THE NEW CARDINALS

New Zealand Tablet, 21 December 1911, Page 2579

THE NEW CARDINALS

SEVENTEEN PRELATES RAISED TO THE SACRED COLLEGE At a Consistory held on November 27 the Holy Father created seventeen new Cardinals. The following is the list: England. Most Rev. Dr. Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster. •''-'„ United States.—Most Rev, Dr. O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston; Most Rev. Dr. Farley, Archbishop of New York; Most Rev. Diomede Falconio, Apostolic Delegate to the United States. Italy. Monsignor Granito di Belmonte, formerly Nuncio in Vienna; Monsignor Bisleti, Papal MajorDomo; Monsignor Lugari, Assessor of the Holy Office; Monsignor Pompili, Secretary of the Congregation of Council. * Spain.—Monsignor Cos y Macho, Archbishop of Valladolid; Monsignor Antonio Vico, Apostolic Nuncio. Austria. —Monsignor Bauer, Archbishop of 01mutz; Monsignor Nagl, Archbishop of Vienna. France.—Monsignor Amette, Archbishop of Paris; Monsignor Dubillard, Archbishop of Chambery; Monsignor de Cabrieres, Archbishop of Montpellier. Monastic Orders.—Father Louis Billot, Jesuit Father van Rossum, Redemptorist. The news of the French appointments was received with great gratification in Catholic circles in France, for since the separation of Church and State there had only been three representatives of that country in the College of Cardinals instead of the usual six or seven. Cardinal Bourne. Amongst the Catholics of this country there is to-day a universal feeling of joy at the glad news that has come from Rome, and of gratitude to the Holy Father for having selected his Grace Archbishop Bourne to be a member of the Sacred College of Cardinals and for raising the Right Rev. Dr. Ilsley and the Right Rev. Dr. Whiteside to the archiepiscopal dignity by converting Birmingham and Liverpool into Metropolitan Sees (says the Catholic Times). With the cordial congratulations which the three distinguished prelates are receiving is mingled a sense of deep satisfaction at this indication of the progress of the Church in England and Wales. As his Eminence Cardinal Logue declared at Sheffield, the Church here is gaining by degrees. Despite the difficulties which nowadays confront all who are engaged in the promotion of religious work it is advancing, and the steady advance is due to the fact that the leaders and guides are equal to the heavy duties imposed upon them by the sacred office. In the examples of his predecessors the new CardinalArchbishop has a noble heritage. The authority they held he has well preserved. The influence they handed down he has maintained and extended. Wiseman, as it were, brought the Church in England once more into the light of day. His extensive knowledge, his capacity for clear exposition, and his power of interesting all sorts of people drew general attention to the Catholic. revival and gave an impetus to the movement for conversions, which was felt not only in the archdiocese of Westminster but throughout Great Britain. After he had laid down the pastoral staff it was taken up by Manning, a born leader of men. He not only fully appreciated the ecclesiastical requirements of the time, but saw how the sympathy of the multitudes might be won by espousing their cause and taking practical measures for the redress of their grievances. His generous efforts met with a cordial response from people of. all classes, especially from the toilers. The fruit sown by Wiseman and Manning was carefully nurtured by Cardinal Vaughan, a tireless and self -sacrificing worker, whose earnestness impressed non-Catholics as well as Catholics. By his ability and energy Archbishop Bourne has proved that he follows worthily in the footof the Cardinal-Archbishops who have preceded .him in the See. In a period of stress and peril his educational policy has been safe and firm. Catholics have turned towards him with confidence and found that

confidence entirely justified. No one could be more unsparing of himself, and to his ceaseless and welldirected activity may be traced his success in such arduous undertakings as the completion and consecration of the Cathedral which Manning projected and Vaughan built. Never has an occasion or an emergency found him wanting, and when he was suddenly called upon to take a decisive course on the prohibition of the carrying of the Host in the Eucharistic procession his strength of character at once became apparent. The action of the Holy Father in raising him to the Sacred College will be warmly approved of alike by Catholics and non-Catholics. Biographical sketches of Cardinals Bourne, Farley, and O'Connell appeared in our issue of November 9. The Most Rev. Diomede Falconio, Archbishop of Larissa and Apostolic Delegate to the United States, was born in Italy in 1842, and entered the Franciscan Order in 1860. On the completion of his studies, in 1865 he was sent as missionary to the United States, and was ordained priest in 1866 at Buffalo. He became professor of philosophy and vice president of St. Bonaventure's College, Alleghany, N.Y.,in 1868, and became a citizen of the United States in 1871. He returned to Italy in 1883, and was honored by important charges and missions, and became Archbishop of Acerenzia and Matera in 1895. He was Apostolic Delegate to Canada from 1899 to 1902, and has been Apostolic Delegate to the United States since September, 1902.