Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, 13 April 1922, Page 39

Catholic World

PAPAL HONOR FOR PHYSICIAN. Dr. Paley, a, Catholic physician of Hove (Brighton, England), has the unique though mournful honor of having received the last Papal appointment made by Benedict XV before his death. His Holiness appointed the doctoi' a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory, and the Brief oi the appointment, signed only a few days before his death, was the last of such appointments of the Pontificate of Benedict XV. ENGLISH ASSOCIATIONS OF PIUS XL His Holiness Pope Pius XI has, it has been discovered since his elevation to the Papal Throne, a number of interesting associations with English life, extending back some 20 years or more (says Catholic News Service). The Holy Father's first acquaintance with England goes back to the time when, as simple Dr. Ratti, he visited that distinguished scholar and linguist, the present Bishop of Salford, Dr. Casartelli, in Manchester. The future Pope stayed some days in Manchester, and during his visit he made a tour of the principal Catholic churches in' the city. While a monsignor and before bis consecration to the episcopate, the Pope paid another visit to England, when he was among the guests of honor invited by the University of Oxford to take part in the centenary celebrations in honor of the famous Roger Bacon. One of the events on this occasion was the unveiling of a monument to the great Franciscan Doctor. On this occasion Dr. Ratti had as his immediate neighbor the Marquis Curzon, now British Foreign Minister. The Holy Father is also very well remembered at the London Library in St. James Square, London, where ho was a, frequent visitor. The librarian of this institution, in speaking of his present Holiness's visits', to the London Library, remarks with admiration the astonishing knowledge shown by the present. Pope in all matters relating to book;!. In connection with the Holy Father's prodigious learning, it is now being related that after his election as Pope, his Holiness went to each one of the Cardinals at the Conclave and addressed a few words in the language of each of the prelates thus addressed.

GLASGOW'S NEW ARCHBISHOP. After a vacancy of a, little more than 16 months, since the death of Archbishop Maguire in October, 1920, the great Scottish See of. Glasgow is to have a new Archbishop in the person of Mgr. Donald Mackintosh, Rector of the Scots College in Rome, who has been nominated to the See by Pope Pius XI. The Archbishop-elect, who is a member of the Clan Mackintosh, is a native of the Highland village of Glasnacardoch, in the famous Lochaber district. His first studies were made at Blair College, Aberdeen, the national seminary for Scotland. After a course at the Petit Seminaire in Paris, the new Archbishop proceeded to the Scots College in Rome, and at the Gregorian University in the Eternal City he took his doctorate in Theology and Philosophy. ' After his ordination to the priesthood, which took place in Rome, Dr. Mackintosh was appointed at the early age, of 23 to the Vice-Rectorship of the Scots College, and when the Rector, Mgr. Fraser, was appointed to the Scottish See of Dunkeld in 1913, Dr. Mackintosh was appointed as his successor. In 1914 Dr. Mackintosh was appointed Privy Chamberlain to the Pope with the title of Monsignor. In point of population the Archdiocese of Glasgow. is the largest in Great Britain. Its Catholic population is in the neighborhood of half a million, and comprises something like five-sixths of the entire Catholic population of Scotland.

The diocese itself has a., glorious history. It was founded as an episcopal See about the year 543 by . St. Kentigern, or Mungo as he is sometimes called. In 1492 it was raised to the rank of an archiepiscopal See and had four Suffragan Sees incorporated under its Metropolitan. The last surviving prelate of the ancient Catholic Hierarchy of Scotland was Cardinal James Betoun, Archbishop of Glasgow, who went into exile on July 19, 1560. The Archbishop was restored to the temporalities of his See by King James VI (James 11, the last Catholic King of England) in February, 1598. But he never returned to his native land, but died in Paris, at the age of 79, in April, 1603. From that time the See was vacant for 275 years, until in 1878 Pope Leo XIII restored the Catholic Hierarchy of Scotland, with Dr. Charles Eyre, formerly Vicar-Apostolic, as first of the restored archbishops. At present the archiepiscopal See of Glasgow has no Suffragan Sees, and in all matters is subject immediately to the Holy See. THE NATIONAL HOME AGAIN. . According to the draft scheme for the government of Palestine, which has been circulated by the Colonial Office in London, the Jews are to have a National Home in Palestine, and not the National Home, which they have been flaunting recently in the faces of the other Palestinians, to the great wrath of the latter. It appears, if the terms of the draft constitution are strictly carried out, that the Seed of Abraham will have no more privileges and rights in the Holy Land than will any other section of the community. The rights and the position of the Jews are safeguarded but so also are those of the Christians and the Moslems. And, given that the ghettos of Eastern Oalieia and Hungary are not emptied by the shipload at the ports of Palestine, the scheme of government will prevent anything like a Zionist domination, cither political or numerical. FRIAR APPOINTED CITY ORGANIST. Glasgow City Council has appointed a Franciscan friar as one of its honorary city organists. The appointee, Brother Joseph Greer, 0.F.M., is attached to the Franciscan church in Glasgow. lie is well known as a capable musician, and one of his compositions—a descriptive piece tailed "The Battle of the Somme"—was played by the composer himself before a large audience in the Glasgow City Hall cnlv a few days before the new appointment was announced.

JEW PRESENTS-PECTORAL CROSS TO NEW BISHOP. Aaron Naumberg, a wealthy New York Jew, has given a beautiful pectoral cross to the Right Rev. John J. Dunn, recently consecrated auxiliary Bishop of that city. Personal admiration for the prolate is responsible for the gift which is not the first Mr. Naiimberg has made to the Catholic cause. He has frequently given money to the foreign missions, which are particularly dear to the new bishop's heart. The friendship of the two began during the war, when Mr. Naumberg gave $5,000 to the Catholic drive for patriotic work, knowing that it would be well spent. Monsignor Dunn thanked him and won the heart of the Hebrew. Mr. Naumberg has also given two gifts of $5,000 each to Cardinal Merrier to help the afflicted Belgians. The pectoral cross is a beautiful piece of work five inches long and three-and-a-half inches across, a fine specimen of the goldsmith's art. It is made of green gold, with a clear sapphire of about one carat at each extremity. In the centre of the cross, in relief, is the Agnus Dei," surrounded by diamonds. The whole cross is engraved with a tracery of wheat and grapes, emblematic of the Sacrifice of the Mass. * Eight years ago, Bishop Berlioz of Hakodate, Japan, who had been greatly helped by Monsignor Dunn's work as head of the New York archdiocesan branch of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, gave him a pectoral cross, telling him that he felt he would one day be a bishop.