The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11, 16 March 1905, Page 27

The Catholic World

CANADA— Grant to a Catholic University The Ontario Government has made a grant of 10,000 dollars to the University of Ottawa, which sipleaSid Catholic institution was destroyed by fire a little over a year ago. ENGLAND— Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School The committee in chaige of the scheme to found a Catholic secondary school in London as a memorial to Cardinal Vaughan have now collected £20,000. The classes, which have been started, are meeting for the present in the Cathedral hall. Catholic Reunion The annual reunion of Catholics of Birmingham, under the chairmanship of Lord Denbigh, was one oi mone than usual interest, inasmuch as the occasion was the golden jubilee of the reunions and also the silver jubilee of the Bishop of Birmingham's episcqpate. The Bishop was presented with an illuminated address and a purse containing £750. FRANCE— Hi? Last Act The Paris correspondent of the London ' Daily Telegraph ' reports that the expulsion of nuns of the fashionable Convent of the Sacre Coeur, in the Rue de Sevres, where many ladies of the aristocracy have been educated, and which had many pupils from England, America, and other countries, took place on January 4, It was one of Oombes' last spiteful kicks. HAWAII— The Church in the Islands The ' Iri^h Catholic" publishes some interesting correspondence from Honolulu showing that unequalled progress has been made in the Catholic missions- of Sahu, Mani, Kauai, Hawaii, and Molotoai. A number of conversions are reported from all the islands^ but especially from Molokai — the leper settlement. A number of graduates from lolani College (Episcopalians) are among the unfortunates exiled there, and all of them have lately bean received into the Church. Thus is the seed sown by Father Damien bearing forth good fruit. The two little children of Prince David Kawananakoa (a boy and a gill) ha\e been baptised by the Rev. Father \.ilentin Prince David was the next heir to the tftrone of Hawaii, and after annexation was the first Democratic candidate for the Dclegatesjlnp from that territory. A few weeks ago the Honolulu 'Commercial Advertiser,' owned by Mr. L. A. T'hurston (th,e son oi one of the original New England missionaries), published a remarkable and unexpected tribute to the Catholic clergy of those islanids. After severely criticising the pastor of the most aristocratic of Honolulu's Protestant churches for asking a \acation of seven months in two years, notwithstanding the fact that he receives ' the salary of a bank president,' the writer proceeded as follows: ' Hcie m Hawaii the Catholic clergy die leaving nothing b i it. the fragrant memory of good deeds. They have no bank accounts or sugar stocks ; Uiey have spent none of God's time in pleasuring ; they leave father, mother, brothers, sisters, and home to take the G ospel en-en into the dreadful haunts of the leper. HOLLAND-Catholic Revival ' A Hollander ' writes in the ' Catholic World ' for January an interesting paper on ' The Catholic Revival in Holland ' : — ' The influence of Catholicity upon the public affairs in Holland is supported by thirteen Catholic daily papers, sixty-six weekly papers, thirty papers which appear two or three times a week, and forty-five peiiodical re\iews. Catholic political associations are to be found in ovory borough constituency, and they give their votes, according to circumstances, either to a Catholic or to a Protestant who will uphold sound principles, to the exclusion of a liberal or socialist candidate In rases where a Protestant is supported Pome tact is required, but the reasonable conviction that only union can produce an effective opposition against a common enemy has enabled Catholics to work in harmony with tho c ie outside the Church, often with very satisfactory resiults. Indeed we have lately seen Protestants voting for Catholic candidates, and Catholics for Protestant ones. The result of the elections of 1901 was that in our Second Chamber— which may be compared to the English House of Commons or to the French Chamhers— a majority has been obtained by Cat holies and Protestants together against all other parties combined. In the First Chamber also— which corresponds to the House of Lords of to the Senate and is elected by the members of the Provincial Councils—the periodical elections have of late resulted in a victory for the Christian parties, and thus, alter a

fierce attack, the last fortress of liberalism has fallen So that Holland enjoys nowadays the full blessing of a Christian, if not an exclusively Catholic, government— as great a blessing, perhaps, as can be looked for in a country where every Kind of religious opinion has complete freejiom of action.' ITALY— Socialists Defeated The old Papal City of Bologna has just been the scene of a remarkable municipal election. A uiimn of Catholics and Monarchists has wrested the municipal government from the socialists, who wore defeated by ? majority of five thousand on a total poll of less than ten thousand. Last year it will be remembered the Car-dmal-Bishop of Bologna received King Victor Emmanuel 11. on his visit to the city, and the event was noted as an evidence of a rapprochement between Pope and King. The local reconciliation between Monarchies and Catholics has borne remarkable fruit, and it cann-jt fail to S'hpw the Monarchal Party in Italy upon which road lies safety for the Monarchy— reconciliation with the Vatican or alliance with the Revolutionists. ROAIE — The Pope and the Gondolier Tho Rome correspondent of the ' Pall Mall Gazette ' sends an interesting accouTit of an interview which recently took place between the Pope and his old goldolier at Venice, who made a special journey to the Vatican io see hit, former patron. The Pontiff, says the correspondent, at once relapsc'd into dialett with his sometime gdnd,oiier, asking for his wife and children, one of whom. Maria, a tot of four, had been a great fa\ori<e with the Patriarch. The gondolier had brought her photograph as an offering to the Holy Father and took back the Papal blessing to the child." Pius X seemed not to forget one of his humble friends, and asked for them by name ; and hearing that one or two are dead promised to pray for them. He closed the audience by slaying, <'I shall never see Venice again, but her people are doubly dear to me for that reason.' UNITED STATES-Senous Illness of a Prelate The Right Roy. Dr. Spalding, Bishop o f Pcoria in the early part of January suffered a severe attack' of paralysis The entire left side of the body was seriously affected by the stroke, as was the speech of the pxeLate. The latter, however, has been regained, and also the use of his left arm. Catholics In Boston A recent churoh census taken up by the Sunday School Association of Boston shows that Catholics number 45 per cent, of the city's population. Princely Bequests By the will <f the late Mr. John Dunfee, of Syracuse (New a fortune, accumulated by years of thrift and industry and estimated to be 'at least 1,200,000 dollars, is, after minor bequests amounting to 206,000 dollars-, divided equally between Mrs Anna Dunfee, the widow, and the Catholic charitable institutions of the city. Anna Dunfee, widow, and John J Cummins are named as executrix and executor of the will and are gi\en power to sell and convey real estate the testator, ho\ve\er, ad\ising the preservation of all' real estate so long as possible. Mother of Many Religious Mrs. Margaret Ilansclman, seventy-four years rid the mother of five d nests ana two nuns, died on December 28 at Wilhamsburg, N.Y. Of her children orly ore is a layman. The Church in New York The New York ' Iteming Post,' in referring to the religious oen-us taken in the great Ameiican city an I dealing with the ecclesiastical and sociological conditions in its eaily history, says : ' Go\ernor Dongan rf the English colony of New York, which re left on 'the accession of William and Mary, was a Catholic, and had in his house a private chapel, where Ilie first, Mass in Manhattan's history was celebrated. The charter whu-h he gave to the people is the basis of the civic rights of New Yorkers to-day, and it is but justice to ' say that he was broader-minded than siome of his reactionary Protestant siucoes-sors A full century was to pass before the barriers to Catholic worship, which became especially statutory in 1700, were fully removed.' Death of a Religious Mother Evangelist Kinsella, for 57 years a Sifter of Mercy (says an exchange), fried in December at Beatty, Pennsylvania (U.S.A.), alter an illness of over a year. Mother Evangelist was born in Ireland, heii\g a cousin of the late Cardinal Cullen, and consequently a relative of Cardinal Moran. When quite young she wont to America, arriving in Pittsburg in 1849, six years after

the establishment of the Sisters of Mercy in Pittsburg, and entering the convent of Mercy. Mother Evangelist was one of the best known members of the Order in Alleghany County. For nine years she w a s Mother Superior of the Piltsburg diocese, being .-selected for three terms of three years each. She was also Mother Superior of St. Mary's, Lauroncoville ; St. Xauei's, Beatty ; St. Aloysiu,s' Academy, Cresson ; and Mcicy Hospital, Pittsburg. Mother Evangelist was the 1-Tst of ton sisters that had embraced a religious life. Before the family mo\ed to America nine sisters had entered the Presentation Older. The Usl of these nine died but recently, after serviog her Older for 67 years. Another had worn the Presentation habit for 55 years before she claimed her reward.