The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2, 12 January 1905, Page 27

The Catholic World

ENGLAND— ExiIed Religious A number of the Brothers of St. Gabriel's Institute, who were compelled to leave France owing to the operations of tdie Associations Law, have now settled at Bsacopslield House, near Plymouth, where they intend to carry on the instruction of the deaf and dumb, in which work the institution was engaged In France for close on a century. The First of the Oxford Converts Father Grant, S.J., who died at St. Beuno's College, North Wales, on 18, aged eighty-four, was the first of the converts of me Oxford Movement. He was received into the Church in 1841 whilst an undergraduate at Oxford. He was followed by the late Canon Bernard Smith in 1843. Newman c came over 'in 1845. Father Gra/nt served at St. Francis Xavier's in the lifties. Nazareth Nuns for New Zealand On December 17 six Sisters of Nazareth— Moffher M. de Pazzi (Fahy), Archdiocese of Tuam ; Sister M. Menna (Louney), Diocese of Killaloe ; Sister M. Domenica (O'Sullivan), Cork ; Sister St. Benedict (Frost), Killalioe ; Sister Martha Mary (Bentonj, Limerick ; and Sister John of Calvary (Crowe), Ballaratr-from the Mother House, Hammersmith, left London for Christchurch. Tho little missionary band received the special blessing of our Holy Father the Pope. The Sisters arrived in Wellington on Wednesday, of last week. Altered Times Archbishop Bourne officiating on November 21 at k tho ceremony of consecration of a Bishop at Tower Hill is one of those revenges which time sometimes brings about. The new Bishop— the Rev. William Miller, 0.M.1., Vicar Apostolic of the Transvaal Colony—belongs to the Oblate Order, which opened an establishment some torty years ago at Tower Hill, close to the spot whe>re Fisher, Bishop ol Rochester, and Sir Thomas More wiere executed in 1535 at the instance of Henry VIII. The church where the ceremony took place is dedicated to the English martyrs. Missionaries for the Congo The ' Catholic Herald ' states that the Superior ol the Catholic Missionary College of St. Joseph's, Mill Hill, Middlesex, has completed arrangements with the Congo authorities whereby six English missionaries will proceed to that region early this year. These missionaries will be temporarily under the existing ecclesiastical authorities, but later on an independent English Vicanate will probably be established. Ecclesiastical Music In communicating to his clergy the instruction of the Holy Father on ecclesiastTcal music, the Archbishop of Westminster says all the points it prescribes are io be introduced gradually and with prudence. He intimates that a Diocesan Commission Is being formed ; meanwhile he advises that the Salford * List of Church Music ' be consulted. As it is contrary to the instruction that ' women should form part of the official choir,' if the clergy are unable to have harmonised music without the aid of female voices, it will be necessary to confine the singing to music of a congregational and unison character. No instrument except the organ is to be used in the churches save by special permission, and he trusts the permission will not be asked.

FRANCE— The Future According to the Home correspondent of the London ' Times ' the Holy Father is preparing to send to the Bishops oE Franco practical instructions tending to bring about unity ot action in the conduct of Catholics, based on a clear, precise system in order to ensure uniform tactics, if there is to be separation between Church and State, his Holiness the Pope wishes that it j-Jiould be complete and absolute, so that the Church may recover its freedom towards the State as soon as the pact ha.s been dissolved. Weie the Bishops and priests, in order to rent, churches and reside in episcopal palaces and presbyteries, still obliged to have lecourse to the Government, that would be according to the Holy Father, worse servitude than before. Jn other words, his Holiness is taking measures to defeat the plans of men whose intention it is to do all that lies in them uo extinguish Christianity in France. The Pontiff is well aware that though they try to rivet fetters on the Church when abolishing the Concordat their efforts will prove vain, tor if the clergy are completely independent of the Government they cannot permanently be deprived of freedom. ROME— Death of a London Priest Father Monselle, of the Pious Society of Missions, died suddenly in Home on November 19. He was a Londoner by birlh, and about 45 years of age. Reception of an Irish Prelate The Holy Father receiver! the Archbishop of Tuam in private audience on November 19. His Grace presented the Pontiff witn a Peter's Pence offering of £600 from the archdiocese. -In thanking the Most Rev. Dr. Healy, the Pope referred in warm terms to the generosity ot the Irish people and their fidelity to the faith. The Holy See and France At the secret Consistory held about the middle of November, the Holy b ather delivered an Allocution in which he reierred at length to the situation in France. He repudiated as a calumny the charge that the Holy See had not respected tae Concordat. On the contrary, it was the French Government which had failed to respect that free excicise of religion which was guaranteed by Article 1 of the Concordat. His Holiness had not spakem of the mailer previously because he feared this might produce aggravation of the troubles , but now the Molation of the rights ot the Church and the dignity of the Holy See called for a public protest. That protest would be made without any tecling of bitterness, and with the most fatherly afteetion for the French nation. He could not hope theie would be any early change in the situation in France. He had even reason to fear the final catastrophe at no distant date. The iHoly See had given evidence that the protcssion of Christianity could be in complete accoid with a Republican form of Government. Hut events, howe\er painful, would find the Holy See neither unpiepared nor feailul, for Tie had confidence in God, Who had conquered me worTd. A Request that was Not Granted The Home con respondent of the New York ' Freeman's Journal ' relates, in a lccent letter, an incident calculated to increase, in all democratic countries, the popularity ot Pius \. '1 he Pope, it appears, lately appointed to Uic archdiocese ot Palermo, hitherto presided over by a prelate of noble birth, Monsignor Lualdi, who is of humble extraction. Tlie archdiocese of Lucca being vacant, and its aristocratic people probably fearing that they too might receive a plebeian prelate a delegation was sent 'to Home to request the Holy lather not to depart lrom tradition, but to send them as usual a noble ecclesiastic. '1 he members of the delegation, it is sate to predict, will thimß twice before repeating their action. They stated their case, and received this answer from ' the people's Pope ' : ' You have come here to tell mo that a bishop born from the ranks of the people is not fitted for you. Have you considered that your petition is a mark of insult and contumely toward me •'. Do you mean that if 1 were sent as Archbishop of Lucca, ttiat you would not accept me because I am spruno- trom the people ? And do you consider that the See ot Lucca demand to have an aristocrat for a Dastor when the Universal Church is content to have the lon of ' a peasant ? Your mission here is a misguided one KetSrn home and accept obediently tbe bishop whom the Vicar ot. Christ will select for you ' Needless To add, the Lucca party did not take long thereafter in coming to the conclusion that they would do well to consider the incident closed. SCOTLAND— A Presentation Key. Father Ghem, S.J., who recently took the B.A degree at Dublin University, has been appointed to a Professorship in St. Aloysius' College, Southern India He has lust been the recipient of a presentation trom the Italian. Catholics of Edinburgh.

An Adverse Decision The decision (writes an Edinburgh correspondent) given in the Second Division of the High Court re £40,000 bequeathed by the late Marquis of Bute for tiie erection ot churches in Üban and Whithorn, has given no little yurprise, as an ad\erse decision had been recently given in tne First Division Court. The bishops in the two dioceses— in which the churches were ordered by the late Marquis to be elected— could not) see tvhei r way to carry out all the deciees of the late Marquis with the sum stated. They desired that The money be left to arcunmlale until a snfrioipnt sum fnr'tbe erection of the churches and the maintenance of the clergy was assured, but the present Marquis held that if the IJiFhops did not accept the terms of his father's will, the money should be gi\en back to the estate. The judges ha\e, as stated, decided in favor of the young Marquis.