RETURNING TO THE FOLD.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 9, 28 February 1901, Page 29

RETURNING TO THE FOLD.

Father de Restiaux Tuckwell received two -English converts into the Church a few weeks ago at Pau. He also prepared for first Communion an army captain who has joined the Catholic Church after returning from the Transvaal. The list of Anglican clergymen who have ' gone over ' Bince the issue of the Papal Bull in denial of their Orders is slowly lengthening (says ihe Daily Chronicle). A new name to be added to the list is that of Mr Bird, whoae sece^nion be'jotnes more noteworthy when it is added that he has been acting as chaplain to Lord Halifax, the president of the English Church Union, and the man through whose overtures at Rome the Commission on Anglican Orders was called into being. One of the English Catholics who took part in what is now generally spoken of as the Duke of Norfolk's pilgrimage to Rome at the end of December was Mr Charles Brookneld, the actor-play-wright, who, unfortunately for playgoers, has for some time refused all managers' offers of engagements. After a long illness, from which he has happily recovered, he joined the Catholic Church a few months ago. Miss Emily Stather, daughter of the late Colonel Stather (says the Catholic Times), has been received into the Church by the Prior of Woodchester, Father Vincent MaoNabb, O.P. Miss Stather's conversion has caused a great sensation in Woodchester and Stroud, where she has for many years been associated with charitable works of various kinds as a member of the Church of England. On the feast of St. Teresa (says the Catholic Transcript), of Hartford, Conn., Miss Mary Teresa Hunter, of Terry ville, waa received into the Church by the Key. John Neale. Miss Hunter belongs to one of the oldest and most respected families of the town of Plymouth. Previous to her conversion she was an active member of the Congregational Church, with whose religious work she wu for many years closely identified. She was a Sunday school te icher and a prominent official of the Christian Endeavor and other church societies.