The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, 3 August 1911, Page 1487

The Catholic World

ENGLAND BLESSING THE MOTOR CHAPEL. Some weeks ago .the Universe announced the establishment of a motor chapel, to be built under the auspices of the Catholic, Missionary Society, whose headquarters are at Brondesbury Park, N.W. On June 14 the interesting ceremony of blessing the completed car was carried out in the grounds of the Society by his Grace, the Archbishop of Westminster, in the presence of a large and distinguished assembly. The Archbishop duly inspected the motor chapel, the various points being explained by Father Herbert Vaughan, who is the Father Superior of the Catholic Missionary Society, and to whose initiative the chapel owes its existence. The car will be used as a temporary chapel in those places visited by the Society where no Catholic church exists. At the far interior of the chapel which has been constructed is an altar equipped with every requirement for the celebration' of Mass. To equalise the extra height of the altar step as compared with the floor of the chapel, the roof is raised a corresponding distance, and this device allows light to filter through to the altar by means of the windows in the vertical section. FRANCE • ' DISHONEST OFFICIALS. France is to make nothing out of the confiscation of the goods of the Church. The money has been squandered by the officials in all directions. The Senatorial Commission on the Liquidation of the Congregations has received the report of M. Regismanset, which says— * Your Commission of Inquiry has become aware that the milliard of the Congregations estimated by the. Inquiry of 1900 has vanished and been exhausted. An excited effort to gather up the debris of the wreck, to clip off here and there exaggerated expense or honorary gages, to pick up the last crumbs nibbled by the gens de justice— to that almost is reduced the role of your Commissions. To save some thousands of francs ' where they have seen millions disappear. All departments of the French Government (remarks the Dublin Freeman ) are infected with the same dishonesty that began with the attack on the Church. The latest re- . port is concerned with ‘ the financial abuses at the Quai d’Orsay.’ M. Poincare, in his report, which has just been issued, says — There has reigned for several years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs an incredible administrative disorder, and the most elementary rules of public accounts have been violated with an unheard-of obstinacy. He calls attention to abuses under the heads of ‘Reception of Sovereigns,’ Missions to Foreign Countries,’ ‘Commercial Negotiations Abroad,’ ‘ Fictitious Tenders,’ ‘ Antedated Tenders, ‘Furnishing of 'French Embassies Abroad, 3 and Journeys charged for that were never carried out. ROME ENGLISH CONVERTS. - No fewer than six English-speaking converts were raised* to the Subdiaconate on Sunday, June 11, in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican by his Eminence Cardinal Merry del Val. With two exceptions, these gentlemen were associated with Brighton, and their recent secession created a sensation in the ecclesiastical world. Their names are—(l) Henry Fitzrichard Paul Hinde, M.A., Cantab., lately Vicar of Our Lady of the Annunciation Brighton; (2) his curate, Henry Rhodes John W-Massy Prince, B.A. Oxon.; (3) Arthur Reginald Carew Bernard Cox, M.A. Oxon., latety Vicar of St, Bartholomew’s, Brighton; (4) his curate, Ernest Reginald Francis Sheppard, B.A. Oxon.; (5) Oliver Partridge Alphege Henry, B.A. Oxon.; and (6) John Henry Steele, M.A., T.C.D., lately chaplain to the Earl of Erne,

THE PROGRESS OF THE CHURCH. . It is interesting to find so many evidences of the. progress of the Chux'ch. Scarcely a week passes without a notice of canonical erections of new dioceses, Vicariates, or Prefectures Apostolic, in some part of the world (writes a Rome correspondent). The latest instance of this is the erection by the Pope, on the recommendation of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda, of the Vicariate Apostolic* of Chen-si, China, which is to be served by the Friars Minor. The old Prefecture Apostolic of Western Ho-non has been raised to the status of a Vicariate. Another change-is the division of the Apostolic Vicariate of Corea, with ten million inhabitants, into two Vicariates, both of which will be served by the priests of, the Foreign Missions, Paris. THE HOLY FATHER’S BIRTHDAY. # From sovereigns, Cardinals, Bishops, societies of various kinds; and many private individuals in every part of the world messages of congratulation and homage came to the Holy Father on June 2, his seventysixth birthday. It may be said that the flood of congratulations was greater this year than on any previous occasion, as if to make up for the anxieties that at present present themselves. The Holy Father celebrated Mass at the usual hour, only a few outsiders being privileged to attend. Among those were the Chilian Minister to the Holy See, Senor Errazuriz y Urmeneta, to whose daughter the Pope administered First Communion. After the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice his Holiness received several prelates and laymen. Among the later was Comm. Pericoli, President of the Catholic Youth of Italy, who tendered the homage of the association. SCOTLAND CENTENARY OF BISHOP HAY. A distinguished and representative list of patrons of the coming celebration of the Hay Centenary at Fort Augustus has been issued. Among those who have promised their patronage (and many of whom hope to be present) are the Archbishops and the. Bishops, and the Provosts and Cathedral Chapters of all the Scottish dioceses; the Marquis of Queensbury, the Marquis and Marchioness and Dowager Marchioness of Bute, the Duchess of Norfolk (in her own right Baroness Herries), General Lord Ralph Kerr, Lord and Lady Lovat and Dowager Lady Lovat, Admiral Lord Walter Kerr, Viscountess Encombe, Lord Howard of Glossop, Countess of Loudoun, Lord Sherrington, Lady Herries, Lord and Lady Ninian Crichton-Stuart, Captain and Lady Margaret Macßae, Lady - Scott-Douglas, Hon. Joseph and Mrs. Maxwell-Scott of Abbotsford, Hon. Ruaidhri Erskine, the Captain of Dunstaffnage, Campbell of Lochnell, Leslie of Balquhain, Hay of Seaton, Steuart of Ballechin, Colonel Macdonald of GlenaJadale, Colonel Maxwel 1 -Witham, Colonel Mowbray-Berkeley (Black Watch), Colonel Shaughnessy (Scottish Rifles), Professor Phillimore, and many others. SPAIN THE HOLY FATHER AND THE GOVERNMENT. The Holy Father has addressed a letter to the Bishop of Vich congratulating him upon a Pastoral he has _ published dealing with the religious situation in Spain. l lt is certain,’ writes his Holiness, that the injuries done to the Catholic faith, which I note with regret, arise chiefly from the fact that those who govern think themselves invested with limitless authority, even in religious affairs. . . If the Government of your country, paying no heed to the Roman Pontiff, presumes to makes laws in respect to religious matters a step that even non-Catholics who are at the heads of States do not venture to —by this fact alone it renounces its profession of the Catholic faith, forfeits a heritage of glory received from the past, and destroys the very organism of the State, for undoubtedly it is the Catholic faith in particular that welded the peoples of Spain into a single nation