The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, 30 August 1906, Page 31

The Catholic World

ENGLAND— For Catholic Charities

Canon Thomas Bucket t, for 45 years pastor of the Church of SS. Joseph and Etheldrod's, Rugeley ' has left about £10,000 to Catholic charities.

The Late Senor Garcia

Senor Manuel Garcia was laid to rest in a private burying-ground attached to the Catholic chapel of St Edward's, at Sutton Place, near Waking. Accordine: to his wishes, only the ncaiubt relatives were present

A Benefactress

Mrs Ada Mary Augustus Stcphenson, a giamlniece of Lord Byron, has presented Arch-bishop Bourne with the money to build a church for the Tilbury Dock district of London.

The Late Father Coghlan

-,„ not \ actuall y a native of Queenslown, the Rev lhomas Lloyd Coghlan, who passed away recently at Folkestone (writes a correspondent of a Home exchange) spent his early days there, and in its old parish chapel celebrated his first Mass and preached his first sermon. Father Coghlan's father was one time Protestant curate of Cove, but, having gone for a time to lorq|uay, he came under the influence of the Oxford movement, and was one of the very few Irish Protes tant clergymen who were led by it to join the Catholic Church. Returning to Queenstown, Dr. Coejhlan set up and continued for several years a boarding school at Spy Hi II, next to the Scots' Church' and amongst his pupils, most of whom were Protestants was Sir Eyre Massey Shawe, of London fire Brigade tame. Dr. Coghlan was also for a time on the teaching staff of St. Colman's Colle-ge Feimoy, and late in life, after his wife's death ' was himself ordained priest, being then considerably over 70 years of age.

Good Advice

A correspondent sends the ' Catholic Times ' a copy of a Parnborough paper containing an attack on the Cat/holic Church by Mr. Allied Porcolli, amd am account of the retaliatory measures it provoked from AngJlicans and Catholics. Our correspondent (says the Catholic Times '), familiar as he is with the selfsacrificing lives of our piiestsr and nuns, feels strongly inclined to lesent the outrageous conduct of Mr Porcelh and his abelter, a local Protestant clergyman named Rawhngs, in canying on this campaign of calumny. \Ve> admit that patience is difficult when the floodgates of fafsehood aie thus opened, and we hold that allowance is to be made for local Anglicans an-d Catholics who compelled Mr. Porcelli and Mr Rawhngs to secure police protection and one of whom was lined for damaging a window, but we would bee them to remember that they are giving these two gentlemen an advertisement which they seek but do not deserve It is only necessary to leave them absolutely alone Their un- Christian methods are sufficient in themselves to kill any Chinch, creed, or cause for which they appear as representatives. Mr Porcelli for years aired all his anti-Catholic virulence in the columns of the 'Rock,' with what effect? All we can say is that the ' Rock ' died

Stonyhurst

The Stoavyhuist Association, whose 'annual -dinner took place in London a few weeks ago, are the ' old boys of the famous Jesuit College, near Clitheroe in Lancashire, which has been called • the Catholic ii.lon. btonyhurst is the leading college of its kind in England, and it is- particularly celebrated for its observatory, some of the Jesuit Fathers being noted astronomers. Stonyhursl College is an excellent example of some of the ironies of history. It is re-ally the continuation on English soil of the historic College of St Omer, which was founded in 1592 by Father Farsons the famous Jesuit, who was so sharp a thorn in the side of England in Elizabethan days. In the very year Father Parsons— bitter in heart against EngW r c f U1 l ng , down at St - Omer > the mansion house of Stonyhurst was being built, and 200 years later, when the Jesuit Fathers of the original foundation of St. Omer were driven from Liege by the French Revolution it was in the old Elizabethan mansion of Stonyhurst they found a home.

The Condition of the Poor

The -Duchess of Norfolk laid the foundation stone recently at Jo-linstone street, London, of a Workinc man s cltffcf, which Father Bernard Vaughan is havm^ 'Si,, 1 . 11 con nection with the Church of St. Mary and St. Michael, Commercial Road. The building is

o? Nnrf^Y/ 8 . St. Mary's Hall. After the Duchess hiw ° k ,f ad ( laid the fourrdation stone, the Archbishop of Westminster blessed it. Father Bernard Vaughan, in .thanking the JQuchess, said he considered uiat nowadays some such club-house as thoy were erecting was as necessary in a parish as a school or Ltr??- T ,? e * h f. d to take hu^ an natur e ™ they lound it, and in the environment in which - circumnrS??n«?. ad P ltcl ? ed UI. and in the East-En<l it was piactically homeless with the streets for the children loun P JL a7 in ' a , nd the drink shops- for the men to •tw S B f- a / an ? «?- c dool ? y/a -y s women to gossip in. That state of things bred larrikins and hooligans, oa ers, and ne'er-do-wells, fiom which was recruited that foimidable army called the unemployed. The state Jw. ingS H n thC Easr - Elld ™™ disgrace to the wSSe off 0111 that the PoOr here were no woise off than the poor m Naples. But England could not be compared with Italy, where, with a f"y o sunshine and a slice of melon, a man might get on well enough ; for in England the poor had neither sun nor melon. « tte Ire turned out of our homes,' say the people, 'and asked to emigrate to make room for the alien.' If only their Slaters would live for a few days among the East Eulei tS n?^- r i etUrn H tO / he House of commons with rnVn a , a " d v. blalfSDla " llkC Vi^' S SUC, tion BiUs aS ° nS HIH aml llousin S «"d Sanita-

FRANCE — Sanitation at Lourdes

has mst Siwn - Pr ? nCh writer Jean dc B o»nefon I mnJ^ w J a united protest from the doctois at u?\ ,« ; t, ?» c des ° n . bed Ulls fa^us lesort oJ the faithful as a hotbed of infection. In an affirmation which they have signed they declare that the sani?ary cont!l Uv 1 O th^ OUl " deS . 1S c « cllenl . tha t the rate of mosizl y a J th t ls t , lower lhan i« other towns of Uic same &^e, and that the present e of the pilgrims causes no danger of an epidemic. As a matter* of fact the p"?grims who visit Lourdes do not as a rule go thither suffering from contagious diseases. Many of Them ar blind, deaf paralysed, and the victims of otlmincurs a ihle S a ?ir S> bu i, th « V* 868 , 111^^ contagion is SSL f-l?nf »« f f ul'u 1 '' 11 lhey do oct:ur the invalids are kept apart from other people, bathed in water which is reserved for them, and the water is cont;u2yr newed. In a woid, the uitnost possible care "taken to prevent the communieat.cn of disease In F. an ! sick pilgrims are conveyc-ri to Lourdes in spVSu? tiains winch are under medical supervision * Mist sick persons travelling to oidmaiy healtli-icborts often mix with general passengers. 1X

ITALY— An Act of Folly

An amusing incident occunwl some tune aeo in Rome, when the Freethinkers of • that city erected 1 monument to Nichola fcpcdalien, being under the im pression that he was a ' victim of Papal cruelly ' and a Freethinker of the fi>st wate, . Theie wSL ,it m"h difficulty in proving, however, (hat far from being a Freethinker, or a ' victim ' of the Papacy S»« i Lr? wasmrealitynolhing more or less thai/ W agen to" the Holy See, from which he received a fixed salary Ihis discovery, after the statue had been erected J-d to an amusing result. Spedaheii's name was era sod o° m th a h t e rt lal '/v/ vd tl no olh^ P^ced in Us stead &o that to this day the majority of the Romans trl ignorant as to whom the statue represents tax collector, however, is well aware why certain taxes have been so inordinately incieased-simply to enable the Freethinkers and Freemasons to indulge their man ia for erecting statues for- the purpose of makinJ themselves unpleasant to their Catholic fellow-ciU,rn, g

ROME— The Pope as Arbitrator

. The American Republics of Columbia and Peru hay mg agreed to refer all questions arising it wS £ *> th « arbitration of the Sovereign PonUil thS Holy See has arranged that the contending Govern meats make a provisional accord by each withdraw" ing their troops from Vbp disputed ground at ButT mayo until the question is decided by arbHi^i™ U "

SCOTLAND— A Distinguished Visitor

Amongst the distinguished citizens of the Slat** who recently paid a visit to Edinburgh Wn <, I? Grace the Archbishop of New York. tjS AvSish™ 2J SSSPSJa. by his sccretaries ' Fatl - **22 ,

Scottish Priests and Kin* Alfonso

Eighty Scottish priests who sturiifvi *+ l

Sr +o S? ng f H^* 180 XIIL t0 ihe signatories, the secSSa^^oJSJn?" Ge ° rge W./Ritoh^of

UNITED STATES— A Race with Death

, Rev- Father Purcell had a grim but victorious race with death oti Lake Coeur d'Alene, east -of Spokane, the other day P iS il^ 1 1 ,^ ia 4 OathoUc Standard and [Tunes ). Arthur McQuillan was run over "and fatally %3 X *LT^* MicahCreek l 9 gging railroad. Knowwg thiat he wa's about to die, McQuillan aske^ for a priest The dying man was placed upon, a special tram a + mi hurried to the lakeside, then transfer id to a steam launch and started in the direction of Coeur d Alene City. In the meantime Father Purcell bad teen telephoned to, and he also rushed to the water front, boarded a launch and started up the lake to meet the incoming boat. The two launches wiet in tie middle of .the lake. The dying loeaer was transferred to the boat of the priest, who adniinislstered to him the last offices of the Church As the priest spoke the words of Hie closing prayer Mc-

GENERAL

Death of a Missionary

T^ c d u ath , is annou need of the Rev. James 2. a 1 ? 5 '- Who ha<l been en g a g tvd for many years on the African mission field.

Catholics in Two Republics

Whilst the Catholics justly complain of persecution m France the Catholics of the United States ° f .. A ™ e . nca . acknowledge that the laws and the authorities of the country are entirely fair towards them. The Hierarchy of the States, in the letter «^ 7^ f- Ye addressed to the French Bishops (says the •Catholic Times'), express their confidence that under the guidance and instruction of the Holy Father, ami of their Bishops, they will profess their faith as well in the political arena as in private life, and will thus soon recover the liberties of which they have been robbed A Trench correspondent whose letter we published last S!h W nlV,' T ! ier ? f are thirty-eight millions of us Jiench Catholics.' If even half of toe thirty-eigMj millions felt concern for the faith they profess, could ttiey not nuke it impossible for the Government to continue the infamous persecution they are carrying on? The thing is done in other countries; why cannot it be done in Prance. At one time the Knownothings organised a fierce persecution in America, but they were defeated, though the Catholics were then an much fewer numbers than they arc now In CJerauany the Catholics have successfully defended themselves Their organisation in Belgium has withstood ■ail attacks.

The Malta Incident

Tin, mi v ScoLtlsh lepers (says the 'Catholic limes ) have been indulging in fierce diatribes against the Archbishop of Malta, and there has been sent to us a copy of a little magazine called ' The Message containing such a weighty charge' against us as the remarkable recrudescence of Roman Catholic intolerance in the British Empire.' One sign of the remarkable recrudescence ' is the fact that we are cndelavotuig_ to prevent the Government from confiscating our schools. To this part of the charge we iJZZ r°T£ gui ! ty ' and we d 0 jt with a * conscience. Another sign of the recrudescence is the deJln'Sm^ b J } h \ A i" chbisll °P °t Malta for the suspensiion of a Protestant mission wMoh was beinflfceld by the Rev. John M'Neill in a local theatre. The ynter in the 'Message' should have secured aceuivne information bteforc resorting to denunciation. We have liad before us the full information given by the Archbishop, and by that his action is justified. The theatre is not a theatre in the sense in which the trS»° l «°tl t - he "I 101 . 6 In the ' Me ssage ' understands the TM>rd. It is a building raised and supported by the Maltese who are all Catholics, and the Government J-rln+i™ ? n Jr Ver V* , as re P"senting the people. The mns P g r f bB /° + wn hall for a Catholic mission in the SSwLf ? • ta M* toW r, n in Kn gland would be a case somewhat similar The Governor's conduct in complying with the Archbishop's request proves that he «2i "[.would not be just to give the use of a'building which is the common property of a Catholic population for a purely religious Protestant mission