The Catholic World.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 48, 30 November 1899, Page 27

The Catholic World.

BELGIUM.— Visit of English Orphanage Boys.— A visit was paid to Belgium recently by the Orphans' Band of the Buckley Hall Orphanage, Rochdale, which is under the direction of the Brothers of Charity. The little visitors met with an enthusiastic reception from the people of Ghent, where they played by special invitation at the Provincial Exhibition. Thousands fought for admission, and all seats were occupied a full hour prior to the announced time for the concert. Such unlooked-for success won for their conductor, Mr. William Warburton, a special acknowledgement from the committee and for the boys a gold medal as a special mark of appreciation from the committee, who sent a deputation to bid them farewell. They made a brilliant display of their talent and abilities in Turnhout, and in the Zoological Gardens, Antwerp, where they gave their final concert before a numerous and select audience. CANADA. — The Golden Jubilee of a Priest— Rev. Father Pallier, of the University of Ottawa, has celebrated the golden jubilee of his ; religious profession as a member of the Oblates of Maty Immaculate. He was the pioneer priest of the Ottawa district. Born in France 72 years ago when a young man he went to Canada. At one time he was Superior of the University of Ottawa. ENGLAND-— A Loss to the Birmingham Diocese-— The diocese of Birmingham has lost one of the ablest of its priesta by the death of Canon McCave, D.D., of Solihull. Canon McCave was born in Wolverhampton 63 years ago. He received his early education at Sedgley Park, a place on the suburbs of his native town, and the then preparatory seminary for the clergy of the Birmingham diocese. Oscott was the next scene of his mental labours, where, as at Sedgley Park, his great abilities were soon recognised and rewarded. From Oscott to Rome he journeyed for the completion of his higher studies. In that, world's centre of learning he took the degree of Doctor of Divinity with great eclat, making what is known as a ' Public Act ' Among the missions in which he laboured may be mentioned Kidderminster, Stourbride, and St. Chad's, Birmingham. From 1867 to 1872 he was headmaster of the Grammar School in Summer Hill, Birmingham, and later on was rector of the Olton Seminary, now in the possession of the Capuchins. Canon McCave also filled the office of diocesan religious inspector of schools. As a preacher his place was in the first rank. Catholicism in Hull-— There was a large meeting of Hull Catholics recently to celebrate the centenary of the mission. Canon

Sullivan presided, and others present included Canon Wood, Fathers Flanagan, Noone, Kelly, and Dodds, Mr. E. Dixon, Dr. and Mre. Walton, Dr. Aiktnan, and the Misses Scott, Canavan, and Collingrwocd. Father Bernard Vaughan gave an address entitled ' Christ Himself responsible for the faith which Catholics profess.' The announcement that from fourteen Catholics a hundred years ago the present Catholic population Of Hull had risen to 14,000 elicited great applause. The Requisites of a Good Catholic— in the course of an addreßS at the opening of a bazaar in aid of the new church of St. Thomas of Canterbury, Manchester, recently, the Rev. Father Bernard Yaughan said that such a function did good because it brought people together. What was wanted was social life, and that people should stand upon the broad platform of this world, and not be always seeking to mount a step higher and pass with a mere glance and a nod at the people on the rung of the ladder below. A bazaar brought out the virtues of patience and peace, as well as generosity and courage, and those were all useful weapons in the warfare of life. The object of that bazaar was one which appealed to every citizen of Manchester. This was a great Christian community, and a Christian community could only exist so long as it lived on Christian principles. Christian principles were to be instilled in Christian schools. If they did not give a Christian education they could not expect to develop the Christian man. He might be called Christian, but a man was not what he was called, but what he was and what he did. As Catholics they needed a Christian education which was Catholic right down to the boots. There was nothing worse for the community than a Catholic who was only ' half-baked.' No man was more dangerous in society than the Catholic who was not living up to his Catholic principles. They wanted to saturate the children who belonged to their faith with Catholic principles so that they might be soaked with them as a sponge was soaked with sea-water. They wanted men not only to be called Catholics but to stand square before the four winds of heaven, professing and showing their Catholicity and being a good advertisement of Catholicity. They had had their churches in back streets and their hornet in back alleys long enough, and unless they stood up and played the Christian man what was the use of their liberty now that the fetters had been struck off and if Catholics were willing to remain in the back ? The right place for the Catholic Church was the front. They should get into social life and try their best to guide it. Presentation to a Canon of Salford Cathedral.— Canon Corbishley, of the Cathedral, Salford, was presented by his friends with £260 on the occasion of his silver jubilee. Death Of a Redemptorist.— The Rev. Claude Neville Oddie, C.SS.R., son of the late Mr. Henry H. Oddie, of Colney House, St. Albans, died on September 28, at the Redemptorist Monastery, Bishop Eton, near Liverpool. He was born on October Hi, 1860. His parents were Protestants, but his mother became a Catholic in his early youth, and when he was about 16 he was received into the Church. He was sent to Harrow School and then to the Jesuit College, Beaumont. He thought of becoming a Jesuit and entered their novitiate, but left and then applied to the Redemptorists for reception. He went to Bishop Eton in 1883, and was professed on November 1, 1884. After finishing his studies at St. Joseph's, Teignmouth — the house of studies of the Congregation — he was ordained on October 28, 1889, and was then sent to Bishop Eton and put on the missionary staff. His health had been very bad for some years. PRANCE- A Cork Lady Received as Postulant — Amongst a number of postulants recently received into the Order of Ursulines de Jesus at the Convent Chavagnes en Faillersli, France, was a Cork young lady, Miss Mary Bridget Moloney, in religion Sister Francis Xavier. Miss Moloney is the third daughter of Mr. David Moloney, late of Cregg, Fermoy. ITALY. -Don Perosi's New Oratorio.— The production of Don Lorenzo Perosi's new oratorio, ' The Birth of the Redeemer,' at Como seems to have been an immense success. ROME— The Vatican and the Transvaal Crisis— The English papers lie so freely about the views of the Vatican (says the Rome correspondent of the Weekly Register') that it is hardly worth while to refer to the astounding things which have lately been published in London as to the opinions of the Curia reflected in the Osservatore Roman," concerning the Transvaal crisis. In case, however, anybody should think that there is any doubt about the facts as to the Vatican position, I think it right that I should say

that that position (and also the expression of it, by the way in the, Osservatore) has from the first been very well informed and impartial, and that the comments of the Roman organ on the situation in its developments have been much more sensible than those of most other Continental papers. As for the Vatican seeking or seeing any advantage to Catholicism out of a South African War, the thing is absolutely preposterous. An International Congress of Workmen.— His Holiness Leo XIIF. has decided to bold in Rome next year an International Congress of Workmen. RUSSIA.— The Czar and the Holy Father.— it is reported from St. Petersburg that M. Czarikow has been appointed to present to His Holiness Leo XIII. a rich gift on the part of the Tsar. This act of goodwill on the part of the Russian Emperor is a recognition of the very important moral assistance rendered by the Pope to the cause of peace, treated of in the late Conference at The Hague. The young Sovereign of Russia thus publicly recognises the tendency towards the maintenance of peace among the nations which has distinguished the Supreme Pontiff. The fact that the Government of Italy regarded the presence of a Papal representative at the Peace Conference as a threat to the national existence is sufficient to show how little secure it feels of its possession. SCOTLAND — Withdrawing a Grant— At a recent meeting of the Aberdeen County Council, the annual contribution to Nazareth House was withdrawn by seven votes to five, an aotion which has caused considerable surprise in the city. As a protest, several subscriptions have been received by the Sisters, some from Protestant sympathisers. The grant had been regularly given for several years past. Building a Presbytery- — The corner-stone of a new presbytery was laid at Black wool recently by Mrs. Hope-Vere, and bleßsed by Father Tippett, O.S 8., the pastor. Mrs. Hope-Vere expressed her thanks for the honour done her in being asked to lay the stone of this long-desired building. Many years ago, as a foreigner and a Catholic, she came there with a certain regret at leaving her own country and Catholic surroundings, and it was indeed a joy to find in Scotland so near to her a church so worthy of their devotions. Father Tippett asked permission to lay upon the stone, as the first contribution, the hard-earned offerings of the navvies employed at Logan Water Works. Mrs. Hope-Vere, Major and Mrs. Lancaster, and other members of the congregation, had generously Bwelled the building fund, thus nobly started, to a very handsome sum. A vote of thanks was tendered to Mrs. Hope-Vere for her kind performance of the ceremony. Memorial to a Priest. — The Rev. Jame3 J. Dawson, Bishop's House, Oban, secretary to the committee having in charge the erection, in Pennyfuir, of a memorial to the late Father McColl, says that over £60 have been received, and the list of subscribers is representative of all classes and denominations. Of the many designs submitted to the committee, one of Messrs D. and A. Davidson, Inverness, has been selected. It is a reproduction of the famous St. Martin's Cross, in lona, and it is to be nine feet in height, and with full Celtic ornamentation. The work is in hand, but it will be some months yet before it will be completed, „,, UNITED STATBS.-A New Charitable Institution.-^ I paid a visit recently to the ' House of the Women of Calvary,' an institution established not long ago in New York (writes the correspondent of the New Era) to aid indigent women suffering from cancer. Lyons was the first city to Btart this worthy charity, when, in the year 1842, Madame Gauier founded a home to relieve poor cancer patients who, having been pronounced incurable at the hospitals, were turned on the streets to die. A singular feature of the work of the Women of Calvary is that the women are not Religious, but women of the world, who, having been left widows, renounce all to minister to the wants of the cancer patients, It is a well-known fact that within the last ten years cancer has increased with startling rapidity Statistics show that 30,000 die every year by the torturing disease, and the caseß are almost invariably women. Therefore the House of Calvary is not only a deserving charity, but one that has become an absolute necessity. A Commission on Church Music- — Archbishop Elder has appointed a commission of competent experts to judge the merits of musical compositions patronised by Catholic choir masters in the diocese of Cincinnati. The commission is expected to properly list the ecclesiastical music approved for use within the Archbishop's jurisdiction.