THE* CATHOLIC WORLD

New Zealand Tablet, 14 April 1921, Page 37

THE* CATHOLIC WORLD

& GENERAL. If \ t§ • • Rome has been selected as the place of the ..interna? | tional Eucharistic Congress in 1922. Committees are preparing for solemn' ceremonies in St. Peter’s during the Congress, and it is planned that the Holy Father will participate. 7* The Oeuvre ties Vocations , a society founded by the late Cardinal Amette for fostering vocations for the priesthood, has reported remarkable progress at its recent annual conference, which was held under the presidency of Cardinal Dubois. In presenting the report for the past year, Mgr. Roland-Gosselin, Auxiliary of Paris, stated that the society has now branches in every parish of the archdiocese, while the contributions reached a sum of 128,137 ,francs. The number of recruits for the Grand Seminary 'for the past year constitutes a record in the history of the society; at St. Sulpice there are 345 seminarians, and 281 at the Seminaire d’lssy. Among them there is 1 Officer of the Legion of Honor, as well as 8 Chevaliers of the Legion and 6 ex-officers who have received the Military Medal. The students for the priesthood include 26 former sub-lieutenants, 16 lieutenants, 6 captains, 1 lieu-,tenant-colonel of the General Staff, and 1 ex-major. There are also 4 naval officers, a barrister, a treasury official, some civil engineers, and two former members of the ' trades unions executive, as well ;as several doctors and licentiates in law, letters, and science. m Plans are on foot for a new Marist College on the Clyde coast between Largs and Wemyss Bay, Scotland, The Marist Brothers have acquired the mansion and property of Landour there, and have decided to open there shortly a preparatory college for boys. The new educational establishment ■ has been given the name of St. Columba’s College. It is under the patronage of Bishop Toner, Administrator Apostolic of. the Archdiocese, of Glasgow. fe Nuns of the Marist Convent, Peckham, London, observed an outbreak of fire at their adjacent institution, known at the Retreat, :which is a home of rest for old women. The Sisters gave the alarm and >at once took measures for the removal • of, the old people from danger. There were 26 inmates, mostly about 80 years of age, of whom 19 were bed-ridden; and four blind, * All were safely removed, with the assistance of the firemen and voluntary helpers, and were carried into the convent, where the Sisters did everything possible for them. The fire blazed fiercely and the: building was gutted in a short time. Because of the teachings of the Koran, no statues are seen in Constantinople. However, the gratitude felt by all classes on the Bosphorus for the humanitarian work accomplished in the East by the Holy Father during the war will bring afyput an exception to this rule within a short time (says the London Catholic Times). On the square in front ■ of the Catholic Cathedral will stand a bronze statue of Benedict XV. vested in full pontificals, the expense of which has been borne exclusively by nonCatholics of Constantinople, i.e., Moslems, Hebrews, and Schismatics, for at the opening of the subscription list the Catholics of the city discreetly stood aside in order to allow the feeling of their non-Catholic neighbors towards the Pope to manifest itself. Among the chief subscribers towards the monument are the Sultan of Turkey and the Grand Rabbi of Constantinople. The last link in the chain of California missions is to be forged by the hands of the lineal descendants of the first Christian Indians of California under the supervision of the spiritual followers of Fra Junipero Serra. San Juan Evangelista is the name that will be given to the 22nd and last of the,California missions. It is to be consecrated next June and will rise among the'live oaks of the Verdugo Hills, midway between the" foothill village of Tujunga and the old town of Sunlarid and a days journey on foot from San Gabriel Mission on the south and San. Fernando on the north. % The chain of California missions was so constructed by the early Franciscans that a day’s journey on foot separated each edifice. . . .

• CATHOLIC ORDERS RETURN TO OXFORD. The early return of the Dominicans to Oxford is foreshadowed in the announcement , that the Order has purchased property in the city, within the precincts of the University (says a Catholic News Service note). The building acquired stands in the historic street '/of JIStS/f Giles. It is expected that the new Dorfiinican* hall' - will be ready to receive students in the fall. * The event is of more than passing interest in the history of the Catholic higher education in- England, since it means that the ? four great orders of the Church will once more be represented at Oxford. 4 VA- The Jesuits have their House of Studies, Campion

Hall, which is -in - St.- Giles; c the Benedictines are housed at St. Benet’s, Hall; the Franciscans are • housed• at, Gros- ' seteste t House, so named after one of the most illustrious ’“prelates and scholars of the Catholic Church in England of "pre-Rcformation days. | With the coming of the Dominicans the four great orders will be represented In * the , academic life .of the University, - and a flavor of medieval ,days*.will once more be restored at Oxford. The inflow of Catholics into academic life ’of Oxford does not end, However, 7 with 'the’ 1 presence in the university city of four great orders. a , j , Salesian House, which is at Cowley, is a house of studies for the ’Salesmans, while the secular clergy who are reading for! their degrees at Oxford are housed: in St. Charles HotiSe, a house of, studies opened under the auspices of the Archbishop of Birmingham in 1913. ■ 'ih.v j | T* m It >iS EUROPEAN POWERS AND THE MISSIONS. & • The question of the hindrances to the efforts of missionaries was discussed recently in Cologne at a! large gathering of the priests of the Clerical Union for Foreign Missions. A lecture was delivered by Father Anthony Huonder, S.J., who is an expert in the science of the missions and whose text was: “Why have we not done more in four hundred years for the extension of the faith?” He attributed the ' slowness of the missionaries’ progress to European ambitions. “How few priests,” he said, “do as was done by. St. Patrick in Ireland! They introduce European forms into their new churches and take slight account of the peculiar manners and customs of the people to whom they appeal. In consequence the Christian religion does not enter into the national life and feelings. The foreign policy of the European Powers aims at influencing the missionaries. The missionary work must seek to create a native-born clergy. The policy 0f,.. Pope Benedict XV. in strongly favoring- the formation *of a native clergy, is a sign of new and better missionary methods.” The Jesuit Father’s view met with the warm approval of the assemblage, and there can be little doubt that the Church in Germany will' give very hearty support to the Holy Father’s wishes regarding this highly impor- * tant feature of the Church’s Apostolate. . ■ , ? mmmmmm,