The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 39, 24 September 1903, Page 24

The Catholic World

ENG LAND.— Temperance Demonstration The first Hyde Park demonstration, organised by the London League of the Cross on the last Sunday in July proved a magnificent success. Some 30,000 people were present, and 19 bands and 71 banners entered the park on ., *« e occasion. There were five platforms, at one of which the principal resolution was moved by a nonuatnolic labor leader, seconded by Canon Murnane, and supported by a member of the Irish Party, so that all classes were represented on the occasion. Charitable Bequests Mr James Francis Caulfield, of South Croft, Buxton, and of the firm of Messrs. J. F. and E. Caulfield, of Manchester, calico printers, formerly of the Elms, Didsbury, left estates of the gross value of £103,699, including net personalty £87,773. He bequeathed £4000 to the late Bishop of Salford for the time being, in trust, to found burses at Ushaw College, near Durham, for training priests for the diocese of Salford ; £1000 to the Catholic Protection and Rescue Society, £1000 to the bt. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart for foreign missions, and £830 to the St. Peter's Brotherhood for the education of priests. A Venerable Prelate The Right Rev. Mgr. Goddard was the first English priest raised to the dignity of a Domestic Prelate by the late Sovereign Pontiff. He was nominated by Pope Pius IX., and received notice of his nomination on February Bth, 1878, the day after the death of this great Pope. Pope Leo XIII. was elected on February 20th of the same year, and on March 19th, the Feast of St. Joseph, patron of the Universal Church, the Brief of appointment—' sub annulo Piscatoris '—was duly signed and forwarded to the new Prelate. The Monsignor is probably the senior English Prelate, and he is this year keeping the silver jubilee of his appointment. Ampleforth Abbey The centenary of the Benedictine Abbey of Ampleforth, commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the settlement, after many wanderings, of the exiled community of St. Lawrence's in their present home in the beautiful Vale of Mowbray, was celebrated with much success and rejoicing during the last week in July. The celebrations extended over three days, during which upwards of a hundred guests were entertained within the Abbey walls , and a large number of distinguished visitors, clerical and lay, graced the proceedings by their presence. The news of the death of Pope Leo XIII. was a saddening incident at the outset of the celebration, and prevented some of the expected priests from coming. A Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass was celebrated by the Bishop of the diocese in the beautiful monastery church in presence of other Bishops, prelates, priests, and visitors. On the following day a Pontifical High Mass of thanksgiving was sung by Bishop Hedley, O 5.8., when an eloquent sermon was preached by Abbot President Gasquet. FRANCE.— Petty Spite The French Government has suppressed the salaries of four priests for the crime of preaching to their flocks in the Breton tongue— the only tongue they can understand ! A Ministerial Notice The French Government have issued the following notice to members of dissolved Congregations : — ' Under the law of 1901 any member of a dissolved Congregation who has no means of earning a living or who can show that he has contributed by his personal work to the increase of the Congregation's property, is entitled to claim from the liquidator an allowance which shall be paid out to him either in capital amount or in the shape of a pension. This claim must be made within six months of the appointment of a liquidator over the Congregation's property. As regards* the Congregations of men whose demand for authorisation was rejected last March, claims must be sent in before the Ist of October in the present year. Demonstration of Affection The departure of almost every Congregation (writes a Paris correspondent under date August 4) is being made the occasion for a demonstration . The Brothers of the Christian Doctrine, who left their establishment at Puteaux on Sunday evening, were accompanied to the railway station by all their pupils, their parents and relatives, and also by the cure and other priests attached to the Puteaux parish church. The crowd shouted ' Liberte, liberte ! ' The Sisters of Nanterrei who had taught in the Communal schools for 45 years, also left their establishment on Sunday. The members of

the Municipal Council, who had requested that they should not be disturbed, went in a body to assure the Sisters of their sympathy. They were accompanied to the railway station by a procession of 500 or 600 persons, and the parish priest thanked them publicly for the devotion they had always shown to the whole population of the town. The departure of the Brothers and Sisters from their houses at Aibi was also made the occasion lor a scene. After accompanying them to the railway station, about 1000 persons marched in procession to the residence of M JBarbey, senator and exMi'mster. They hooted loudly and wrecked his garden At Roquccourbc, the native village of M. Combes, the Prime Minister, the departure of the Sisters created a great sensation, and almost the whole of the inhabitants accompanied them a considerable way on the road. The procession was preceded by a tricolor flag draped in crape, and the van conveying the Sisters away was Covered with flowers. ROME.— An Audience Amongst those whom the Holy Father received in audience the day following his election was the Maestro Perosi, whom he originally ' discovered 'in Venice. With him his Holiness immediately began to talk in the' Venetian dialect, and referred in a humorous manner to the opportunity they would now have for music together. He also received Count Giosoh, President dell' Opera dei Congressi (Jattolici, whom he confirmed in that post. lie assured Count Grosoli of the continuance of his interest in the Christian Democratic movement. Cardinal Logue Interviewed It was my good fortune (writes the Rome correspondent of the London ' Daily Mail ') to obtain an interview uith Cardinal Logue, the Primate of Ireland, at the Irish CoUege in the Via Mazzarino, where his Eminence is at present staying. His Eminence did not expect any immediate change of Papal policy. ' The Pope,' he said emphatically, l will never see Venice again.' When I protested with strong expressions of regret, Cardinal Logue answered—' Well, it may come in your time, but not in mine.' The Pope, he added, was a man of great vigor and strength of purpose. St. Peter's The Rome correspondent of the ' New York World,' in describing the ceremonies of the interment of Leo XIII., gives the following description of St. Peter's — The setting is \Vorthy of the scene, which shifts between the greatest of palaces and the vastest church, through halls glowing with masterpieces of art that are the despair of rivalry. From the throne room ol the Vatican — this palace of a thousand rooms, whose very cloisters are frescoed by Raphael — the body of the dead Pope is borne through the Sistine Chapel, dignified by Michael Angelo with the greatest paintings of all time, to the dome of St. Peter's. The Cardinals and princes and prelates following, whose robes to the least detail are regulated by the accretion of generations of precedent And St. Peter's — what scope for spectacle ! Simpler in plan than many smaller churches, its 600 feet of lofty length is all before one as he enters — a ' long block,' as New Yorkers reckon, of walls and floors inlaid with colored marbles, of gigantic statues, gieat pictuies, huge columns. Four piers carry the huge dome, and each of these pillars alone is laiger than not a few whole churches in New York. The ' baldacclnno,' marking the tom"b of St Peter and the high altar where only Popes say Mass, seems a light, graceful canopy, yet it towers a hundied feet, and its columns are like trunks of great trees. The nave is twenty feet higher than the span of the Brooklyn Bridge ; the dome, low and massive as it looks from a distance, rises far taller than any ' sky-scraper.' SCOTLAND.— Death of a Prelate The death has occmred at Blairs College, Aberdeen, of Monsignor Charles 'iochetti, in his 81st year. Deceased was successnely in charge of missions at Inverurie, Keith, and Woodside Monsignor Tochctti's liberality to the Church was marked He gifted £2000 to Blairs, erected a chapel at Inverune, and founded schools at Keith. He was made Provost of the Cathedral Chapter of the diocese of Aberdeen in 1595, and in 181)8 created Domestic Prelate to the late Pope. Visit ot the French Ambassador The French Ambassador, Monsieur Cambon (writes a correspondent of the ' Glasgow Herald '), has just been paying a visit to Sir Hubert Jcrmngham at Longridge Towers, the fine old Border seat, near Berwick, which he inherited from his late wife Sir Hubert is a scion of the old Catholic family of which Lord Stafford is the head, and which through the darkest days of the penal laws never wavered in its adherence to the faith One of Sir Hubert's sisters marned Mr. EdmonstoncCranstoun, of Corchouse, Lanark, and the present young Catholic laird of that charmingly-situated property on the Falls of Clyde is her son. Mrs. Edmondstone-Cran-

stoun was acting as hostess for her brother at Loncndge during the visit of Monsieur Cambon, who, it may be interesting to note, is a practical Catholic, nearly connected with one of the Bishops of France, and personally quite out of sympathy with the persecuting spirit of the present French Government. Sir Hubert Jermngham, it may be added, is a Bachelor of the University of France, and an accomplished scholar. He is one of the few Catholics who have sat in Parliament for an English constituency, having represented Berwick from 1881 to 1885. Recently Ordained Priests Father Mellon Father Gil lon, Father Gray, and Father Smith Steinmitz, of the Scot's College, Rome and Father Anton, of St. Sulpice, Paris, have taken up appointments in the diocese of St. Andrews and Edinburgh. SOUTH AFRICA.— A Jesuit Observatory The Jesuit Fathers in charge of the mission at Bulawayo are opening an observatory in the suburbs of that town. It has been placed under the direction of the Rev. Edmund Goetz, who possesses the highest qualifications, having obtained brilliant degrees in science and mathematics in the University of Paris, and having spent the last eighteen months at the well-known observatory at Georgetown University, in the United States. The Chartered Company have given two blocks in the suburbs of Bulawayo, situated in a fairly elevated position The astronomer's house is now nearing completion, the Government having assisted towards the part erection of the buildings. UNITED STATES —A Prelate's Estate The will of Archbishop Katzer gives all of the property, both real and personal, to Bishop Schwebach, of La Crosse. The petition for probate says the value of the real estate is more than £250 and fixes the value of the personalty at the same amount. There is no direction in the will concerning disposition, which of coiuse will be transferred to the next Archbishop of the diocese by Bishop Schwebach when the new Archbishop is appointed. Convention of German Catholics The forty-eighth convention of the German Catholic Central Society of America, which was to open on September 20, in Dayton, Ohio, promised to be the largest and most brilliant affair held in that city for many yeais As invitations have been sent to 600 societies to send delegates and the individual membership amounts to 3U0.000, an idea of the immensity of the convention can he obtained. Sunday School for Chinese Miss Ella May Clemmons, sister of Mrs. Howard Gould, of New York,, has just opened in the Chinese district of San Francisco the first Catholic Sunday school for Oriental children ever attempted in that city. It is called St. Anne's School. A kindergarten is to be cained on during the week. A Unique Gift Eveiy Catholic diocese in the United States is to be asked to contribute a statue or painting of the ruling Bibhop to be presented to Statuary Hall m the Catholic Lnneisity at Washington. Each province, it has been suggested, will present a statue of its Archbishop as the gut of the clergy of the diocese. Boston has been the first to adopt the plan. The clergy of that archdiocese ha\e ordered a life-size portrait of Archbishop John Joseph Williams. GENERAL Christian Democracy in Mexico Se\eral of the leading Catholic journals of Mexico are advocating editorially the principles of Christian Democracy, preliminary to forming Christian Democratic Leagues, thus preventing the growth of socialism.