Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 14, 3 April 1902, Page 24

Catholic World

CHlNA.— Converts. it is estimated that there are 16,531 baptised Christians in South Shantung. China, and about 30,000 catechumens. ENGLAND.— Leeds Cathedral. The Leeds Corporation having acquired the site of the present Catholic Cathedral with the view of effecting city improvements, a fresh site has been secured and arrangements have been made for erecting a new cathedral of imposing aspect. The plans have been approAed and the high altar .done is to cost £1800. A member of the congregation has offered to present the altar rails. July 26 is lixed for laying the foundation stone of the new cathedral. Children's Crusade. ITis Eminence Cardinal Vaughan, in a letter to the members of the Catholic Children's Crusade, says ' 1 write because I am the Father of more than 50,000 children, counting infants in arms as well as those of school age. You, my dear children, are educating no less than 50 of these little people by the collection which you make every year for their maintenance. You have collected over 100,000 pence during the course of each Lent, and you have therefore brought me o\er £500 for our orphans and abandoned children on Good Shepherd Sunday. I hope you will bo able to do the same thing this year.' FRANCE.— Permitted to Remain A pleasing illustration of the affection felt for the Nursing Sisters of St Vincent de Paul was given some weeks ago at Treignac. The Municipal Council met on that day to decide, under the provisions of the Associations Law, whether the Sisterhood should be disbanded or retained. The Sisters, who are charged with the direction of the local hospital, have been engaged in their good work in Treignac for 40 years past, and in view of their ser-

vices, the Council unanimously voted for their retention. But the Council afraid probably of the authoritiesvn Paris, decided to make a referendum* to the whole population. At five o'clock the same evening all Treignac assembled to determine whether the Sisters were to be turned adrift or maintained at the hospital. A couple of workmen mounted the platform and spoke so fervently on behalf of the Sisters that the meeting unanimously decided to keep the good nuns. After the vote, the gentleman who presided asked if any person present was of an opinion contrary to that of the meeting. Not a hand was raised ! So the good Sisters remain at Treignac. Yet Treignac is thorough, y Republican and has a Mayor, who is also a Deputy, who voted for the suppression of the Embassy to the Vatican, and for the separation of the Church and State. Treignac should now get a real Catholic Deputy to represent it in Parliament. HOLLAND. A discussion is going on among the Dutch Catholics as to the necessity or desirability of establishing a Catholic University in Holland Opinion on the matter is not undivided, a number of authorities holding that such a university is not a necessity. ROME.— Peter.s Pence. Among the nations which contribute to Peter's Pence Italy comes iirst with £12,440, Austria second with £10,600, the United States a good third with £9,960. Then follow Germany (£8520), Spain (£8,080), Great Britain (£7760), Belgium (£6520), and other countries for the total amount of £27,960. An Audience. Among those received by the Holy Father recently was the ltev. Donald Mackintosh, D.D., Vice-Rector of tha Scots College. He had the honor of presenting to his Holiness the latest arrival at the College, Mr. John Charleson, lately minister of Thornliebank. The Holy Father was most gracious to this interesting convert. Mr. Charleson asked a special blessing for Canon Carmichael, then seriously ill, who had received him into the Church, and the blessing was most graciously granted. Death of a Cardinal. The -weird Roman legend that Cardinals never die alone, but are invariably accompanied to the grave by two of their colleagues (says the Rome correspondent of the he Times '), has again been partial^ confirmed T>v the unexpected death ot Caiduial Ciasca. His Eminence expired, surrounded by the Superiors ! the Augustmian Order, to .which ] 10 belonged A solemn Uoquiem Mass was celebrated on Sunday mn-ning in the Church of Sta. Maria del Popolo, several members of the Sacred College being present. SCOTLAND. _ „ According to the '; Western Catholic Calendar,' the estimated Catholic population of the archdiocese of Glasgow is 334,542. There are 2-7 m-iests (secular and regular), 81 missions 112 churches, chapels and stat mis ; institutions-education, 19 ■ others, 13 ; mission f^ ol^ l^: SnteT'at 01 religions' examinations, 44,544. rm FVbruarv 3. A native of btuun glass, Invcrness-shiro, * athei MacDonald determined in early life to become a priest, and for this purpose prosecuted his studios with great «J zeal at Blairs, Paris, and Rome. He " was ordained in 1891, and served most successfully for some time in

Woodside, B&nff, ere going to Aberdeen, where, up till hisi death, he was held in the highest esteem owing to hia splendid priestly qualities. The ' deceased was only 35 years of age. SOUTH AFRICA. The Rev. Father Gaughran, Superforof the Oblates at Leith, Scotland, has been appointed by the Holy See to the Bishopric of Kimberley. His consecreation was to take place in St, Mary's, Star of the Sea, Leith, on Passion Sunday. Father Gaughran, who was ordained in 1868, is a brother of the late Bishop of Kimberley, and there can be no doubt that his appointment will give the greatest possible satisfaction. A New Cathedral. The foundation stone of Bishop Jolivet's new Catholic Cathedral in Natal has been blessed, and the b,uilding is proceeding under the happiest auspices. The estimated cost of the new Cathedral is £25,000. UNITED STATES. From advance sheets of the new ecclesiastical directory it seems that Chicago is the second English-speak-ing diocese in the world. New York is still first, but Chicago ranks second with a Catholic population of about 800,000. During the past year nine new parishes were founded, making a total of 135 parishes in the city. The Philippines. The long-promised Bull to the clergy and people of the Philippines (says the San Francisco 'Monitor ') has been completed and signed by the Pope. The cable tells us that it is the result of a full and free agreement between the Vatican and the American Government. The new Delegate Apostolic, Mgr. Sbaretti, who is coming to this country on his way to Manila, will bring a copy of the Bull to the President and then it will be published to the world. The Difference. Many persons are now beginning to see (says an American Catholic exchange) the difference between the missions given to non-Catholics and the methods usually adopted by those who preach against the Catholic Church. The Catholic missionaries do not come out with bitter attacks on our separated brethren ; they open no hostile controversy with Protestant denominations ; they simply and plainly explain the dogmas of the Catholic Church, and invite comparison. Protestant evangelists rarely pursue such a manly course. Few of them would dave address an audience of well-informed Catholics, while the Catholic missionaries invite, preferably, the most enlightened and intelligent Protestants. The Hierarchy. Many races (says an American exchange) are represented among the bishops of this country. There are, for instance, the Anglo-Americans like Bishops Williams, Northrop and Curtis ; the French, like Bishops Chapelle, Durier, Glorieux, and Rouxel ; the Germans, like Archbishop Katzer, and Bishops A Her ding,

Eis, Fink, Haid, Horstmaim, Macs Schwebach, Moeller, Eichter ; the Dutch, like Bishops Janssen and Van de Vyver ; the Irish, like Archbishops Corriganj, Ireland, Keane, Riordan, "Ryan, Feehan, .Bishops Burke, DonaUue, O'Reilly, and Phelan ; and the peoples, represented by Bishops Gabriels, Matz, Messmer, Meerschaert anfl Trobec. Strange to say, there are no Spaniards, though some of the sees were founded by Spanish missionaries, and there are many Spaniards in the United States. But Archbishops Chapelle and Bourgade and Bishop Granjon and other prelates speak Spanish. The Church in Chicago. In the archdiocese of Chicago, last year, 21,800 children were confirmed. This is an evidence of phenomenal growth. During the same time , 9 new parishes were established in the diocese. Twelve new churches were erected where there were no churches before. Eighteen fine new church edifices were erected to replace smaller and less valuable structures. In the matter of schools, 10 new schoolhouses were erected and opened to Catholic children, and 11 additions of several new rooms were built in connection with schools; already running. Chicago is on the high road to becoming perhaps the very greatest see in the Catholic world. A Splendid Gift. Mr. E. J. Le Breton's splendid gift of §100,000 for the site and buildings of an old peoples' home, under the direction of the Little Sisters of the Poor (says the ' Monitor '), iss one of the most munificent individual endowments of charity recorded in San Francisco. No worthier or more deserving object could have been selected by the generous donor, than the special work of the Little Sisters among the aged neglected and destitute of botli sexes. More practical good for humanity wild bo actually accomplished by the expenditure of this money, than can be reasonably expected to accrue from the investment of many times the amount in such philanthropies as public libraries and the like. No Color Line. Agitation of what is known as the ' Jim Crow ' car, separating blacks and whites in transportation vehicles in Marylland, has one feature that is specially interesting. Protesting against such proposed legislation, a colored Methodist preacher in Baltimore said in part : ' ilt may seem strange , but iti is nevertheless true, that the only Church in Maryland where colored people are welcome and in which white people worship in large numbers is the Catholic Church. This fact, together with the other fact that there is no color line known in Catholic countries, are causing not a few colored people to regard the Catholic Church as the power raised up by God to break the chains riveted on them by Protestants of the United States in Church and State,

and they are going to Rome, as they find it more difficult to swallow Protestantism's practical denial of the brotherhood of man than the dogmas of Rome.' The Religious Future. A special cablegram from Rome to the American Press announces the appointment of Very Rev. Dr. Philip J . Garrigan, vice-rector of the Catholic University of Washington, as Bishop of the new diocese of Sioux City, lowa. Very Rev. William J. Kenny, Vicar-General of the diocese of St. Augustine, Florida,, has, according to the same authority, been nominated Bishop of that diocese, to succeed Right Rev. John Moore, who died last July. GENERAL. Appointments. The London ' Daily News ' says in a recent issue that *> every impartial traveller has come away from Australia with the conviction that the religious future of that great continent is with the Catholic Church.'