CATHOLIC NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 16, 16 January 1891, Page 5

CATHOLIC NEWS.

Ih the Canadian cabinet six out of the fourteen ministers are Catholics. Bey. H. T. D, Byder has been chosen as the new superior of the Oratory, Edgbaston, in succession to Cardinal Newman. Ex-Gov. J. Madison Welle, of Louiaana, and wife, have become converts to the Catholic faith. On the Feast cf Blessed Margaret Mary, eighteen thousand six hundred children, assembled in ihe parish church of Notre Dame in Montreal, were consecrated to the Bacret Heart. The bishops of the Province of Venezla, have petitioned the Tatican to take the preliminary steps for the canonisation of Pio Nono. The Pope has approved the foundation of the Society of the Servants of St. Peter. The founder is Monsignor Fava, Bishop of Grenoble. r Archbishop Biordan i& to build an ecclesiastical seminary for his diocese of Ban Francisco. The buildings are to cost 300,000 dols., and will be the first seminary of the kind on the Pacific Coast. During 1889 the various Catholic societies in Gn>at Britain contributed nearly £10,000 in aid of Catholic foreign missions. There are 1,500 Catholic Indians in the diocese of Bishop Brondel. He ena Mont. All tbe Flatbeads are Catholics. The missions in Biahon M»rtv's riinoAa* «m «Kn flni,r!aki' nn wu t>:.< . - - speaks several Indian languages. There has been a massacre of Catholic converts in China during • recent Buddhist feast. The massacre was the work of a mob, for the authorities of tbe Empire not ody tolerate hnt protect the missoDThe agitation for the recall of the Jesuits continues in Germany. Meetiigs are being held daily in various parts of the Empire to promote^petitions on the subject, and there is good hope that the movement will be successful. * *»£« Guffrst, 0.M.1., who years ago was assistant to the Venerable Cure d'Ars, has laboured among the Sioux of the Wast, was imprisoned for seven months while on duty on the Mission in Chins, and suffered shipwreck on the Mediterranean last March has returned to Montana from Borne, where he gave testimony in the beatification proc«M of the Venerable Core d'Ara.

The National Basilica of tho Sacred Heart erected by the Republic of Ecuador on Mount Pichincha, 15,000 feet above the sea, is rapidly i.pproach ng completion. The President of the neighboring Rrpub.icof V.n «ucla nas lately subscribed a very large sum for the ererionof another church of the Sacred Heart in his capital city. r Sisrnora Aldimira Meis, an Italian Lady, died recently, leaving according to th« testimony of persons who witnessed her will 5,UO(),000 lire to the Pope. Tr.e will <s missing and the entire estate revei ts to the sate. It is charged that the document has been stolen by persona acting fcr the crown in order to deprive tha P^pe of bis legacy. lather Scheil, 0.P., the young Dominican Aisyriologist, who has already made his name as an Orientalist is being sent by the French Government on a scientific mission, of unlimited duration, to Egypt. He will have, in addition to frte travelling, a subsidy of 700 dols. a year. Dom Couturier, Abbot of Solesmes, Superior-General of the Benedictines of France, has passed away at the age of seventy three. He ruled over the Abbey ol Solesmes for fifteen years -since the death of D >ai Gunrai ger. It is rumoured that the Holy Father is occupied in preparing an Encyclical on the necessity of promoting Biblical studies in view especially of current controversies io which the authenticity and the inspiration of the Holy Scriptures are called in queitioo. Archbishop Kenricks, of St. Lsuis, is ooe of the oldest Bishops in the world, and all American Catholics would rejoice if the rumour that he is to receive the red hat for his Episcopal Jubilee, which will be celebrated on November 30th, 1891, should prove true. He has been Archbishop of St. Louis since 1847. Both he and his brother, the late Archbishop of Baltimore, were born in Dublin, and in spite of his old age he is still vigorous and has no coadjutor. He is B till ninety years of age. General Dv Tempi* died on Tuesday, November 18, in a Paris monasery at the age of 67. He was brought up a sailor, took part in the Crimean. I alian, and Mexican expeditions, and in 1870, when captain of a frigate, was suddenly appointed bngadier-general, Gambe tta confusing him with his brnh.-r, wbo was a. so a navy captain. Fa her Hugonard, 0.M.1., gives a very favourable account of the industrial school for Indian boys, which is under his supervision, in the t.wn of Qu* Appelle (province of Assiciboia, and diucese of Bt. Koniface). Th re are 145 children iv the school. Twelve of these were b p'ised lately, oue of them being the sjn of the most influential chief in the district, wlo is bimitlf still a pagan. Leo XIII. will shortly address to the whole Catholic Episcopate a letter summing up the report of a commission of Cardinals on the antialavery crusade. His Holiness will prescribe a universal collection of arms in Catholic churches, to take place annually, on the Feast of the Epiphany. The commission was composed of Cardinals Bampolla, Lavi«erie, Simeoni, Ledocaowski, and Vannutelli. The Rev. C H. Ouhamut, a French missionary who has passed twenty -five years on the mission in Scandinavian countries, has obtained permission from bishop Loughlm to establish in Brooklyn a church for Scandinavian Catholics. He arrived a few weeks ago from Norway. He has visited many of the Scandinavians of Brooklyn and New Yoik city, aud when be opens his church be will have quitu a large congregation. Iv New York and Brooklyn there are about 26,000 Scandinavian?, but the number of C«tbolics among them is not propoi tiouately very large. Minneapolis is said to be the only other place in the United States wbeie a Catholic church for Scandinavians has been established. Pan re Vines, a celebrated Jesuit priest in Havana, has for the past quarter of a century been making weather predictions at Havana. He is regarded by navigators and meteorologists all over the world as one of the most correct and reliable weather scientists of the age. For the past quarter of a century Father Vines has made this work purely a labour of love. He is a bighly-cultured gentleman, unassuming, and a profouni scholar. Fully appreciating the valuable servic a rendered by the Padre some time since, the United States Government uffe^d him <» naur'some salary in recognition of his past services This offer he promptly declined, because the rules of the Jesuit Order prohibited it. tiev. Fatuer Cronin, of Buffalo, pays a loving tribute to the intellectual broadness and cbarmi-g personal qualities of Cardinal Gibbons in tbe-e words:-" Ibe P,imate of .be American Hierarchy, his Eminence Cardinal Gibbons, is a prelate who in every action justifies the infinite wicdom of the authorniei who selected him to be tt,e s andard bearer of the Cburoh in ibe United States. Broad and liberal ii ideas, gentle and winning in bis personal manners, sound and statesmanlike in bis public mtasures, open and sincere in bis character, he is the bean ideal of a ereai captain in the armies of Christ. No movement for the elevat on of mankind, for the purifioa. tion of society or the amelioration of the condition of the poor ever lacks the hearty endorsement or active assistance of this tireless door cf good works. Well may the American church be proud of the beloved prelate who is at once her representative, her pride and her glory." n Fro « m ** a P', e8 I leara tnat the Archbishop of that Bee has had letters from all parts of the country approving of his warm protest against the violation of the rights of the nuns in the convents of Sis er Ursula and of the Thirty Three. Catholic congresses and committees have added their addresses to those already presented to his Grace by his chapter and the parUh priests. The Dukedella B^gina ou Bunday last read an address io Cardinal Sanfelice on behalf of the leading Catholics of Naples, and a similar testimony of adhesion and re-pect was offered on the same day by the Neapoliian Union assembled in general meeting. So intense has been the indignation excited amorjgst all classes by the action of the Prefect Basile that he is now said to regret having been an instrument in the perpetration of such gross outrages. The total receipts for the Passion Play performances amounted to six hundred thousand marks, or tbiity thousand pounds ster. ing. The representations were orowded, and all the lodges in the village forestalled to the close, la 1880 tho receipts did not quite reach half so

much as Id this last seaion, and the money taken, be it borne io mind, I goes in the bulk to religious and philanthropic works. The actors— if the term can properly be applied to these devoutly joining in a pious function — are satisfied witb a modest reward. Thanks to the sympathetic sanction of His Eminence Cardinal Goossrtrs, Archbishop of Malines, a school is to be opened at Aerschot, in Belgium under the title of the Damien Institute, in memory of the Apostle of Lepers. Tbe site is close to Kcmerloo, tbe native district of tbe heroic missionary. The children to be educated there are principally destined for th* labours of the aposto ate in the mission s ooDflrled to the Congregations of the Sacred Heart. The Tillage of Arg. near Roubait, has been thrown into a state of consternation by the discovery that during Monday, November 10, night a determined attempt waa made to murder the cm*, who is eighty-five years of a?e, and is much beloved for his charity. Barglari broke into the bouse, and, having bruta ly murdered the housekeeper, made a fierce attack upon tbe pries , aod hit, him for dead. Mgr. GruHcha, the new Archbish >p of Vienna, is a con of the people. His father is a working tailor, and bis elevation to tbe Primacy of the Austrian Episcopate hts been hailed with delight by tbe workers of Vienna. On. the day of bis solemn enthronisation, all tbe trade guilds of the capital marched to the Cardinal with bands and banners. Tbe municipality was also present, having carried without one dissentient voice a motion that the councillors should assist at tbe enthronisation of " tbe son of a Vienna workingman and the founder of tbe Catholic workingmen's societies of Austria." In the November number of Harper's Magamine, iv the course of a very interesting paper on Southern California, which hoc tils "Our Italy," Mr. Charles Dudley Warner pays the following tr bute to those devoted Franciscan friars who played such an important part in the earlier settlement of that region, and the story of wh >se Indian missions has been bo often recited by Catholic writers. " A certain light of romance," says Mr. Warner, "is cast op >n this coast by tbe Spanish voyagers of the sixteenth cenury, but its history begins with the establishment of the chain of Franciscan missions, the first of which was founded by the great Father Jaoipero Berra at San Diego in 1769. Tbe Fathers brought with them the vine and ihe olive, reduced tbe savage Indians to indus rial pursuits, and opened the way for that rancbero ani adobe civilisation whicb, down to tbe 'coming of the Americans, in about 1840, made ia this region the |most picturesque life that our continent has ever seen." A very handsome pulpit of Irish manufacture has been erected at Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A. It is composed of Sicilian, Canara, and Irish marbles and woods, and is very richly moulded and carved with a continuous cornicing of Shamrocks. Three large panels contain groups representing Our Lord on tbe mountain and in the temple the centre one containing a representation of St. Patrick preaching, tbe remaining four pacels'contain boldly cut statues of the Four Evangelists. All the sculptured work is of Carrara marble, the general body being of white Sicilian. The hand rail is made of Shillelagh oak of a highly ornamental design, and it is supported by caps, bases, and plinths of bog oak polished, the shafts being of Iruh walnut. Tne lining and fl or of the pulpit are also of Ir'ißh oak, The work has been ordered by the Irish parishioner from Messrs. P. J. O'Neil, and Co., 182, Great Brunswick-street, Dublin, through their lealous and devoted pastor, the Very Rev. Walter M. A. FU ruing, who has just returned to the United States, and it b»,ars a bra<*s plate having ihe following words engraved thereon :•— '* Erected to tbe glory of God, AD. 1890. The Rev. Walter M.A. Fleming Bector"