DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 42, 17 October 1907, Page 17

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) _, . October 12. There was Exposition. of the Blessed Sacrament at the Cathedral on Sunday from the last Kass until Vespers. The high altar was most tastefully decorated: In the evening there was a very large congregation, when his Lordship preached, on the Rosary, in the course of which he gave an account of the origin and growth of this lorm of prayer. A procession of the Blessed Sacrament followed, in which the Children of Mary and the Guard of Honor took part. Miss J. Rist, who has occupied the position of president of thejst. Patrick's branch of the Society of the Children of Mary, was entertained by the members at the convent school on Sunday afternoon, when the director, the Rev. Father Murphy, on behalf of the' so--dality, presented Miss Rist with a marble clock as a small token of their appreciation of her efforts in the advancement of the society. The Rev. Fathers HolbTook, Aam., and Fart/ling were also present, and both referred to the success with which Miss Rist had filled the position of president. A musical programme was contributed as follows :— Pianoforte solos, Misses Fischer and M. Sheahan ; vocal duet, Misses S. Miller and M. Sheahan ;. vocal solo, Miss C. Rist ; pianoforte duet, Misses Robinson (2). The following letter appeared in "yesterday morning's ' New Zealand Herald ' over the initials ' W.H.M.'- It is from the pen of one of our well known priests :— ' In the cablegram in your issue of to-day in regard to the late Cardinal Svampa he is called a " Liberal-!' insinuating that he was at variance with the Pope. It is a malignant slander .on the dead. Cardinal Svampa, whose acquaintance I had the honor of making in Rome, and meeting again at Bologna, was as ultramontane as Pius X. himself. He was a man of most charming personality, and in one sense was irfdeed a Liberal, and that was in his- charity and alirsgiving to which the poor of Bologna wouia be the first to testify. In a politico-religious sense he was no more a Liberal than Pope Leo XIII., who, on account of his extraordinary talents, created him Carolnal at the early ' age of 43. On August 10 last, when the illustrious ecclesiastic lay dying, surrounded by his household and conscious to the last, Ke made the customary '.profession of faith,' which impliclfly excludes all those errors classed under the name of "" Modernism." Because Cardinal Svampa showed marked courtesy to the King of Italy three years ago upon the visit of. the latter to the old university city of the former Papal States it was no indication of Liberal tendencies, for it was known shortly afterwards that the Archbishop acted so towards the King at the instigation of Pius X. In choosing Consignor Delia CElesa, the Pope's Undersecretary of State, as the successor of Cardinal Svairipa, I suppose his Holiness thought that the name of the new ArcEbisliop -was sufficient guarantee that he would not be against the Church, but against so-called Modernism.'