Cardinal Farley's Return

New Zealand Tablet, 14 March 1912, Page 57

Cardinal Farley's Return

'-■' : The high honor in which his episcopal city holds Cardinal Farley, both as a prelate and as a citizen (says America), has been amply demonstrated by the. series of remarkable public demonstrations which have signalised his home coming. On Sunday evening, January 21, more than 8000 persons gathered in and around the Hippodrome for the formal welcome !of the laity of the archdiocese. United States Senator O'Gorman presided, and eulogistic addresses were made by W. Bourke Cockran, Supreme Court Justice John J. Delany, Michael J. Mulqueen, president of the Catholic Club, and others. His Eminence was presented with a set of engrossed resolutions from the laity, thanking the Pope for the signal honor conferred upon the New York Archbishop, renewing pledges of loyalty to the See of Peter and congratulating Cardinal Farley. His Eminence made a modest address of thanks. The ecclesiastical ceremony proper took place in St. Patrick's Cathedral on the morning of January 25. The interior was beautifully decorated for the occasion, and the great edifice was thronged by the clergy and laity. After the sermon Right Rev. Mgr. Michael J. Lavelle, V.G., rector of the Cathedral, presented an address to the cardinal on behalf of the clergy of the diocese, and Hon. Victor J. Bowling, Justice of the Supreme Court, read an address on behalf of the laity. Two hundred prominent non-Catholics arranged a banquet in honor of Cardinal Parley, held on January 30, at the Waldorf-Astoria. The Hon. Herman A. Metz was chairman and Dr. Edwin Zimmerman secretary.

■ ] The Spanish Cabinet crisis induced by the Culler a' criminal's condemnation has had an unlooked-for solution. Against the advice of his' Government, King Alfonso thought well to exercise his royal prerogative to reprieve the murderer on,whose behalf the Government objected to show mercy. Senor Canalejas' rapid resumption of office after his resignation as a formal protest against the modification of the sentence had been tendered, shows (says the Catholic Weekly) that the step was more simply to satisfy the Cabinet's abstract sense of justice, and was perhaps inevitable. But that kindness of heart which prompted King Alfonso to pardon the Barcelona murderer has provoked a reaction in favor of the monarchy, which proves that in the Spanish mind sentiment is stronger than that stern justice which in this case the culprit had certainly invoked on his own head. It would seem as if the chivalrous generosity of the King has touched the hearts of even the bitterest Republicans, for the Spanish Republican press now are united in a chorus of praise of the ruler whose authority they ostensibly deprecate. And the monarchy is stronger than ever in consequence. -