Here and There

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 14, 12 April 1923, Page 37

Here and There

The recent elevation of Father Ehrle, head of the famous Vatican Library, to the Cardinalate gives the University of Oxford the distinction of being the only English university which has two Cardinals amongst its Doctors. Cambridge comes next, for Cardinal Ehrle is a Doctor of both universities. Cardinal Bourne is Oxford’s other Cardinal Doctor; and his Eminence’s position is unique in that he is the only Cardinal, certainly for some centuries, who has received the doctorate while being a member of the Sacred College. News has just reached Sydney of the appointment of Right Rev. Gerard Vesters, M.S.C., as Vicar-Apostolic of New Britain, in succession to the Right Rev. Louis Couppe, M.S.C., who resigned some time ago, owing to advancing years and feeble health. New Britain is part of the mandated territory of New Guinea, and was formerly the seat of the German Government in the Bismarck Archipelago. It lies to the north-east, off the coast of New Guinea, and comprises in its ecclesiastical jurisdiction the islands of New Britain, or_ New Pommern, as it was called, New Ireland, and the Admiralty Islands. It is one of the most important Catholic missions in the pacific, and since its capture by the Australian Expeditionary Forces in August, 1914, it has become of much interest to Australian Catholics. The new Vicar-Apostolic, was born in Holland in 1876* and made his studies for the priesthood at Rome, where he was ordained priest in 1903. He travelled for some time among the Sacred Heart missions in Brazil, and gained much experience of missionary life and conditions. An Italian Bishop in the Philippine Islands called him to be the rector of the ecclesiastical seminary at Lipa, where he labored for some years. Thence he was transferred to the Celebes Islands as Prefect Apostolic, where he remained three years. From this post he has been summoned by the Holy See to be the Vicar-Apostolic of New Britain. He is a man of affairs, a good linguist, of wide missionary experience, and may be relied on to carry on the work of Catholic progress in that far-distant frontier of God’s Kingdom on earth. Monday week last (writes the Rome correspondent of the London Catholic Times for February 3) was the anniversary of the death of Pope Benedict XV, The dead Pope is just one year gone, and his every little mannerism is still remembered in loving hearts here in Rome. He was the Pope of the dreadful war years, vet he will go down to history as the Pope of Peace. * The Romans certainly think of him as such, and many little pilgrimages o school children to his grave in St. Peter’s were noticeab e for the fact that the little ones carried olive branches m his memory. There was a very elaborate ceremony in the Sistme in memory of the dead Pontiff, at which the* cardinals, the clergy of the Curia, the superiors of the various religious Orders, and many other prominent personages in the ecclesiastical life of Rome were present. Just as Milan claims highest rights in the matter of honoring the present Holy Father, Bologna, where for seven years he was Archbishop, and Genoa, where he was born claim the right of specially honoring the memory of the dead Pontiff. The Catholics of Bologna are to enrich the present sarcophagus of Benedict XV. with bronze fittings and with mosaic designs; these embellishments will respect the stern simplicity of the earthly dwelling wheih the late Pope deliberately chose for his mortal remains. The Catholics of Genoa have amassed a considerable sum of money for a memorial to the distinguished ecclesiastic who was born just outside the famous city. They have not yet determined what form the memorial shall take. Their longing is to establish some charitable institution for poor children and to call the institution, whatever definite form it may take, in honor of him whose charity went out to the starving children of the war. Financial difficulties, however, seem to render this noble project rather difficult, for in the present, state of the money market a perpetual foundation such as the Genoese - desire calls for a rather large initial outlay. Wherefore another project is being talked of, namely, to erect in the Cathedral of Genoa a bronze monument, such as one sees principally in Roman basilicas, representing the dead Ppoe as seated and clad in pontifical vestments, with his hand raised in

blessing over the world. It is calculated that such a menumen* could be erected for a quarter of a million lire, that storW a Tr between two and three thousand pounds sterling. The other project, however, would demand an enormous sum But the Genoese, remembering all he did mU * WbT" ChildFen ' have not yet made up thdr minds What one might call the official monument o Pope Benedict XV. is to be erected in St. Peter's itself The I ltt6 « aPel n the Mt as "» -tors Baa S itrr d^xretui'to^r b^ Sacred College. The^ &"» the present Archbishop of Florence o»Ji™iZ-I , who is to be the President rffkT?' Cardinal Mistrangelo, Benedict XV b ° Created b ? P °Pe memrtflhltSi *?■ T^ Co,lege al J ?» 1896 Leo XIII. createdl hi™ Cardial S * Erainence - In years later he was "*■ tW ° to the Archbishopric of NaplL il h fc i "f POl nted handed until increasing yea is nl H<X ,■ 1° r " led sin S le See for a Coadjutor. hlm t 0 ask the Hf , Father Giobanni Genocchi ft the Mi ■ anes of the Sacred Heart i s about to MlSSion " mission to report on religious and lo f , ,? 0n em Europe. Father GeCh wi i* t°" S Apostolic Visitor, and will visit the r ■ ap3Clty ° f Peopol in Lemberg, Stanislavo <s£?. *»*"\ <* of present conditions in those prts V !v In VIW tion may have far-reaching V j sa developments may follow. M,ly B «*MeMit Mrs. Mae Ella Nolan (nf Q„„ -n Congressman John ISL it Franc "*o), widow of fill the vacancy created by thl 2 T t** 6 * recen % to the first Catholic woman to t °f , ? her husband > is the United States. Mrs Nohn i * the C °" gress of Pired portion of hr hula!Sw£ ■*?* ** the " and will take her seat in L ff? W the 67th Con S r ess, Washington. Mrs. Vol * her --, * nents, the nearest of whom tra led he- by loOcW ° PP °" due largely to the hearty support iv , , ° votes » Was the ranks of organised labor 1? candid «<* »y an acknowledged labor lel \-„r eSentath ? Nol ™ » as has announced that she w 1 L3T ?** Mrs ' m *n the endeavor to place on Z l+\ Part i C " ar Mention to introduced by him for the V J 0 the raeas familiarity with Co^re^ f *" he a great asset to her In h£ " i , Pted to assistance of her sister, 'Mrs T™ 7pi *? haVe the years was secretary to Congressman ¥M*' "H f ° r f ° Ur well as Mrs. Nolan, is familfar w7th\- , *"' and Who ' as The Baroness Anna von KW * lG£lSlative work. and author, recently IS&& »* versary in Dusseldorf, where a demons nI- b^ thda r a™iwas participated in by Catkl, ! a 0 " in Il6r hon °r She became known chiefly for nn - Ca «cs alike, surrounding the life of Christ Onf"? i*""** ° n legends published since the war is W T ler prose works Catharina Emmerich, the Ltphalia°n - >* of Anna whose beatification is now before y™ J,n «* ° f American Catholic letters sust-.ino! , !'■ the death of the Rev Walter Tt ]} 5 dlStinct loss imenca for 11 Tea . s and ™t? g ' editor of works that have been widely read * 1 d last of an historic Puritan fan iv Iw ' Dwight Was the presidents to Yale. Tie late Dr Tl n W%*?9.*™™ vard's noted Professor S A nat omv w'^ 8 Dwight - Har " Dwight was born at Agawam S ? Q T Sm - ' Father the Society of Jesus SW S 1 m '?' &nd entered Xavier College unt 1911 but dnr? &t St ' Francis quent contributor to th ' P f° d WM a fre " the the publications. In 1911 he wn « m j ?•! mew > and other America. He ° f and was a specialfactor in fi|Ss ™ w W " tere -American Catholic literature. £»!" 0t Ba% Bread are among his best-knm 7,l^'' a " d °" r