CARDINAL MORAN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 627, 2 October 1909, Page 6

CARDINAL MORAN.

"'::,■..His,'Eminence',: Cardinal: 'Slor'a'n,; , . Archbishop .of;;Sydhey>.;'who. !.is.-presiding, over., thb: \ Third 'Australasian; 'Catholic. Congress. in that City,.- :has : been; personality • in

the , religious;..social, 'and political '.life; of; Austra-: • ksia.- for \ inore' .thaii,'. a quarter of. a cehturyi-.-'Ho (lelibsrately ch6se." ■ lov. himself all'.th'oso:.spheres of-action.: In .claiming to' be'-a'n';"Austrnlian among.' .Australians,' , ho ; once said; ;"Ou,tside -"thp .pale :of religion -I' .know of no •subject •; relating ito our social and our . national ; welfare in : .:which it: is not , .' wi thfn'.'ni}" .'power'. to .work with'" the' "same energy and the -same .dero-' ■tioiKof heart, and -feeling vaMy.; other, . in ; : A'lislraliir:"' His..'seteiitjr'■'eight.■■'years'.bf .life' hive 1 been ."■ ci'djvtled •'.with'.: action. -. • Aii •;. Irishiuaii -by ■birth, he began ;by.speml- • ing .twenty.-nve ,y«ars.< in Rpiiie.;'','.," ;is.-V '.student, [ ■ iaud ■ ■. vice- ; re'ptpr, ■': : Biiccessiyely. '.: ;oi' ;.tho i'Jrjsh' ...College. -,"'■ He ■also' Wade nri/exhaustivo''stnily ,of> tho , :archives':of .the earlj-'; Irish, and. Brit'ish: •..,'Ohurches, 'i ':'from yiiichi'.'and' Mother ; stiid■ies;, over; , twenty. .learned, volunies' have 'proceeded.' .•Iu;-.18G6..%;.' returned;- to Ireland:as,'.private score-■ •to: his uncle, :,Cardinal Cullen,; who had '. been iHade'.';,. Arohbishop;. ;■ of: Dublin. He' also ,becarae' .'Professor,!of.'Hebrew and Hcripture,' in .. Clonlilto. ■College;' Dublin. ■'In 1872. :he ■■ ■■was.' - consecrated ■'' ;Bish6p'iof/Ossory,.and in. 1881; he was translated to ' the ; •': vacant.. Archdiocese ' of: Sydney. ■' Next' year ■ he .ivas J called- to Komo and : ' iiiadS , .. Cardinal by Pope t00...X111. As- regards., his connection with public.: it isiclaimcd

•;■' "■' ■ ■'.'■. .:: ;';■■■ .■■-•.< ■'. i . ■■■':■.••', ■•:•'■■■ ■;.-;■■ ■ for. him, in . particular, that 'he lifted,;,theicause of Federation to a hii;hor\plane,'. lie took a conspicuous part'in ;.the i State.commeniofatiohß::of:lßß3 I .an(Lin the cokbrahops ponnpcteil-with: the,,estaWishraent j/of the AuStraban Commonwealth, and made noble and highly, appreciated-eftorts-ae , peace- :■; maker "during -the great maritime strike." 'i' : ."'■.:■■■'■■:■■■ :.-.■■.': ...