The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, 1 October 1908, Page 31

The Catholic World

AUSTRIA— Where King Edward Visits Marienbad, in Austria, where King Edward 1 takes his annual ' cure,' is the property of the Canons Regular Premonstratensian, and the Right Rev. Abbot Gilbert Helmen, Abbot of Tepl, is the proprietor of the famous springs. The Lord Abbot, who always receives King Edward on his .arrival, is a personal friend of his Majesty who, during his stay in Marienbad .visits the Abbey of Tepl regularly. If this comes to the knowledge of the Protestant Defence Association his Majesty will be requested to take his ' cure ' somewhere else. CANADA — Demonstrations of Catholic Faith Among the impressively spectacular features of the recent Laval celebration at Quebec, two were particularly notable. The first was the grand procession of the Blessed Sacrament through the streets of the old city. The procession was two miles long, in lines five deep, and lasted four hours and a half. The other exceptionally solemn feature was the Mass in the open air. Twenty-five Bishops, one thousand priests, and one hundred thousand Catholics were in attendance. Comment on so magnificent a demonstration of faith, and religious liberty as well, would be obviously superfluous. Christian Charity The city of Quebec in Canada, whose tercenlary has just been celebrated in an imposing manner, is and has been for three hundred years a Catholic community (says the New York Catholic News). That is, the great majority of the people are earnest and devout Catholics. The Protestant minority has never had cause to complain of intolerance on the part of the Catholic majority. On the contrary, testimony has been given many times of the fairness with which Quebec Catholics have ever treated their Protestant fellow-citizens. The Protestant Bishop of Quebec, preaching in the English Cathedral in Quebec to a congregation that included the Prince of Wales, paid a fine tribute to ihis characteristic of Quebec Catholics when he said: 'We thank God for having put it into Champlain's heart to founu Quebec. We thank Him that we meet in this Cathedral built for us by George 111., just as our French neighbors are meeting at the same time on the Plains of Abraham. We also thank God that with the early settlers there came their churches, teaching them the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. As to the general spirit of our lives in this old city of Quebec, I would simply remind you of the fact that when the first English Bishop, Dr. Jacob Mountain, arrived here the French Bishop of that day, Monsignor Briand, went down to the wharf, and kissing him on both cheeks, said: " It is high time, Monsignor, that you came out to look after your people." It is in the same kindly spirit of charity and Christian love that I am thankful to say we have both lived together ever since.' ENGLAND— The Bishop of Auckland The Catholic Times states that it has been decided by a committee of representative Nationalists in Liverpool to entertain to dinner the Right Rev. Dr. Lenihan, Bishop of Auckland. Jewish Sympathy ' It is not often,' says the Jewish Chronicle, ' that a purely Catholic celebration secures the interest and sympathy of the denominations outside the Church of Rome, 'jews included But a very wide circle will have sympathised with the recent Catholic celebrations in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Cardinal Manning. Manning belonged not only to the Catholic Church, but to every good cause in the country He was the friend of the working man who sympathised with the feelings of the worker and crystallised in his own keen mind the yearnings and the resentments which surged inchoate in the mind of, the worker. The implicit trust that was placed by the working classes in Manning's judgment ■ and sincerity was a most valuable asset to , the nation whenever a trade .dispute threatened to paralyse some important branch of industry Manning, moreover, was a good friend to our people. He hated oppression he loved tolerance, for all his high position in the Catholic Church: He fully realised and appreciated the value of the Jew as a citizen and his influence on industry and sobriety and when the first Russian persecutions of our time made the Jews of this.country turn to England's leading men for protest and assistance, Cardinal Manning came forward, lent the whole weight of his eloquence and influence on behalf of

the oppressed Jews of Russia, and 'behaved, all through En^Hsh^Tr "^ **""* *"•' ?t is time < English Cathohcs are doing honor- to his memory, we Jews shall also lay a humble tribute of grateful reverence on the grave of the great prelate.-- It was a high saying- of the Rabbis in an age when tolerance was by no means strong in the world, The righteous of all -nations find a place in heaven » For a noble life such as Manning's thqre is indeed a heavenly reward, and in their celebration of his centenary the Catholics can be assured of the profoundest Jewish sympathy. 1 ROME— American Visitors -: Several groups of American toruisls (writes* the Rome correspondent of the Catholic Times under date August. B) have been driving round during the past few days, but the largest is the body of about one hundred and eighty pilgrims, including twentyfive priests, personally conducted by Mr. McGrane, -of New Ar „J V haVe bCe " received b 3'b 3' his Holiness. Mr. and Mrs McGrane and Rev. Father Rabilletti, of the Salesian Lathers were first admitted to audience, and before its conclus.on Mr McGrane presented to his Holiness, through the Extension Society of America, a college for ecclesiastical students in i\ew \ork to cost 45.000 dollars. The gift is in honor of the Holy Father s Jubilee. His Grace Archbishop Farley presented the pilgrims to the Pope, and the venerable Monsignor McGean Rector of Old St. Peter's, Barker street, New York, read an address in Latin to his Holiness. The Holy Father replied in a brief, but appropriate and beautifully-worded, discourse" and most cordially blessed the pilgrims. They were afterwards received by his Eminence Cardinal Merry del Val, Secretary of State, in the Council Room of the Secretariate. Missions to Non-Catholics After an interval of twenty-three years (writes a Rome correspondent) the Very Rev. Father Doyle, Paulist, of the Apostle Mission House, Washington, has visited Rome. He finds that many changes have come about in that period. His mind is, however, so full of zea.ous projects, that he is more desirou of placing his views clearly before the ecclesiastical authorities than of viewing the treasures of the Eternal City. With the patronage and the active concurrence of the Catholic Hierarchy of the Umted States, as Father Doyle explained to the Pope in his pnvale audience with his Holiness a few days ago, in stating the PPr; r v grCat W ° rk e "' rUStGd tO the Congregation of the Pauhst Fathers, the Apostolic Mission House has been founded as a training centre for selected priests from different dioceses «ho are willing to aid in the effort to place the doctrines of the Church before non-Catholics. The Pope, listening attentively, hlly realised the magnitude of the work, and its possibilities m bunging the knowledge of the truth to multitudes outside the Church. From the statistics of the very few years during which the Mission House has been in existence and which Father Doyle placed before his Holiness, it is abundantly evident that it is only the very first fruits of their Zea l that Providence has as y bestowed on the missionaries for their comfort. Now that his Eminence Cardinal Gibbons, his Grace the Archbishop of New \ork, and several other prelates are in Rome, Father Doyle's missionary projects will be sure of cordial recommendation, and his hopes for special favors for the missions and the missionaries will be realised. Father Doyle found Cardinal Gotti, Cardina Merry del Val, and Cardinal Satolli deeply interest d In the success of the missions. UNITED STATES-Cardinal Gibbons A correspondent writes __to .the Paris Herald, from the steamship Komg Albert, at sea, July 23 : • Cardinal Gibbon^ who is a passenger on the Konig Albert, and is bound to Rome attained his seventy-fourth birthday to-day. At 10 o'clock in the morning the clergy assembled in his cabin, and Archbishop Farley, o New York, made an address of congratulation. Bi hop O Connell, present of the Catholic University at Washington congratulated Cardinal Gibbons on behalf of the trustees " That day m the saloon, ar 4 o'clock, all the passengers, irrespective Si T„ Z natlonalit y. congratulated his Eminence, the Rev Mr. Radehff, of Brooklyn, and the Rev. Dr. Stetson, of Trinity Church, New York, greeting the Cardinal on behalf/of the pas! sengers Cardinal Gibbons in response said' it was one of h s happiest birthday, and long to ,be remembered. ," The band of the steamer serenaded his Eminence at 7 o'clock in,the -morniS by playing before his cabin window " Maryland, my Maryland » »

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