The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, 27 April 1916, Page 47

The Catholic World

ENGLAND

THE SEE OF NOTTINGHAM.

The consecration of the Right Rev. Mgr. Dunn as. Bishop of Nottingham took place at Westminster Cathedral on February 25. . His Eminence Cardinal Bourne was the consecrating prelate, and was assisted by their Lordships the Bishops of Southwark and Portsmouth.

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS.

An inventory of - the estate of the Right Hon. Alice Mary Elizabeth Fitzallan, Countess of Loudoun, wife of the : Right Hon. Charles Edward Mure Rawdon Abney Hastings, Earl, of -Loudoun, Loudoun Castle", Galston, Ayrshire, has been lodged with the Sheriff Clerk at Kilmarnock. Including heritage, it amounts to £19,768 Is lOd. By her will the Countess has left the following charitable bequests: — To the treasurer of St. Philip’s Orphanage, Edgbaston, Birmingham, to maintain in the said orphanage one orphan boy, £3OO ; to the Sister Superioress of. the Convent of the Sisters of Charity in Carlisle place, Westminster, £2OO ; to the Sister Superioress of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Nazareth House, Hammersmith, £200; a sum of £ISOO upon trust, the annual interest of which is for the benefit - of the. Catholic church at Masham, in the , County of York lands and premises at Newhall, in ; the County of Derby, with the school, chapel, and priest’s residence, erected thereon by her,' to the Catholic ’Bishop of Nottingham for the time being, to be continued to be used as school, chapel, and priest’s residence. .

FRANCE

CURES AT LOURDES.

An .impressive reunion was held on a recent Sunday in Paris, consisting of those who had . been cured during the National pilgrimage to Lourdes. It was under the presidency of the Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes, Monsignor Schoepfer, and the large Salle was filled to overflowing. .The presence of Pere Emanuel Bailly in Paris, which he is visiting to make dispositions regarding the return of 300 religious driven out of their forty convents and monasteries by the Bulgarians and the Turks, was seized upon to ask him to address the Lourdes reunion. The Superior of the Association of Notre-Dame-de-Salut opened the meeting by congratulating so large a gathering and in especial the Catholic doctors present who did honor to faith and science. After ;: Pere Bailly’s discourse the doctors ' in succession gave accounts of five cases of absolute cure chosen with the greatest care and submitted to the most searching examinations. Dr, Le Bee,’surgeon of the Hospital of St. Joseph and president of. the Society of St. Luke, reported on the extremely interesting case of a priest, a vicaire of Paris, aged forty-twq, who had varicose veins for twenty years, . much swollen 5 and thirteen ulcerated. His bishop finding his state was becoming worse, sent him to Lourdes. • The priest went{ without much ; hope of a cure, and was cured completely -and lastingly. Dr. Chardin, of , the Hospital -of St. Dizier, spoke; on the' cure of Mme. ; Silvia r Bienaime, of tuberculous ... disease, •• of i which complaint her three _ brothers had all died, and which was so advanced in her own case that three doctors had, given up her life. At Lourdes she instantly recovered complete health, which’ could not be explained by any natural means. Dr. Marchand, an army ; doctor, told of the extraordinary double cure of Mile. Susanne Moreau afflicted with two serious maladies both of which disappeared at Lourdes. Dr.KLectere spoke of the case of a child of -Nimes cured of■ tuberculous knee. 3 Her >- sudden:- cure revolutionised her neighborhood when she returned skipping and taking part in the children’s games, many.; lax ‘ Catholics returned to their duties, The Bishop of Lourdes gave

a touching discourse at the close of the meeting in which he summed up what they were doing at the great shrine ,in a ■ sentence, ;* We pray, we love, we hope.’ He said that when he departed at 4 a.m. for Paris, the faithful were kneeling in prayer,' round the Grotto. He spoke also of the crowds of Belgian refugees who had supplicated Mary, of the signatures of: 35,000 v ßritish sailors and of the prayers of the Pope for the same intention as those all present had - at,heart. _, O .

INDIA

GERMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY IN INDIA,

. r The arrival in Germany of Catholic and Protestant German missionaries whom the British authorities compelled to leave India has been the occasion of renewed attacks on England" in the German press (says the Catholic, Times'). ■ It ivould, the journalists state, be difficult to exaggerate the importance of the educational work performed by the missionaries, and in accomplishing that work they had 'no selfish or political aims. This we freely admit. The German priests have done in India work that greatly redounds to their credit. In the archdiocese of Bombay especially they have left many monuments of their zeal. Thousands of young folk are educated in institutions which they founded, and the reports on the teaching have been, as a rule, highly satisfactory., : For the orders issued by the: British authorities the Germans are themselves to blame. The agitation for the expulsion ‘of the Germans from India was caused chiefly by German outrages. . When the reports of these , horrors reached the British people in India their indignation was, naturally enough, aroused. They called for the internment or banishment of the German residents, and the Government yielded to the pressure brought to bear on it. Had the Kaiser conducted the war according to the ‘rules adopted by civilised nations the lot of the Germans in the territories of the Entente Powers would have been much less trying. The Emperor did not think of them when he was giving instructions for the commission of atrocities.

ROME

THE CAUSE OF THE IRISH MARTYRS.

; ' Within a few days (writes a Rome correspondent under date February 22) all formalities will have been gone through in. Rome for commencing the Apostolic Process in the Cause of the Irish Martyrs. The questions to which the witnesses are to reply have been just drawn upland all the necessary papers are being forwarded to the Most Rev. William J. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, who is now about to initiate the Apostolic Process in the nama of the Holy See... In.'a public pronouncement made recently on the rapid course of the Cause of the Irish Martyrs, the-* Arch!; bishop of Dublin gives to Cardinal Yannutelli ‘ full credit-for, having pushed forward the case which Celts all over the globe have so much at heart. His Eminence has been in constant correspondence with Archbishop Walsh during the past year; hence the expedition with which the Cause of the Irish Martyrs has been brought to. its present advanced stage.

THE HOLY AND THE WAR.

It . becomes necessary to repeat the warning that has been given more than once in Rome., says that paper. Distrust the stories you, read in the press about the action of the Pope and the Holy . See in connection with the war,, until they are either authenticated or. denied. On the other hand, • remember that the Holy Father has not taken and will not take sides. .Also to 'imagine that the father of all the faithful could, allow himself : to be bribed or wheedled or bul- ' lied by .one side or the other is to have a false and debased ■ conception of ; the character and . office of the Vicar of Christ, and to think that he can easily be led astray, by false information is to forget that at the present moment he is in a r better position than anyone living to be correctly informed 1 about whatis happening in the world. ‘ •