The Catholic World.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 51, 21 December 1899, Page 24

The Catholic World.

ENGL * ND— Clerical Appointment -The Rev. F. Fortescue (brother of Miss Fortescue, of the Catholic Social Union), who has been studying at Innsbruck, has been appointed to the German Church, Whitechapel.

Death of a Religious — Sister Claude, for forty years a member of the Community of Little Sihters of the Poor, Portobello road, Nutbing Hill, Loudon, died on Ootober 23. .

Help for the Widows and Orphans— in »v the Catholic churouen in London, on Sunday, October 29, collections were- made on behalf of the widows and orphans of the soldiers who have fallen iv South Africa, and in Bfvex.il nympathetitf references were made to the lcees in cm red by the Dublin Fusiliers in tlit-ir charge at Gkncoe. Cardinal Yaughan. preaching at the Carmelite C inrch? Kensington, said nursing institutions had been established, at Johannesburg and Kimberley by a Catholic community of nuns, who had refused to leave their po^ts of danger, but had stayed in their institutions in order to nurse the wounded not only of the British army, but also the Boers.

The Red Mass in London — The Red Mass oelebrated for the opening of the Laws Courts at the Sardinian chapel in Lincoln's Inn Fields was more largely attended this year than on any occasion since its revival. Cardinal Vaughan was present, and the celebrant was the Rev. M Fitzgerald, Rector of the church. There were present the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice M ithew, Mr. Justice Day, in their full robes, Mr. Bowen Rowlands, Q.C., Mr. Hugo Young, Q.C, Mr. Joseph Walton, Q.C., Sir Sheraton Baker, Mr. Arthur O'Connor, Q.C, M.P., Mr. Aspinall, Q.C, Mr. P. B. Abraham, Mr. J. H. Murphy, Mr St. John Clerke, Mr. J. P. Wallis, Mr. P. Blaokwell, Dr Counsel, Dr. Bernard O'Connor, Mr. Eyre Thompson, Mr. Theobald Mathew, Mr. Charles Maihew, the Hon. Arthur Russell, Mr. George Black well, the Hon. Frank Russell, Mr. Paul Strickland, Mr. T. V. Scully, Mr. J. Parikh, Mr. Bullen, Mr. Lister Drummond, Mr. Guy Ellis, and many others.

Death Of Bishop Butt —His Lordship Bishop Butt, who for many years occupied the See of Southwark, died at Arundel on all Saints' Day. The Bishop was born at Richmond, Surrey, on April 20, 1826. His father and uncle were converts. He was ordained on July 15, 1849, by Cardinal Wiseman, then Vicar-Apostolic of the London District. He was for a time Bishop's secretary, then assistant-priest, and next aa a military chaplain at the front in the Crime i, where he was prostrated amidst the snow by fever. On regaining consciousness he learned that Father Sheehan, who had administered the last Sacraments to him, was dying, and he insisted on being taken to the tent of his brother priest to give the last Sacraments. He was carried on a sick-bed to the tent of Father Sheehan by eighteen of the Connaught Rangers, Major Herbert and Colonel Vaughan (.the Cardinal's father) leading the way. Father Sheehan died soon afterwards. Dr. Butt was Bishop of Southwark from January, 1885, till a couple of years ago He won the esteem and sincere affection of his flock, and the record of his episcopate was one of constant progress.

Commendable Generosity.— The St. Marylebone Poor Law Guardians have with very commendable generosity and liberality built at their own expense a chapel at the St. Marylebone Infirmary for the Catholic inmates who since the opening of that institution in 1881 have had their spiritual needs attended to by the Oblates of St. Charles Borromeo, Bay « water, Mass bring celebrated in one of the day room?. The total average number of inmates is 750, about a fifth of whom are Catholics.

The Rector of St- Bede's College to Lecture at Louvain.— The Rev. Dr. L. Casartelli, Reotor of St. Bede's College, Manchester, who is a Doctor of Oriental Languages of Louvain as well as a Master of Arts of London, has accepted an invitation from Mgr. Heblelynck to give the course of lectures on Zeud and Pehlvi at the University of Louvain formerly directed by the late Mgr, de Harlez. The course will occupy three months beginning in February. Dr. Casartelli retains the rectorship of St. Bede's College.

PRANCE —Honours for Chinese Jesuits-— Two Chinese priests of the Compauy of Jesus have recently received the honours of the French Institute for their narratives of their missionary carters and work.

Remarkable Vocations- — There have been some remarkable instances of ecclesiastical vocations in France of late. A few years since a father and son celebrated Mass together, served by members of their family, in the chapel of the Jesuits in the Rue de Madrid. Down near Montelimar, where President Loubet .comes from, a landed proprietor of the district having lost his wife, studied for Orders, and he is now parish priest of Granges-Goutardes. Furthermore, one of his sons has become a monk in the Trappist foundation at Aiguebelle, and another is a secular priest in the parish of Tulette.

The Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Montmartre-— The ceremony of blessing the cross now crowning the dome of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Montmartre, was very imposing. The cross is the gift of a- devout Catholic nobleman, the Comte de Pranqueville. PSre Augier, brother of the Superior General of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, aptly said in his Bermon that never since the beginning of Paris was the Cross of Christ placed bo high, or hymns of praise sung so near heaven. It may not be out of place, in connection with this subject, to give a little ancient history about the origin of the Church at Montmartre, for the benefit of thoae who may not know much or anything concerning it We hear a good deal, from time to time, from the anti-olerioals

about the inutUity, and so on, of the big building 1 on Montmartre Hill. Now, it is not among the things generally known that the strongest opposition was offered to the project of the church both by Mgr. Darboy and by his successor, Cardinal Guibert of the Oblates. The promoter of the plan was a pious Catholic, M. Legentil, and Mgr. Darboy gave him but little encouragement. After the murder of the Archbishop by the Communists, and on the appointment of his successor, M. Legentil went to see Mgr. Guibert about the plan, but was at once told that Catholics were crushed already by expenditure on churches and institutions which they had to keep up. bubsequently, and after some presseure, Mgr. Guibert gave way, directed that the church should be a monument of expiation, and, as he said, a sort of ' holy lightning-conductor ' to preserve the city from the visitations of Divine justice. Next followed the sanction by the State, and money then began to flow in for the construction. The edifice will, when finished, have cost 40 million francs, according to the estimates. As a rece.it writer pointed out, the miracle of collecting money for the monument in order to bring it to a successful completion has been practically accomplished by the Oblate Fathers, who have charge of the basilica, and who, as the same authority says, smiled complacently the other day, owing to their triumph in doing their rival the Devil out of so much money.

ROME-— The Pope and the South African War —His Holiness the Pope celebrated Mass on Sunday, October 29, for the repose of those killed in the South African War, and offered up special prayers that the struggle might soon cease. His Holiness is keenly interested in the war, and has, it is stated, sent a telegram of condolence to Lady Symons.

Proposed Swiss Pilgrimage— A great pilgrimage of Swiss Catholics will go to Rome next year. Preparations are being made for it by the Helvetic Federation of Catholic Societies. At the ninth assembly held by this Federation at Basle, the programme of the pilgrimage was discussed and approved of.

SCOTLAND— Death of a Catholic Journalist.— it is with sincere regret (writes the Glasgow correspondent of the A'cw Era) I put on record the death, at the early age of tweoty-seven, of Mr. John Aloysius M'Avdle, eldest son of the late Mr. Jauies M'Ardle, Springburn. The deceased was educated at St. Mungo's Academy, Townhead, Glasgow, and besides being an excellent scholar, always occupying a prominent place in the prize-liat, he was popular with his fellows. He began his journalistic career on the Springburn Adeerti-ter, from which some years later he joined the staff of the Glasgow Evening Citizen. On the latter he made an excellent name for himself, and it seemed but the just reward of his talents when a little over two years ago he was offered and

accepted a sub-editorship on the Evening Chronicle, Manchester Before leaving he waß made the recipient of many marks of favour from his co-journaliets and various Catholic societies of which he was an able member. Mr M'Ardle, however, did not long enjoy his promotion. About eighteen months ago he was compelled through ill-health to send in his resignation, and the interval was spent in retirement at his residence, Woodburn place, Milngavie, where death visited him. He was a ready writer, of considerable abilities, and in press circles much respected. As an essayist, or lecturer^ his services were frequently in request. Many articles from hia pen found their -vay into the columns of Catholic newspapers.

The Marquis of Bute's Generosity— The Maiquis of Bute has generously offered to Father John M'Elmail, of St. Andrew's, Rothesay, to build a new school and presbytery, and also to defray the expense of enlarging the church so as to provide about doable the present accommodation. The offer is conditional on the congregation contributing five hundred pounds. The total cost ia likely to be close on three thousand pounds.

A Popular Priest — The Rev. Joseph Bader, S J., succeeds the Very Rev. Edward Whyte, S.J., as Rector of the Church of the Sacred Heart, Edinburgh. Father Bader, who is in his fiftieth year, is a Welshman of German extraction, as his name indicates. His early education was obtained at Stonyhurst, from which in 1872 he sought admission to the Society of Jesus. Three years' residence in Laval, France, was followed by his appointment to the teaching staff at Mount St. Mary's College, from which seven years later he was transferred to St. Beuno's College. Ordained in 1888, Father Bader began his missionary labours as au assistant at Our Lady's and St. Andrew's, Galashiels, being afterwards promoted to the Sacred Heart. In the latter mission his chief care has hitherto been the schools, A non-Catholic weekly writing of ' one of the best known and most popular Jesuits in Scotland ' thus describes this phase of his work : — ' His genius of management raised the schools to the position of premier Catholic schools in the archdiocese. The same paper {People's Journal), in an illustrated sketch of his career, speaks of Father Bader's appointment as being ' to the great gratification of his many friends, Protestant and Catholic'

The Catholic Truth Society's Demonstration- — The yearly demonstration of the Catholic Truth Society of Scotland was held in Edinburgh on Thursday, October 20. The principal speakers were his Eminence Cardinal Logue, Archbishop of Armagh, the Archbishop of Edinburgh, and the Rev. Bernard Vaughau, S J., etc. The Bishops of Scotland and a large number of priests and laymen from all parts of Scotland attended. Cardinal Logue was the guest of his Grace the Archbishop of Edinburgh.