The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 5, 31 January 1907, Page 31

The Catholic World

ENGLAND— Catholics at Oxford In the course of an after-dinner speech at Oxford, a well-known Church of England clergyman (Rev. Dr. (J. R. Davey Biggs), paid a striking tribute to the excellence of the work done by the students at Pope's Hall. Many people looked with alarm some, years ago, he said, when permission was given to private masters to open halls in Oxford. Let them just look at the men in Pope's Hall. They were able to take University prizes and distinctions over the- heads of everybody else. Compare the records- of P,ope y s Hall and its .numbers with even Balliol, arid they 'would see that it came out far from badly. . They would thus see that it was possible fou conscientious faith to be held by men of the quickest and keenest intellects'. It was therefore in no way true, fas some people supposed, that for a man to be clever he* must' have no religion. These words, coming as , v tfoey do from the lips of one who is in no sense- a member of the High Church party and the Church of England; are - possessed of special significance, - .showing as they do the respect and honor with which the Catholic stu-. dents are regarded in Oxford. " ■-. Joining an Order , . ~ The Very Rev. Lord Archibald Douglas, uncle of Lord Queensberry,' was admitted recently into" the Congregation of the Kcdemptorists." at St. • Joseph's Church, Bishop's Stortford, receiving the habit of the Order at the hands of Father John Burke, the rector, Father' Burke was, like the very Rev. Lord Archibald Douglas, a diocesan priest at one time, and _ in that capacity did good work at Manchester. - Priests and People , Sneaking in London early in December at the an- • nual dinner of the Catholic Benevolent Society, Dr. Bbuifoie, Arafrbishjop of Westminster, said th.a>t never perhaps at any time in the . history of the Catholic Church in this country had the clergy- and _ laity - been more closely united as they were at present on the Education question, and never had there been more complete, more organised, and more determined resistance ever offered' to any Government project 1 ' in England than- was being offered to the Education Bill. - The Catholic clergy and laity fully understood the issues, and were prepared to fight with vigor and deter- • mination for what they considered their just rights — the power to • give .that education to Catholic children which they considered right and proper. Martyred Bishops The movement for the beatification of the eleven Bishops who are commemorated in the English College pictures at Rome' as having died for the faith' in prison under " .Queen Elizabeth is- gradually making way, according to the London ' .Tablets During - Octo r her a step was taken .by the Bishops of the ' six northern dioceses, .which ■it is- hoped will before lorig--lead to the introduction of the cause in the Roman Courts. At their annual meeting at Ushaav the Bishops of Middlesbro', Ilexham, Newcastle, Leeds, Liver- ~ pool, Shrewsbury, and Salfoid discussed the case of the eleven Bishops, and unanimously agread that the]' inscription set, ;up by permission of Pope Gregory XHI. beneath the picture of their prison can only be •- understood as assign of " that Pontiff's intention that these eleven Bishops should' be held up for the same honor as the other martyrs commemorated in the pictures. In accordance with this ." conclusion, their Lordships addressed "a joint let,tcr to the . Archbishop ,of Westminster, praying his Gia.e as Metropolitan to sue from the Holy* See the honor of beatification for the eleven Bishops.^To this the "Archbishop promptly replied, staging that he would ' certainly do all in his power to give "speedy effect to^the wishes of N the" Bishops. ... FRANCE— The Hierarchy and Priests Cardinal Merry . del. Val, in an interview " on December 12, said that the harmony amongst" the French ' Bishops and clergy is a. guarantee of the -inevitable triumph of the Church. -The Pope, his Ti/minence declares, is supported in his action by the whole Chris- . tian world. Universal Sympathy The Paris ' Journal ' states that among the papers seized at Monsignor Montagnini's rooms were letters written by Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops

, all over the world, expressing condolence on account of the .condition of France. Special mention is made of letters from the Archbishop of Westminster and the Bishops of England and Ireland. The Irish College This venerable College,- so full of" memories of Ireland's past, and so dear to her children the world around, is, it appears, about to- share the fate of the French Ecclesiastical Seminaries, at the hands of the men who now rule over France. The Superiors of the " Irish College have notified the fact to his Eminence Cardinal Logue, and have also asked the British Ambassador'to intervene: The announcement of the danger which threatens the College will cause poignant re-g-ret wherever an Irish . Catholic has made his home. Foundetd centuries ago when Irishmen were being relentlessly persecuted for the Faith which they have clung to so tenaciously, it has long. been a haven of peace for ecclesiastical students from Ireland. These young levites returned home or some cases went to othT countries., to work for religion. They never interfered in^ French affairs, whether religious or political. For France's sake, not less than for Ireland's, the threatened action of the French Government is ,most- deplorable. - • _ • INDIA— The Archbishop of Bombay The Most Rev. Dr. Noti, S.J., whose appointment to the archiepiscopal See of Bombay was announced at the recent ~ Consistory, is a native of Switzerland . and ~ a member of the German Province /of the Society. His -Grace, who. is in his fifty-fifth yea r , has been" in India since 1885, engaged almost exclusively in educational work -in Bombay. He was for . some time Rector of St. Mary's College "in that city, -arid for- severial years' -past, he has 1 been attached to the -.wellknown St. Xavie-r's Uiiiversity^Cqllege as Professor of French Literature. ~Dr. stsfbti enjoys a weLl-ld'aserved popularity amongst both the European' and native communities of Bombay. JAPAN— A Catholic University — Tokio was one of the Sees -to which a Pallium ' was given in the recent Consistory. Catholicism makes slight progress in Japan, and it. may be in view of this fact 'that a new and interesting departure is to be taken. A Catholic University Is to be opened /at Tokio, and the undertaking has been confided to the Society of Jesus. _ .Most probably it is because of -the Japanese sympathy for American ideas ' - that the work will be entrusted to the Fathers of the Society in .the United States, if, as is almost certain, the negotiations now afoot prove successful. ROME— The Bishop of Christchurch His Lordship Bishop Grimes (writes the Rome, correspondent of the Sydney ' Freeman's Journal ')>'- left - Rome about December 10 for "Naples and the- Holy Land, and then for Australia and home. - At his farewell audience he presented the address of the clergy, religious, laity, and children of the diocese of Christ- # church, .drawn . up because the visit "was the first paid >by the Bishop to Pope Pius X. "The address' lay in a New" Zealand wood box. It was magnificently bound, and its several "pages illuminated by the Sacred Heart Nuns of Timaru. At its end were the signatures of' the- Vicar-General and principal clergy and laity-.-- . It had- been, brought out in. its presentation form by the Christchurch, ' Press.' The- chaste atid richly-illu-minated pages were adorned with the birds" and flowers of New .Zealand. These/much interested the Pope, as- hc~ is- especially .fond of all that pertains to ecclesiastical architecture. He was very murh • struck by the- photographs of the immense and handsome cathedral, which occupied the centre of each page. The Bishop, asked merely for .a blessing on all who had cooperated, but the Pope spontaneously s said he would do more, viz., g-eatly honor the diocese, for he would (he said) write the' Bishop a letter. The University of Propaganda „. . At, the distribution of prizes at the University. ;ol Propaganda on iDecember 6 (writes a Rome correspondent)," the fallowing students of the Irish College won" medals. .It is to be noted that in Rome the awards • feranted- foi 4 ' successful . study during one's ' ■acadeanifc course are medals, the sign of distinction as it were in intellectual contest. Owing to the fewness of the numtoers! in the 7 Irish College during tihe past year, and of those three were ill, only sixteen students competed from the Irish College', and of those seven won medals, of whom one took .two medals, malting ei^ht medals in all. The winner of the two medals was Mr. Stanislaus Hughes, of Achonry diocese ; one

in Greek and one in Hebrew. Mr. John Dalton, archdiocese of Dublin r won the Ist medal in Dogmatic Theology. Mr. John Dunlea, also of the archdiocese of Dublin, was 'amongst those who 'cut' for. the 2nd. medal " in the Dogmatic Theology of the Sacfaments. Mr. Denis O'Brien, of Limerick diocese, won the Ist medal in Moral Theology. Mr. Samuel McGuckin, Cork diocese, was amongst those who ' cut ' for * the Ist medal in Sacred Archaeology. '' Air. Michael Hur-, ley, of Cloyne diocese, and Mr. Stanislaus Hughes won the two medals offered in Hebrew. "Mr. * Joseph O'Brannigan, of the archdiocese of Armagh, and Mr. Stanislaus Hughes -won the two medals offered in Greek. Amongst those who graduated in Theology, Mr. John O'Reilly, of Kiimore diocese, and Mr. Samuel •McGuckin, of Cork diocese, were made Bachelors in Theology. Mr. Patrick Duignan, of Elphin diocese, was made Doctor in Philosophy. Mr. Thomas Lee, diocese of Ardagh ; Mr. Joseph O'Brannigan, archdiocese of Armagh ; Mr. Stanislaus Hughes, of Achonry diocese, and Mr. Michael Hurley, of. Cloyne diocese, were madie Bachelors in Philosophy. Mr. Daniel _Coholan, of Uork, who, as I stated here a few years ago, greatly distinguished himself in his Philosophy, was unfortu-. nately unwell during the summer when the actual ' co'ncursus ' took place.