Here and There

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 37, 20 September 1923, Page 37

Here and There

Broadcasting Sermons. Permission to broadcast sermons through Eiffel Tower or commercial radio stations has been given by Cardinal Dubois, who, it is understood, has installed a private radio set in his study. His Eminreceiving apparatus in churches ot other religious edifices, rectiving apparatus in churches or other religious edifices. Moral instruction, he declared, should always be oral, pointing out that while the radio transmits the voice, the personality of the speaker is lost.

• A Thoughtful Action.— charming little story is told by The Patriot of the Governor of Queensland (Sir Matthew Nathan) and the little daughter of the Premier (Mr. Theodore). Recently the Governor, in conversation with the little girl, learned that she was about to receive her First Holy Communion. When the clay arrived the little girl was surprised by the ; arrival from Government House of a wreath of white blossoms and a bouquet. Interest to Sir Matthew Nathan's thoughtful action is added to by the fact that he is of Jewish faith.

a few years ago.

Honor for Priest Astronomer.—Rev. Daniel J. McHugh, CM., head of the department of astronomy at DePaul University, has (says the Irish Catholic) received the rare distinction to be elected a Fellow in the Royal Astronomical Society of London. There are only 76 Fellows of the Society in the United States,, and besides Father McHugh, only one priest. Father McHugh's election came as a, surprise to him. Membership in the Society is conferred on the recommendation of other members after a formal and rather intricate method, during which the right of (the nominee to -recognition is rigidly examined. It is believed that the reason for Father McHugh's election was particularly his work in connection with the studying of the Halley Comet in 1909.

American Priest Dramatist. —The completion of a new religious drama, "The Triumph of the Cross," written by the Rev. Father Bernard, C.P., to be given for the first time next Advent in St. Joseph's Auditorium, is announced in New York. Father Bernard, who for the. past nine years has been assistant director of "Veronica's Veil," which is presented at St. Joseph's, in that city, during the Lenten season, has been working on "The Triumph of the Cross" for four years. The new drama is historical, and deals with th« history of the Church from the time of the Crucifixion to the present day. There will be about 250 characters, and the time of presentation will be about two and one-half hours. The cast, for the most part, will be selected from players who have appeared in "Veronica's Veil," and the proceeds from the performances will go to the Chinese Mission Fund of the Passion Order.

Relic of the "Dark" Ages.—The proposal to make Selby Abbey the seat of a suffragan Bishop (Protestant, of course) has awakened interest in what is generally regarded as the most perfectly preserved specimen of a monastic church in Yorkshire. The fabric illustrates in a remarkable degree almost every kind of Gothic architecture. The abbey is one of the three largest parish churches in the country. The Norman nave is over 162 feet in length and 59 feet in breadth, about the same measurement as the beautiful fourteenth century choir, with its magnificent east window. Historically, of course, the venerable abbey is of great, interest. It was founded by William the Conqueror, whose youngest son, afterwards Henry 1., is believed to have been born at Selby, and in the old days it had its mitred Abbot. The late Sir Gilbert Scott described the church as "a building of a kind which is more the property of the nation than of a single parish, and one which is of the highest value to the study of ecclesiastical architecture and to the history of art in this country."

In Memory of Master Portrait Painter. The bicentenary of the birth of the master portrait painter, Sir Joshua Reynolds, was celebrated in July at Plympton, Devon.- In the year 1746, on the death of his father; Reynolds revisited Devon, settling at Plymouth, where he came under the influence of William Gaudy of Exeter, himself an eminent artist. William Gandy ' belonged to one of the oldest Exeter families, and Mgr. Canon Gandy, of Axminster, is a descendant. The Monsignor is a con-

vert. Sir Joshua Reynolds studied with great profit the works of "William Gaudy, some of whose portraits Reynolds said were equal to Rembrandt's. The Gaudy influence over Sir Joshua is strongly illustrated in the early portrait of himself in the National Gallery, a work rich in impasto and strong in light and shade, in which he shows himself with his hand raised to shade the light from his eyes. Edmund Burke, Oliver Goldsmith, and Dr. Samuel Johnson were intimate friends of Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Death of Cardinal Marini. —Cardinal Marini, the' Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of the Oriental Church, has (says Catholic News Service, London) died in Rome after an illness that really dated back to the last Conclave. Whilst the Cardinals were in Conclave to elect a successor to the late Pope Benedict XV., his Eminence was taken seriously ill, and his death was actually reported. But the Cardinal recovered, and had the unique experience of reading his own obituary notices. Since his .appointment as a Lateran Canon in 1832, Cardinal Marini had been closely connected with the Papal Court, and had held many offices in the departments of the Papal Chancery. After being raised to the Purple by Benedict XV., his Eminence was appointed as head of the Eastern Church Congregation. Busied with affairs of high office, Cardinal Marini yet found lime to inaugurate three important literary works. These were three reviews of which he was founder: II Besmrione, devoted to the interests of the Churches in the East; La Donna Italiana, an educative review dealing with feminism: and the review N. Giovanni Crisostomo.

A Bishop Resigns— The Right Rev. Alexander MacDonald, D.D., for 15 years Bishop of Victoria, British Columbia, has resigned.as chad of that See, and his resignation has been accepted by Pope Pius XI. 'The Right Rev. Mgr. J. Leterme has been elected as Administrator of the diocese. Bishop MacDonald was for many years active in reducing the debt on the Cathedral of St. Andrew's, and several years ago made a tour of the United States in the interests of that work. The diocese of Victoria comprises Vancouver Island and adjacent islands. It has a population of 12,500, including about 2500 Indians. It was formerly known as the diocese of Vancouver Island, and among its illustrious prelates was the Most Rev. Charles J. Seghers, who was murdered in Alaska in ISSG. The Most Rev. Alexander Christie, now Archbishop of Oregon City, was made Bishop of Vancouver Island in 1898, being promoted to the Archbishopric of Oregon City in 1898. The diocese of Vancouver island was erected into an archdiocese by Apostolic Brief of 1903. The name was changed to Victoria in 1904, and in 1908 it was changed to a diocese. Faith and Fatherland.—General Gouraud, the great French soldier, who commanded the armies 'of the Champagne campaign, is a fervent Catholic. An example of his devotion was witnessed by a correspondent of the Semaine lieligievse of Toulouse, who tells that while the general was on an inspection trip in the Pyrenees in June, he made a special point of stopping at Lourdes in order to visit the miraculous Grotto. "It was towards the end of the day," the correspondent writes. "A few pilgrims were still praying in the Grotto when the iron gates opened and a prelate and two officers entered. It was the Bishop of Tarbes and General Gouraud with his aide. The Bishop began to recite the Rosary. The General, with considerable difficulty, fumbled through his pockets with his left hand (his right arm was shot off in the Dardanelles), and drew out his beads, answering the "Ave Marias" recited by the prelate. At the end of the last decade, General Gouraud went quietly back to the waiting automobile and returned to the city, where his duties as army inspector called him." Son of a Catholic physician in Paris, General Gouraud had a brother who was vicar of the Parisian Church of Saint-Pierre du Gros Caillou., His brother died

oil, the consolation, the joy, according to God, the delights of having struggled' with our temptation, like valiant men, and conquered the corrupt promptings of the flesh that Adam bequeathed to us! What matters it that we wrestled all night. with our temptation? Now dawn is breaking in the east; night has fled in his sable cloak; and we are blessed with victory.