The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 38, 21 September 1905, Page 27

The Catholic World

ENGLAND— Monsignor John Vaughan Mgr. Jo&tfi Vaughan has been obliged, owing to considerations of (health, to abandon his hope of becoming permanently attached to the Carthusian community at Lucca. ' Most Catholics will (says a contemporary) rejoice in knowing that if the Monsignor is lost to the Carthusians he is saved to Catholic literature.. Monsignor Vaughan was received in private audience by the Holy Father recently. Degeneration, and the Remedy Tne spiritual and medical doctors (says the 1 Catholic Times ') are agreeing .in the unpleasant conclusion that mprally and physically the people of this country are losing ground. The Rev. Dr. Barry has been telling the rea-^ers of the •' Daily Chronicle,' in lanigiiage as idirect as it is vigorous, that there never was a generation so frivolous in this island as is now growing up, so little ready to deny itself anything that tickles' its fancy, bo heedless,, or so incapable of long-continued tasks, mental of bodily. Speakers at the Medical Congress have foeen giving utterance to pretty much the, same view. There can, we think, be little doubt that the decay of home life is due to the decay of faith. Men feeem to think little of a future obate, and to take ' Eat, Drink, and 'be Merry ' as their imotto. Even when they feverishly apply themselves to money-making it is not from an earnest desire to benefit the community, but rat-her to gratify luxurious taetes. We need a reformation wthich will induce people to believe in t/he importance of self-restraint and the necessity Of plaJin-livingi. But the idea of mortification in the Christian sense of the word has become so obsolete that it is questionable whether a St. Frai*cis multiplied many times would make any impression here nowadays. FRANCE— To aid the Lepers Father Gabrial Martin, with three other missionaries >and ¥/wo lay brothers of the famous Order known as Picpucians, just expelled from France, are on their way to the lepers on the island of Molokai, where they will spend the remainder of their lives. The Kin? of Spain at Lourdes Tho Kiing of Spain on July 27 paid a visit to Lourdes. After having been in the Grotto, he was present at Mass in the OhurcK af the Holy Rosary. Subsequently ihe inspected fhe Basilica, ami was shown a chalicd given by his father, Alfonso XII., whilst 'be was Prince of the Asturias. The King had an enthusiastic reception from the pilgrims and the local Catholics.

Vanished Millions When M. Wafdeck-Rousseau first directed the attention of, the French public to the religious Orders (says the 'Catholic Times') fie 'gave out that the profits arising from confiscating their goods would suffice to establish old age pensions. Anti-clericals estimated the plunder at a thousand million of francs. Well; the Orders, have bean suppressed and their property confiscated, ttuit where are th<j profits ? The ' ftevue Maconnitflue » makes the sorrowful confession that not one penny >aa far has oome into the coffers of the';i9fcatfe,/nor is there any likelihood of one 'coming. Indeed, the State, that is tihe taxpayers, has had to advance money to tfeo liquidators and lawyers who are engaged in valuing M*d selling the property of the religious Congregations. Already a million and a half have "gone fa this way. An* wfoat has become of the property ? What becomes of ttoa carcase of an ox when the vultures gather upon it ? The Frencli anti-clericals had a great feast of plunder, and there are no remnants left for tfoe State. If France obtains old age pensions, it will 'jiol be thxj monks and wuns who will find tine capital'^ it will :tte the taxpayers. f ROME— The Irish College The Liverpool • Catholic Times ' learns on reliable authority that the Rectorship of the Irish College, Rome, vacant b.y the death of Monsignor Murphy, will be taken over by the Vincerrtiafti Fathers, who already hav-e charge of the Irish College, Paris, All Hallows' College, Dublin, the Training College, Hammersmith, and other! colleges, and who have been emiamtly - successful as educationists and administrators. SOUTH AFRlCA— Reception and Profession Recently at St. Dominic's Convent, Newcastle, South' Africa, twenty postulants received the white habit of St. Dominic and three novices made their profession. Two were from Germany and 21 from Ireland. The youwg ladies who received the habit were :— Miss Abina Ford, Miss Helena Dill, Miss Lucy Cofley, and Miss Annie Cremin, from St. Finfoar's City on the LeeMiss Katie Roche and Miss Joan Hurst, from Waterfard ; Miss Kathleen Murphy, from Kerry ; Miss Mary O'Sullivan, Miss Emily Lipper, and Miss Margaret Lynch, from Limerick ; Miss Rose O'Brien, fromrClareMiss Margaret M'Nichols, Miss Lfczie Rogers, Miss Margaret La van, and Miss Katie Reilly, from Mayo • Miss Margaret Wai*, from Sligo ; Miss Anna Barnett, Miss Mary Toker, and Miss Elizabeth Hyland, from Dublin \ and Frawlein Catherine Lehner, from Germany. The novices professed were : Sister M. Benedict M'^aum and Sister M. Lucy Lipper, from Limerick ; and Sister M. Teresa Peckler, from Germany,