The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, 24 February 1916, Page 55

The Catholic World

f :.-:--., -Xr?\-■■■:;.; "v .England . CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. Mr. John Kavanagh, of Clapham Common, S.W., and of Messrs. J. Kavanagh, Ltd., of Great Eastern street, E.C., boot and shoe factors, who died on the 19th November last, left estate of the gross value of £33,123 19s 9d, of which £29,531 13*s 3d is net personalty. The testator left, amongst other bequests—£2oo to the Rev. Mother of the Convent of Mercy, Brentwood, Essex, for the benefit of the community; £IOO to the Right Rev. Peter E. Amigo, Bishop of Southwark, for the education of priests, and a further £IOO for the Rescue Society of Southwark; £IOO to the Hospice for the Dying, Mare street, Hackney; £IOO to the Father Rector of the Redemptorist Monastery, St. Mary's, Clapham park, S.W. ; £IOO to St. Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society, Mill Hill,-N.W.; £IOO to his Eminence Cardinal Francis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, for the education of students of the diocese for the priesthood, and a further £IOO for rescue work in the diocese; £IOO to the Sister Superior of the Convent of St. Mary, Western road, Romford, for paying off the debt on the chapel. FRANCE TRAITOROUS ENEMIES OF CHRISTIANITY. The Italians and the French have, as a whole, shown such a splendid spirit of national unity since they took up arms in the present conflict that there are, we (Catholic Tunes) feel sure, very few of either nationality who are willing to mar the harmony that prevails. But a few there are in each of the two countries, and unfortunately they are unpatriotic and unscrupulous enough to endeavor to do great mischief. Enemies of Christianity, they strive to defame the clergy for the purpose of weakening it. In Italy, as the result of their false charges, serious suffering, entirely unmerited, has been imposed on a number of priests. These pastors of souls have been brought before the courts to answer accusations which were absolutely baseless. _ They have been acquitted, but an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust has been created around them, and to defeat the promoters of this campaign of calumny the Italian clergy have .deemed it necessary to form a national organisation for their defence. In France, despite the heroism of the thousands of priests who are fighting in defence of their country, the calumniators have circulated the rumor that the clergy are in league with the Prussians and are sending them money. It is difficult to imagine that any people in France would credit such a rumor, but Mgr. Marty, Bishop of Montauban, has written to M. Briand, the Premier, saying he had met in the course of a pastoral visitation many who repeated the monstrous accusation, and calling upon him to denounce the accusers in justice to the priests. It is certain that no matter how. brave and virtuous the clergy may be, they, will always need defenders. . Their Divine Master foretold they, would be persecuted. ' i ' ROME ..*.'' ■— RECEPTION TO CARDINALS BOURNE AND *"' ;.- '*>■; ~ ;■ BEGIN. His Excellency Sir Henry "Howard, British Envoy to the Holy See, held a reception in the Palazzo Bor 7 ghese on December 11 from four to "seven o'clock, in honor of Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, and Cardinal Begin, Archbishop of Quebec. The reception proved to be a particularly brilliant affair, the red robes of the members of the Sacred College finding a suitable setting in the beautiful halls of the Borghese family that gave Paul V. to the Church. Among those present were ..their Eminences Cardinals Vannu-

telli, De Lai, Merry del Val, Vico, Granito di Belmonte, Cagliero, Bisleti, Mistrangelo, Gasquet, Casseta, Gasparri, Falconio, De Roveriea de Cabrieres, Tonti, Pompili, Van Rossum, Billot, arM ~ Gusmini; his Excellency M. Van den Heuval, Belgian Minister to the Holy See, and the various heads of the other embassies and legations accredited to the Vatican. THE NATIONALITIES OF THE CARDINALS. On the threshold of 1916 it will be of interest to give'some figures about that venerable body, the Sacred College of Cardinals, after the additions and losses of the past twelve months (writes a Rome correspondent). The Sacred College is now composed of 59 Cardinals, that is, 11 less than the full number. Their nationalities are: Italians, 28; French, 6 : Americans, 4 (Cardinal Falconio is. a citizen of the United States); Spaniards, 5 ; Austro-Hungarians, 5 ; Germans, 2 ; English, 2 ; Irish, 1 ; Belgian, 1 ; Brazilian, 1 ; Canadian, 1; Dutch, ,1; Portuguese, 2, one of whom—Cardinal Neto—is the retired Patriarch of Lisbon and has been 31 years in the Sacred College, two years longer than any of the others. The members of the Sacred College of non-Italian nationality who reside in Rome are Cardinal Billot (French), Cardinal Van Rossum (Dutch), Cardinal Gasquet (English), and Cardinal Falconio. It is understood that after the next Consistory Cardinal Fruhwirth will come to reside permanently in this city. A GOLDEN JUBILEE. On January 4, the Holy Father sent to Cardinal Diomede Falconio, former Apostolic Delegate to the United States, congratulations upon the fact that on that day he celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Cardinal Falconio was ordained a priest by the Right 'Rev: John Timon, first Bishop of Buffalo, after he had served his Church as a missionary to the United States. Cardinal Falconio entered the Franciscan Order on September 20, 1860, and in 1865 went to the United States. He was ordained by Bishop Timon on January 4, 1866. In 1868 he was named president of the College of St. Bonaventure in Allegany, N.Y., and on November 29, 1871, was sent to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. In 1882 he returned to the United States, remaining a year, and returning to Italy in 1883 as provincial of the Franciscans in the Abruzzi. He was preconized Bishop 3 of Lacedonia on July 11, 1892, and was appointed first Apostolic Delegate to Canada on October 1, 1899. He was appointed Apostolic Delegate to the United States and assumed possession at Washington on November 21, 1899. He was elevated to the Cardinalate on November 27, 1911, but previous to that time had returned to Rome. While at St. Bonaventure's College he became a naturalised American citizen. SCOTLAND THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GLASGOW. The Catholic statistics, published in* the Western Catholic Calendar, for 1916, show that in the archdiocese of Glasgow there is an estimated Catholic population of 400,000, served by 296 priests" (including 49 regular). There are 93 missions, with 135 churches, chapels, and stations; 120 .schools, with 166 departments. The schools include 1 training college, 1 secondary school, 16 convent day schools and higher-grade schools, 4 industrial schools, and 1 reformatory. There are 10 centres equipped for higher education. The teaching staff of the archdiocese numbers 1444. The schools "provide accommodation for 91,290 ; there are 77,412 children on the rolls, and 70,499 of these were presented for religious examination.