The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, 2 July 1914, Page 55

The Catholic World

ENGLAND MEMORIAL TO CARDINAL VAUGHAN.

When Cardinal Vaughan died in 1903 a committee was formed under the presidency of Cardinal (then Archbishop) Bourne for the purpose of considering the question of raising a suitable memorial to the memory of Cardinal Vaughan. It was the unanimous decision of the committee that a secondary school for boys, to be known as the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, would be the most fitting memorial which could be erected. Subscriptions were asked, and a generous response was made, in all about £20,000 being subscribed. But, despite the fact that the money was forthcoming, difficulties arose as to ' the choice of a suitable site, all available land being excessively dear. Therefore, the matter had to remain in abeyance. Now, however, a solution has been found of the difficulty as regards the site by the purchase of a freehold property in Addison road, Kensington, which is in every way suited for the purpose, as the building was planned for .a secondary school, is of an imposing exterior, and besides, it is provided with a lecture hall, several classrooms, laboratories and art room, and a, fine academic hall. Its situation, close to Addison Road Station, renders it easy of access from all parts of London. It is expected that the necessary alterations will be completed so that the school may be opened in September of this year. The Rev. Jas. Driscoll, M.A., Rector of the Cathedral Choir School, Westminster, has been appointed head master of the Memorial School.

A VALUABLE INHERITANCE.

A sister of Thomas Ford Hughes, the recluse who died recently in Carmarthen Workhouse, inherits the £74,000 which he left. She is seventy years of age, and became a Catholic thirty years ago. Her only desire is to visit Rome and see the Holy Father. She proposes to build a handsome church at Carmarthen.

FRANCE

THE APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER.

A huge concourse of pilgrims from all parts of France assembled recently at Paray-le-Monial in connection with the Apostleship of Prayer, but the proceedings partook more of the nature of a congress than a pilgrimage. At the morning reunion the DirectorGeneral in reading the report enumerated some remarkable statistics. The society includes 69,684 centres, and has a membership of not less than 25,000,000. The Messenger of the Sacred Heart and The Messenger of the Heart of Mari/ —the organs of the society— are issued in twenty-five different languages, and are read by 975,000 subscribers. In the afternoon at the Basilica the Rev. Father Camel, a well-known Parisian preacher, delivered an eloquent sermon on the connection between the Apostleship of Prayer and the devotion to the Sacred Heart. Other meetings were held during the day, and the profound devotion aroused by this organisation cannot fail to have a far-reaching effect on the parochial life of the Catholic Church, and one recalls the recent words of Pius X. in this connection : ‘Of all the movements for which Catholics are responsible there is none more useful.’

ROME

A RESULT OF THE CONSISTORY.

The changes which the coming Consistory will produce in the Roman Curia (writes the Rome correspondent of the Catholic, Time*, writing under date May 10) will be the subject of many conjectures in the world of Rome for some days to come, as, owing to their elevation to the Sacred College, Archbishop Serafini, Mgr. Giustini, and Mgr. Tecchi will vacate the responsible positions of the Assessoyship of the Supreme Con-

giegjition of the Holy Office, the Secretaryship of the Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments, and the Assessorship of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation. No change is anticipated in consequence of the elevation of the Right Rev. Abbot Gasquet, as Dom Gasquet will remain President of the Commission for the Revision of the Vulgate. In the case of Mgr. Lega, Dean of the Sacred Tribunal of the Rota, the next in seniority of the Auditors will pass into his place. At this stage it is difficult to say what weight should be attached to the rumor as to the -resignation of his Eminence Cardinal Gotti from the Prefecture of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide, a position the great Carmelite has filled with marked success for the past ‘two years. The Cardinal’s age — eighty last March—and his state of health are spoken of as affording some foundation for the report. Of the two Cardinals mentioned as likely to succeed to the Prefecture of Propaganda in case his Eminence resigns—viz., Cardinal De Lai and Cardinal Lorenzelli, it is scarcely probable the former would abandon his present important position as secretary to the Sacred Consistorial Congregation, which affords an immense field for his well-known energy.

THE SWISS GUARDS.

On the occasion of the administration of the oath of fidelity to the recruits of the Swiss Guard of the Apostolic Palace, those permitted to be present at the ceremony could not help being struck by the importance given to it (writes a Rome .correspondent). This was doubtless due to the insubordination shown in the ranks of the famous corps last year, a condition of things that, as was hinted to the men, would lead to the disbanding of the body in case of repetition. Appropriately enough the day chosen for the ceremony fell on the anniversary of the sack of Rome in 1527, when the Swiss Guards died to a man in defence of their charge, the Vatican, a fact enlarged upon by Mgr. Corraggioni, chaplain to the corps, during his address to the men on the reasons and gravity of the oath by which they were about to bind themselves. In this regard it is worth observing that a high degree of efficiency characterises the Pontifical soldiers Noble, Palatine, and Swiss Guards, and Papal Gendarmes. With the exception of a number of the Swiss Guards, who still carry the old-fash-ioned halbert and two-handed sword, the vast majority of the men are armed with the best and most modern weapons. •

UNITED STATES

NEW DIOCESES.

As a consequence of the decree of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation, the Holy Father has erected two new dioceses in the United States. The vast diocese of Seattle is divided in two. The eastern part is erected into a new diocese of Spokane, with the cities Okananogan, Ferry, Stevens, Pend’ Oreille, Duglas, Grant, Lincoln, Spokane, Adams, Whitman, Benton, Franklin, Walla-Walla, Columbia, Garfield, and Asotin. This new diocese will be suffragan of the archdiocese of Oregon. The western part remains the diocese of Seattle. Moreover, a new diocese of Elpaso is formed from parts of the dioceses of Tueso, Dallas, Sant’ Antonio, and will depend on the archdiocese of Santa Fe, in New Mexico.

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. New York papers report the filing of the will of Catherine Paris, of New York and Manchester, N.H., who was the widow of Sherman Paris, and who died in Boston on May 2. The will disposes of the bulk of an estate of about one million dollars to Catholic organisations and institutions. Mrs. Paris gave 80,000 dollars in trust to the Right Rev. George Alfred Guertin, Bishop of Manchester, for the erection of a Catholic high school in Manchester in memory of the late Bishop Bradley of that city. A personal bequest of 5000 dollars is left to Bishop Guertin ‘ in confidence that he will use it as I would have him use it.’ The residuary estate is left for Catholic charities in the diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire.