The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 34, 22 August 1907, Page 31

The Catholic World

ENGLAND— Am old Catholic Landmark with demolition ' for over five , years, by the London County Council, the old Sardinian chapel in Kingsway, close to Lincoln's Inn, is at last to disappear. The (Jaiholic authorities have been definitely^ notified that the chapel must be vacated by the end" of next April, as the site is required" for the completion of the Kingsway Improvement Scheme. The Archbishop of Westminster is to receive £12,500 as . compensation for the destruction of the interesting old building. It was formerly the chapel of the Sardinian Embassy, and the late Pope Leo' XIII. said Mass in it when as Nuncio at Brussels he paid a visit to London. An Historical Spot The recent parliamentary contest in J arrow reminds an English contemporary that black and uninviting ■' as the town is it contains, hidden .in a wilderness of colliers' houses, one of the most sacred historical spots in the countiy. This 'is the little hill on which stand a few scraps of ancient wall surrounding the church— the remnants of J arrow monastery, founded in the seventh century. Here lived and worked, as student, rconk, scholar, and historian, the Venerable Bede, • candle of the English Church.' He died here, just as he finished the last woxds of his translation o£ the Gospels, and was buried in the porch of the church,where, almost until Norman times, crowds of pilgrims came to visit his tomb. ' Catholics Honored Two well-known Catholics (says the ' Catholic Weekly ') were amongst those whom the King honored in the distribution of titles in connection with his birtihidjay. Colpnel Ivor J. C. Herbert, , C.8., C.M.G., M.P., who has been created a baronet, is head of one, of the oldest families in Wales. He had a distinguished military career, and has been Militafy Attache at St. Petersburg, and commanded the Canadian Militia, and was Assistant Adjutant-General of , the South African Field Force, 1899-1901. He is a staunch Liberal iru politics, and , was born in 1851. The btfher recipient was Sir William Dunn, at present High Sheriff for the City of London, who was k,nighted. Sir William is a well-known figure in Catholic London, more particularly in the Regent's Park district, where he resides. Priest and Peer When the last mail left Home Lord Arundell of Waardour, "who is a priest, and! for malany years has been in charge of the Catholic church at Westbourne, Bournemouth, was lying dangerously ill. His lordship, who is in his seventy-third year, only succeeded to the title in October of last year, on the death of his brother, the twelfth baron, 'without issue. The late Lord Arundell of Wardour was a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. Lord Arundell is the head of one of the oldest and mosi distinguished Catholic families in Europe. Wardbur, which has been the seat of this ancient family since the reign of Henry VIII., is about fifteen miles west of Salisbury. The old castle was destroyed by the Parliamentary troops in the Civil War. One of Lord Arundell's half-sisters is a nun, and a sister, mow dead, married the late Sir Alfred Doughty Tichborne, brother and heir f of the Roger Tichborne whose impersonation by Arthur Ortoti led to the Tichborne trial. Death of a Monsignor - Our Home exchanges^ report the death of the Very Rev. Mgr. Gadd, of Manchester, who passed away on July 1. Monsignor Gadd, who was, in his seventieth year (says the ' Manchester Guardian '), had been failing in health for some time, so that his death was not unexpected. Charles Joseph Gadd was the son .of Mr. Thomas Gadd, of the Regent Road Ironworks, Salford. Being set apart for the priesthood, he went to the English College at Lisbon, and afterwards to St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, and on completihjg his education, in 1861, he was ordained priest at St. John's - Cathedral, Salford, by Dr. Turner, the first Bishop of the Salford diocese. It was a gratification to him to be appointed curate at the v cathedral of the town wherein his fanrily had been know;n for many generations. Part of his duties was to visit the Catholic prisoners in the county prison

in New ' Bailey street, where the goods yards oi the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway now stands. Iji the autumn of 1867 he had to > perform the duty of ministering to the spiritual wants of the three menAllen, Laririn, and O'Brien— who had been condemned to die for the' part they took* in effecting the rescue of two Fenians irom the prison van as w> was passing along Hyde Road to the city gaol at Belle Vue. > Father Gadd, with Canon Cantwell and Father Quick/ was with the condemned men when they died. ,He gave to the youngest of the men, Allen, his*,, silver cross to wear at the last moment, and he kept 'it . ever afterwards as a memorial of the episode. - - ' The Catholic Hierarchy and the Peerage , The ' Times,' which perceives that the. .reform of the House of Lords in some sort is inevitable, saysmany would rejoice to see it brought -into closer union with the great reiigious bodies outside ■ the Church of England by the admission of the Archbishop of Westminster and the chief leaders- of other coinirmnions to life peerages. If the Archbishop , ,of Westminster were to be created a life-peer (remarks the ' Catholic Times ') the same uignity would have to be conferred on the Gardinal-Arciibishop in Ireland. But it is doubtful if one or the other would accept it. History, of course, has many a page full of the doings of Catholic ecclesiastics in positions where they were called 1 upon to . deal with State affairs. The positions were, however, for the most part such •as left them in close contact with the people and therefore extended their power qf doing good. The question which wonld have to " be considered before the suggestion made by the ' Times ' could be accepted is whether under present conditions membership of '• the House of Lords would not lessen their influence among ■ the working classes and therefore prove detrimental to* their religious labors. They would scarcely be ready to strengthen the Lords at the expense of the hold they have upon the good-will of the toiling masses. PRANCE— The Country Suffers The ' following is an extract from an article by M." Airthur Loth in * L'Universe ' :— «' While the country, is involved in all this trouble and disarray ; while, the State is shaken to its foundations by the dis-integra r tion of all its elements, the Church tranquilly pursues her work of reorganisation. Her Bishops meet ,in Council and take measures for providing for the. necessities of t!ie hour ; the great and little seminaries destroyed by the Government are reconstructed-, the presbyteries and residences of the Bishops are Reestablished, the' budget of worship is pfovided for on " fresh bases, parochial councils replace the former coriseils de fabri,ques, suppressed ; new schools have been opened to succeed the old ; ecclesiastical and religious instruction, is established, the functions of the Church are carried out everywhere, and on all sides the Catholic life continues. The Church in France has never shown herself stronger and more virile than under the blows of persecution. Her marvellous restoration contrasts visibly with the disastrous state of^ public affairs. Her vigor and her activity ■ have enabled her to re-take the place of pre-eminence from which her enemies desired, to thrust her. She maintains her influence in social life, and in the family from" which they had pretended to exclude her ; she regains all she had before plus autonomy, and minus dependence.' ROME— An Interesting Gift An interesting gift is about to be made by the Holy Father to the parish church of Riese; his birthplace in the Venetian Province.- It was in this church that his Holiness used to say Mass and perform his sacerdotal functions before he was called, to the purple. This gift consists of twenty-eight bronze Candlesticks, the elegant work of a well-kno\m founder, the Cavaliere Emmanuele Munaretti. RUSSlA— Peter's Pence It is one of the signs of the new things in Russia (says c Rome ') that the Catholics of the Muscovite Empire are to be allowed a" last to contribute their share towards' Peter's Pence. Contrary' to what has been said on the subject, in some of the European papers, the request for this permission .was not made from Rome, but came from the Kussian Bishops, and was readily granted by the Government. Even yet \t is very difficult to gauge the results to Catholicism . of the new 'era of religious liberty inaugurated. SCOTLAND— A Memorial A memorial stained-glass window has been erected' in Chapel- of the Holy Souls, in St. David's Church,

Dalkeith, in memory of Lady Amabel kerr, whose body rests in the vault bfcneatll the chapel, by her husband,' Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Walter Kerr, of Melbourne Hall, Derby. The name of L.ady Amabel Kerr is- revered by all English-speaking Catholics, so this tri-\ bute to her memory possesses more than a family or local interest. The Archbishop of Glasgow His Grace the Archbishop of Glasgow on June 25 celebrated the fourth 'anniversary of his translation to the See of Western Scotland, and received on the occasion miany warm congratulations from clergy ihd laity alike. His Grace belongs in ' every way to Glasgow, where he was born. For thirteen years his episcopal administration, c first as Auxiliary 1 , and now for four years as successor of St. K'enttigern, has been marked by extraordinary' vigor, and the influence lie wields in the great city • on the Clyde is immense. Both within and without the Church there are many thousands who wish him a happy and prosperous rule over his people. SWITZERLAND— Church and State in Geneva. The question of the moment in Geneva (says the ' Catholic Times ') is the proposal for the separation of Church and State, for which the Grand Council has voted. The decision is being referred to the people. The Catholic Church stands to gain, whatever the result. Ever since 1873 the Protestants and the Old Catholics have received subsidies from the Budget of. Worship, but the Catholics have got none. At that" date all the members of the religious sects united against the Catholics in what was known as> the Swiss Kulturkampf. Not only were the Catholics left without assistance ; a number of their chairches 0 were handed over to the Old Catholics. Under the separation scheme it is provided that ' when one of the two Catholic forms of worship— the Catholic and the Old Catholic—ceases to be regularly preached in a comir.unal church, the other will be placed in possession of the church and of the parochial property belonging to it.' As it is mainly by the aid obtained from the State that the Old Catholic congregations are kept N alive when the Catholic churches were transferred, it is notunlikely - that the Catholics in the course of some time will have their own again. For the rest, the conditions of the proposed separation are a contrast to the French law. The Catholics are to continue tx> hr' * their churches, presbyteries, and religious institutions. There is to be no Confiscation. UNITED STATES— Appointed Bishop Rev. Daniel F. Feehan, for over twenty years connected with St. Bernard's Church, Fitchburg, Mass., has been appointed Bishop of the diocese of Fall River "by his Holiness .Pope Pius X., to succeed the late Right Rev. William Slang, who died in Rochester, Minn., several months ago.

• The publication of an advertisement In a Catholic paper shows that. the advertiser not only desires the patronage of Catholics, but pays them the compliment of seeking it through the medium- of their own religious * journal.' So says an esteemed and wide-awake American contemporary: A word to the wise is sufficient....