Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 17 September 1914, Page 41

Intercolonial

His Grace the Archbishop of Perth, Most Rev. Dr. Clone, was invested with the Pallium after High Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Perth, on Sunday, August 30. His Lordship Dr. Gallagher, Bishop of Goulburn, • in the course of an eloquent panegyric at the Requiem High Mass celebrated in Goulburn for the repose of the soul of Pope Pius X., said that he and the Bishop of Ballarat, some eleven years ago, were the first English-speaking Bishops to interview the late Pontiff on his accession to the Papal chair. Speaking at a function of the Catholic Club, Brisbane, the other evening, his Grace the Coadjutor-Arch-bishop of Melbourne referred at some length to the disabilities of Catholics in Victoria, and expressed his gratitude that the position was less irksome and less humiliating in Queensland. He would return to Victoria with his grievance against the disabilities there still more firmly implanted. One of the pioneer members of the Sisters of Mercy in Victoria, Sister M. Berchmans Sherlock, died at the Convent of Mercy, Fitzroy, last week. The deceased was born in Dublin in 1832, being 82 years of age at the time of her death. Two of her sisters were also Sisters of Mercythe late Rev. Mother Mary Gabriel Sherlock, Convent of Mercy, Geelong, and the late Mother Mary Joseph Sherlock, Convent .of Mercy, Fitzroy. —R.l.P. v The death occurred on Thursday (says the Sydney Freeman of August 27)', at the Lewisham Private Hospital, of the Rev. Denis McCarthy, a well-known and popular Sydney priest, at the age of 71 years. Father McCarthy had been invalided for nearly 14 years, but prior to that was active in all work in connection with Church matters. He was a native of Ireland, and was educated at the Catholic University at Louvain. He arrived in Australia nearly 30 years ago, and served on several missions. For many years he was stationed at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Darlinghurst, where he was very popular. About 1900, however, his health, broke down, and he went for a trip Home, in the hope of its being restored, which was not the case, however. On June 1 this year he became very weak, and was admitted to the private hospital, where he died. The magnificent new Church of St. Brigid, erected on Red Hill, Brisbane, was dedicated on Sunday, August 9. The completion of the sacred building was the most important event that has for many years taken place in Queensland, and the church is the latest and most impressive result of the great wave of activity, which, spreading over the metropolis, has led to the erection of churches, presbyteries, and schools, approximating a total of £IOO,OOO. St. Brigid’s Church, which cost about £17,500, and upon which there now remains a debt of but £4OOO, owes its erection to the zeal and administrative and organising ability of Rev. Father J. McCarthy, the parish priest, who was assisted by a committee. The occasion was madq memorable by the presence of a distinguished gathering of clergy, including his Grace the Coadjutor-Archbishop of Melbourne, Most Rev. Dr. Mannix : their Lordships Bishop O’Connor of Armidale and . Bishop Shiel of Rockhampton; Very Rev. Father M. J. O'Reilly, C.M., Very Rev. Father J. Hennessy, P.P. (Young, N.S.W.), and many Queensland priests. The ceremony of dedication was performed at 10.30 a.m. by Archbishop Duhig, and afterwards Pontifical High Mass was celebrated by Bishop O’Connor, of Armidale. A discourse delivered by the Coadjutor-Archbishop of Melbourne will long be remembered by those who heard it as a masterpiece of luminous reasoning. The collection realised £2OOO. A banquet was afterwards held in St. Brigid’s school hall, and a number of toasts were honored.