PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

New Zealand Tablet, 28 August 1919, Page 35

PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

Mgr. - Reynaud, ■ Vicar-Apostolic in China, has been decorated by the President of the Chinese Republic 1 for his devotion during 40 years to the welfare of the Chinese people. Mgr. Reynaud obtained 60,000 francs for the families that suffered from the floods in the north in 1917-18. ‘

It is officially announced (says the Catholic Watchmail) that the Rev. Dr. Goodier, S.J., who is at present in Rome, has been nominated the new Archbishop of Bombay. Dr. Goodier came to Bombay early in the war to help the sorely-tried German missions, and since then worked indefatigably both in the college and on the mission. There appear to be great rejoicings in Bombay over the appointment. We certainly offer our respectful congratulations.

The remarkable scene of three brothers at the same altar, one a bishop ordaining, another assistant priest, while the third brother received Holy Orders, was witnessed on Sunday morning, June 15, at St. Anselm’s Church, San Anselmo, U.S.A., when the Right Rev. John J. Cantwell, Bishop of Los Angeles, elevated to the dignity of the holy priesthood his brother, the Rev. Arthur Cantwell, who had just completed his theological studies at St. Bernard’s Seminary, Rochester, N.Y.

The Pope gave audience recently to Mr. Hilaire Belloc and his daughters. The author of The ■ Path to Rome last travelled that part at the beginning of the war; since then his journeys have for the most part been over countless miles of charts at home. His pilgrimage is made at a time of sorrow; to his Holiness', queries regarding his missing airman son he could only answer that no news is the worst possible news. Mr. Belloc's war griefs have been heavy,'for he has suffered, outside his family, the loss of his first and last colleagues in his literary work—Lord Basil Blackwood, who fell in action, and Mr. Cecil Chesterton, who died in France after service at the Front.

An Irish priest, Rev. R. J. Roche, 0.P., who acted as a military chaplain first at Salonika and afterwards with the Russian Expeditionary Force, was captured by the Bolsheviks, and has given a Dublin paper an interesting account of his experiences as a prisoner of war. He was marched 60 miles to the Bolshevist headquarters, where he “was treated in a sympathetic and friendly fashion.” When it was discovered that he was a non-combatant he was immediately released. The Holy Father has appointed the Very Rev. Canon O’Doherty, Dean of St. Patrick College, Mayxxooth, as Bishop of Clonfert. The Bishop-elect, who is only 41, is a native of Roscommon, and was educated at Sommerhill, Maynooth, and Dunboyne. He has passed all his administrative life on the scholastic side of the Church, but he is also a brilliant journalist, being some time editor of the liturgical department of the Irish Ecclesiastical Record. He is also an authority on the music of the Irish Church, and is no mean musician himself. He is a fine Gaelic scholar, and an advocate of the restoration of the national tongue.