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The Catholic World

AFRICA — Murder of Missionaries

A caMegram from Berlin under date August 18' states that the report of the massacre of the Right Rev. Mgr Spies, the Catholic Bishop, and his party of two male and two female missionaries in German East Africa has boon confirmed. Hearing of an insurrection, the party were returning to the coast, when they were attacked. All the natives accompanying the party fled. Bishop Spies tried to persuade the assailants as to the peaceful nature of the* mission, but without success. All thq bodies of the victims showed many spear wounds. The nuns covered their faces with their veils anid calmly awaited their fate. ENGLAND — Catholic Young Men's Societies

The Catholic Young Men's Societies of Great Britain, represented by about 220 delegates, opened their annual conference in Leeds on t<he first Sunday in August. The C onference was favored with the presence of Archbishop Bourne, and the occasion was availed of by his Grace tio utter words which may be taken as an augury of future progress. Not only did he most cordially recommend the Society, but he promised to do all that he could to bit lengthen it in the south, where it has a ivery largo field for extension. The papers read at the Conference wero eminently suggestive. Father Day, whilst subjecting tho Socialistic programme to a keenly critical analysis, was progressive in his demand for the application nf Christian principles to social conditions. Canon Kendal showed luminously that the power of religion in England is far from being what it was in former days. Father Norris bet forth the Christian ideal of L'^ibor, which we are in danger of forgetting amidst t'^o s'ress of industrial competition. Dr. Sparrow gave voice to the Catholic \iew on Education, sounding a decisive no't'C of warning to the Liberal party. Mr. Cruse cryntiilvut'ed a paper en mental culture which was at once graceful, instructive, and useful. Tn the annals of the Society tho Leeds Conference will rank amongst the most successful. The Rights of Catholic Parents

The Lends Conference of the Catholic Young Men's Society unanimously adopie'd a resolution declaring that no sett lenient of the education question can be accepted by Catholics which deprives Catholic parents of the power of Inning their children taught by Catholic teachois A resolution advocating the forniiation of a committee in connection with each society m Great Britain to cnsuie registration was unanimously carried. Golden Jubilee

The golden ju-liike of the priesthood of the Very Re 1 . Canon Northcote was recently celebrated at Stoke-oa-Ticnt. when many addresses and presentations were made to the \eneiablc jubilarian. FRANCE — Expulsion of Nuns

On tho Ist of September the Dominican Nuns were td he exp'e'led from their House at Bar-le-Duc. This prospect has elicited a letter from Monsignor Dubois, Bishop of Verdun, to the nuns. The Bishop deeply deplores their departure, brought about 'by ' those who havo dreamed of the destruction in France of religious instruction and Christian education, and who are carrying aut. their projects in opposition not only to the ridits of the Church, but to those of the citizen, whose freedom and whose property are attacked.' ROME — Papal Anniversary

Augvtst 4 being the anniversary of Pius X.'s election to the Pontifical Chair, his Holiness received many lettors, telegrams, and addresses of congratulation from Italy and abroad. The Biblical Commission

Tbo Ln'i 'don ' Tablet 1 ' announces that Father David Flemm?, the secretary of the Biblical Commission in Rome, has bora obliged to return to 1* ngland owing to prolonged ill health. Father Fleming lies been elected Provincial of the Franciscans in England. The Holy Father and Catholic Action

His Holiness* Pope Pius X. has- followed up his Encyclical to the Italian Catholics on ' Catholic Action' with a letter to fount Albani, Professor Toniolo, and Comnreiulatore Periooli, leaders of the 'Italian social movcmenit The Pontiff says that he has derived great consolation from the address in which such a large number of Italian Catholics have expressed their gratitude for the Encyclical. ll>e rejoiced at the docility with which Ihcy accepted his instructions and the promptness with -which they declared themselves ready

to follow them-. The comfort he thus received was all the more welcome because some had misconstrued his intentions without any real ground for doing so. And thus an attempt was made to mislead public opinion and the conscience of simple folk by drawing from Ms words, which were most clear in themselves, a meaning different from that which they contained. As formerly in the case of a letter of the great Apostle St. Paul, his Encyclical had been misinterpreted by certain persons, who held that he had said one thing and meant another, and that ,in granting exemptions which were necessary in particular cases lie Ues!ired to abandon the glorious traditions of the past and to renounce the sacred rights of the Church ajnd the claims of the Apostolic See.' ' We,' says his Holiness, ' Who always take care to speak to" the Faithful in that simiple style which Jesus ChrisU so strongly retoommended to His Apostles, cannot permit that to be attributed to Us which is not to be found in the letter and which was never in Out intentions', nor can We allow wfaat is still worse — Our words to be distorted into a meaning contrary to the meaning they actually bear.' His Holiness encourages the Catholics to proceed with the organisation of all the Catholic forces in Italy, and expresses the hope to see all working together unitedly and zealously, without envy or ill-will. UNITED STATES— ltalian Catholics in New York

Over 100,000 Catbiolic Italians gathered between One Hundred and Fourth and One Hundred and Sixteenth streets in New York to take pare m the celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel These boundaries mark the Italian settlement in the city. Throughout its confines altars were erected on the streets, and ttefore them the kneeling multitude prayed, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass being offered on all at the same hour. It is estimated that more than seven tons of candles were used during the day upon the improvised altars by the participants in Ihe celebration. Italian Priests

The Archbishop of Palermo, in Sicily, at the direct request of the Pope, is organising a seminary for the training of Sicilian oriests, who are to dedicate themselves to work among their own countrymen in the United States. A special course in the English language will form part of the curriculum of the new institution, together with the rules of Church discipline prevalent in America. It has been found that owing to the dialect spokejn by the Sicilians, American priests who know the Italian language and even, native Italian clergymen are not adapted for work among Southern Italians, and the new institution has been proposed. A Catholic Encyclopaedia

Mr. Martin Maloney, who Was recently honored by the Pope, has come out in behalf of the project for a Catholic Encyclopaedia. At a recent meeting in Philadelphia he undertook to furnish half the funds for tJhe costly undertaking, and Jeremiah Sullivan aggxeed to do the same. This assures the issue of the greatly^neeKled work, which will contain fifteen volumes.

GENERAL

Archdiocese of Trinidad

On August 4, the Very Rev. J. T. Crotty, 0.P., rector of San Clemente, was recehed in private audience by the Pope. He presented £2,305 Peter's Pence sent to Rome by the Archbishop of Trinidad, the Most Roy. Dr. Flood, O.P. The Port of Spain where Dr. Flood resides is almost entirely served by Dominicans, from Ireland, and Father Dowling, ttaie predecessor of Father Crotty as Prior of San Clemente, is Vicar-^General of the Archdiocese.

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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 39, 28 September 1905, Page 24

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The Catholic World New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 39, 28 September 1905, Page 24

The Catholic World New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 39, 28 September 1905, Page 24

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