The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 10, Issue 23, 10 June 1909, Page 31

The Catholic World

ENGLAND— Missions to Non-Catholics The small community of priests (says an English exchange) which has been forming at Willesden for some years past, and whose special work is to give missions to < non-Catholics, has just come in for a legacy of £2000 under the will of a gentleman who died recently in Canada, and who had taken a keen interest in the work of the Fathers. It is the finest benefaction which' has come to them. Father Herbert Vaughan, D.D., nephew of Father Bernard Vaughan, who has been in Washington -for the past six or eight 'months with the view of studying the missionary methods of the Fathers amongst non-Catholics in the United States, a work in which they have been enormously - successful, and who himself is one of the community at Willesden, is expected back shortly, when a systematic campaign will be inaugurated amongst rion-Cathoiics in London and the provinces: • ' St. Anselm The eight hundredth anniversary of the birth of St. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, was celebrated with great solemnity at Westminster Cathedral on April 21. Pontifical High Mass was sung by the Archbishop of Westminster, St. Anselm's successor in the English Primacy. His Grace, by special privilege from the Holy See, wore the Sacred Pallium, and his throne was decorated with the arms of St. Anselm. The Bishops of Southwark, Birmingham, Leeds, Plymouth, Liverpool, Salford, Portsmouth, Northampton, and Shrewsbury were present. An. eloquent sermon was preached by Mgr. Moyes, in the course of which he said that the Catholic Church of that country had, happily, no need of any device of pretty pageantry -to reconstruct and present the life and likeness of her historic past. Catholics had but to look into the records of the land to see at all times reflected in them, as in a mirror, the features of their Mother the Church as they knew and loved them to-day. ' In the person of Archbishop Bourne' they venerated the successor of St. Anselm and St. Augustine, and when they saw upon his shoulders the Sacred Pallium brought to England from the body of St. Peter, bestowed by Peter's successor, they hailed in it the indubitable proof of heirship. It was a visible sign of unity with the See of Peter, unity which uplifted them above' the narrowness of nationalism into the full, free, and open air of world-wide Catholicity. Irish Shrines The Catholic Association had its twelfth dinner in London recently. Among the guests were Bishop Casartelli, whp presided, Archbishop Bagshawe, Bishops Ilsley, Whiteside, and Keating, the Right Rev. Abbot White, Lord MacDonnell, Dom Gilbert Higgins, Prior of Bridlington, Father Philip Fletcher, Messrs. Hilaire Belloc, M.P., Jas. Britten, K.S.G., etc. Lord MacDonneJl, who replied to the toast of 'The Visitors/ said he had never heard of<^ the Catholic Association until he received the invitation '■ for that evening. And he excused his ignorance on the ground of his long absence in India," and on the ground that the duties which he had had x to discharge in his native land since his return from India were of so -difficult and absorbing a nature as to leave him no time or thought for anything else. The latter confessionawakened some broad smiles in a portion of the audience. Now, however, that he had come to know of the association and its doings, he would thenceforth follow its career with deep interest. Perhaps he might be allowed to throw, out a suggestion which had come to his own mind from what he heard that evening about the great Pilgrimage work of the association- , .He had great respect for Com-" postela and other _ distant shrines, but he thought there were no less famous shrines nearer home. It seemed to him. that the Catholic Association should not overlook" those glorious shrines in Ireland such as Croagh Patrick and the Rock of Cashel, which had associations s. that were capable of stirring any Catholic heart to Its very depths. , Death of the Bishop of Hexham Our Home exchanges report the death of the Right Rev.- Thomas William Wilkinson, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, which took place at Ushaw College, in the 85th year of his age. The late Bishop took his degree of Master of Arts at Durham; Brought up in the Church of England, he underwent a preparation for the Anglican ministry. He early began to tie troubled with doubts as to the true religion, "and it is narrated of him .th.at .in the Galilee Chapel of' Durham Cathedral he prostrated himself on the tomb of St. Bede, praying for help and guidance in the matter. In 1845 he went to Leeds, where he met the Rev. R. Ward, of St. Saviour's, and joined there a little community of young men preparing for holy orders. Their manner of living was remarkably

?* tho Jj c - . There were seve n in the community, of which •Mr. Wilkinson was elected procuratpr. Mr. Wilkinson ?GC? GC £ me ™ Ty i un « et t led - He w ent regularly to confession to Mr. Ward, the Superior, and, as Mr. Ward: afterwards said he sowed the seeds of the faith in" -his confessor's breast by regularly confessing among his other sins his doubts whether Mr. Ward had power to forgive sins. I mally he was advised to go to Dr. Pusey for advi6e. At Oxford he stayecL/fpr a short time in the house of Dr Pusey, but Dr. Pusey failed to impress him or to remove his doubts. Returning to Leeds, he determined, in company -with Mr. Haigh and Mr. MacMullen ,to become a Oatnohc. Accordingly .on December 29, 1846, Mr. Wilkinson, with Maigh and MacMullen, was received into the Church by the Rev. Henry Walmsley, priest of St. Anne's; and other companions followed their example, as well as their Superior the Rev. Richard Ward. Mr. Wilkinson went to Oscott College, where he was affectionately received by the late Cardinal Wiseman, president of the college, and where he continued his theological studies. After two DeTemb cce cr W2W 23 S , 1848* WM "**"* **"* °" ROME- St. Vincent de Paul Society The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has been Jiolding an International Congress here (writes a Rome /C orr.espondent). Fifteen hundred members of the" congress were received m audience by the Holy Father. ,In the course of a long reply to the address which they presented^ thooccasion his Holiness said: _• We welcome you, beloved sons of the Conferences of St. Vincent de Paul. We thank you not only for the consolation you bring to Our heart not only by reason of your- good wishes on 'the occasion of Our -sacerdotal Jubilee, but still more by the victories ot your zeal and the abundant harvest of your 'works of fWni 7 ' • t'qqFl* 11 °/ ™tard-seed; sown by. Frederick Ozanam in 1833, has become a mighty tree stretching its branches throughout the world, and after seventy-six years there are nourishing Conferences of St. Vincent de Paul m prance, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, England, North and South America, Canada, Australia; they" have penetrated into Russian Poland and into the Belgian Uongo; they have become centres round which the neophytes or the missions group themselves. We rejoice with you, beloved sons, in this wonderful prosperity, and that it may be ever maintained We exhort you to be above all things men of charity which works by faith. In your good works always seek your inspiration at the foot of the altar If .your hands are raised every day to God in the homage of prayer before being lowered to relieve the miseries of humanity, they will be strong to bring back to Uod those souls which have lost all memory of heaven.' SCOTLAND— In the Interests of Good Order The Border town of Kelso (writes the Glasgow correspondent of the Catholic Weekly) has been conspicuous, during the recent Holy Week, for a display— not on the part of its inhabitants— of Protestant virulence as disgusting as itw,as unlooked for. A couple of men representing'a certain obscure society known as the, Scottish . 1 rotestant Association have recently been ' stumping ' tho Borders, certainly not in the interests of either Christianity l °i ch - ar ll tlvt 1 v - They began their work of ill-will with an abominable attack on the Catholic pastor of Kelso, Father Joyce although acknowledging that they knew nothing about him, not even his name ! On the following evening their attack was turned on Catholic women in general with the result that the good town, irrespective of creed was up m arms against these preachers of slander. i protest was issued 'in the interest. of order and of common decency,' branding the- ' outsiders ' . who, were attempts to introduce the 'elements of religious strife and sectarian warfare into a peaceful community'; the signatories 'ndignantly^ dissociating themselves, in the most public way from the methods of the < visitors":' The protest was signed by the two Established Church ministers, the Anglican rector, the United Free Church minister, and by Father Joyce. Too much praise could, scarcely be given to the large-heartedness and good feeling of the Protestant clergymen who thus joined hands with Father Joyce (who is universally respected and popular) in .such a question of public decency and Christian- tolerance. UNITED STATES— Caring for the Orphans r ,, In . a conference at Washington (says the Pittsburg Catholic) the fact was brought out that the Catholic Church in this country takes care of the children. The Catholics support 290 orphan asylums, housing 44,966 orphans; in other words, nearly one-half of the number of destitute children provided for in institutions r of this country are supported by Catholic charity. From this we see the Church is not inactive in the great charitable movements of the day. The Catholic Church does not advertise her charities to the world, but when it comes to real" figures she can talk convincingly. "*->•.