CARDINAL MORAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1032, 19 August 1911, Page 4

CARDINAL MORAN.

MANY TRIBUTES OF RESPECT. Sydney August 17. Many tributes have been paid by the press and public men to Cardinal Moran as a great churchman, administrator, and statesman. Numerous messages of sympathy have been received. The State Government, as a mark of respect, is issuing a special black-bordered “ Gazette.” Permission has been obtained to inter Cardinal Moran’s body in St. Mary’s Cathedral. A constant vigil is being kept over the body and will continue until the interment on Saturday. Sydney, Aug. 18. The body of Cardinal Moran is lying in State at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Thousands viewed the body yesternight. A special issue of the Gazette fears that a public loss has bseu sustained by the Cardinal’s death, and directs that flags be flown half-mast on Government buildings. Messages of sympathy include Archbishop Redwood, Bishops of Auckland and Dunedin, a number of Catholic bodies, one of which is from the Vatican. Another reads: ‘‘lrish College mourns guide, benefactor and friend.” London, Aug. 17. The press generally notices the Australian Catholic loss, and refers to Cardinal Moran’s militancy and his Home Rule efforts. His Eminence Patrick Francis, third Roman Catholic Archbishop ot Sydney since March 24th, 1884, was the first Australian Cardinal appointed, July 27th, 1885. He was born at Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow, Ireland, September 16th, 1830, and was the son of Patrick Moran and Alicia Cullen. He was educated at the Irish College of St, Agatha at Rome. He was ordained by special dispensation as to age March 19th, 1853, vicepresident of the Irish College and professor Hebrew College of Propaganda, returned to Ireland as private secretary to his uncle, Cardinal Cullen, who became Archbishop of Dublin in 1850, and first Irish Cardinal in 1886, professor of Hebrew and Scripture at Concliffe College, Dublin, and Bishop of Ossory 1872-84. His late Eminence arrived in Sydney in September, 1884, and subsequently visited Rome in 1888, 1893, 1898, 1902 and 1903. He presided at the first Plenary Council of the Roman Catholic Church in Australasia at Sydney in 1885, and also at the second and third Councils in 1895 and 1905. During his residence in Rome, he made a special study of Celtic ecclesiastical history in the archives of early Irish and British churches, and was one of the world’s leading authorities on antiquarian research. He has been a busy writer, and his works include “ Most Rev. Primate and Martyr, Oliver Plunket,” “ History of the Catholic Archbishops of Dublin,” ‘‘Historical Sketch of the Persecutions, etc., under Cromwell and the Puritans,” ‘‘Acta S. Brendarne,” “ Monasticum Hibernicura,” “ Spicilegium Ossorieuse,” ‘‘lrish Saints in Great Britain,” ‘‘The Pastoral Letters of Cardinal Cullen,” “Occasional Papers,” “ Letters on the Anglican Reformation,” “History of the Catholic Church in Australasia,” “ Reunion of Christendom and its Critics,” “Discovery of Australia by De Quiros in 1606,” “The Divine Credentials of the Catholic Church,” and many other notable and authorative works. The late Cardinal was remarkable for the vigour and conviction of his method, a brilliant logician, and a powerful orator. He has identified himself with every movement that had for its object the good of the people of Australasia and the advance of the church he led.

HIS SUCCESSOR AS ARCHBISHOP. By the death of Cardinal Moran, Archbishop Kelly, who was appointed his coadjutor, succeeds him as Archbishop of Sydney. This does not mean of itself that he will become a cardinal, that resting entirely with the Pope. The Most Rev. Michael Kelly is 61 years of age, having been born in 1851 at Waterford. He was educated at Wexford and in Rome, and was ordained priest in 1872, He shortly afterwards joined the Diocesan Missionary Society. He was rector ot the