The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, 19 May 1910, Page 791

The Catholic World

CANADA—A Generous Benefactor A diocesan seminary will soon be erected in the city of Toronto, Canada, through the generosity of Mr. Eugene O'Keefe, private chamberlain to his Holiness, and well known for his generosity to Catholic undertakings. Mr. O'Keefe has turned over to Archbishop McEvay the sum of £30,000 with which to begin a new seminary on land recently purchased. This is not Mr. O'Keefe's first noteworthy gift. The new St. Monica's Church, in his home city, with its fine parochial residence, stands as a tribute to his zeal for the faith and his devotion to the Church. It is all his own personal work down even to the humblest details of the finishing and furnishing. The new seminary will be known as St. Augustine's, and the plans now being prepared call for the erection of a building costing at least the amount of the gift. By a special arrangement with the Catholic Church Extension Society of Canada, which was founded primarily to provide priests for the needy places, particularly of Western Canada, this seminary will be not only for the students of the Toronto diocese and the neighboring diocese, but also for the young men preparing especially for the home mission field. ENGLAND—The President of Ushavv College The death is announced ofVthe Right Rev. Mgr. Corbishley, President of Ushaw College, Durham, who passed away at Weymouth on Good Friday. He was born in 1851. Westminster Cathedral A cable message states that Westminster Cathedral is now free of debt. The consecration of the sacred edifice takes place towards the end of next month. The Lord Mayor of London Westminster Cathedral was crowded to the doors on Easter Sunday, when the unusual spectacle was witnessed of a Lord Mayor of London attending High Mass in state. Sir John Knill, accompanied by the Lady Mayoress and attended by the Mace and Sword Bearers and Chief Marshal, was present at the Cathedral when Pontifical Mass was sung by his Grace the Archbishop of Westminster. Sir John and Lady Knill were received at the entrance by Monsignor Howlett, Administrator, and Monsignor Moyes, by whom they were conducted to special seats erected on a dais in front of the sanctuary. The sacred music was admirably rendered by the cathedral choir under the direction of Mr. Terry. FRANCE— Rights of Parents The Catholic heads of families in France (says the Catholic Times) are beginning to recognise that, notwithstanding the secret plots of their opponents, they cannot be permanently deprived of their rights in a self-governing, democratic country if they are firmly resolved to maintain and defend them. They are getting their Government to perceive what our Government was made to understand some years ago— the right of the parent to control the education of the child is a higher and more imperative right than that of the ■ State. During the months of January and February this year some sixty associations of fathers of families were formed, and the movement is developing in all parts of the country. M. Briand, with the elections in prospect, does not consider it prudent to combat it directly, but his indirect opposition is decided and characteristic. Witness the , petition' just presented to him by the association of fathers of families of the Commune of Apremont. In consequence of repeated complaints made with regard to the use of school-manuals by Albert and Madame Des, which were openly anti-Catholic, these books were withdrawn, but for them has been substituted a work which, in the words of the petitioners, 'is worse than those that have been prohibited, is full of errors, and so distinctly violates the principle of religious neutrality as to constitute a real danger to the faith of the children.' This book will also have to be withdrawn. M. Briand will have to yield again, for he knows that unless he gives way the parents will keep their children at home and defy the Government. Adaptability of the Clergy One of the evil results of the separation of Church and State in France, the disestablishment for which atheists so long craved and at last obtained, has been the throwing °? *^ l ab 7 0r market of a number of unskilled men (remarks the Catholic Weekly). Many poor priests have had to face the world with nothing but their knowledge of the classics and Church history to equip them, and many of them are in sore straits. It is true that the State affords them a miserable subsidy, but it is to be feared that not a few ?i°°f souls have gone under. The vast amount of agony that M. Combes and his advisers have caused will ever be remembered in France, and constitute an everlasting blot on the history of that fair land. . It is, indeed, pleasant to be able to record that the unfortunate priests are fighting hard to keep body and soul together. Large numbers

are now working at trades. ' The Association of Working Priests ' is well established, and already has an organ of its own, the Union. GERMANY— Returning to the Fold It is stated that the Kaiser's cousin, Prince Frederick Henry of Prussia, eldest son of the late Prince Albrecht, Regent of Brunswick, has embraced Catholicism, ceded his entire fortune to the Catholic Church, and entered an Italian monastery as a monk. He is known in the monastery simply as Brother Henry. The fortune which he has given to the Church in Italy is estimated at £250,000. It will be devoted solely to charitable and humane purposes. ROME—The Pope and the German Chancellor e The German Chancellor (savs the Rome correspondent Sf i U ' HVCr ™> "**»s received in audience by Pins X. on March 25. Following the procedure first established by Ins Sovereign m the relations with Quirinal and Vatican when in Rome, his Excellency left the Palazzo Caffarelli. seat of the German Embassy accredited to the Court, and went to the Villa Bonaparte, where the Prussian Legation accredited r to the Pone resides. On arriving there he left the carriage of the Embassy, and taking one of the JiOgation carriages drove in it to the Apostolic Palace. Military honors were rendered by the Swiss Guards. The (chancellor was greeted by several high officials of the **Si £° U I-« an ? was then introduced into the presence of the Pontiff, who was entirely dressed in white, and who greeted him most cordial! preventing him kindlv from kneeling and giving him his ring to kiss. The audience lasted over half an hour, after which Doctor von BethmannHollweo: went to the floor below to visit Cardinal Merry del Val, with whom the conversation was carried on in German. Although the greatest reserve is maintained on the subject, it is reported that the conversations turned chiefly upon ft* + W? Centre Partv in Germany the portion of Catholics in Poland, and the protection of Catholics in the East and Far East. protection or A Private Audience T On Sunday. March 6 (says Ifmnr), Col. the Hon Newton James Moore, C.M.G., LA " Premier and Coloniall ?reasnrer of Western Australia, was received in private audience hv his Holiness Pius X. The audience was arranged at short notice on a particularly busy day at the Vatican through the kindness of his Eminence Cardinal Merry del Val and Monsignor Bisloti, who in this wished to express their appreciation , of the sterling personal qualities of WeXvn m T r ?"<| "their regard for the flourishing State of Western Australia. In introducing the Premier to his Holiness, the General of the Redemptorists deferred to imnaX 1 Kf n w mer 1 1 i t 8 th ? Premier ' a " fl especially to hi! impartiality to all classes irrespective^of their creed, which was evidenced by the high esteem in*whieh he was held by the Cathol- citizens. The General was assured by his Fathers in Perth that any kindness shown to the Hon and Mrs Moore would be apnreeiated not onlv bv the Red'emptorists hut by the whole Catholic body of Western AiSrS r t io a n C hotThTs aS V* 7 fami i ia l ™?; and during the converl Ration both his Holiness and the Premier expressed their appreciation of the favor of the visit and audience and th" pleasure it afforded them. On parting his Holiness wished prosperity of every kind to,the Premier and his family and also to his important State of Western Australia. 7 UNITED STATES— Convention of Charity Worker ™™?v gh w R ? V ' gr ' . Shahan >. Rector of the Catholic UniventS n ?rt n{ ? « planning for a great national convention of Catholic charity workers to be held in Washington iinS e G?b?„,f?. tUre - The i,roieot "* *• a .T&-i A Mission to Newspaper Men ■'.-.- 2&33%5. th ' S ear]y h " Ur ™ '""" "='« 522 Catholic Pupils Successful All the prizes offered recently by the Toledo Time, for essays on George Washington, and 7 open to the Sis of public and private schools of Toledo, were won by pupils of Catholic schools More than 3000 essays were received in the contest. The judges-Mr. George W. Stevens of the Toledo Museum of Art: Mr. Grove H P n ++Jc™. s'-* of the Times, and the Rev'. P.«AO'm£*£EJ£'& Good Shepherd Church—were unanimous in th« „„? • he ShQU g .° he Toledo Record says that 'this is a splendid testimonial to the thoroughness and efficiency of the work of the teasers in our parochial schools and our academies ' tea °hers GENERAL New Cathedral in the East A new Cathedral was dedicated at Rangoon on T?«h ruary 22 by the Right Rev. Bishop Cardot - Six bisW of e P m?h nt ' *** Kr H " WMte ' Lie^nant LooveS