THE AUSTRALIAN CARDINAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1404, 13 October 1885, Page 1

THE AUSTRALIAN CARDINAL.

The Sydney Morning Herald pub liahes the following account of tin .•crcmomal which took place in tip Vatican, at Rome, on the elevation of H Moran, Archbishop of Sydney to tic Cardinalatc : —“The Secret Consistory, for the elevation of Dr Moian and tr ■ or her emi'-ent Roman Catholic church-m-n to ilie dignity of the Cardinal!' wafl held in the Vatican on Monday. July 97th. On the following Thursday a public Consistory was held in th Vatican, at which the red hat was pn - seated to Cardinal Moran and h colleagues. The Pope, escorted hy a brilliant train of archbishops, bishops prelates, high dignitaries, ami ofli-iah, civil and ecclesiastical, was borne to IS d Regina, where having ascended Urn throne, he solemnly optnvid the Consistory Notwithstanding the intciis- Imat (Ik. prevailed at the lime, the Vatican was crowded with spectators during tin* wind, of the cererno'y. Count Wagner r,-p a. sen ted Germany on the occasion, and .\i H. Cassell the English nation. At tinclose of the Consistory, the Pope presented the Cardinalaliai ring io each of the new members of the Bacred College, assigning to Cardinal Moran the title of Suita Susanna. In the allocution, or address, delivered by the Pope at the Consistory, he spoke of Cardinal Mor - and his colleagues as ‘eminent men who are lecoramended to us by their virtue, their prudence, their learning, and their

attachment to 'he apoeto.io -et. our action in inscribing you on the ron of Hie Sacred College of Cardin Is of the Holy Reman Chur. Ii was taken wnh the purpose of commending by a pule c eark of distinction sour brilliant seivu-.s m 'be chor h, and wears assured that with a jest estimation of your exalted dignity yon will have nothing se much at heart as to study to adorn that dignity by your great ability, your virtue?, and by the discharge <> r all the duties ahich are veins.’ Adi'iessing Cardiiml M'-nin in particular, Pope Leu said ;—* As to sou, smn of the brave and holy Ireland, when ihe people of Australia see you invested w'lh the insgoia of this high dgnity, hev will also *>*<•, by mean* of «nin-tas-c# new to Ihcnr., and dtp piatano more and more, how gieat is our love tot th. in, and how earnestly we desire that Hie Christian religion may fl urisb in H "t distant hmd, ami iher-gf.ij greutt 1 gro*> h from day 'o dav.