RETURNING TO THE FOLD

New Zealand Tablet, 23 October 1919, Page 35

RETURNING TO THE FOLD

Mr. Durham, formerly a clergyman of the Anglican Church, occupied the Catholic Evidence , Guild's platform in Hyde Park, London, recently. "I have ueen a Catholic layman for 14 years," he told a large audience. "For 30 years I had been trying to convert Papists throughout the length and breadth of Ireland. I only converted one, and that man was myself. My efforts to drive men from the Catholic Church brought me into ' her fold through the wonderful grace of God.*' A remarkable conversion of Jews is reported from Budapest, one of the largest cities' of the world, containing nearly 200,000 Jews. Hundreds of them have been baptised. Ninety adults were recently confirmed at St. Patrick's Church, Washington, 8.C., all converts; and also 19 at the Church of the Nativity. The Rev. T. J. Richardson, M.A., of Queen's College, Oxford, only son of' the late Mr. Richard Richardson, J.P., of Whinfell, Brougham, Westmoreland, was received into the Catholic Church at Grange-over-Sands, on June 5 last. He was ordained in 1908 by the late Dr. Paget (Bishop of Oxford) and worked as an Anglican clergyman in the diocese of Oxford. Major-General De Rosey C. Cabell, U.S.A., Commandant at San Antonio and of all the forces along the Mexican border, is a convert to the Church according to Father Otis, S.J., his brother-in-law. The Rev. Mr. Robert E. Wood, minister of the Hankow Mission in China, has written from France to his Bishop that he has renounced his allegiance to the Anglican Church of China and has accented Catholicism in its place. Another well-known Anglican clergyman in London, the Rev. Frederick Pearkes, has been received into the Church. Mr. Pearkes was ordained in 1887, after completing his studies at Lichfield Theological College. For 32 years he was a notable, figure in the most extreme circles of Anglicanism, and worked at Christ Church, Wolverhampton; St. Mary's, Cardiff; St. Michael's, Shoreditch; All Hallows, Southwark; and St. Agnes', Kennington Park. He left St. Agnes' at the beginning of this year, after 16 years' work. He had been particularly associated with the group of which Monsignor Hinde, Mon"signor Cocks, Father Evans, and earlier Monsignor Barnes had been the leaders. Mr. .Pearkes was received at Farm Street by Rev. Father O'Donohoe, S.J.