The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 25, 21 June 1906, Page 24

The Catholic World

CANADA— The Senior Metropolitan Owing to the recent death of Archbishop O'Brien of Halifax, Most Rev. Joseph Thomas Duhamel, D.D., Archf ?£ ?L °" a . wa ' Jxas become the senior Metropolitan % »«7d wV* ° anada - He w^s mitred on October ii- :: + but ? ee was not raised the archiepiscopal dignity until June 8, 1886. ENGLAND— Presentation to the Duke of Norfolk The monstrance which it was fecund would be the Wnrf.it oo6l3^ l^-^ 1 ? 86 gift to his Orace th e Duke of Norfolk, and which, after much unavoidable delay, was recently completed, was presented to him at Norfolk House, St. James's Square, tn April 27. 'Ihe Martabis ?,,iffl\ POnTe , a V h % pre f entation ad ' d^ss, and the tfuke suitably leplied. In the course of his remarks he made a very complimentary reference to an Irish priest, I/he Key. Dr. Loughnan, of the diocese of Armagh. School Accommodation The latest returns issued by the Board of Education show (says an English exchange) that there are in England and Wales at present 11,817 Church of England ??s« °!? f 6 5 Cou!ncil schools, 1063 Catholic schools, and 1189 Nonconformist schools. In the last mentioned are included the schools of t-he Wcsleyans and other denominations making up the whole conglomeration of Free Churchmen, and^yet their schools are little more numerous than those of the despised l Romanists.' Of course their religious requirements are 'pnniaed" for them in the Council schools. The children educated in these various schools are-Church of Engltnd, 2,350,176; Council schools, 2 946,511; Catholic schools, 337,868; No-neon-formist schools, 351,481. I n 1902 previous to the passing of the Education Act. the last year during which returns are supplied as to voluntary subscriptions for m oL n iSl ance ' An e licans contributed £670,324, Catholics £87,520, £ nd Dissenters £118,303. So we ace that Catholics, numbering one-twcnlieth of the population supplied one-tenth of the voluntary subscriptions for educational purposes. Objections to the Education Bill In the course of an article in the ' Nineteenth Censury ' for May on the Education Question, the Archbishop of Westminster says : The Government must be. well aware that the Bill which was read for the first time on April 9 is not a solution of the Education difficulty. It may, indeed, te passed by the large majority pledged to support Ministerial projects, but in this event it wi.l most certainly not pro\e to be a settlement of the question, and will give rise to fierce- local contests all over the country, leading eventually to a fresh appeal to Parliament.' His Grace goes on to point out that while the Protestant conscience is to be 'satisfied at the pubMc exi>ense, the non-Protestant conscience- is to receive no such satisfaction unless its possessors are willing to pay for it. ' This,' says the Archbishop, 'is the essential injustice of the Bill in that it sets up two standards of appreciation, and makes men suffer in their purse at least, for their conscientious relicious convictions. Mr. Birrell's speech was eloquent, earnest and lucid, but . there was one sentence which must'have jarred upon the ears of many who heard it. " All minorities must suffer : it is the badge cf their tribe " His proposals will place upon the consciences of many cne of those .perfectly avoidable hardships which he declares it to be the special province of an enlightened Liberalism to remove. The Protestant conscience and the conscience which cannot accept. ProtestantismTonght to be treated alike, and no burden placed on the latter of which the former has been relieved. 1 His Grace then sets forth four of the Catholic objections to' the Bill— (1) Why should Catholic children in districts of less than 5000 inhabitants be deprived of a distinctively Catholic school ? (2) ' How can a non-Catholic local

authority judge of the fitness of a teacher to teach Catholic children ? (3) \\hy is no legal protection given against the possible bigotry and intolerance -of a* local authority ? (4) Why is there tio safeguard to prevent local authorities arbitrarily forcing non-Catholic children ioto a school provided for and used practically exclusively by Catholic children and thus changing' its 'whole'" character ? FRANCE— Taking Precautions .. The French Government (says the ' Catholic Times ') got into power by the aid of the revolutionary elements in French society. 'Ministers have not been anxious to quarrel with their friends, and M. Clemenceau endeav- r ored to persuade the public on the approach of the Ist of May that all the trouble then brewing was due to a., conspiracy by the Monarchical parties. But M. Clemen- v ceau found, despite all verbal artifices, that he must take up a decisive \attitude against his old friends. Even in the France of 1906 the law forbids murder, arson, and robbery, and it is" the duty of the police to protect persons and property and to watch over the security of the citizens. Orders were accordingly given to the police and the troops to be on the alert in Paris on Monday last. Fearing the perils by which the city was be^ set, • and in some cases warned by the guardians of the law, large numbers of foreigners and French folk came to London on the previous day. Unfortunately events proved that there was amrle ground for their alarm. Serious riots took place ; there were collisions between strikers and tne troops, in whjeh many were wounded ; and a large number of arrests, were made. In the task which lies before them the French Government need not be envied. Once loose that moral bond of society, the recognition jjfr. the right to demand obedience, and the flood-gates of Anarchy are opened. ITALY— A Pontifical Train A Pontifical train, which was built for Pius IX. for railway journeys, and which, of course, has not been used since September, 1870, is on exhibition in the section devoted to 'Retrospective Art ' of the present Milan Exhibition. It consists of three waggons, and was presented in 1858. One cf the waggons is a richly decorated parlor car, and another an oratory. A Great Demonstration The funeral of Cardinal Cagiiari, Archbishop of Padua, assumed the proportions of a great demonstration*. All the slucps and cafes were closed. The Prefects of Venice, Treviso, Verona, Vicenza, and Padua, the military and civil officials, the heads of the University, were present, besides all the Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, etc., of Venetia. The procession took over an hour to pass any given spot, and the whole town was decorated with mourning emblems and flags flying at half-mast. Pedrocchi's famous cafe, which has never been closed day or night for four hundred years, shut its doors during the two hours the function in the Cathedral lasted— an almost unprecedented honor, the last time being the occasion of the funeral of King Hunvbert, The King and Queen of Italy were represented in the procession, as was, needless to say, his Holiness the Pope. ROME— Death of a Monsignor The Rome correspondent of the ' Freeman,' writing on April 21, says :— The death of Monsignor Francesco Ciocci, recently appointed Canon of the Lateran, and who was well-known in Rome as Master of Pontifical Ceremonies, came as a surprise and sorrow to. many. He was only J ess well-known in Ireland than he was in Rome, and he won golden opinions during his visit to Ireland in the suite of his Eminence Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli. He is described as an admirable Roman priest,, assiduous in his assistance in sacred ceremonies, in which he was deeply versed. He was also a 2?ealous director of one of the Catholic night schools which have been established by Catholics in Rome in order -to counteract the paganism of the municipal schools. He was held in high esteem' for his gentle and kindly ways and his constant cheerfulness. UNITED STATES— Church Progress Rev. Dr. H. K. Carroll, the Methodist statistician, is (says the ' Pittsbure; Observer ') out with>'his annual 'batch of figures. Catholics who. love their faith will find in them much that is encouraging ; for. Dr. Carroll franMy admits that the Catholic Church numerically is going? forward . by leaps and bounds here in the United States. During the year past no four denominations combined have didi ailed her increase. We submit, however, that there is another phase of Catholic increase of wliich Rev. Dr. Carroll loses sight>— -her increase in influence. Here are a few facts, hitherto - little noticed by the multitude, .which the • Observer '-' ' frankly believes afford more food for rejoicing than does

the increase in numbers now generally admitted :— (1) .The Catholic position is being accepted with regard to divorce. (2) The Catholic position is being* accepted .with regard" to religion in education. (3) The Catho- . lie position in regard to Socialism is being generally commended. (4) The .Catholic position wijb. regard to ~ race suicide is being nationally adopted/ (&) The Catho- - lie position with regard to an authority in Church -and Sate is now admitted to furnish the only safe- ~ guard against the international menace of anarchy and revolution. The Philippines A message to ,a secular paper from its Rome correspondent states, that He "Vatican, after , severally ears' discussion and study, has come to a definite decision as to the destination of interest coming- from money which the United States jjaid to purchase the land . which .belonged to Spanish religious Orders in the Philippine Islands. -It will be' diaded into three grants to be distributed every year by the Vatican in the following way— One will go to the Philippine Dioceses according to their needs, another to institutions created by. the religious Orders in the Philippines, with the understanding that the money must be spent there, and the third allowance will go to the religious Orders themseh es. GENERAL An Appointment The ' Catholic Times ' learns on good authority that Father Tyrrell, late S.J., has Keen accepted as a diocesan priest by the ArcWbishop of San Francisco, U.S.A., Most Rev. Dr. Riordan. The Church in Brazil Though Churdh and Slate in Brazil have been sep- ~ arated since 1891, Baron de Rio-Branco, Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has just' celebrated the return to Petropolis of the new Cardinal Monsignor Albuquerque Cavalcanti, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, by a great public banquet, at which the President of the Republic was himself present.