Cabled Cardinals

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 40, Issue 40, 1 October 1903, Page 18

Cabled Cardinals

Owing to his pestiferous habit of inventing or maltreating Catholic news items, the cable demon finds it difficult to get believed on the rare occasions when he sends the plain and unadorned truth along the submarine wires. There is, however., an element of probability in his recent statement that Archbishops Walsh (Dublin), Stonor (Rome), and Bourne (Westminster) ha\e "been raised to the rank of Cardinals. The elevation of Archbishop Stonor to the purple has long been expected. The Cardinalatc may now be said to attach prescriptively to the See of Westminster. And in placing Archbishop Walsh in the College of Cardinals, Pius X. would confer a well-merited honor on a prelate whose brilliant and manifold talents, great administrative ability, deep and widely ranging learning, and personal charm of manner would add a fresh lustre to that grand assembly of the senators of the Church.