The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1, 7 January 1909, Page 31

The Catholic World

EN OLAND— Catholics and Education ' In an article stating the Catholic position in regard to the recent negotiations between the Church of England- , party and Nonconformists, the London tablet . sums, tip the situation by declaring that what Catholics .ask," and., what they are going to have, ■ are Catholic schools ' with " Catholic teachers under Catholic control," and for" the rest ' all they asked was simple equality, in financial treatment. That undoubtedly is tho beginning and the end of the Catholic demand all' through. It is the irreducible minimum," as both parties in Parliament well know through the action of the-Irish Party. , '•,',-. -- Father Vaughan and the Holy Father , '

Preaching on Sunday, .November 15j~at Farm Street Church, London, Father Bernard Vaughan spoke before alarge congregation about" Pope Pius "X. ' After' 'touching on the circumstances of the early life of the Sovereign Pontiff, the preacher said -it was impossible for any straight man to hide from himself the fact, the appalling fact, that the twentieth century was a conspiracy against the supernatural. To put it 'broadly, the world -was trying to get on . without God, and \vas breaking up as fast as it dared whatever bore witness to His authority, or conveyed to man His law. The times were out of joint with real religion, and there was needed, as never before in the history of Christendom, a Pope who was himself the personification of the supernatural, who knew the mind of the Master and would utter it in language about which there could be no mistake. That man was Giuseppe Sarto. To the secular world Pius X. was the peasant Pope who, by some strange freak of fortune, had been elected to .the chair of Peter with little more to commend him than a virtuous life; but to those who had taken the trouble to study his career, the present Pope was the one man who for fifty years had been in God's school graduating' for the unique position which he now held. Since his ' election, he had been developing and displaying a character peculiarly fitted to deal with • questions which demanded, not so much the astute and diplomatic, as ,the fearless, and the apostolic mind. Non-Catholics might question the wisdom of the Pope|s action with regard to France, but Catholics themselves, French or otherwise, had one word only to say about it — ' C'est splendide!' His Holiness had , settled the French question, and had done with the Modernist Nearly every nation under the sun. but the United States of America and England was officially represented at the Vatican. When he (Father Vaughan) recalled the fa^t that there were some twelve million of Catholic laity under the flag of England, and nearly 200 Catholic Bishops, he felt that hi 3 country was not the gainer, but in everc sensa the loser, by not accrediting to the Holy See n. Minister to safeguard certain British interests,, and, to utter with authority mind of the nation., ROME — The Pope and the Catholic Press His Holiness the Pope (says^ the Catholic Times) Is ever happy to seize an opportunity fdr blessing and encouraging the work of. the Catholic press*' He knows how imperative is the need for it. '„ Often has he been heard to regret when told of the injury, done to the faith in Italy and France by anti-religious journals, that an antidote was not provided locally in awigorous Catholic press. When that admirable Catholic paper, the Unita Gattolica. was in financial difficulties, his practical sympathy restored it to its former powerful position,, and for Catholic journalists who visit the Vatican he always has; words of cheer. At the audience .which his Holiness granted to- the' Argentine pilgrims the special homage of the ' Catholic' journalists of the Argentine was presented to him. 'In reply the Holy Father, addressing the Archbishop of- Buenos Ayres, said : ' I beg of you to express my feelings of gratitude to the Catholic journalists who, with kindly ,th.oughtfulness, have been good enough to devote some of their snace to the subject of my Sacerdotal > Jubilees. From my heart I thank them. I trust they will continue to diffuse widely the knowledge of Christ, to be faithful to the injunctions of the -Bishops, and. to be conscious at all times of the responsibility they would incur were they to make an un- * worthy use of their papers.' The Pontiff would have Catholic journalists bear in mind that the responsibility of the journalist is proportionate to the usefulness of his journal. . - UNITED STATES— The Archdiocese of Boston With most of the highest officials of the Church in America as active participators or interestod spectators in the impressive, . ceremonial of a solemn Pontifical Mass, of which • Most Rev. Diomede Falconio, Papal Delegate

to the United States, was the celebrant, the five days' observance of the centennial anniversary of the founding of the diocese of Boston was begun in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross oh October 28." The. Most Rev. William H. O'Connell, Archbishop of the 'diocese, as preacher on the occasion, offered ' thanksgiving for the blessings God has granted us during these first hundred years of Boston's existence as a diocese.' The Archbishop of San Francisco In addition to the purse of. £3000 presented to Archbishop Riordau, of San Francisco, by his priests, on occasion of his silver jubilee, the laity gave a purse of £7000, to which three other generous contributions have been added, as follows: — £2000 from Mr. Clarence Mackay, o£ "Ne;v York; £1000 from Mrs. Louise Mackay, of London, the mother of Mr. Clarence Mackay ; £1000 from Mr. Richard Queen, of San Francisco. These gifts bring the •"'laity's purse up to £11,000, all of which is to be devoted • to Newman Hall, which is to be erected for the Catholic students attending the " University of California. _ The clergy's purse is to be devoted to St. Patrick's Seminary, the crowning work of Archbishop Riordan's episcopate. ' An Impressive Demonstration What was probably the greatest parade of a religious character in the history of New- England brought 1 to a close the centenary ( celebration of the founding of v the Catholic- diocese of Boston. It is estiniated- thai, '.fully 40,000' men representing the Holy ',N,ame~,, societies of, ; the Catholic -Churches in the five counties whicli constitute the diocese, with ovevl 150 - priests, participated, marching to the. music of 100 bands. , The parade, was reviewed, by Car- • dinal' Gibbons and ' A'rehbishop O'Connell, with a number ■: of visiting prelates. •.-... .-. ' ' ■ '_"■'" . -- .. - ••.'"' . GENERAL- ' •- "- :" ' : The Church in Servia and Bulgaria In view of the unsettled state of affairs in Servia and Bulgaria, it is interesting to learn something of the condition of the Catholic missions in these countries. •It Is roughly estimated that the niimber of Catholics there is 50,000, and that the Church holds valuable ' mission property. The head of the Church in the two -countries- Is . Archbishop Henry Dulcet, who was consecrated in 1895. His residence's at Rustchuk, Bulgaria. -There are four , religious Orders of men, the Capuchins, the Marists, the Passionists, and the Augustinians, and three of women, the - Sisters of Our Lady of Sion, the Sisters of the Assumption, .and the Dominicans.. Until recently the Rev. Aloysius Blakely, C.P., an American priest, and one of the -oldest missionaries from the congregation of Passionists, was stationed in Bulgaria. Only a few months ago, after twelve years of work in that country, he was called home, and is now at Dunkirk, N.Y. The Society for the Propagation of the Faith j-ays that the reports filed by the missionary . priests intimate that the Church has much freedom in the ■ . larger cities of these even more than was manifested in England recently. A Capuchin priest, writing not long ago from,.S ofia, said that several times in the ' year they had public processions with the Blessed Sacramont.' At the same .time,- 1 however, other missionaries stationed in the inland districts^ wrote that they were subjected to constant petty. persecutions.