THE AUSTRALASIAN CATHOLIC CONGRESS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 3, 21 January 1904, Page 3

THE AUSTRALASIAN CATHOLIC CONGRESS

CIRCULAR AND SYLLABUS We have received advanced sheets of the circular and syllabus of the Second Australasian Catholic Congress, which is to be held im Melbourne from Sunday, October 26 to Sunday October 30 of the present year. The circular runs as follows :— ■ Dear Sir or Madam, At the Australasian Catholic Congress, held in Sydney in September 1900, it was res6lved ' That an Australasian Catholic Congress be held every third year, and that the next Congress meet in Melbourne. 1 The approaching completion of the new Cathedral Hall enables us to take the first practical steps to give effect to this resolution. Our! present Supreme Pontiff Pius X. has ordered that suitable and imposing celebraVions shall be held in Rome and throughout the Catholic world, in the latter portion of the year 1&04 in connection with the Golden Jubilee of the proclamation of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception. In accordance with the wishes of the Holy Father it us intended to make papers on the singular privileges of the Blessed Virgin a special feature of our Catholic Congress. Catholic Congresses held in Europe have treated of meters chiefly connected with the altitude of the Church in relation to the leading questions of the day, and it is proposed that the (Second Australasian Congress shall follow on similar lines. Able and scholarly papers on the subjects outlined in the accompanying syllabus will do much to clear away the ignorance and prejudice which now prevail, and show forth the Church in the beauty and grandeur Df Her sublime teaching. White some prominent men, both in Church and State, are bd.ng invited to contribute papers on these subjects, this is to be taken as a general invitation to all who may be interested an any of the matters indicated in the Syllabus to send in papers thereon. All papers, without exception, must be in the hands of the Hon. General Secretaries, in Manuscript on'y, not later than Thursday the Ist September, 1904. It has been decided for good reasons that the Executive will have the papers to be read type-written at the writer's expense ; ;.s they are in a position to have this done more cheaply than the writer. On Tuesday, the 22nd December, 1903, His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne summoned some of the leading Clergy and Laity, who, at His Grace's request, formed themselves into a Provisional Committee, and elected as President of Honor His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, as President His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne, as Vice-Presidents the Archbishops and Bishops of Australia, and as Hon. Treasurers the Very Rev. Dean Phelan and Mr. M. Mornane. The Rev. J. McCarthy and Mr. A. L. Kenny, K.S.G., were elected as Honorary General Secretaries It is earnestly hoped that all who have at heart the interests of the Catholic Faith will place their services at the disposal of the committee, and do all in their power to ensure the success of the Congress. We have the honor to remain, Yours very faithfully, %> THOMAS JOSEPH CARR, Archbishop of Melbourne-, President. j. McCarthy, ciifton mil, A. L. KENNY, 87 ColMns St., Hon. Sees. St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, January, 1904.