The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 51, 18 December 1902, Page 24

The Catholic World

ENGLAND.— Leeds Cathedral wwPi nn n W <i ath ° lie Cathedral o* Leeds, the erection of which is due to the purchase of the site of the ©resent one by the Corporation, will cost about j&36 000 SoS/KyvJ*** Cha^' sanctuary will seat 650 The P cavfn,? of° hh h ir ; 50 ' ® xclualve of the Canon- stalto marble sanctuary floor will be of Open Air Preaching tak^.VnnpVSf* Fath t r , Bernard Vaughan ia about to tajca up open air preaching m London, at the Instanc* d'nni fl^ rOt 5 er ' he OardinA-ArchbißhoS shows that Car! dinal Vaughan is strongly wedded to the view that CathX P n r Z hra « J a a " Active means of furthering the Sf the CaSSSaf ?n« J°£ c ra a ,??' at the instancl 01 tne cardinal, one of the Friars Minor Father Bedo wlitw l ith rt °^« 5 fH. 81n i! 1 lar duty in Whitechapel knd pu*su?d it Zlflu consl^rable success until other duties called him FaherPowi* 06 °\ Fa A her Vaughan's confrere? $ Z r^.Vw^Tpl' Diocese of Portsmouth S,c t SeS vu t rr o p Tt.°^£2. sWng a mlssion ' whteh is & b ° A Pilgrimage FrttS.^r ?J?°o Catholic pilgrims visited the shrine of St. Edward the Confessor on St. Edward's day. Death of a Venerable Bishop Da S sS°«w«°v c V ab !u BsishopB s ishop of P1 J™™tb ( who has just ?hf S, ay xr ln the v ripeness of years, was the doyen of closed RQ H i er + a h rCh + y .- Born in London in 1814, he Was close on 89 at the time of his death. A Weld-Vaughan ,, G fl Ur^ n d ' h , th % v ©nerable Bishop was educated first rf thvSr 1 ' and afterwards at Oscott, and in his dhff», y f he Was ordain ed to the priesthood. In 1845 Prior S oofc Way H back ' he became President o r.ruor J.aik College, and removed to Clifton on beinc made a member of the Chapter there Three vea?s late? held h! s CO^ c T ated , Bis^ ?J PJymouth, so ?hat he had hold his See for almost half a century Ten years airo when age began to tell upon him, an assistant was !£• pointed in the person of the Right Rev Charles G?ahaX tßolht B olhl P sl ClSamUS ' Wh °' CoadjutorTioi^SSSi French Clergy -,*«»« One of the latest is that of Hitchin where Carrtlnni Vau K han £ as established the French monks of St Fd mund of Canterbury, from Pontigny. Previous to their" coming the mission was served by the Fathers of t£ Institute of St. Andrew, of Daraet The ffirh nr£ A Venerable Priest nrie^t O ?n i 'thy/ eter Who for 60 years was a pif- 3 ~£"SS £S S 3=S An Auxiliary Bishop Ur T u c H l ght Rev - Consignor the Hon. Algernon Stan

ther of Lord Stanley, third Baron Stanley of Alderley. He was made Protonotary Apostolic to the Holy See by Leo XIII. in 1897. Monsignor Stanley has been for many years attached to the Papal Court in Rome. He worked for ten years at Spanish Place, London. The promotion of Monsignor Stanley, House-Prelate to his Holiness and Protonotary- Apostolic, to be Auxiliary-Bi-shop under Cardinal Vaughan (says the 'Daily Chro,nicle'), brings into contact two strangely-divided lives, for the new assistant of the head of the Catholics in England was a pupil at Rugby of Archbishop Temple, the head of the Anglicans. Monsignor Stanley, who is a younger brother of Lord Stanley of Alderley, and of Mr. Lyulph Stanley, was born in 1843. After leaving Rugby he graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was ordained in the Church of England. He was for some years a curate of the High Church of St. Mary, Soho, and then took charge of a very poor district near King's Cross. It is to his honor that he declined the valuable family living of Alderley in order to work among the poor. At that time he used to ride third class, and was very fond of his pine. An Anniversary Cardinal Vaughan on October 28 kept the 30th anniversary of his episcopal consecration. On October 28, 1872, Cardinal Manning consecrated him Bishop of the important See of Salford. In order of seniority of consecration Cardinal Vaughan is now, since the death of his uncle, Dr. William Vaughan, the late Bishop of Plymouth, the oldest member of the Catholic hierarchy of England. His place in the Sacred College is, according to seniority of creation, a high one— of the seventy members comprising it, there are but twelve taking precedence, among whom are Cardinal Moran, Archbishop of Sydney, and Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore. There were raised to the sacred purple at the same time as Cardinal Vaughan, in the Papal Consistory of 1893, Cardinal Logue, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, and Cardinal Perraud. Bishop of Autun, and a member of the French Academy. The Education Question In a letter to the public press on the Education question the Bishop of Salford used an argument which is a very effective answer to the Nonconformist declarations that it is wrong to use public funds for the teaching of religion in the schools. But how, asks Dr. Bilsborrow, about the Board schools ? All these schools have been built, furnished, and staffed with teachers, and supported to the last penny of their expenditure from the public rates. There is religious teaching in them, and if Board school religion, which is nebulous and fragmentary, be allowed to be taught at the cost of the rates because it pleases Nonconformists, though it is repugnant to the religious convictions of the friends of Voluntary schools, on what principles of justice, morality, or religion can Nonconformists object to a definite Christian religion also being paid for out of the rates— a religion which alone commends itself fully to the consciences of the members of the Church of England, of the Catholic Church, and of many Wesleyans and others ? The truth is that the Nonconformists think it right that their own creed, and only that creed, should b« taught at the public expense. FRANCE.— A Peculiar Charge. M. l'Abbe Paz, a Jesuit who became a secular priest after the Association Law, has been acquitted on tho charge of preaching a sermon. The court held that, as ha was no longer a member of the Society, his action was quite legal. Petty Persecution The 'Petite Republique' demands the laicisation of tho lay teachers in France. What does it all mean ? Well, one of these lay teachers — a young- lady named Mademoiselle C , has been found out going to Mass and Confession ! And, worse accusation still, she sent a small present to one of her pupils in the colleg-e at Montargis, wrapped up in an anti -Ministerial newspaper. And still peoplo call France a free country. Anti-Clerical Programme The ' Lanterne,' a French Masonic sheet, has published an article entitled 'After the Monk, the Priest,' which concluded as follows : 'Once the fate of the congregations has been settled, it will be necessary to settle accounts with the Church. The monks are not the only ones to be combatted. We must not forget the parish priest.' An Invention. A. French journalist recently wrote for 'Le Matin' a long account of an interview which he alleged to have' had with the Very Rev. Father David Fleming, VicarGeneral of the Order of Minors, who is represented as having expressed himself in anything but a respectful or even Christian manner towards the religious Orders recently expelled from France. Father Fleming repudiates tho interview as 'utterly false and apocryphal.' A Decision of the Senate The Senate, by 165 to 75 votes, has decided to leave with the judges, instead of the Administration, power to decide what constitutes a religious association. Fruitless Efforts The results of the efforts of the French Government to drivo children from the religious schools into the State schools are now known, as far as Paris is concerned. In Paris, tho State schools have received an accretion of 150 pupils all told. All the old religious schools have been reopened under lay management and with lay teachers, who will continue the traditions and

the teaching of their clerical predecessors, and the pupils have not forsaken them, and continue to attend as under the former regime. Misreported A Lyons paper is authorised to say that Cardinal Perraud was misreported, and that his Orleans sermon does not contain any insulting reference to the Government. He never said this Government was a cause of national depravation, but merely quoted the words of the late Bishop Dupanloup, who said that the Ministers of Education of seventy years ago were doing their best to bring about a state of national depravation M, Combes has written to the Bishop of Besancon that he must appoint another Vicar-General in place of the one who circulated the Bishop's petition. SCOTLAND — Catholic Magistrates . , The following Catholic gentlemen have been appoinH to the Commission of the Peace for the County of the City of Glasgow, on the recommendation of the Hon. the Lord Provost :— Dr. Colvin, Dr. M'Laughlin, ex-Bailie O'Hear, Messrs. J. Clarke, J. Martin, J. Macdonald, J. Glass, E. Williamson, and Mitchel Quin. The number of appointments is quite unprecedented and exceeds the total number of Catholics at present' on the Glasgow Bench. Presentation An illuminated address, a gold chalice, and a purse of sovereigns were presented recently by the Catholics of Denny to the Rev. Father Rooney, who, prior to hia recent transference to Galashiels, was pastor of the district for several years. Amongst the clerpv of the Archdiocese who attended the gathering to do honor to the worthy priest were the Very Rev. Canon Smith (Stirling) and Very Rev. Canon Morris (Falkirk). The present pastor, Father Shivers, presided. Bailie Loney read the address and made the presentations. Canon Smith also addressed the meeting, which was a most enthusiastic one, and, in mentioning that he had known Father # Rooney since childhood, said that the rev. gentleman 8 home and parents were such as all Catholic homes and parents ought to be — ideal ones. Catholic Schools for Leith The Catholic school extension scheme at Leith having been found impracticable owing to the present building being in some parts unstable, it has been decided by the congregation to build an entirely new school at the cost of £10,000. This decision was come to at a large and representative meeting of the congregation held under the presidency of the Superior, Father Eugene Callan, 0.M.1. For the old scheme already £500 already been subscribed, and to this sum was added £200 more by the meeting in question in favor of the new scheme. It was proposed and passed unanimously that each year till the new school is built every man m the parish contributes to the school fund one week's l n C rZ me t \ Youn + 1 Me £ s Soc . ietv h *ll and recreation th hhr° r youth of the Parish is to be embraced in GENERAL. The Christian Democrats. Apropos of a rumor concerning the 'Christian Demo?£r 'i. he f ° llowin ff letter appeared recently in the Manchester Guardian' from the pen of the Very Rev Dr. Casartelli, of St. Bede's College : 'In reference to your leading article of a few days back concerning, the rumor that 'the Christian Democrats at Rome have in consequence of the Pope's censure^ decided on "separation from the Vatican," ' which you (hypothetical^) characterise as "perhaps the most important news from Italy this year, the following official declaration of the the organ of the Christian Democratic party will be read with interest, and will decide the value of the rumor. It runs thus: 'May the full and voluntary submission to the will of the supreme authority prove to our friends and to all the world how we cling with unbroken loyalty to our old well-known programme— '>' Always with Rome and for Rome t " Always ready to combat and to sacrifice life and activity fon the sacred cause of the Church and th« Holy See ' This declaration seems explicit enough