People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 29 April 1915, Page 41

People We Hear About

Adjutant Anthony P. O’Brien and Lieut.- - Colonel R. A. Kelly, commanding the Waterford. City* Battalion of the National Volunteers, are brother and first cousin respectively of the Rev. Dominick O’Brien ' curate at Devonport, Auckland. _ * -k jv- j is a^er a remarkable circumstance (says the Adelaide Southern Cross that, for: the first time for: some years, there is no Catholic either in the Ministry' - or , any - other official Parliamentary position, “ though i Catholic representation in Parliament was increased '’asl: S e result of the . recent . election. It is asserted thatf Mr Denny s religion and his opposition to the Scripture Referendum had a good deal to do with his exclusion ' from the new Government. -- " T -Y F - a I t } €r 1 B ! rnard Vaughan, S. J., flew, in a biplane over Aldershot recently. He wanted to try to realise ' the hfe of an airman, and so he was taken on a fin© flight. He said, on his descent, it was impossible to realise the quickness of the climb of 3000 feet into the sky, and it was only the action of the wind against your face that told you you were speeding across the countryat 75 miles an hour. No matter what your height; the land beiow seemed clearly and definitely- mapped out, 1* and left the impression that you could, drop a bomb .where one liked. Father Vaughan said that on landmg he felt he wanted to start again. ' * . - /, An American secular paper, in commenting on the unique position which Cardinal Gibbons occupies in the public life of the United States, says: — ‘To mention his name anywhere in this country or in Europe evokes tributes which come equally from Protestants and Catholics. No one will question the . assertion that he occupies in the hearts of his countrymen a position never before reached by any American churchman A comprehensive sketch of the life of the Cardinal would be almost a history of his times. He has been thoroughly identified, not only with ecclesiastical, but with political; social, and economic movements in such a prominent way that he has exerted a pronounced influence in many directions. Every great movement *v which has affected the American peopje has enlisted 7 his interest. Every President since Garfield has beenhis friend, and they have all consulted him and in not w a few cases have been guided by his advice.’ " '.,9. His Eminence Cardinal Logue, Primate of All Ire- | land, is now in his 76th year, having-been born in 1840, the year in which his present Cathedral of Armagh was begun. * -His birthplace was Carrygart, in Donegal, *“ in the National School of which he received his primary education. Even then he gave evidence of those talents which were more fully developed later on. Before he was yet a priest he filled the Chairs of Theology and Belles Retries in the Irish College, Paris, where he was ordained in 1866. Returning to his native diopese of Raphoe in 1874, he was consecrated its Bishop five years later. The Chair of St. Eunan in the early ’eighties was no mere seat of ‘/earned leisure ’ for., its occupant, and for his flock in famine times he in one year collected close on £30,000. He was chosen as Coadjutorto Archbishop McGettigan in 1877, and became seven J; months later Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of M All Ireland. His elevation to the Cardinalate in 1893 - was a dignity never before attained in the. line of 108 Primates from-St. - Patrick'.; pie -r labored strenuously for the completion of his Cathedral, the memorable, con- ' secration of which took place in 1904. Cardinal Logu© . is an omnivorous reader, and a close student of public affairs, but he takes very little -part in politics. ' He does not speak very often in public, but what he does say is always -to the point, , and commands attention." .■-'//