THE CATHOLIC WORLD

New Zealand Tablet, 11 July 1918, Page 11

THE CATHOLIC WORLD

GENERAL. The Catholics of Bolton, Scotland, are going to erect a school, costing £SOOO, in memory of the late Dean Averdonk. One-seventh of the school accommodation of Bolton is provided by the Catholics of the town. Mrs. Mary Gallagher (or de Gallagher), Kingstown, Co. Dublin, with the exception of £2OOO each to the children of Dr. William Roantree, left the whole of her estate, proved at £27,432, to Catholic charities in Ireland. The oldest republic in the world and one of the smallest is Andora, in the Pyrenees Mountains, between France and Spain. This tiny country pays civil tribute to the Catholic Bishop of the See of Urgel. All laws of the republic must be signed by him and every act of jurisdiction is subject to his approval. The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from London have opened a convent at Pinehouse, Wincanton, Somerset, with the blessing and approval of the Bishop of Clifton. It is within two or three minutes of the Carmelite Church and Priory. The Pope has appointed Mgr. Ratti, Prefect of the Vatican Library, to be Papal Delegate to Poland, with residence at Warsaw. Some time ago the Chinese Government established a large hospital at Pekin equipped with all modern conveniences. The medical staff will be recruited from young native physicians, graduates of American schools. The administration of the hospital will be confided to the Sisters of Charity. Powerful Protestant interests exerted their influences to have the hospital placed under Protestant control, but without success. The New York Foundling Hospital, established in 1869 by the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul, has placed more than 22,000 children in homes. Among these children there is an artist of note, two bank directors, several physicians, numerous lawyers, a concert singer, several musicians. There is hardly any line of endeavor that is not represented by these 22,000 foundlings • and in three or four cases names made famous by the present war are names borne by foundlings. Erection in Washington by the Ladies' Auxiliary Ancient Order of Hibernians, of a monument to Orders of Sisters who served as nurses in the Civil War, is recommended in a report from the Congressional Committee on the Library. The report says: "The passing of time has depleted the ranks of these faithful Sisters, and only a few of them still survived The service rendered by them is unique, and it is most appropriate that their sisters of a later generation be permitted to erect this memorial to their fidelity and heroism."

The new Fenwick club and boys' home, the greatest Catholic clubhouse'in the United States, was recently dedicated at Cincinnati. The gigantic building contains all the features of any other institution with a Catholic environment. It will provide accommodation for 212 residents, young men between 16 and 25, and its recreational facilities will care for a membership of 1500 or more. Bishop Schrembs of Toledo delivered the address at the dedication. The Church of the Immaculate Conception at Old Town, San Diego, has been erected as a memorial to the devoted padre, Junipero Serra. At the Mass recently celebrated at its opening were descendants of aborigines who were neophytes of Serra when the old mission, now in ruins only a few miles distant, was first established. There were families there too, whose forbears' allegiance to the United States began when the "Stars and Stripes" were raised for the first time in Southern California, within sight of the entrance of the little church itself in the stirring days of 1849. New York is to have a State Council of Catholic Charities. Cardinal Farley at its initial meeting in New York City a few weeks ago declared that the purpose of the organisation shall be "to co-ordinate all Catholic philanthropic work; to take measures in the administration of charity, to develop 6elf-respect and increase of self-support, and to protect Catholic dependents and delinquents." The dioceses of New York, Brooklyn, Albany, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo, and Ogdensburg were represented at the meeting. Each of the committees on child welfare, industrial problems, finance, law, hospitals, and institutions will be headed by a bishop. Headquarters have been established at Albany, N.Y. St. Vincent College, Los Angeles, Cal., in charge of the Jesuit Fathers, has been presented with the magnificent, library left by Bishop Conaty, who collected books such as few men are fortunate enough tc possess. It was the late Bishop's desire that these books should become the property of his successor, and he left this trust in the hands of his nephew, the Rev. Francis Conaty. Shortly after the enthronement of the Right Rev. John J. Cantwell, who succeeded Bishop Conaty, the latter's nephew carried out his trust, and presented the library to the new Bishop. The latter deemed it best that the collection of books be given to St. Vincent College, as a pledge of his own interest in the institution and as a memorial to a Bishop noted as a scholar and a divine. Eleven colleges are affiliated with the Catholic University, Washington, to which will be added two others, now in course of erection: the House of Studies of the Capuchin Fathers and the Sulpician House of Divinity Studies. A distinct group of buildings though affiliated with the university, is the Catholic Sisters College. Chronologically these colleges were founded as follows: 1895, Holy Cross College; 1898, College of the Holy Land; 1899, Marist College- 1900, Marist Seminary; 1900, Trinity College; 1903, College of the Immaculate Conception; 1904, Apostolic Mission House; 1906, St. John Kantius College; 1914, Catholic Sisters College; 1915, Chaminade Institute 1916, St. Paul's College; 1916, Oblate Scholasticate; 1917, Capuchin House of Studies; 1917, Sulpician House of Studies.