PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

New Zealand Tablet, 9 September 1920, Page 39

PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

At a recent audience with the Holy Father, his Eminence Cardinal Bourne of Westminster, England, secured a special blessing from his Holiness for Mr. Isidore Dillon-Crohan and - his sisters, as being the direct descendants of the mother of Blessed Oliver Plunket, who was a sister of James Dillon, the first Earl of Roscommon., Among the passengers on the Morinda, which arrived in Brisbane from Rabaul recently, was the Rev. Father Gonzales, of the Sacred Heart Mission at Yule Island. Father Gonzales has been for seven years stationed at Rarai, 130 miles inland from the headquarters of the mission, and is visiting Sydney to recuperate his health. In commenting on the work of the mission, Father Gonzales said that excellent progress was being made in educating the natives in agriculture and industries of various kinds, but that the numerical strength of the mission has been somewhat reduced as a result of the, war. There were now only 18 priests to cope with the work of a very large district, which included some hundreds of villages. President Ebert has received at Berlin the NuncioApostolic, Mgr. Pacelli, who presented his letters of credit. He spoke of the object of his mission —to regulate with the competent authorities the relations between Church and State in Germany on a basis corresponding to the new situation. President Ebert replied that these relations would be regulated on the basis of the republican Constitution, which guaranteed complete liberty of conscience. The Nuncio would meet with a most favorable disposition on the part of the German Government. A banquet, at which President Ebert, the Chancellor, and the Minister for horeign Affairs were present, was held in honor of Mgr. Pacelli. Among the young men ordained to the priesthood at Mount St. Mary College, Emmitsburg, U.S A ' on June 17, was Rev. Richard B. Washington, and cn’eat-grand-nephew of General George Washington, and great-grandson of John Washington, brother of the first ± resident. The young priest’s grandfather, Col. John A. Washington, was the last of the family to hold possession of Mount Vernon. Father Washington was at At? into the Catholic Church in February, 1912 at Atlanta and later went to Rome to study After a year at the American College there he returned and entered Mount St. Mary’s College, to make his studies n philosophy and theology. Father Washington is a nephew of Rev. Veverly Tucker, of Virginia and a and rv?l Arth " r u ° yd ’ of South America, and Rev. 11. St. George Tucker, of Japan:' All three re bishops of the Episcopal Church. He is the second a neph6w aS of ng th° n amil y , to attend Mount St. Mary, nephew of the General, George W. Washington to 1836 f registered there as a student from & 1828 Westminster, Md Father® Wa if'V SOl ®'" n Mass at to duty in of Va^ on July*B,%“ afc' Brothers ted Superior-General of the ThT' V i!*' thers S. H. Butler, J. N McCarthv T Bro ' J. P. Noonan were elected A G, l Hogan ’ ancl General. The Rev A ®® lstants to the Superiorder of the ■Christian R,° He ? MSSy j° ined **> Orfirst period w^en v ®ry ywmg. His Waterford After a short ? Spei I lt ln Mount Sion, ferred to Onr [aVs Mo .It ? ‘ hei \ he was trans! for several years as an Z- C ?f > where he labored The introduction of the T, f ,cce!sful teacher, tern found Broker E *><*tion sysand to him was entasWlar-"sharfoTrb' l a& f North S petit.ve arena is a matter o^lto^ 00 'I “jggg -b”!

ther ; Hennessy was elected one of»the; assistants to the Superior-General, a- position which he continued to occupy with distinction until his elevation ; to the first position in the Order. While ' acting as assistant his duties took him .on visitations "to different parts of the world, where his great Order has been established —Rome, Gibraltar, South Africa, the United States, Newfoundland, and England. His election as Super-ior-General will be learned with satisfaction 'by hosts of friends throughout the world, and by his old pupils, who hold him in affectionate and grateful memory.