THE CATHOLIC WORLD

New Zealand Tablet, 30 August 1917, Page 35

THE CATHOLIC WORLD

; GENERAL. , News ,of the death of Bishop Chatron of Osaka, Japan, has reached, the American Foreign Mission Seminary at Mary knoll. v‘ ; - The Bishop of Saigon, in China, has been able to replace his European priests, who returned to Europe because of the war, by 94 native Annamite priests. The diocese of Panama dates from February 11, 1534. It has six vicariates and- 59 parishes and about 420,000 Catholics. The Christian Brothers have colleges in Colon and Panama. The Salesian Fathers have a boys orphanage, and the Sisters of Charity a boarding school. "* Bishop Combaz, P.F.M., of Nagasaki, pays a tribute to native Japanese clergy when he says, refer'.ing to the loss of one of them; “I have just sustained a great blow in the death of a native priest,, Father -Paul Fukahori, who had charge of the district of Kuamomoto. lie was thoroughly capable, and filled with truly apostolic zeal; His place will not be easily filled.” ' T ' ; : y Among late converts in England is a doughty Scotsman, Major Sir W illiani - Stewart-Dick Cunyngham., Bart., of Killiccrankie, Scotland. Sir William, who is the tenth baronet, had a distinguished career in the South Ali Jean : .war , and was mentioned for bravery in desnatches. He is now on leave from the front in France, and has made his submission at the Cathedral of Westminster. ' - For eminent and practical social service we most generously commend the Knights of Columbus (states ( hurrh Pi-byre*! They have launched the laudable and liberal project of raising a million dollars within their ranks for safeguarding the morals and the faith of our Catholic young men in the training camps.. It is * a great arid a grand undertaking.. One certain of like results, as well as demonstrating the sterling Catholic character of the Order. ; , = The Rome correspondent of the Catholic Citizen, of Milwaukee, says that he has learned from a private source that no fewer than seven Protestant theological students at Lausanne, Switzerland,, have been ' received into the Catholic Church. The same paper records the reception into the Church, before his death,. a few weeks ago, of Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Foy, a farmer Protestant Episcopal minister of St. Louis, Mo., and a noted educationist and linguist. —. ' Among the recipients of Indian Birthday Honors (states the Catholic. Herald of India ) we are glad to find the names of two prominent Catholics Sir Michael O’Dwyer, Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab, who has been made Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire, and Sir Charles E. Fox, Chief Judge of the High Court of Burma, who becomes Grand Commander of the Star of India. We feel strongly tempted to mention some names that are year after year left without a handle and without honors, yet spelling all that is great and noble. But there are other rewards for those who content themselves “to be obscurely good.” It is necessary to know something about boats and navigation in order to be a missionary in Tahiti, and even this knowledge does not safeguard one against constant catastrophe. The Vicariate is composed of hundreds of islands scattered in the Pacific over an area about the size of France, and the missionaries journey from one to the other of these in various styles of craft and bearing various cargoes. Rev. Father Gustave Nouride, M.S.H., says of his intrepid companions; ‘‘Not a year passes without several of our missionaries being placed in great danger. The winds are sudden and fierce, they catch the sail of our little boats, and there is a shipwreck. However, the ‘Star of the Sea’ visibly protects us, and though shipwrecks are numerous and the danger great, yet for nearly two hundred years not a single missionary of the Vicariate has gone to the bottom of the sea.” ;