The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1, 5 January 1905, Page 27

The Catholic World

ENQLAND.-An Appointment », Jll6J 116 I l erv# J " DrisColl 'has been appointed provisional neaa masiter to Xihe new seoo^ndary schools a t Westminster <to be built in memory of Cardinal Vajughan The new head nuaster took his M.A. degree at the London . University, arid is a Roman Doptor of Divi)nity. He has hajd c-onsiderable scholastic experience at St Edmmrid's College, and is on tjhe register of secondary teaaners. liaitiher Dnsooll, as his name indicates is of In* extraction. He Was born in Ldndoji, but both his Barents came from Cork. Catholic Progress at Holyhead The Qatftiolics of Holyhead are having their future marked otuit broad a,rid shire. Their schools have just "been gazetted as the best in the coiu-ntry ; built largely by tihe help of the late Lor=d Stanley of Alderley they were made qiuite freehold last summer by the gjreat kiinqness of his brother, the present L,or,d Stanley and now through the generosity of the late Mr. Cormac Flajnagan and his family, ne-ariy three acres on tihe crest of a grean ihill *n the town ha>ve "beem ma^de oveor to the Oblate Fathers for a hew chAirfch, presbytery, nfld graveyiaiid. The cemetery has just been consecrated by the Busfrop, who was brought in procession by t^e whole oodyi of Cianhi&li'cs lrom the pirosent little chapel in Market street t,o Cormac's Hill, as the .new ground is called. In itt\e streets arid on Uhe hill they had with them a grmt orbWd of well-wishers from their Welsji neichHors. BLjftidp Mostyn addressed them all fa stiirrTne v^ouds, ocfn'gnat.ulati'ng the Oatholics on their eager Jjpirit, anld tpllin'g them it was a read-letter tilay for his niiJocese. ! A Profession of Faith Dr. Wfln'dlo, the recently ajppoiinted president of Queen's Qollege, Cor,k, wias entertained to a bajiqViet at tjhe Griaad H\ot«l, Birmingham, on the occasion of his lete-ving «hat city, arid at the same time an illuminated atdidire&s was presented to him in recog;nitioui of his services to the Oa'tttolic body in the city and district during the i'ast twenty years. The address stated that sitnee his reception into the Church, twenty-one yearfe ago, he w a s re^aiMed as the ty>pe of a Catftiolic layman. Tihe Bishop of Birmingham, who presidesd, s/aigi he was pr«ud of Dr. Windle'vs efforts to lift ,up tjhe Medical Sdhqol, ajnid of the leading p,art he luaid ta»kein in Connection with the scheme for prompting the Umiversity of Birmingham. He was conVincad that the establishment of the Oatholic Pupil Teachers' Contre in Birmingham was >d!ue tq the influence of Professior Windle. Professor Win'dle remarked that whan he became a Catholic twenty-one ye/ars agp he was told he fchmuld not be very long iln the Church, but he might say Ihe was a stronger QaUhlolLc to-day than wihen he joftneld the QKurch. He was pleased to have an opportunity of reHurning to Irelarid. The Sisters of Nazareth What a difference tih'ere is (says the ' Catholic Tim^s ') between a prejudiced platform oratiar or a newspaper writer wHose mind is tinged with bigotry arid an impiatrtial observer who examines facts for himself. We often find the inmates of convents bitterly as&ailed— hut not By tlhose wtib are really familiar with their Cules and tJheir work. The ' Special Medidal Commissioner '• of the 1 ' Pall Mall Gazette ' has been contributing tio tihjat paper a series of articles on the great charities. I,n the caurse of his investigatiions he visited Naiiaqeth Hquse, HamraersmitTi, 'and the imfcwessiioins he recelvod ftHe.d him with delight. Amongst three hundrqd childiren he saw that every 'possible pravisnoln is made for comfort a?*d happineste. Not o,nly are tftie children hloustfi amd clothed and taiugjht amd doctoirejd, they lfve 8a a loving environment which piuts ma/ny a home to tfciame. When at the age of fifteen or so they are sent out ihto the world they have a permanent refuge, where tiheyi oan always ibtain advice anjd sSielter, whilsit sickness gives them a 'rtassfport to the Sisters' admirable home, with its dpbortqnities for aut-idoor Workait Bexhill-«rtn-Sea. As 'to the old, says the Commissioner,, Nazareth Hrtuse^supplies them wit^h that affection i/n • -wtttiah Christian Bngtend, with nearly a million paupers,, is so far behin| pagan Japan, whose larger population yields only twenty-nine thousand. A tribute siuoh-as this fr^om a careitul observer offsets a multitude of loaLummies. « FRANCE.— Forced to Resign Genenal Andre, Frencl W<a,r Minisiter, is succeeded by a 1 civilian, M. Berteaux, Vho lf«ds the Radical-Socialist section of tdie Bloc. M. Combes has thxown the Gene-

212 1 .o. o r rbClaJ:!d to save the Ministerial craft in the storm INDlA.—Protection of Missionaries tJhP^rJSS 1 / r ath^, has reoeive d a phonal rep.oqt from 00 eXtertdCd t0 *" »****" by ITALY.— The Elections Uiiat (foe Socitoiisrts have not qnly lostt seats, but t«at Ifaeir revoJiUctaary leaders have bee* unsuccessful. As a result of the elections, moreover, the hands of ConFI&SfiSSF™"" " ParHament ROME.— The Holy Father's Health A Rome oorrespoin<detnt writing cm November 6 s a ys : m. ff 616 1 UPU P * a SCare this we6k «»e Tfoly Fattier s foeaKfr has not been a success. "Every niow antf than his i Holiness suffers some inconvenience from a rheumiatiic affaption Mi one foot, and he has been troubled for some dayp m ttiiss way, Wit not sufficiently to compel him to append even for a single day the usual audiences. Hts gtjneral health is excellent. The Pope on the War His HJoli,ness Pope Pius X. is stated to Wave erpres-. sqd h*? great grief at the wajr in E!a£te,rn AsV and to have desrcnbe'd it as being no longer a war but a massfhfriJvZ^ he * ddefd . .^eatly to be regrettetf that tihe civilised Powers remained indifferent to the stwiecle ajnid had not succeeded in uniting in common action to* baife about tihe end of the war. His Holiness concludeW witfli the witch that DiVfne Priovideince might as addn as possible ptit an end to the sangjuinvary strife. Death of a Cardinal Cardinal Mocenni died at Rome on November 14. The Clardibal was present at the Consistory when he W l a l !f L/ , ci ? Wiiih a Sll ' dde " illness. His Eminence was att#i|de|d by Dr. Lapiponi until 'he breached (his lasft The Rope Iliad previously retired, and Dr. La«*pjqni immqdiately went tto tlhe Pope's apartments to .prepare his Holiheas fior Hhe sad event, fearing tfoat the shook might 'htaMe a baid effect on his health. Consecration of a Bishop The cdnseanatfon of Mon'sigfnor William Giles Rector of tlieEn.gl.dh College, as Bishop of Philaidellphiia (Asia) took place in the Church of St. Thomas, attached tto tlhe English College. The consecration was performed Jy Cardinal Serafino Va'nn'utelli, assisted by Archbishop .Stictoor anld the Bishop of Nottingham. Mo-nsicnior Giles wjore robes .presented by friends. The pectoral cross amd sold Ohaun were the gift of the students and staff of t»ie College, whilst Cardinal Vannutelli placed the iipisfcqpal ri-ng, the gift of the new prelate's relatives oh his flnger. Three of Mansignor Giles's brothers came from Englarid to Rome. Over two Irtmdrekl persjons were present from the BrrtisJi Catholic oolotoy and receilvod the Episcopal blessing. UNITED STATES.- Death cf a Convert Rtfy. Rather Benjamin P. DeQosta, whose retirement from t«iie Eipiscopal ministry five years ago ajnd subseq/udnt recej?tio-n into the CattioHc Church attracted widespread attentiom, died l on November Bin St Vincent's Hospital, New York. He was 74 years oltt antf wad been in 'poor health for more than a year