DISAPPOINTING CATHOLICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 2919, 15 September 1908, Page 5

DISAPPOINTING CATHOLICS.

THE PROCESSION OF THE SACRAMENT. ANNOUNCEMENT AT ALBERT HALL. A STORM OF HOWLS AND HISSING. Received September 14, 8.20 a.m. LONDON, September 13. Catholics were intensely disappointed at the alteration made in connection with the procession. Many special trains had been arranged from all parts of the country. Archbishop Bourne announced the alterations in the procession at a mass meeting in the Albert Hall. The announcement wa3 made amid a sior.n of howls and hissing. The Archbishop added that though it would be impossible to carry with them their Divine Master, he trusted that the Catholics would make not only the cathedral, but the whole of Westminster, one great sanctuary of the Blessed Sacrament. Fifteen thousand childran met'on Victoia Embankment, and marched to the cathedral to receive Cardinal VaniiUtelli's bltssing.

After two days' telegraphic negotiations between the Right Hon. H. H. Asquilh, Prime Minister, and Dr. Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, the former deprecating the holding of the procession and Archbishop Bourne requiring Mr Asquith to make a public request for its abandonment, the Prime Minister intimated that it would be better, in the interests of ordrr and good feeling, that the ceremonial—of which he questioned the legality—should not take place. Dr Bourne then decided that all eccle.-iastical ceremony should be eliminated from the procession, and that the cardinals and bishops should proceed to the Cathedral along the proposed route in 'ull court dress; but that the ceremonial procession be helrt within the Cathedral, and the Papal Legate's benediction bestowed from the balcony of the Cathedral.