The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 19, Issue 42, 19 October 1905, Page 4

The Catholic World

ENGLAND— Father David Fleming The Gene ral of the Franciscans has received a communication from t'hc Holy Father to the effect that the \'ery Rev. Father Da\id Fleming, although absent from Rome for the time beni'g, is still to remain, by the Holy Father's special wish, a Consultor of the Holy Omce. The Holy Oilice is the most imp octant of the Roman Congregations, the president of which is the Holy Father himself. Catholic Successes at Oxford Mr. Cyril Martni'dale, S J., oi Pope's Hall, Oxford, has completed his triumphant career at the University by securing a first class, in the Final Classical School. r lhe hionois obtained by Mi. Maitiwdale (who is an old Harrow boy, and a comer! to the Catholic Church) mcludo a fir-t class m Moderatwns and ' Greats,' tiho Hertford ajid Cra\en Classical Scholarships, the Chancellor's Latin Verse Pi we, and the Gatsford Prize for Greek \ erse. Other Catholic .successes at the final examinations include second classes m ' Greats ' obtained by Mr Butler, S J , and Mr. De\a»s, of Corpus (son of the well known writer o>n political economy), and second classes in Modern History obtained by Mr. Nolan, of New College, and Mr. B. Nc\Mll, cf Hunter Blair's 'ilall. FRANCE— Reaping the Whirlwind The Fiendh Republic (writes a, Paris correspondent) is reaping the whirlwind winch it has sown in educational matt ci&. In its efforts to ' eniancipate ' the. young fiom all religious inHix-nees, it has expelled those nat-. Ural educationalists, the Religious- Congregations', 'from tho schools, and has replaced them by men whose principles and met hods con hi neaer be too ' advanced.' The result is that the French schoolmaster has become a byword. His '.socialistic' ami ' intcrnutionalistic ' tendencies and the way m which he >omtemptuously brushes aside the past and abuses tho jloiies of France have been gi'ung a pood deal of trourte, not only to parents, but to the educational a'Ut'lwmties as well The Ministeie de l'lnstruction PublHjij? has had to intervene in the nnatter of the Schoolmasters' Association of Brittany, to add less li e\ere remonstrances to some of the members, and to dismiss others. And the tendency iiDticeu/ble in Bnttaiiy B malviiTg itself felt in other partrc of France as we'l. M. Ro'iivier's Cab-met isi ondeaivorinc; to counteract as Vnuch as possible the effect of the unwise encourapjcmeit given to these people by M. Ciomiljies, but the fight 'is likely to be a long one and a sca'iUdalws one One 1 of the first steps of M Rou;\Ser has bleein to proihiint tic use in the schools of a ' Manual 1 of History ' by Professor Herve, who is an advanced Socialist, and who nvaie himself famous by his propaganda against what he calls ' the fetish of fatherland.'