The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 14, 8 April 1909, Page 551

The Catholic World

CANADA— Catholic Colonization

An important scheme of colonization (says the Cathvlic Times) is about to be undertaken, by Bishop Latulipe, Vicar-Apostolic of Temiskaming, in the timbered region of Northern Quebec and Northern Ontario. The Bisliop' has invited Dr. Brisson, of the Colonization Society ''of Montreal, to assist in the settlement of territory adjacent, to the lines of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Temiskaniir.g and Northern Ontario. , Here, near the height of- laiid;," and running' irest '-'along 'the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific, lies' a rich clay belt fifty, miles wide" and some thni.3 or four hundred miles loßg,_ and in this ' district, wheio , splendid wheat has /already, been grown in a. few cleared fields, it wiil'be the aim of 'the colonizers to establish many settlements of farmers. Bishop Latulipe • and his army of assistants have been working at the.^ scheme for some ' years, and now - the building of the ". Grand Trunk Pacific gives "them their .opportunity. It opens a ' new > empire in the North land, a country with a climate with wliich the French Canadians are well acquainted and of wliich thoy are not afraid.

ENGLAND— Death of a Catholic Recorder

Tho death is announced of Mr. Henry Gordon Shee. TsL.C, Recorder of Liverpool. Mr. She© was compelled to withdraw from active work some fifteen months ago, owiii,* to an attack of paralysis. Mr. Shee, -who was born in 1847, was the second son of the late Mr. Justice Shoe. Ho was educated at TJshaw College and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the Bar by tho Inner I'omple in 1870.

Diocese of Liverpool

According to the official statistics of the diocese >fj, Liverpool, which have just been published, the Catholic population numbers 366,611. During tlio past year tin: number of priests increased from 442 to 460, of whom 15 are working outside the diocese, and 20 are retired or on ' sick leave. There are 56 convents, of which 25 are within the city of Liverpool, while the public churches and chapels number 182. There are 170 schools,- "with 1720 teachers and 72,993 cliildren. Tlie largest mission is St. Francis Xavicr's, Liverpool, whicli has a population of 11,523, and the smallest St. Patrick's, Peel, Isle of Man, with a pop-i- Ilation of 22. -

GERMAN V — International Eucharistic Congress

The next International. Eucharistic Congress will .take place at Cologne early in August of the present -year. Meetings to arrange for the Congress axe now being hold under the presidency of Cardinal FisclieT. ITALY— An Edifying Incident A letter appeared in a recent issue of the London Times from Mr. Alfred Austin, poet laureate, in which, writing from Ventimiglia, he pleaded for assistance for Miss Hanbuiy, who has established in the neighborhood of Ventimiglia a Home of Rest for , victims of the earthquake. The following edifying statement occurs in ; his letter: — 'Many of the- beds -were gratuitously lent, anrl some good priests at Bo'rdighera- sent their own, saying they meanwhile could sleep on the floor-

ROME — The Sacred College

At the present time the Sacred College is compote- 1 of only 55 Cardinals, one -of whom was created by J^Cas IX., 39 by Leo XIII., and 15" by the present Pope. Dtiiing the pontificate of Pius X. J 25 Cardinals have -died, ."seven of whom died during 1908. ' Several of the living Cardinals are over 80 and in bad health. - v - • -. -_."-'

RUSSIA — Appointment of Bishops •" .- '■* "\.

An agreement has . been, arrived at between the Holy See and the "Russian Government whereby several diocieses that have been for some time without Bishops are tc.h'ay.o episcopal rulers. Monsigrior Wunkcwsky, Bishop..- pf Plotsk, in Russian Poland, has- .been promoted to the Archbishopric of Mohilew; .Mohsignor Gieplak and Mpnsignor Denisevics have been appointed Suffragan Bishops of his. Monsignor Novowjewski has "been named "Bishop of Plotsk.' Monsignor Mickaelkievics has been appointed Apostolic Administrator of Wilna, which has been without a bishop for some time..

A convert priest (writes an Edinburgh correspondent) has peculiar opportunities •of influence, and Father HenryGray . Graham, formerly a Presbyteriau minister, and now attached to the Churcli^of Our Lady of Good Aid in the busy Lanarkshire town of Motherwell, is using these opportunities to the full. He is giving a course of public lectures to non-Catholics in. the Co-operative Hall, jand to these no Catholics are admitted, with the result that every

week some 700' inqtiirers, men and women of good Avill ami real earnestness, listen to the Father's instructions.

The Church .in the Highlands

His lordship Bishop Smith of Argyll- arid tlie Isle 3 (writes a* Glasgow 'correspondent) opened, the new .church, of Our Lady of Lourdes at Kinlochleven in the WesternHighlands on Sunday, February 14. It has been built principally through the energies of Father Barry., of tho historic mission of Glencoe, and its erection marks another step in Catholic progress in the West Highlands of - Scotland. The Catholics of Kinlochleveu worshipped in recent years in the local mission hall, where the various Protestant denominations also met. The arrangement was not a very satisfactory one* from the Catholic point of view, though certain hours were -set apart each. Sunday .for the different congregations." j3lo\vly' but steadily ■ -.Catholicism is progressing in the west. . Many of- tho staunchest Scottish Catholics are Western Highlanders, "and tlieir faith is as strong* and vigorous~as is the faith of the Irish. They still cherish Catholic ideals, and they live in tlie hope that 'before many more, years^ have, passed the wild picturesque landscape of the Western Highlands will be completely dotted with little Catholic churches like that of Our Lady of Lourdes, and that the other" districts without a Catholic church will rapidly follow the^ example

of Kinlochleven. . , ' -; .--~C.rr -

UNI FED STATES^— to. Aid"D!oces^n.Charitj¥s

JSislsop Hoban, of -Scranton, "Philadelphia, has adopted an insurance plan ' T>y wliich he hopes, "to raise" eventually a. < million dollars for- tlie" various charities in "his^diocese. ■ Hecwill eiideayor to - induce -1000 .men •in * his diocese to . .insure, tlieir lives for. JLOOO dollars each""," naming ,the. diocese "of .Scranton' as the Beneficiary.- - - -■ ■

A Leader in Charitable Works , .

On -Sunday evening, February 7,_ Archbjsliop "Farley, of New York, conferred on Mrs. Joseph J. O'Douohue the decoration of a lady of the Holy Sepulchre, which was granted her by Pope Pius X. Mrs. O'Donohue for years lias beeii. a leader in charitable works of that city. She has long been the president of the -New -York Association of Catholic Charities, and in ' May of last s year she was elected 'president of the United States association of the same charities. The same order was some time ago granted to Mrs. Walker, the distinguished Philadelphia worker in charities. The decoration -consists of a Greek cross of reddish hue, with golden trimmings, attached by a black silk ribbon to the left breast.

Missions to Non-Catholics

The mission movement of which the Apostolic Mission House, Washington, D.C., is the centre (says the New York Catholic News), has 'given* 2000 missions to Catholics, with over 2,0u0,000 Communions ; and 3000 missions to non-Catholics, with about 100,000 converts actually received. Besides these figures, one cannot begin to state the amount of prejudice removed and the practical general good done.- ...

Praise for the Sisters •

/ The home "for lepers, in Louisiana is maintained by the State and is under the supervision of a State Board of Control. The latter, in " its biennial report, states that the largest share of cfedit for the successful management, of the home should be given to Sister Benedicta and the five, otlier Sisters who have entire charge of the domestic affairs, and of -the nuf sings-and providing for the comforts of the "patients. ••->-'-. •

SCOTLAND — Lectures to Non-Catholics

GENERAL

The Foreign Mission Field .

The Society . for the Propagation of, -the -Faith lias published- the names of the" Bishops-- and priests who died last"y«ar in the various- missionary fields it assists. It may be of interest" to/the. .friends of the missions "to -know, besides their number j -the nationalities- of v these heralds of the Gospel. • Accbrduig* to .the ' figures' furnished, five -missionary bishops, •and^J];9C;missibnary .priests were .-called to their reward in 1908. Of these, 83. were -French, 30 Italians, 21 .Germans, 20 "Spaniards, 13 Hollanders, 12 Belgians, 8" Irtish",, 3 'Canadians, 2 Americans, * 2 English, 1 .Swiss, r -Portuguese, 1 Peruvian, 1' "Hindoo, and 1 Austrian.

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