Here and There

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 3, 21 January 1925, Page 43

Here and There

New Archbishop for Saragossa.—The archNew; Archbishop for Saragossa.—The archepiscopal See of Saragossa 1 , which has been | vacant since the brutal murder of Cardinal Soldevda some months ago, is likely to ; be filleddij- the promotion of Mgr. Domenech y A all Is, Bishop of : Mallorca. The Dean and Chapter have elected the Bishop of Mallorca do tile Archbishopric, and the King of Spain, hudpr a privilege conceded by the-;Holy See, has confirmed the nomination. It now remains for the Holy See.'to approve the election. The Archbishop-designate ; is'.a- native of the diocese of, Valencia, and is 54 years of ■age. | He was appointed to the See of Mal : |lorca, in the Balearic Islands in May, 1916., The (See of Saragossa, or Zaragoza, as it is paled, in Spanish, dates from the’ fifth cehdory; the name is a Spanish version or cor■upftlon of the Latin Cacsaraugnsta. ir l * * # if .h|. ■ || Pope Baiting Not Popular—Baiting the Pope is not now the popular pastime that it used to be in England, as a loud-voiced ruffian found out to bis cost at Sunderland the fiber day, when he was arrested by the police |pr. causing an obstruction in the public streets. It is not; many years since it was i. quite safe and appreciated amusement to plify the Catholics and the Pope in public, nit this era has passed. The policeman who irrested this truculent person in the North loclcared before the magistrate that' he was ‘running down the Catholic religion . and musing the Pope.” Sunderland, which has I considerable Catholic population,, does, not M* 6 '.wildly to that .sort of thing, and from ho policeman’s account, the arrest saved lis traducer from a severe handling by a dghly indignant audience. Nor was the Magistrate any more kindly disposed. For ijtef fining the Protestant orator ten shillings,,ho sired him to ,be a “nice sort of fellow to attempt to reach any religion.-f-i * M Convert Anglican Ministers.— more uiglican ministers have mad© their submision to the Church. ’Hie Rev. John Pinsenfc, ■ho was received ; at.: Boscombef formerly held liracies at Woolwich; Biggleswade, VLeiston, 'rosby, and Lincoln. -The news’ of his conersion has, therefore, created - a widespread npression. The Rev. Fredericks Beavan, [.A., late Anglican z, curate •at (Holme-on-pailding-Moor, -Yorks, and at Ben well;. New-istle-oii-Tyue, has also been received. .. The ame of the:third convert minister,; is being, ithheld for personal reasons; His name is ; my well known” in England as that /of a mlroversialist.■ - • ■ • :■■-.( • 1 ■ - ' ’' w-. I v 5 * * * . - - ti r s < : ? i Distinguished Wex fordman ’ s . Death. —The ■ uith has occurred' in New York of Mr. John aff, formerly Justice of the Supreme .Court... ! NfeYork, in his 76th year. Ex-Judge iff jpLs-a native of Gorey, and a member f of ® Jen.) an organisation 1 - He - emigrated .to,: noricaf without money He emigrated to leriert without money or friends, in his h year, and was one; of, the committee to .

v -j* : j ’( . . ■ _ . ' ' take charge of the “Catalpa” rescue in 1875, when several Irish ..military prisoners were rescued from an Australian penal settlement. As a supporter of Parnell he stood by the .. chief -tod,the end. He always evinced great: interest in the welfare of his motherland, as' could be gathered from his interview with Mr. Ford, who promised him that, even were • he. to run the factory in Cork at a loss;' he ; ’P’ould still keep it working, as he, too, had a great wish to see % Irishmen of the land l of his forefathers prosperous and contented. Judge Goff’s only son is engaged in the : legal profession in New York, and his -only; i' daughter became a nun a few J years ago. The late Mrs. James Scallan, Wexford Street, Gorey, was a sister of Judge Goff. ' Siv , jll ■. • * * * - . A Descendant of Robert Emmet Dead. — Colonel Myles Emmet Byrne, T.D., a descendant of Robert Emmet, Leader of -the Irish Rebellion of 1798, has died at his home at Lelsham, near Liverpool. The eldest-son of the late Councillor John Byrne, J.P., of Liverpool, Colonel Byrne, who was 55? came of an old South of Ireland family,' the O’Byrnes, who figured prominently in resisting thei English invasion in the : reign -of" Queen Elizabeth, and later fought on the side of the Royalists during the war against Cromwell. - One of the O’Byrnes earned undying fame by leading the storming of Dublin Castle. Another, General Myles Byrne after whom Colonel Byrne . was named one of Napoleon’s most trusted ( assistants, and his name is inscribed on the Arc do Triomphe. Colonel .■Byrne. served for eighteen " years in the sth (Irish) Volunteer Battalion of the King’s Liverpool Regiment, and commanded' it for . five years. * During the Great War he was in command of the Ist Tyneside Irish Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers, and: in 1915 went to Egypt with the 20th Northern Rifles. ... He remained- .‘(irif Egypt till the end of the Avar, >and was decorated with the Order of a Commander of ; the Nile. I ' y l '||£p§ j: s*§*{• - ■ • ♦ * * ,5 , .i ... \ ■ ...J . Jesuit Musician’s Golden Jubilee: A Pro- ' lific Composer.—Father Ludwig Bonvin, S.Jf, author i of six Masses /and .one: ’of the 'most: noted and, prolific writers of sacred music in fire United States, has #just -celebrated!’. his . golden tjubilee as a Jesuit. Father Bonvin, ; born in -1850 in Switzerland; studied in that § country - and in Austria, Holland/ and England and (became a priest in England! J He performed his chief priestly service at Cani.siiis College, Buffalo, % whore for years he directed a famous college t,e choir, taught : Frenchparid presided; at conferences;. on cases of moral theology. * •• •'» * * * ; Lloyd George’s Chestnut.—One of the Lon-: don . papers printed the other day ‘ a selection , of I repartees i and gave premier place foi aptness to a reply said.', to have been - given by Mr. Lloyd George to .a heckler, who

■'asked'His'‘opinion'' asked his opinion of Purgatory. “You may go further and. fare worse” is the answer attributed to the ready-tongued Welshman. Possibly he . may , have deemed ' his retort original, •, but in . fact it is : merely a variant of an ; answer given -by the'3 famous .Father Burke to a railway - carriage acquaintance who would insist on discussing religion with the famous Irish Dominican. Purgatory came on the tapis, and all the priest’s arguments failed to carry conviction to his fellow traveller. “Very well,” said Father Tom, in conclusion (if the legend is well founded), “if you don’t believe in Purgatory you may go to H—l.”’ f jH ♦.. - ♦ . ♦ !j (* a ~! ■• ■ .... |||' Notification from Bishop of. Tarbes find Lourdes.—Mgr. Schoepfer, Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes, recently published the following opportune notification regarding certain cures attributed :to the-intercession of Our Lady of Lourdes and purported -to have been, wrought at' the , shrine of, tile Immaculate Virgin: “The .■ proclamation .--which . certain pilgrims us© in proclaiming as ‘ miraculous ’ facts not confirmed .by fscientific . or/: official assertion, - is incontestably of a nature .to furnish arms? to the adversaries of. the super;natural and; of - the Catholic Church. But, if these ’too sty. manifestations—not always easy to prevent—which th© throng cry out as miracles, ; are vexing and inconvenient, it is infinitely more .regrettable and more dangerous that, sometimes, certain persons whoso position calls for dignity, and from whom one expects the example of calm, moderation and prudence, should show ,an excessive eagerness which is , able to compromise the cause of truth' and . the favorable renown of Lourdes. It is easy, in fact, to comprehend that the unbelieving and the impious will the mad© to sneer at and'to cast .’aspersionsupon the great work of Lourdes, if, in the place of ‘miracles’ announced (by too enthusiastic pilgrims, they find V themselves ip of one who has not . been cured/ fit all, or only imperfectly, or who has been cured by merely natural!. means. Inspired, doubtless, by -■ 'intentions .of themselves - most. honorable, the extravagant hast© exercised, ■’■to/ qualify these circumstances as supernatural, far. from winnwigrthe; conviction of the ; unbelieving, ■ tends to the spontaneity ’• of -attacks ,on , the. part vof ; the impious find those ■ of bad faith. .It • follows)-’ thereforoj that any ‘cure- . at: Lourdes not taking place in a. ■' ■ «r--T;v?.w- ■, religious ceremony -or related in the-■accounts' of pilgrimages made mi dor rigorous, control an J, authenticated-by the/proper inquiries, and officially published Jin the Bureau of Medical - 'Oonstatibiis ■ of ‘ / Lourdes,' is to ho suspected.” <f' - ‘ -f- -K '