THE CATHOLIC WORLD

New Zealand Tablet, 27 December 1917, Page 31

THE CATHOLIC WORLD

M%Yf opened, a new college in Los Angeles, .Cal. In the opening week its registrations were oyer one hundred students. ; ; ~ After gjlfjjqag special studies of Oriental languages in many the countries of the '.; Far East, ithe Rev. Thomas A. McCourt, S.J;, has made his way back safely to the United States from Beirut; Turkey, where he was last stationed. - ; rv -v; -Vv 1 ; o ;. ,>X'i The centenary- of the founding of the' Mission San Rafael Archangel in California was celebrated 'recently: Nearly 20,000 people visited the mission as pilgrims, amongst them perhaps 3000 in the brown habit of the Third : Order of St. Francis. Archbishop Hanna preached. Spanish hymns were sung. * , y/--'- • ; :' f< Lady rGheylesmore, formerly Miss'■ Elizabeth French, New York, and one of whose sisters is Mrs. Vanderbilt, renowned for her philanthropy, has with Lord Cheylesmore had a Belgian convent school established on their estate at Cooper's Hill Park, : near Windsor, since ..the early days of the war. The eigh--.nuns in charge of it escaped from Antwerp. The : Westminster Catholic Federation has now (states the Catholic Watchman-) an accredited representative in Rome who"communicates to its secretary authoritative statements to rebut popular misconceptions " and misrepresentations. We Catholics are rather slow in tackling such problems as arise: from the . conscious or unconscious dissemination of biassed, and false •', non-Catholic or anti-Catholic press' comm.unicaon.3» i. n d in meeting the enemy on his own ground, in the'press ajid on the platform. Hence such a step as the above' is doubly welcome, showing that though slow we are not hopelessly so. Weeping for joy, walking quite freely on a leg that was diseased for 16 months, Edmond Bouchard, of "Montreal, lately returned to Quebec from St Anne de Beaupre, using his healed leg, after having left his . crutches at the foot of the statue of .Si.' Anne! He . sustained a double fracture of the right leg through a one thousand pound brace falling on him, and was five months with his leg stretched on a chair. Officers and deckhands on the Canada Lines steamer Quebec testify to having seen Mr. Bouchard walking miserably on his crutches, and that he came back aboard without his crutches and walking quite freely. After being closed to the public since January, 1915—when the great earthquake injured this, like so many thousands of buildings over a radius of fifty miles in Italy—the Church of San Pietro in Mohtorio, has been reopened. Thanks to the munificence of Alphohso XIII., of Spain, the famous edifice on the Janicuhim, which is under the patronage of' the Spanish crown, is restored in all its old glory and beauty to the Friars Minor, who have tended it for centurieslong before it was made the sanctuary of the tombs of The O'Neils and The O'Donnells. A slab cpmmenorates the generosity of King Alphonso to the church. Lutherism has had a wretched time in this country of late (states the Glasgow Observer of October 13). No one seems to be able to work up the necessary enthusiasm for its laudation. Last week the Edinburgh EstaltffsTiecl Presbytery hit it hard. 'This , week "W is the University's turn through .one of its most distinguished lecturers—Professor : Sarolga. At. the opening of his course in French, Dr. Sarolea said thV. first achievement of Dr. Luther had been that he had broken the splendid unity of the Christian Commonwealth, the continuity of the Catholic religion. Luther was the I religious : anarchist of > the sixteenth - century, even as the Kaiser the political in the twentieth. Lutherism did not fering religious freedom . —it brought religious' depotism!" Where now are the pre-war eulogies ; of Dr. Martin Luther? §! The American Catholic Foreigir Mission 2 Society established its thiri,centre of activities, in San Francisco,on September'l3, on the eye of its Superior's departure for the Far East. « On Van Ness Avenue, oyerlooking.the f which will bear its

future missiouers to their field of . labor, this " young organisation, only ,six years old yet already vigorous, has - opened a propppe, ..where ,p>no of its priests will reside to further the interests, pf the society l and to harbor ■ missiouers on I their passage to and from the Orient. The moving spirit in this f latest development of the Mary knoll Society ’is the Rev, Joseph P. McQuaide, pastor of the. Sacred I Heart .Church, and one of the best known priests on the Pacific slope. Father McQuaide has been strongly encouraged in this effort by Archbishop Hanna, who welcomed Father Walsh on - his passage to the Orient, and personally attended the opening of the new|hprise . • Theheadquarters of the society are at Maryknoll, Ossining, N.Y., while at Clark's Green, near Scranton, Pa., is' located the Venard Apostolic School, - a feeder for the Seminary at Maryknoll. . ’’