The Cathilic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 51, 22 December 1904, Page 24

The Cathilic World

ENGLAND.— A Sermon in Irish.

The Most Rev. Dr. O'Donnell, Bishop of Rapboe, has Qodisemtod to preaoh the sermon in Irish at tjhe Special Irish sen we which is to b«e held in Westminster Cathedral on tihe Sjunday after St. Patrick's Day. The arrangements are being carried out by a committee of the •Cilaclic League in London, on which are representatives of tihe United liirfh League and other Irish organisations. The Education Act.

In tiheir resolutions regarding the Hdu elation Acts the BisQijc/ps of England and Wales state 'that, having gum their geuieral approval to tie Uduoation. Act of 11102 yi tihe expectation tihat tihat Act wauld be honestly 'and bjoinionably earned into execution, they would reconsider tflieir attitude towards Act unless' the local a|'ilfh,oTitios mjr/difield their hostile and vexatious attitude and it were .proved pos-sible to administer the Act withau(j (prejudice to the rights of Oath olios. Another resoliuti\on urged Uhat managers of OathoHc schools should insist Uhat not less than sixty mmutes a day shpuld ho assigned to religious instruction, in order to ensure fcho rca^aniaible facilities to w'hioh they were entitled for tiHal nurpjose, ajifd that all Catholic sehtools should be closed all djay an holydays and other religions festival days. A Memorial.

A meeting of tihe Irish priests attached to Wie dioceses of Westminster and Soutnwark was hefd recently to take steps for tihe erection of a suitable memorial from annotagstf, themselves to the late De.an Dooley. T.hero was a large and representative attemdaiice antl it was d©ci)de/d tfhat those present should undertake the erection of a nuon'ument over the grave of tihe deceased. Tihe (necessary anxoiu.nt to cover the cost was eojitribule)d om tihe spot and orders were given to have) the work put in 'hands at omee. This it Should be mentioned is entirely anjart from trhe memorial whkih Dean Dooley's late parishioners at Commercial rosid have decided to erect tip him, wihioh will take the shape of a stained glass window im the church. Similar memorials are alsp beting organised by the parishioners of Wapping and Canning T»w)n, where Dean Dooley formerly mi/nistered. A Double Anniversary.

A double anniversary in connection with St. CuthbeTt'si Catholic cfhtirch, Wigton, CMmberlairM, was recognised in an interesting way. The parisli priest, the Very Re)v rf Dr. Bcarke, was ordarned fofty year,s ago, and has jU^it completed -'a/ tweiity yeai& residence in Wigtion. A number of distinguislhett Quests, clerical and lay, nalntolred him witfli their presence, a/r*d their hearty coingratulatifcjns u^p'on this double event in his life. Amongat the gaies<ts were the Bishop »f Bruges', with his

chaplain (Very Rev. Father Van de Velde), Lor/d Archibald Cajnon DpMglas, etc. The goold Father Bourke studied in his Jbaudship's diocese four yeiars uiider L,ouvain profession*. He is a ripe sclbolar, linguist, and eloquent preacher. In public life he has been member of School Boards, local Boards, and Boards of guardians. He is still Poor Law Guardian for Wigton. FRANCH — The Holy Father's Love. Itn a letter to Cardinal Lecot, Archbishop of Bordeaux, the Holy Father gives expression to his sincere lave for France and says tihe glories of the country are boutajd up witfh the his-tory of the Olturqh. Grave Charges. M. Goiy.ot de Villeneoive, in tihe French Chamber the other day, produced documents showi/tig that the closest relations exist between Freemasonry and the War Office, and tihat the Grand Orient "keeps up a system of espionage to discover whether officers are Catholics and practise tiheir religion. M. Mollin, a;n official of the MinistTy of War, has resigned in consequence of the reveUti)Qfn&, atW M. Bourgeuil, juge d'instruction m Paris, who is accused of having given information abiout a general officer to tihe Secretary of the Grand Orient, has, it is stated, been asked to rtesign. Educational Establishments in the East. Brother Eivagre, Provincial of the Christian Brothers in Palestine, has sent to the editor of the ' Figaro ' a letter whidh stpeakg for itself, and which shows the effect wihicih M. Ciombes' policy is already having upon French educational eatablishmcnts in the Ejast. T*he letter is as follows :— ' Ktndly allow me to place before you the following statement, which lam comipelleti to make, both by a sense of patriotism and by ?. sense of urgent neetd. You k,mow the Laws which have recently bee n applied to the Congregation of which, for fifty-fo^ir years I haVe beein a member. Our Brothers in France have had to choose between secularisation and exile. Stonie of tlhem have come over here, more are comijig, and in order to fmd work for them we are thinking of opening new schools in Syria. But where cotuld we find in Syria, in this Lih&n which has remained so French, the money necessjary for the opening of these schools. I want fr.om 15 to 20 thousand fra-ncs, and those w/ho kmbw me Hn|ow the work whioh I have been doing here for the last forty years. 1 now ask for the means of continuing and increasing our work. Our establishments ha>ve been openqd on the demand of Frendi Consiuls. With the subventions which were granted to us by the French Govermmeint we have founded siehools which are now puosjpenoius. If these stibventioms are to be withdrawn, as seems likely, our schools will suffer to the gieat detriment of French influence and to the advantage of foreign establishments, which are generously supported. There are three of our most important houses whicih we shall have to close down s'ooui unless help is f,ortihcoming, viz., those of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Na'/arcth. Tfhe cliosins of these schools, s<o well lmown and sio freqtuemtly visited, is all the more to be dreaded, as the EJnglish anjd the Germans have in these towns a largo nmmjber of ad|uoatianal establishments, which, if we we're not there, wioul'd soon sweep away every vestige ot French education from the populaticin.' ITALY.— A Convert's Gift. T|he jubilee of the definition of the dogma of tin© Imnuaaulate Conception was to have been sigjnalisefd by the erection of a church at Sal(*rno, tha.niks to tiie munificeoice of am English, lady convert. ROME.— Beatification. Tihe Boatiftoati'on of the Cure of Ars is fixed for the Bth of next mpnth. The Church in the Far East. The Vatican Cinqular states tihat c»n ' October 28 his Holiness received in private audience his Excelletncy the Prince Jong-Tchane-Min, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleoiip'otpintrary of the Errtpire of Oorea at Paris, wtfilo hajd gome on a special mission to Rome, in order to present to his Holiness an autograph letter of the Emip€fi<ar, his s^vefceigin.' This is t!he first /public mentio?i of Ooraa at tihe Vatican since the last Jubilee of Lelo X!IH., and it may be the prelude to developments. SCOTLAND.— CathoIic Truth Society. The CatMolic Tr,uth Socidty of Scotland (writes a CorresHomddnt) miay with good reasooi congratulate itself oin tihe Conference held recently in Edi»nburg)h ; when able ajrtd interesting papers were read. The number of delegates attend ilng, as well as the earnestness d«3pl»ayed gave most gratifying evidence of the progress t|he Society is maicing ; it forms one of the niiost interesting of QaiJhlolic agencies in Scotland, anil although it has not acoomjplisflietl great things so fax perhaps because it does not make much noise in thi<s nc(isy hurry-scurry wprW, yet the members are laying the founldiatkm o.n

which will be raised a structure that will command attention. Ttfie Society haVe at present their literature at the pordhes of all the city churches, some of it in specially rnfade boxes, after the penny-in-the-slot style. There is no doubt fehat the Society is accomplishing much g/qod in a quiet way. Comparing this country with what it was twenty years ago, qne is sitruck at the progress of tolerance. Vhe Jacob Primmers with their insulting sermons on the ' Popish Mass ' are not to be heard, and little, if any, attention is (paM t 0 the bogus priest witih his tales of nunneries, etc. Tr,uth is prejv.aililng, amd tow.ards that end the Society is Working ably ajnd successfully. At the recent Conference the Bibliojp of DunkeM, Dr. Macfarlmie, presided ; he was supjportejd by t!hd Right Re.V. Lquis Casartelli, Bishop of Salford ; Bishop Gaug.hren, Kimberley ; Miajor-General Lord Riafyph Kerr, etc. A message was settti from the Conference to our Holy Fattier the Pope, and the following reply received :— ' The. Holy Father cheerfully receives t|he homage of the members of "the Catholic Truth Society of Scotland assembled in Conference, and imparts to tihem his loving Benediction. j UNITED STATES.— Death of a Venerable Prelate. Tfhe death is reported of Archbishop EMer, of Cincinnati, who passgd away on October 31, in his 86th year. The deceased preiate was the descendant of an olc| Etoiglish Catholic family that settled in the United States in 1720. He was born in Baltimiore in 1819, and was) educated for the priesthood partly at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmittsiburg, Mtaryl'ajn'd, and partly at Rome,, wheie he was ordained a priest in 1846. Immediately alter his ordiinatiofc. he was appointed president 'artd professwr of theology at St. Mary's College, aiad after several years' faithful service was made Bislfroip of Natohez in 1857. When the Civil War broke out he was assiduous in his care of the sick and WGUhded, in fact directing all his energies to it. In 1878 he labored unremittingly and fearlessly during the epitledemic of yellow lever, and was himself taken wrliih the 'dLsease. At one time his death was announced. I n 1880 he was ooadjiutor to Arohbishop Purcell of Cvncmnati witih ttie right of succession, and three years later an the death of tllati prelate became archbisho/p of the see. He was invested with Uie pallium en December 13, 1883.