Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 30 June 1910, Page 1035

Intercolonial

There is,a. movement in Queensland to erect a monument over the graves of Dr. Kevin Izod O'Doherty and ' Eva' of the Nation. "_ . -

Rev. Father H. J. Ma'guinness, who had been on a twelve months' visit to Ireland, has returned to Broken Hill, where he has resumed-duty. , ; ; .The Catholics of Bega have decided to present the Rev. Father J. Gunning with a purse of sovereigns -and an illuminated address to mark the silver jubilee of his priesthood.

It was the old pupils of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, Rose Bay, Sydney, who on their own initiative contributed the £SO to the Westminster Cathedral, London (says the Catholic Press). ' ,

Pending the appointment of the successor to Dr. Gibney, who has resigned the Bishopric of Perth, the Rev. Father Patrick Veiling, of Subiaco, has been appointed administrator of the diocese. - i

The Rev. Father James Patrick Redden, of the Port Augusta diocese, who died on June 1, was a native of Seven Hills, South Australia, and studied philosophy and theology at St. Patrick's College, Manly. He was ordained priest on June 5, 1900, and at the time of his death was a little over 40 years of age.

Saturday, June 18, was the 28th anniversary of the consecration of his Grace Archbishop Dunne as Bishop of Brisbane, he having been consecrated in St. Stephen's Cathedral on June 18, 1882, by the late Most Rev. Dr. Vaughan, Archbishop of. Sydney. He was raised to the dignity of Archbishop by Papal Brief, May 10, 1887. In acknowledging the generosity of his congregation in connection with a collection which was taken up on Sunday, June 5, for the reduction of the debt on St. Mary's new school at Ipswich, the Rev. Father Andrew Horan stated that during the 37 years he had been connected with the parish the collections for, churches, schools, and parochial purposes amounted to the exceptional sum of £200,000. Hon. John Meagher, in a letter : from Venice, says: We were only two days in Rome when Monsignor O'Riordan, who has been most kind to us, informed me that a private audience with the Holy Father had been arranged.• - I had brought with me from his Eminence the Cardinal a special copy of the Third Australasian Catholic Congress volume for presentation to his Holiness the Pope. Monsignor. O'Riordan, to whom I handed the volume, was gracious enough to say that I should myself make the presentation. This was the second occasion I had the honor of being presented to the present Pope, and his Holiness pleased to say that he had remembered I had come from Sydney, and at once spoke of ' your great Cardinal Moran in far-off Australia.' ' You are an Australian?'-he said. 'Yes, your Holiness, I am an Irish-Australian, and I have the honor of asking your Holiness to accept this copy of the report of the Third Australasian Catholic Congress, a volume from his Eminence Cardinal Moran. 5 The Holy Father expressed his delight in receiving this fresh evidence of the wonderful advances the Church is making in Australia. Before retiring from the audience chamber, the Pope said to me, 'You will salute Cardinal Moran for me.' Like so many others who have had the privilege of an audience with this great Pope, and remembering all he represents, all the power he holds so undeniably throughout the world, I .was, when his Holiness placed his hands on my head and blessed me, profoundly struck by his sweet simplicity. im The Right Rev. Dr. Vidal, . S.M., Apostolic of Fiji, who passed through Sydney en route to Suva recently, on his return,from,Europe, has been , twenty-three years a Bishop and thirty-three years .a laborer in the mission fields of the South Sea Islands. During his few davs' rest in Sydney his Lordship was the guest of the Marist Fathers at St. Patrick's, Church-hill. When seen by a representative of the Freeman's Journal, Dr. Vidal appeared to be in excellent health, and expressed his anxiety to return to his mission home. After visiting Rome, his Lordship journeyed to France, and spent some weeks in Lyons, where the headquarters of the Marist Fathers are situated. Here he ordained a number of young priests for mission work, and subsequently went over to Belgium, and later to Germany. Replying to an interrogation, his Lordship expressed the opinion that he believed the hostility of the French Government towards the Church was gradually expending itself, On all sides there was a strong, healthy Catholic feeling manifest, and his Lordship learned from the Bishops that the Catholics were loyally responding to the call of their Church in supporting the clergy. During his Lordship's stay abroad, the sad intelligence reached him of the disasFriday. Two Catholic churches and seven convents were destroyed, together with many lives. Hearing the call of his distressed children across the ocean. Dr. Vidal immediately hastened his departure homeward, and hopes within the next two weeks to again place his hands to the plough of Catholicity through the forests of the South Sea Islands.