford Board of Guardians Election. •—The Salford Board of Guardians election took place in the early part of April, and created a considerable amount of interest in the district. The CathoH'j Tmws writing of the election, said :—: — Twenty-two candidates, one of whom retired, were nominated for the 10 vacancies on the Salford Board of Guardians. The official Catholic candidates were Councillor J. Thompson, Mr. S. Hill, J.P (old members) ; Mr. Edward Tracey, and Mr. W. C. Jordan. The polling took place on Monday, April 2, in the afternoon and evening, and the votes were counted on Tuesday. All the Catholics were returned. The voting for them was : Thompson, 2uoi ; Hill, 1721 ; Jordan, 1555 ; Tracey, 143 U. Mr. Thompson has for the third time headed the poll. A Thanksgiving Memorial from Converts-— Cardinal Vaughan has approved of the movement for the erection in the new Westminster Cathedral of a lasting thanksgiving memorial from c nverts to Catholicism. His Eminence has suggested that it should assume the form of the altar and decoration of St. Peter's Crypt, a suggestion which has been warmly taken up by the promoters of the movement. Cardinal Vaughan's Visit to Rome— it is now definitely Bettled that Cardinal Vanghan will proceed to Rome in October, and will be there for the reception of the English pilgrimage, which is being organised for that month. Death Of a French Bishop —The Death of Mgr. Pierre Emmanuel Bouvier, Bishop of Tarentaise, who had been preaching the course of Lenten sermons at the Church of Notre Dame de France, Leicester pquare, came as a great shock to London Catholics about the middle of April, for it was not even generally known that Mgr. Bouvier was ill, much less in danger of death. In France the deceased prelate's reputation as a preacher stood very high, and his sermons at the picturesque Church of the Marist Fathers attracted crowded congregation during Lent, amongst his listeners being his Excellency the French Ambassador, M. Paul Cambon. Mgr. Bouvier was ill scarcely a week. He died fortified by the rites of the Church, the agony of his pacing — for he Buffered great pain, the malady bein^f an internal one — being alleviated by the assiduous ministrations of the Marist Fathers and of the Sisters attached to the convent. Prayerß for the Prince Of Wales.— By order of his Eminence Cardinal Vaughan, on Ka-aer Sunday, after the High Mass in all the churches and chap 'ls of the Archil iocese of Westminster, a solemn ' Te Deum ' was sung in thanksgiving for the escape of the Prince of Wales. Death of a Member of a Catholic Family — The death took place recently of Mr. Randolphus Caihcart de Trafford, third son of the late Mr. Randolphus and Lady Adelaide rie Trafford, of Croston Hall. For some time previous to his death the deceased gentleman had been residing at l'>rou<»-hton. near Preaton. Death is attributed to complications enduing upon an attack of influenza. The late Mr. de Trafford, who was unmarried, was a devout Catholic, and was educate 1 at O^cott College. The remains were interred in the family vault in the chapel attached to the hall grounds, the funeral beinj* of a private character. ROME— An Eloquent Preacher-— Shortly after the beginning of Lent (says the Koine correspondent of the New York Freeman* Journal) people began to speak of Fra Theodosio, who was preaching the course in the immense church of San Carlo in Corso. Within a few days it became impossible to obtain a place in the temple without taking the precaution of going there an hour beforehaud. His name was in all mouths ; some liberal students began to make disgraceful scenes in the church by applauding, notwithstanding that the preacher protested against such conduct ; he was treated to an ovation every evening on leaving the church. Finally the excitement calmed down somewhat, and I went to hear him — making sure of my place by arriving- a good hour before the time fixed for the eermon. Even then the few hundred chairs available for the congregation in San Carlo were nearly all taken, and arranged in the space immediately under the lofty pulpit. With every minute the crowd increased, and when the rosary began about a quarter to five it was literally impossible to turn toward the altar owiner to the dense throngs, mostly men, that filled the church from the door to the sanctuary — nay even within the sanctuary and the side altars. At live punctually the friar appeared in his brown habit — a young man of about 35 who in a oouple of wet-ks has arisen from obscurity to be the greatest name among the preachers of modern Italy. Such preaching I have never heard in my life— although I have listened to Pere Monuabre, Fra Agostino, and other famous pulpit orators. The words pour out of him literally in a torrent ; you absolutely forget the mau himself and can only feel that the very air is electric with his eloquence ; his wonderful voice fills the vast spaces of San Carlos with the utmost ease so that persons standing away down near the doors do not miss a syllable ; and during the hour and a quarter

that he spoke the thousands present seemed to hang on his lips. If one of his sermons were reported verbatim it would, I feel confident, fill a whole volume of no mean siz-?. Father Theodosio is certainly a revelation The Pope receives American Cadets— in the Sibtine Chapel on a Sunday recently the Pope received eighty-seven naval cadets from the American training Bhip Dixie. The cadets were accompanied by six officers and the chaplain. Two thousand foreign visitors witnessed the presentation, among whom were many Americans. After the ceremony of introduction the Pqpe presented a jubilee medal to each cadet. The Pope'.s benediction concluded the ceremony, after which the cadets cheered his Holiness repeatedly. SCOTLAND— Presentation to a Priest— A very pleasing event, as indicating the kindly feeling existing between priest and people, took place recently at Roxburn, when the Very R«r> Canon O'Neill, the esteemed pastor of the mission, was presented with a beautifully illuminated address and purse of sovereigns. Pilgrimage to Rome— The pilgrimage from Scotland to Rome started on Monday, April 23. The Archbishop of Edinburgh intended to be one of the party but was .prevented by illness. Among thoße who left for Rome were Bishop Chinholm of Aberdeen, Canon Donlevy, Canon Morris, Father Quinlan, Father Hoban, and Father Payne (Edinburgh), Canon MacFarlane, V.G., (Glasgow) Canon Holder, (Dundee), and Rev. Father Meany,. Adm. (Aberdeen) Illness of the Archbishop ofXdinbnrgh.— a gloom was cast over the Easter celebrations in Edinburgh, by, thje announcement of the serious illness of hit Qracf Archbishop Macdopald. His Grace was to have accompanied the £oo.tti»b r pijgrim«tfß to Rome, but that, to the great regret of the pilgrims, was impossible. Later accounts state that the Archbishop was making steady progress towards recovery, the critical stage of his illness having passed. Silver Jubilee Of a Priest-— The Very Rev. Canon Dyer, rector of St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, celebrated recently the silver jubilee of his ordination. Canon Dyer was born in Queens* town, Ireland, in 1851, but received his early education in Scotland under the Jesuits. At an early age he went to Blairs College as ecclesiastical student. Later he proceeded to the Soots College, Rome, where he had a brilliant career. On May 2, 1875, he was ordained priest, and returned to Scotland. His first charge was at Eirkintillocb, and later on he was sent to St. Vincent's, Glasgow. After a time he was appointed Professor of Dogmatic Theology in St. Peter's College, Partick, where he remained for eight years. Not long ago he was appointed to the important post of missionary rector of St. Mary's, the largest and mosc populous parish in Glasgow. UNITED STATES.— Death of a Chicago Priest— Rev. Denis A. Tighe, known aUo as the ' builder of churches/ pastor of Holy Angela' Church, Chicago, is dead. Father Tighe was born in 1851 in Tighe' s Town, County Sligo, Ireland. He organised the pirish of Holy Angels in 1880, and was responsible for the building of churches in Illinois, Indiana, and other western states. Father Tighe's funeral was one of the largest ever seen in Chicago. The Auxiliary Bishop of Indianapolis-— The appointment of Very Rev. Denis O'Donoghue as auxiliary bishop of Indianapolis breaks the l<ne of French bishops that bas ruled the diocese since its establishment, and he will also be Indiana's firnt bishop from among the people. The appointment, however, does not necessarily imply that he will be the next bishop of Indianapolis, as the Papal brief does not give him the right of succession, which some auxiliaries enjoy. Father O'Donoghue received the appointment at the personal request of Bishop Chatard. Catholic Indian Schools— ln a recent discussion in the United States Senate, Senator Vest, who is not a Catholic, paid the following tribute to the Catholic schools amongst the ladians : — ' I was reared in the old Scotch Presbyterian Church, my father was an elder in it, and my earliest impressions were that the Jesuits had horns and hoofs and tails, and that there was a faint tinge of sulphur in the circumambient air whenever one crossed your path. Some years ago I was assigned by the Senate to duty upon the committee on Indian affairs, and I was assigned by the committee, of which Mr. Dawes was then the very zealous chairman, to examine the Indians Schools in Wyoming and Montana. I did so under great difficulties and with labor which I could not now physioally perform. I visitei every one of them. I crossed the great buffalo expanse of country where you can now see only the wallows and trails of those extinct animals, and I went to all these schools. I wish to say now what I have said before in the Senate, and it is not the popular side of this question, that I did not see in all my journey, which lasted for several weeks, a single educational work unless it was under the control of the Jesuits. I did not see a single Government school, especially these day schools, where there was any work done at all. ... I found schools where there were old broken-down preachers and politicians receiving 1200 dollars and a house to live in for the purpose of conducting these Indian day schools, and when I cross-examined them, as I did in every instance, I found that their actual attendance was about three to five in the hnndred of the enrolment.' In Memory of the Prince-Priest Gallitzin — Mr. Charles M. Schwab, the president of the Carnegie Steel Company, of Pittsburg, who, some time ago, offered to defray the expenses of building anew church for St. Michael^ parish, of which the Prince- priest Galiitzin was the fouuder, has approved the pinna which have been submitted to him. The building will cost £20,000. It will be of terra cotta brick with stone trimmings, and the wood will be oak taken of the trees that stand near the prebent statue of Father Gallitain, which was erected by Mr. Schwab and unveiled with much cere*

mony last summer. Under the high altar the remains of Father Gallitzin will repose and the statue will also occupy a prominent place in the church. The building will be Gothic and in the form of a Latin cross. It will be equipped with one of the finest organs in the country. GENERAL. The Little Sisters of the Poor —The Little Sisters of the Poor have throughout the world 275 houses, with 4590 professed Sitters, 319 novices, and 43,196 old" people in charge. From the origin of the Order up to the present time 152,777 have died in its car*.. Catholic Chaplains and the Navy— His Eminence Cardinal Logue's uncompromising protest against the treatment of Catholio sailors in the Navy has had & prompt effect. In reply to a deputation on the question, the First Lord of the Admiralty promised considerable concessions in the required direction. Whether these will remedy the whole grievance will need some time to show. But his Eminence has once again proved the virtue of having no compromise with indignity of citizenship against all forms of intolerance practised by the State. The Catholic sailors have to thank bis Eminence ; so has the Catholic community, to whom the Cardinal has taught an unforgettable lesson. The Church in Germany and Austria-— The Holy Father has warmly approved the efforts of the Auetrians for the pacification of their discordant races. The Austrian Bishops met lately at Vienna to deliberate on the state of the Church in face of the conflict amongst the different nationalities. The Holy Father desires an appeasement. He considers the movement known by the name of Los Von Horn as an offensive agent of pan-Germanism, and a stage in the route which would lead to the dismemberment of Austria, and to the success of German conquest. The Holy See will put all its forces at the service of Austria in order to preserve its unity and autonomy. On receiving Mgr. Keppler, Bishop of Rottenburg, in Wurtemburg, the Holy Father made particular inquiries about the Catholic movement in Germany. His Lordship delivered an important address at the last Catholic Congress of German Catholics, inculcating the necessity of Catholics renewing their methods of education and marching at the head of scientific progress. This, too. is the Pope's view, provided the boundary line between faith and science is carefully observed.