The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 26, 28 June 1906, Page 27

The Catholic World

ENGLAND— Death x>t a Venerable Priest The death has taken place at the Oratory, South Kensington, of the Rev. Charles Henry Bowden, in his seventieth year.. Father Bowden was one of the founders of the Oratory in King William street, Strand which was afterwards removed to Brompton. - Serious Fire in a Church By a fire which occurred io the Catholic church of St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Hastings, the magnificent high altar, valued at £10,000, was much damaged. The Dominicans At the Provincial Chapter of the English Province of Dominicans, held on May Bin London, the Very Rev. Laurence Shapcote, Lector in Theology, was reelected Provincial for a term of four years. Papal Honor Canon Singleton, of St. Joseph's, Seacombe, Cheshire, lias been raised to the rank of a Domestic Prelate to the Holy Father, with the title of Monsignor. Foreign Missionary Society His Grace the Archbishop of Westminster presided on Thursday, May 3, at a council meeting of St.' Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society, he-Id at Archbishop's House. - There was a good attendance. The secretary presented a long and able report on the work of the various mis-, sions, and^ explained the aims of the eight priests of the Society who recently went to the Philippines. The report, which was- described as a record of progress, was adopted. There was a g«i?ral agreement that there is a pressing need of funds to meet the requirements entailed by the Society's progressive work. ITALY— Church and State The Cardinal-Archbishop of Milan was among the illustrious visitors to the King and Queen of Italy on their arrival at Milan. In addressing the Sovereign at the laying of the foundation-stone for the railway station his Eminence was very happy. Wilh Manzoni, he, at the outset, described the religion of ' the dear Italian fatherland ' as ' beautiful, immortal, beneficent, ever accustomed to triumph.' This set the Catholic and local note in his elqquent speech, which va» all praise of religion, Milan, and the good in life. Towards the close he said : ' The Prince of . the Apostles briefly traced the life of- honesty and virtue In the words "-Omnes - honorantes, fratres diligite, Deum timete, > Rcgem "hono^ rate." ' This quotation and the tone of the Cardinal's . address could not escape^ notice, as evidencing the plea- " santer times which have. come for Church and State* in Italy. .. _• ..-.._ " -•<„. SCOTLAND— Death of a Catholic Lady The funeral took place recently at LocKhell," Argyle-' shire,, of Mrs., Annie Constance Campbell, of : Lbchnell,-; •whd_died at Taynuilt, on the ..shores of .Loch EtLve, af-. .ter.a Jong illness. The deceased lady" was extremely -popular in /the West of Scotland; and~was born in "ire-"' land about „6,4 years ago, her father, Dr. John , Francis Fitzgerald, of Carrick, claiming kinship with" the old' Earls of Desmond. Mrs. Campbell's "first husband/ Dr; ~- Richard M'Clymont, died in China, and in 1577 she mar- . Tied secondly Archibald Argyll Lochnell Campbell, who in 1882 succeeded -his uncle as thirteenth Lochnell,; "and died a few years ago. _ , - . -„ .. .