The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 14, 7 April 1904, Page 27

The Catholic World

ENGLAND.— Death of a Provincial The Rev. Father Oolley, SJ , Provincial of the Society of Jesus, dieid at Stonyhurst College, on February 12. The deceased, who was an Englishman by birth, was in his 56th year. Rescue Homes The organisation of Children's Rescue and Protection Societies in Catholic dioceses is steadily gaining, ground. The latest, says the ' Daily News,' is that just set on foot in the diocese of Clifton, the Bishop of which is Dr. Burton, who was formerly for many years rector of a Mission in South Shields. At the present moment there are well-established children's rescue societies in the following dioceses : — Westminster, Squtlhwark, Birming-ham, Salford, Liverpool, Shrewsbury, and Clifton. The number of orphan, destitute, and deserted children wholly maintained by these societies probably exceed 2500, and at the cost of £30,000 per annum. In tihis number and expenditure are not included many hundreds of children mmates of orphanages, homes, and institutions not directly affiliated to

and the outcome of the establishment of these children's rescue societies. catholics and Political Parties in the course of his Lenten Pastoral, read in the Catmohc churches of London, Archbishop Bourne defines i>he position of Cauhoiic electors at tne forthcoming Lojuuty Lquncii elections. He points out that they are no Wjjd.ce tio face with a great crisis in education, and every voter must realise the Obligation which is upon mm. They should inform themselves of the principles of uiosc who solicited their votes, and give their vote to no man upon whose sincerity they were unable to depend. Tney should support those alone who publicly <tud frankly, and without any subterfuge, promised to act fairly in every detail towards the voluntary schools of London. The Catholic Church had no alliance with any .political party. From all alike she claimed fair treatment ana liberty to do her -divine work. In return she ottered, to all her heartiest co-operation in all those Uimgs which conduced to the moral advancement of the nation and mankind. Catholics, therefore, should work * in close union with their clergy in the coming election, that? t(he results might be of a nature to assure the safety of their schools. H^ANCE.— Distasteful Duty A Paris correspondent states that one morning recently 1000 troops, infantry, cavalry, and artillery, accompanied by 65 mounted police, left Vannes by special trains to ensure the expulsion of the few monks known as the ' Brothers of Laniennias,' who were in charge oi the head house of their Order at Ploexmel, in Brittany. The bell of the convent chapel kept ringing the tocsin from four o'clock in the morning. The troops on arrival surrounded the building, and the official liquidator, ou being refused admittance, ordered the doors to be broken open. Whilst this was going on a patient who was in the convent infirmary died. A threatening crowd collected, but tUie display of military was such tihat they maide no serious attempt to prevent the expulsion from being carried out. Six officers of the Vannes garrison refused to take part in the proceedings, and were placed under arrest. It is said that after a period of imprisonment in a fortress they will be dismissed from the Army. Return of the Nuns The recent laicisation of the Marseilles hospital (writes the Paris carrespondent of the ' Glasgow Observer ') has caused some sensation, as the Hospital Commission, presided over by Dr. Quinel, had fought the moderate Municipal Council on the question and had earned the day. The nuns left on the Ist of January. Dr. Quinel and his colleagues were satisfied, but it soon became evident that it was v easier to expel the nuns than to replace them. Everything went from bad to worse, and in the few weeks which followed the departure of the nuns the ratio of hospital mortality in< Marseilles increased fivefold. In the face of these results, Dr. Quinel-ito his credit be it said^-uid not hesitate feo recognise that he had made a mistake in working for the expulsion of the nuns. He has requested the Superioress to allow her nuns to return to the hospitals, and particularly to the one under his own charge ; anh this is now being done. A curious question is thereby raised, and the Public Prosecutor is considering whether Dr. Quiriel should not be prosecuted for opening, without authorisation, a Congregational establishment. This is enough to shtow the effects of the beautiful regime we live under. ROME.— The Patriarchate of Venice Monsignor Scalabrini, the Bishop of Piacenza, concerning wihorn several paragraphs have recently appeared the press, as it is reported t/hat he will shortly bo nominated to the Patriarchate of Venice in succession to Pius X., is a 1 rather distant family connection of the Bishoip of Salford, Dr 1 . Casartelli. Bishop Scalabrini has completed his 64th year, and has been 29 years Bishop of Piacenza, having been consecrated to that See at the early age of 35. Before that he was Professor in the Seminary of Ctomo. As Bishop, one of his chief cares has been the welfare of the Italian emigrants to America, in whose interest and at the request of Leo XIII. he visited the United States some two years ago. The appointment is so opposed to the Bishop's own desires that it is now considered unlikely to take place. Mansignor Scalabrini was one of the episcopal guests bidden to Manchester for the consecration of Bishop Casartelli last September, but was unfortunately prevented by urgent business from attending. SCOTLAND.— A Bequest It has been announced that the late Oanon Donlevy left a sum of £1000 for the eiredtion of a new marble altar, in St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. A Prelate's Coat of Arms The Right Rev. Dr. Chisholm, Bishop of Aberdeen (writes a correspondent of the ' Catholic Herald '), has

lately registered his armorial bearings in the Lord Lyon s Oihce, Edinburgh, the official headquarters of Scottish heraldry, an incident not without interest, as the first appearance of a Catholic pi elate on the i.yon Register since the Reformation. In the sumptuous aimorial volume just published, his Lordship's coat-armorial appears as a full-page colored plate, duly ensigned with the episcopal green hat. It may be permissible to remark that such a hat is quite a novelty, as borne by a Scottish bishop over his coat of arms In ancient times, the bis»hops, both of England and Scotland, surmounted their nhield, not with a hat, but with a jnitre. It would also be interesting to know why the strings ot the hat in q/uestion are represented with ten tassels. The modern and accepted usage is that a Cardinal is entitled to fifteen tassels, an archbishop to ten (the late Archbishop Eyre's hat is so represented on his bookulatc) and a bishap to only six. The only prelati.U hat recorded hithetto in the Lyom Register is'j that of the ill-fated Cardinal David Beaton. A representation of the same was inserted in one of the windows of the House of Falkland by the late Marquis of Bute.