The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, 15 October 1914, Page 55

The Catholic World

BELGIUM

THE BISHOP OF LIEGE

In fulfilment of a promise given some months ago, Mgr. Rutten, the Bishop of Liege, was to have opened the first Congress of the Liege Internationale dos Catholiques pour la Paix/ but, at the exact moment fixed for his Lordship’s inaugural address, the London newsboys were selling the accounts of his detention by the Germans as a hostage. The Bishop, who is seventythree years of age, went with fifteen other prominent men, including the burgomaster, deputies, and senators, to see the German general and ask him not to bombard the city. The reply was that unless the forts were given up, they must be kept under arrest. In the bombardment of the city the roof of the Cathedral was destroyed. . ENGLAND JESUITS AS CHAPLAINS. , The English Provincial of the Society of Jesus has been asked to supply twelve Jesuit priests for active service. Besides Father Sir William Heathcote, who has left Preston to serve as a naval chaplain. Father Devas, of St. Wilfrid’s, Preston, has been accepted for service and is awaiting orders.. Father Sawbrick, of Ditton, previously at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Preston, has already joined the forces. Others chosen to be among the twelve Jesuits, and now awaiting orders (says a Home exchange of a few weeks ago), are Father Henry Day and Father Furniss, of the Church of the Holy Name, Manchester, Father Molloy, Accrington, and Father Sandiford, Wigan. THE FORMATION OF NEW DIOCESES. In connection with the question of the formation of new dioceses : raised in the letter of the Cardinal Secretary of State to the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, it will be of interest to note (remarks, the Tablet) that England and Wales, with a Catholic population of 2,100,446, have • three Metropolitan Sees, with a total of thirteen Suffragan "’Sees, whilst Ireland, with a Catholic population of 3,242,969, is divided into four provinces, with a total of twenty-four Suffragan Sees. Pope St. Gregory’s plan for the ecclesiastical organsiation of England was two provinces, each having twelve Suffragan Sees. This plan was never fully carried out. At the time of the Reformation / there were two provinces— Canterbury with . seventeen, and York with three Suffragan Sees. FRANCE HONOR FOR ST. ANNE. Mgr. Arnaud, the Bishop of Yannes, recently announced to the people of his diocese that last year Pope Pius X. authorised all the dioceses of the ancient province of Brittany to introduce the invocation of St. Anne into the Litany of the Saints. His Lordship writes ; ..‘‘ Those who know with what rigidity the Church preserves without any change its formula of prayer will be able to appreciate the extraordinary favor accorded to Brittany. But this privilege was not the only one. On the occasion of the reform of the Breviary, the Holy See has given officially to St. Anne the title of Patroness of the province of Brittany.’ ' f .A GLORIOUS BANNER. A GLORIOUS BANNER. | The most interesting banner at the magnificent | procession of the Blessed Sacrament at the close of the; | Eucharistic Congress'at Lourdes was the banner of the | Pontifical Zouaves, which was given the place of- honor %in the procession. It was brought, by the Duke de i Cars, at the request of the Commandant of the regi- | ment, and the Zouave chosen to carry it in the procesI sibn was an Irishman, Captain Bartle Teeling, who had . v served in the campaign of 1867 with •General ,de Char-

cite, and who appropriately wore the cross for that campaign, which -was the first decoration ever given' by Pope Pius IX. in honor of the Immaculate;Conception. The banner was greeted with enthusiastic joy by those who were in touch with the glorious past. 'HU HOLLAND A QUEEN’S GOOD EXAMPLE. For many years it has been the practice of the court of Holland to receive fifteen copies weekly of the great Liberal organ of the Low Countries, the Nieuwer Rotterdammer Consent. V Queen Wilhelmina has now given orders that this journal is no longer to be allowed within the palace. The reason is that several times recently in its columns the divinity of Christ has been attacked in a most cynical manlier. The Queen has caused the editor of the paper to be informed that she will not tolerate at court a journal which thus wounds the most sacred Christian sentiments. Her Majesty thus sets a very excellent example to all her subjects in regard to the anti-religious press. * 5 PAIN A COWARDLY GOVERNMENT, The cowardly Government, through its Minister of Education, Bergamin, taking advantage of the uni\ci sal excitement, has consummated its well-designed scheme (whoso shamelessness has been exposed by the respectable press of the country for some time past) lor finding a soil berth for the discredited, disgraced Altamira, ex-Director-General of Primary Education, by appointing him— atheist, republican, revolutionary, etc. —to the Chair of the History of Political Institutions of Spanish America in the University of Madrid. No doubt (says the Spain, correspondent of the Irish Catholic ) it hoped thus to escape the condemnation which such unpatriotic action deserved. But the Catholic press has not been asleep, and from all parts of the country come strong denunciations of such shameless treason. ' ■ SWITZERLAND THE JESUITS IN SWITZERLAND. German Switzerland* has the honor of having given more Jesuits to the Society during the hundred years since its restoration than any other nation. Altogether some 600 Swiss Catholic young men have joined the Society in that time, and at present there are 214 Swiss members scattered in various parts of the world. More than that, the German-speaking 'members of the Society have on several occasions been marked out for honors. Seventy Swiss Jesuits have had the direction of colleges or universities; one has been General, Father Anderlody; nine have been Provincials; eight SuperiorGenerals of missions, and three assistants to the General. UNITED STATES A COLUMBUS MONUMENT. There is a movement on foot to raise by subscriptions limited to fifty cents each from the people of .the United States, of the twenty other republics of North, Central, and South America and of Canada, the sum of 500,000 dollars for a splendid Pan-American tomb and memorial for Christopher Columbus in Santo Domingo, where his remains are declared to rest. A superb site is available on the’ coral ( coast of the Caribbean Sea, where the Dominican Republic about twenty years ago dedicated the Plaza Columbina for the location of a monument to the great- discoverer. It is proposed to construct a . massive - tomb, somewhat similar to the Grand Tomb on the Hudson, for the base, and then to sweep into the air 'with a superstructure, on the top of which will be placed one of the most powerful lights ;in the world, to be known as Columbus Light. The " plan -'flirt provides for an endowment fund for the perpetual maintenance of the light. |