The Catholic World.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 48, 29 November 1900, Page 27

The Catholic World.

AUSTRIA-— The 'Los Von Rom' Cry.— Last year (says the Cathnlic Times) we heard much in secular newspapers of % movement among Austrian Catholics to snap the ties which bind the faithful to the Chair of Peter. The effect has been quite favorable to the Church. Austrian Catholics have rallied to the olergy ; the i-'hnrfhPH nnd schools are better frequented than ever; dogmatic sermons are now constantly preached ; associations of all kinds keep np the fervor and interest of Catholic life ; and everything goes to prove that Catholics in Austria realise the danger towards which they were being led. This is usually the case with such movements. They create a little noise, with the inevitable result of waking Catholics from their lethargy. It has been so in Austria. Good has come out of evil, and we may hope that those weak-kneed brethren who fell away will soon return to their duty and to the fold from which they bo thoughtlessly strayed.

FRANCE.— A Ridiculous Order.— The Socialist Mayor of Bicetre recently forbade the priests to wear their soutanes in the streets. The Prefect of Police, however, annulled the prohibition.

Archbishop Ireland made a Commander of the Legion of Honor- — The French Government has conferred on Archbishop Ireland the decoration of Commander of the Legion of Honor. M. Jules Cambon, the French Ambassador to the United States, handed the insignia of the Order to the right rev. prelate at the Elysee Palace Hotel, in the presence of the American Ambassador and ft crowd of distinguished personages.

INDIA.— In Memory of a Catholic Bishop— ln proof of the high esteem in which the late Right Rev. Dr. Bi^andet, of Rangoon, was held by all who knew him, the office of the Educational Syndicate, Burma, has ruled that ' a medal, to be called the " Bigandet Gold Medal," will be awarded every three years to any person who is either a native of or domiciled in Burma and who has during the three years preceding the date of the award of the medal distinguished himself or herself by marked success at any university or professional examination or by the publication of any literary or scientific work of exceptional merit.' Dr. Bigandet was the predecessor to the present Catholic Bishop in Rangoon, Dr. Cardot, Vicar-Apostolic of South Burma.

JAPAN.— The Seeds of Culture Planted by a Catholic Priest. — In the course of an article in the London Sketch, of September ]'.», a correspondent writing from Japan says: — Those who have been in Japan are familiar with the mingling of native and European dress, and generally regard it aa significant of the state of transition through which the country is passing. A state of transition there undoubtedly is, but the general idea that Japan suddenly put on Western ideas and Western dress and Western

ThJGS ngeleebyonedsfinite act, as it were, it rather a mistake. me beginning of the ohange in Japan must be looked for two ceno£2 pIST^ ?n Excelle ?°y B«on Hayashe (Japanese minister to Great Britain) tells me In 1709, a certain Jesuit arrived in Japan, on a mission from the Pope to the Tycoon. The chief adviser of the Tycoon was so impressed by the vast extent of his learning, and by his knowledge of men, that he offered to make the Jesuit-a certain Batista Cirotta— a member of the Government if only he wonld /enounce Chriatianity. This the priest would in nowise oonsent to, but it is from his visit to the Far East, aud the «eed of European culture ho sowed at the time, that the Revolution in ImHHL Te ?}Z £*' He e™r?iße<ie ™ r ? iße< i a great influence upon the chief officers of the Tycoon and the higher classes, and this influence spread downwards, as it generally does in all lands, from the highest to the lowest. Thus the Europeanising of Japan was prepared for long ago, and came about slowly and gradually, and not by a sudden miraculous jump, bo to speak, as is usually supposed. ROME.— A Decoration for the Holy Year—The Pope has arranged a C decoration ' for the Holy Year. It consists of a n? J^L W « h , W £ lte L a ? d J yßllow ribbon attachment, bearing on one Bide the Holy Father s face and on the other the date 1900 It will be conferred on all who have conspicuously labored in making the pilgrimages a success. BCOTLAND.-The Archbishop of Glasgow and the Elections-— His Grace Archbishop Kyre issued a letter to the clergy prior to the General Election, which was read in all the churches of the archdiocese. His Grace pointed out that two special reforms were urgently called for— viz., provision for the establishment in Ireland of a University acceptable to the majority of the Irish people, as the Protestant population is already amply provided for; and provision for granting to the schools of the Latboho minority in Scotland the same support from the rates as is granted to the Protestant majority. These were not party questions, and should be urged on the consideration of candidates irrespective of their political opinions. Commenting on the Archbishop s letter the Glasgow Herald said :— ln another column appears a moderate and carefully-reasoned circular from Archbishop Eyre on the duties of electors— and, inferential^, of candidates— towards the questions of the establishment of a Roman Catholic University for Ireland and of public grants to Catholic elementary sohools in Scotland. There can be no doubt that these questions will, in spite of the thunder and earthquake of the larger Imperial issues, have a very considerable effect, of the still small voice character, upon many contests in places where the Irish population is not a negligible quantity. One has but to read the questions put to candidates of both political persuasions all over our own city and the often cautious answers given them to ccc the interest that these allied subjects are arousing. The feelin? that something must be done for the establishment of a Roman Catholic University is gaining ground so rapidly that it will in time be irresistible. No doubt there exist differences of opinion as to the extent to which the proposed University bhould b; under clerical influence. A correspondent, who wishes to correct a mistake tli.it he thinks was lately made upon this subject by Mr. Parker Smith assures us that l the Catholic Bishops of Ireland are quite willing to accept a University with State endowment for secular chairs they providing the endowment for theological chairs, and agreeing that the clerical element in the governing body shall be inferior to the lay. If this view is correct, its dissemination will go a long way towards the breaking-down of other than sectarian resistance to Mr BaJfour s original proposal. After what has happened during the past few years, it is difficult also to Pee how the demand that the school rate shall be given to Ca tholic as well aa to Board schools can be permanently refused. The tide of denominationali«m is sweeping strong, and it may float Catholicism in education not to victory but to toleration. Bigoted Burgh Commissioners-— A well-deserved caatigation has been given to to the Burgh Commissioners of Locheilphead by Jruth for their ' sublime exhibition of religious intolerance ' A young Catholic belonging to the clerical strff of Coventry Post

25° wh™ 17 app ° inted tothepostmastershipof Lookgilphead, free country a man should be held disqualified for any Public potion of trust on account of his personal religious b e "fef P Mr Mc^il has an excellent rprwd in the Coventry Post Office and no doubt Lord Londonderry will consider that the first qua ity of a Bttdte^tocSh"^^' Wfth Whl>h "° '^°- --Lion. a uP? neW Arch bishop Of Edinburgh.-His Grace the new Hou^Tnlf '" Andr ? W8 * nd Edinburgh arrived at the Cathedral On w^ T " eßd *y evening, September 25 (says the Catholic Herald) On Wednesday morning a special meeting of the canons of the P lac ° in , St - Mary's, when the ArchbiahoJ wat received and presented his letters from the Propaganda, Rome and £ii flf^S' a PP, oil ? tia e him t0 the Metropolitan SeeTf k^Z ChL, w r n hIS ?*l been read and dul y authenticated byTh. ?hpr^ f ; V\ f e vf? >1 t OVer , tt J he of the archdfooeS S? f^ Oh S hOp the canons, and was gloomed in the name of the Chapter by the Provost. The new Archbishop made the profession of faith and took the oath of fideX to tb£ Church and its doctrines. Right Rev. Mgr. Grady has been ap - pointed Vicar-General and will continue in this office untU tne Edinburgh. " BOlemaly reoei^d|and take 8 up hia residence in rh^X Departure at a Glasgow Catholic Church.— St. John'a parish Glasgow, has always been an interesting centre of Catholic thought and action in that city. But reoent Vc^cSHS"** ?° i f t to , h becom i n * in fQtQ « » cosmopolitan centre for Catholics of almost every clime and country to foregather while in Glasgow and there find a priest who will talk to them inThefc native tongue The new Polish prieat, Father Woity, from Mancheater who has just been appointed to look after the spiritual interests of his numerous countrymen on the south side of GWow speaks several out-of-the-way languages, while French, German Spanish and Italian are fluently spoken by, respectively, Canon Maclusky Father Peter Murray, and Father StepheTThorntonT" that in future fore.gn Catholics coming to Glasgow will only hare to visit St. John s to find a priest who will readily minister to their spiritual wants in their own tongue, whether it be hearing their Confessions or affording them a necessary word of wise and welcome counsel while sojourning in an alien city. UNITED STATES-Catholic Chaplains in the Navy.Cathoho officers and men in the U.S. Navy are flooding the Navy Department with protests against the shameful treatment of Fathers Reaney and Reynolds. There are as many Catholics in the navy as there are Protestants, yet the former hare but three chaplains, Ind two of them, Fathers Reaney and Reynolds, have been assigned to the unimportant station at Cavite, in the Philippines, while there are thousands of sailors elsewhere anxious for their ministrations The reasons assigned for this peculiar treatment are many and varied One is that Admiral Crowninshield is not favorablY dinthTmen Cathollc and wants to keep them away from The Galveston Disaster— The Right Rev. Dr. Gallagher has niade the following report of the losses estimated to have been x^nnnn by the Charch by the storm in Galvestou : Property 480 000; communicants, 1100; 10 Sisters of Charity and 80