THE CATHOLIC WORLD.

New Zealand Tablet, 29 April 1920, Page 37

THE CATHOLIC WORLD.

i--v"-l vi ■'■■- :■ *'. /"■ GENERAL^ I '-'"'v'; '-."/. .' Vr \ : ..'/V.? | •The first Eucharistic Congress of Cuba-was-convened.'.. 'at Havana recently in fitting commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city. #- | No contribution "... to/the Society of the Propagation ... of.. the; Faith', shows a deeper? sense of religious obligation or probably represents more self-sacrifice than that coming from the afflicted lepers at Molokai. The " latest annual report of the Hawaiian branch of the society, Rev. Regi- 0 nald Yzendoorn, Pic, Diocesan Director, shows that : the lepers gave 155.25 dollars to ' foreign "missions'." I A petition bearing the signatures of more than 100,000 '" Catholics in New York was presented to L Archbishop Patrick J. Hayes, to be forwarded to the Pope, asking that St. Jean Baptiste Church, Lexington Avenue and 76th . Street, be made a basilica— perpetual shrine- the : Blessed Sacrament will be exposed day and- night. If the - petition is granted church will be the only one in America having such an honor. - - ; i Seventy of the | performers and 19 members:of the orchestra, of the Gberammergau Passion Play died during the. war. The play ; may ; again be produced in 1921. \ri-A high tribute to the Jesuit system of -education was paid by the Governor of Bombay, Sir 6 George Lloyd, at the conversazione held .in connection with the celebration of the golden jubilee !of ; St.: Xavier's ) College, T Bombay. £ The people of England, he said, owe very, much indeed to the principles of the Jesuit Fathers' teaching. The Jesuit system _of education , was famous chiefly, he thought, for its breadth of vision. AVhat r they have introduced into India T isjy. he s , believed, entirely for the good of India. What 4 is needed- here, ; he said;* was to turn out the best ; average man capable of taking ivaKlead, of - commanding men,, of quick perception, of being a master of trade as much as ; a pioneer of art and thought. That is what has been recognised throughout the Jesuit Fathers'"" edu- ■■• cation, he said. °? .:.■■•---'; '; v \]9'l\\ '"-•"'.' ~~* :Yt- •; The Feast of the Immaculate Conception was a memorable day in the Catholic life ; of South -Bank,.--North--Yorks, England. On that day the -.Very Rev. Canon No- ? lan celebrated :Mass in the village : of Normamby-in-Eston, where the Sisters of Mercy have gone to reside; The celebrant, in a short discourse, remarked that it was the first Mass that had been said in that locality since the Refor- - mation, when the monks from the Priory at Guisborough celebrated Mass in the old 1: Catholic church situated -in ' what is s now- known as : Eston Cemetery. The old Catholic church forms the chief feature.-of? interest in the district. Very little except the tower of the original church exists to-day, ..the Established -.Church: in the Victorian era having rebuilt the body of it. Some 20 years ago the then Protestant ; rector of Eston had the belfry dismantled and the bell, which was inscribed with the words "Ora pro nobis Santa Helena," was taken down and broken up for scrap. The holy water .font outside the church door is one of the : few relics 7 that are left as a reminder that" inthe days of yore England was Catholic, and that the little church was a chapel-of-ease to that grand monastic edifice, Guisborough Priory. ._f, : ; .:,_•.'■ r CATHOLIC ACTIVITY IN THE ARGENTINE " REPUBLIC. I % There is at present great activity in the Catholic "life of the Argentine Republic. -The bishops have accomplished two: great works — Popular Union, modelled oh ' • the Popular Union of the Italian Catholics, and the collection of an enormous', sum of money for institutions necessary for the solution Jof : ; urgent social problems:? This? includes the .erection of working men's homes, working men's universities, ' technical 'institutes for females, and young men's clubs. xii T....:: .;■:!;;.;: , -....-.-j j«* ..■-.-; ■. -,,-,.■- |

* |; The collection has been made after the manner of the United. States Red ; Cross, V and the results have been successful beyond anticipation. The appeal in the city of-Buenos Aires : was to have lasted seven days, but on account of the great |enthusiasm shown,. it - had to be prolonged for three extra days. Even then the collectors did not fully exploit the city. ..... '--% I Enormous' thermometers, 30- feet high, were placed in various parts of the city, to. indicate daily to the people the amounts collected. 'These thermometers were capable of indicating up to. 10,000,000 pesas. On the sixth day, howe¥er i 3 astonishment of the people, the thermometers showed ' that' the maximum ' had? been reached, and it was announced on-the : tenth day that the sum of close on £1,000,000 had been reached, ; ?!?;?-X The effect ,of this successful collection .' has r been profound. -It * has shown to i all that the' Catholic Church is

i solving the . greats social problems? practical way.. To ; arrive at this grand result the - fich % and the poor both contributed. K ,'••■ :-< *■ a p ' V The representative of the working classes.j had a? I seat of honor between the Apostolic , Nuncio and the J Bishop of Parana.- >?s The = President, in : his concluding :: :^- speech, after having declared that the, Argentine Catholics, 11 Avith their collection,did' not ihtfend*" to give alms, but to 1 do justice-to the working class, affirmed ,that the main-? I spring of.the movement was the charity of Our Saviour, I that makes .-;' brothers #i of - all; ; and : establishes f*a i reciprocity between the noble and the plebeian. ■'v' : . ~ : ;%