Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 13, 27 March 1902, Page 27

Catholic World

ENGLAND.— An Appreciation. The London ' Free Lance,' in the course of a chatty article, pays the following compliment to Cardinal Vaughan :— ' They say it is equally difficult to inherit the ''Shoes of a saint or a villain.' Cardinal Vaughan, when he succeeded Cardinal Manning in England, had certainly to do the former, if one may judge by the panegyrics one still hears when the name of Manning is mentioned to those who knew him. Yet there is not a doubt that Cardinal Vaughan has far more talent for organisation, for solid hard work, and patient business management than had his saintly predecessor, whose power lay infinitely more in his magnetic personal charm and wonderful sympathy than in these more rugged characteristics. Cardinal Vaughan does not, as Manning did, try to do all the detailed work of his immense diocese himself ; he has a genius for collecting under his banner clever men who can do it under his directions. He works hard enough himself, rising every morning at six, and going through two hours of devotion and study before even he touches his frugal breakfast. He has been called the handsomest man in London, and fully deserves the title, looking in his full red robes like some Cardinal Prince at the court of Lorenzo the Magnificent. A Typical Jesuit. A London secular newspaper supplies some particulars of Father Sydney F. Smith, S.J., one of the three Jesuits at Farm street whom the Protestant Alliance has vainly tried to expel from England :—: — ' Father Sydney Smith, who is one of the trio of Jesuit priests against whom the intended prosecution at Marlborough street was directed, is the son of a deceased Evangelical clergyman, formerly vicar of Worth, near Sandwich, and the brother of an equally Low Church vicar now at Dover, whose maternal uncle was the famous Canon Dale of St Pancras and Golden Lecturer at St. Paul's Cathedral. The Rev. Father Smith, who edits a monthly Catholic organ, .served his articles to a city architect before his entrance as a novitiate at Rockhampton, from which place he proceeded to Stonyhurst prior to his ordination, His recession to Rome took place simultaneously with that of the late Father Bown (formerly curate at St Philip's, Clerkenwell), Father William Philip, Edgcomb (who died at Bristol m 1899), Dr. Redman (formerly schoolmaster under the Revs. C. F. Lowder and A. H. Machonochie, at Wellclose Square), and the two brothers, Fathers William and John Cook.' The Westminster Cathedral. Rev. Kenelm Vaughan, brother of his Eminence the Cardinal-Archbib-hop of Westminster, is at present in Peru, pursuing a most successful quest for funds for the Spanish

Chapel of the new Westminster Cathedral. The same success that met Father Vaughan in Argentina is following his steps along the Andes, particularly in Catholic Peru. Nottingham Diocese. Very Rev. Canon Croft has been appointed Vicar-General of the diocese of Nottingham. Death of a Convert. The Rev. Dr. Lee, whose reception into the Catholic Church was recently announced, has passed away The obsequies took place on. 27th January. The remains were taken to St. George's Cathedral, Southwark, and received by the Very Rev. Canon Keatinge and the Very Rev. Provost Moore. The Requiem Mass was celebrated by Canon Keatingq, assisted by a number of clergy. Two of deceased's sons were the chief mourners. The remains were subsequently interred at Woking. A Catholic Philanthropist. The Dowager Duchess of Newcastle (says a London journal) is one of the most charitable ladies in society, though she makes little fuss of a public sort over her innumerable works of mercy, which are mainly" hid under the proverbial ' bushel.' She has a 'settlement' in the Bast End which she attends herself daily, and which caters for the education, the relief, the elevating, and the instruction of poor girls and women of the most wretched classes. The Duchess, with a band of ladies, some of high position, daily, when she is in England, ministers to the wants of the depressed creatures in the region of her ' settlement,' entering, herself into all the dreary ' cases ' which come before her notice. Sometimes she stays a few days at the 1 settlement,' and for this purpose has a plain little barrack of^a bedroom fitted up for her use— a mere box, with four plain walls, like a convent cell, and its only decoration is a large crucifix. The DiJifcess, of course, is a devout Catholic. FRANCE. — The Association Law. Prosecutions against the Jesuits (writes a Paris correspondent) are not confined to the capital. News from the provinces shows that in most towns where Jesuits have preached since the dissolution of their Order measures have been taken against them. The Public Prosecutor has gone so far in his zeal against Jesuits as to prosecute Father Terrien, who preached the Advent sermon at St. Denis. Father Terrien left the Society of Jesus 17 years ago, and can hardly, therefore, bo considered a Jesuit. The magistrate investigating the charges under the Law of Association has dismissed the case against Father Terrien ,t but) the #a#t • that he should have been summoned shows to what lengths the Government will go in their endeavors to expel all tho members and ex-members of the Society of Jesus from France. Decoration of a Nun. The decoration of Sister Donatille, of the Sisters of Charity, for

her devotion to hospital work brings up to 57 the number- of ladies who are Knights of the Xegion -of Honor. Up to the present the number of nuns and of other ladies in the Legion was equal, there being 28 Knights on each side. The appointment of Sister Donatille, therefore, secures the pre-eminence of the religious element amongst the feminine section of the Order. The eldest lady member is Sister Ambrose, who was born in 1807 _ &rid was decorated in 1884. HOLLAND,— Honoring a Jesuit. On the occasion of her 21st birthday, Queen Wilhelmina of Holland conferred the title of ' Ridder ' (Knight) on a Jesuit, Mgr. E. S. Luypen, Vicar-Apostolic of Batavia,, who was thus made a member of the Order of the Nederlandschen Leeuw. ROME — The Sacred College. The death of Cardinal Dell' Olio, Archbishop of Benevento (writes a Rome correspondent), has given rise to a good deal of gossip about the Sacred College in the'TPress. A3"*l find that most oL , these statements are more or less mistaken, $ think it will not be out bfj place t<s give a few- facts "and 3 figures, basdd" upon official statistics, in this column. The. Sacred CollegeTis j now composed of 65 Cardinals,- all of whom, with the exception of Cardinal Parocchi,, Vice-Chancellor of the Church, Oreglia, Dean of the Sacred College, and Ledochowski, Prefect of Propaganda Fide, have been created by the present Pontiff. During the latter's pontificate no fewer than 139 Cardinals have died, four of whom had been raised to the purple by Gregory, XVI., 55 by Pius IX., and 80 by Leo XIII. In the same period, extending over nearly a quarter of a century, the present Pope has created 142 Cardinals. The oldest member of the Sacred College is Cardinal Celesia, Archbishop of Palermo, who is now 91 years of age, while the youngest is Cardinal Skrbenski, Archbishop of Prague^ WbQj 3&?-*nly, 38 years 'old. Divided in 1 , nationalities the Sacred College comprises 39 Italian Cardinals and 26- -foreign ones. The English College, The students of the- 1 English College (writes a Rome correspondent) have been winning fjresh, an<£.#fc^tha same time unusual, laurels' 'ifl^jMhe schools of the Papal City. The^^fcportion in which their iiatttes stood on the list o^ prices ' anß*-hx>nors for 1901 w»er extraordirii^ry^ja^feit spoke for a new energy in steady,, g& tho old and venerable institution^ "'JtThe gold medal, in theology, -which ia;the most arduous ,as well .as the most exalted arena .in, the -Qregorian ..University, fell to' the" Rev,* J^rancjs-P'H'anlon, a student of the, 'ihird .year; 'i Amidst the gold, medallists, of various nationalities and' races' thefe^'ad been no theological student of the English College since 1888, when one was taken by the Rev. Dr., Thonjas^JFenfi, now deceased, a stuident- '-from f the same diocese as the ~Rey._ F^—Q.'Hanlon, that oi , Birminghaakv |S|hce 1893 the proud, distinction 6f ; b,<pig

called upon to sustain a public monthly disputation. against all comers had not been assigned to any student of the college ; the last disputant of the kind is now a gifted priest in the diocese of Plymouth, the Rev. Dr. A. O'Loughlin. His defence covered a wide area in polemical, or, better, general theology • These public disputations are described as monthly, but in reality they occur but three times in each year The English College is represented by about 25 students in a university of 1100, or even more, students, hundreds of whom belong to the socalled ' Latin ' countries, and have, therefore, a natural familiarity with the language of the schools. Forthcoming Allocution. A Consistory will be held by the Holy Father in the month of May, when his Holiness will deliver the long-expected Allocution on the duties, rights, and limitations of the Christian democracy^ American Pilgrimages. The Vatican authorities have been informed that three American pilgrimages are to set out this year for Rome on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Pope Leo's pontificate. UNITED STATES. The Rev. E. H. Abbott, a minister of the Congregational Church at Freyburg, U.S.A., writes as follows to a local newspaper : — ' The Catholic Church reaches Catholic working men. It reaches their hearts. "We know that, for we can see thousands of working people going to early Mass after laboring hard all the week. It reaches their pocket-books, for otherwise they would not have magnificent churches and institutions. If a church can reach a man's pocket-book, you can reach his heart. People will not support a church unless they love it." Catholic workmen certainly love their Church. '- A Papal Honor. A signal distinction has been conferred on the High Chief Secretary of the Catholic Order of Foresters, Mr. Theodore B. Thiele, of Chicago, in tho shape of a silver medal from His Holiness Pope Leo XIII. Accompanying the medal was a letter from Cardinal 1 Stienhuber. Tho honor was a recognition of Mr. Thiele's efforts for the faith, and especially to commemorate the speech which Mr. Thiele made at the Auditorium last May at the convention of tho United German Societies. ' Tho Independence of the Pope ' was tho subject of the address. Jn presenting the gift the Pope first intimated that the apostolic blessing would be the most appropriate token of appreciation. In referring to this in the* letter which Cardinal Steinhubcr wrote he is quoted as saying : ' That I send to Mr. Thiele and his associates with all my heart.' Mr. Thiele was at the head of a movement to defeat the enactment of bills in the Illinois Legislature which were detrimental and unjust to Catholic schools and institutions in general, and was the leader in the opposition to the adoption of tree text books m the public schools. Of 16 bills before the Legislature 13 were killed through their efforts.