The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, 11 September 1913, Page 55

The Catholic World

ENGLAND RANSOMED SANCTUARIES.' Dom Bede Camm, 0.5.8., said the first Mass at Llanthony Abbey on Sunday, July 20, the Feast of the Patronage of St. Benedict. This is the monastery of the late Father Ignatius, and through the conversions at Caldey it has now come into Catholic hands, as Brother Asaph Harris, to whom Father Ignatius left the abbey, is now a Catholic monk at Caldey. This year Dom Bede Camm has said the first Mass in no less than three ransomed sanctuaries: on the Feast of. the Epiphany he said the first Mass at the old pre-Reformation chapel, built by Bishop Grossetete in the thirteenth century, at Thame, near Oxford; on February 28, at Caldey; and now at Llanthony. THE RELIGIOUS ATMOSPHERE. . The Archbishop of Liverpool, speaking at the yearly prize distribution of the Birkdale Farm School, connected with, the Liverpool Catholic Reformatory Association, referred to the report which had been issued by a Commission on the whole subject of industrial and reformatory schools, and said Catholic schools, industrial and reformatory, had come through that Commission with flying colors. There was not very much reference in the report to Catholic schools. To his mind, the chief interest was not in what it said, but in what it did not say. Difficulties were experienced in other schools which were not experienced in Catholic schools—he meant moral difficulties. They did profess as Catholics to be able to. bring to bear effectively in their schools primary, secondary, industrial, reformatory, and poor lawindeed, upon all th'ose committed to their care— influence of their religion. As Catholics they believed the chief instrument in the formation of character, and in. the preparation of boys and girls, not only for their life in the next world, but for their career in this one, was religion. FRANCE RECALLING THE NUNS. The people of Marseilles, like those of Paris, Lyons, and other French' cities are petitioning to have the Sisters come back to the hospitals from which the laicising movement in France removed them. In Marseilles a petition signed by 130,000 persons of whom 71,000 were men, has been sent to the authorities requesting the return of the Sisters. DEATH OF AN ARCHBISHOP. From Paris is anounced the death of Mgr. Delamaire, Archbishop of Cambrai, which took place rather suddenly on July 21 in his summer quarters at Cancale. The deceased prelate was formerly Bishop of Perigiieux, and was a leader of the opposition which the enforcement of the 1906 Separation Law aroused. It was only last February that Mgr, Delamaire became Titular Archbishop of Cambrai on the death of Mgr. Sonnois, whom he had long practically represented in the functions of the See. i ■■■ ' ■ ROME AMERICAN SAILORS RECEIVED BY THE POPE. Sixty-five officers and boys belonging to the training ship, the Panther, were present on Sunday, July 20, at a big audience in the Court of St. Damasus. When the Holy Father appeared they gave him three cheers that rang out loudly above the general acclamations that greeted him. On hearing the ringing American cheers,

the Pope asked those who were with him what it meant, and when he was informed of the facts he sent a special message to the captain, inviting him to a special audience on Monday morning. He received them with his usual affability, and they left his presence delighted with the courtesy which he had extended to them. RECEIVED IN PRIVATE AUDIENCE. The Pope on July 19/received in private audience Mrs. James Hope and Miss Streeter, representing the Catholic Women's League of Great Britain. His Holiness, who appeared much interested in their organisation work, inquired as to the progress they were making. At the close of the audience the Holy Father imparted the Apostolic Benediction. GERMAN PILGRIMS. On July 11 (writes a Rome correspondent) the expected Berlin pilgrims arrived here, and they formed one of the largest bodies that have come to the Eternal City to perform the devotions of the Constantinian Jubilee. They numbered about six hundred and fifty, and made quite an imposing procession when performing the prescribed visits at the Basilicas. Sunday morning found them assembled for Mass and Holy Communion at the National Church of Santa Maria dell' Anima, and in the afternoon of the same day they formed the central group of the thousands who assembled in the Cortile of San Damaso to receive the Apostolic Benediction. They were quite as enthusiastic as the Italians in greeting the Holy Father's appearance on the Loggia, their ' Hoch' resounding as strongly as the more lively ' Evviva ' of the Southerners. The German residents in Rome are justly proud of the excellent impression left by their countrymen for earnestness and piety in the performance of their religious exercises and for the warm attachment to the Church and the Supreme Pontiff. The pilgrims had finished only the first part of their programme in completing their Roman visit. They left on July 15 for Loreto and. thence went direct on pilgrimage to Lourdes before beginning their home journey. SCOTLAND THE BISHOP OF DUNKELD. His Lordship; Dr. Fraser new Bishop of Dunkeld—is proving decidedly popular, especially in Dundee, where he has taken up residence (says the Glasgow Observe?-). He set to himself the onerous task of visiting all the parishes and missions in the diocese, and so far as the Tayside city is concerned he has already made himself acquainted with the bulk of his subjects. Wherever he has been he has received a most cordial welcome, and in addresses to his people he has expressed the desire to know them even more intimately, even to the extent of visiting.them in their own homes. It will take him some time to go over the scattered (in area) diocese, but his'Lordship seems delighted with his selfimposed task. SWITZERLAND A GOLDEN JUBILEE. An interesting ceremony took place on June 29 in the chapel of St. Elizabeth at Ouchy, Lausanne, Switzerland, when Very Rev. David Canon Curtin, of Mallow, Ireland, celebrated the golden jubilee of his ordination. After High Mass sung by the Canon, the chaplain of ' Bois-Cerf ' traced the career of the jubilarian, his years in All Hallows' College, Dublin; in the Seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris; his mission lasting a quarter of a century in the island of Mauritius; his travels in the Australian Colonies, in Palestine, and Syria, in North ? and South America, in all the European countries and the services he rendered as English confessor ..at the Church of the Madeline, Paris, for over twenty-two years, and finally his retirement to

' Bois-Cerf ' which is a sanatorium and where he exercises the ministry. UNITED STATES A GENEROUS ENDOWMENT. The Knights of Columbus have very nearly completed the 500,000 dollar endowment the Order started to raise for the Catholic University in Washington. Only 5000 dollars remain of the amount required. CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY SUMMER SCHOOL. The third summer session of Teachers' College, Catholic University of America, which was held in July, surpassed in attendance and enthusiasm the sessions of previous years. Almost 400 students were enrolled, of whom 371 were Sisters. These were drawn from thirty States of the Union and various parts of Canada. The Religious ■ represented twenty-six communities, who came from forty-eight dioceses of the United States and Canada. The Sisters of Mercy were in the majority.