Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 15 July 1915, Page 47

Intercolonial

| Hisrace Archbishop Clun© was recently tendered a civic reception in the Town Hall during his first visit to Albany. The Rev. T. J. O’Hara, S.J., for some years on the teaching staff of St. Ignatius’ College, Riverview, Sydney, has left for Ireland. The Very Rev. Dean O’Reilly, of Victoria Park, .West Australia, celebrated the silver, jubilee of his ordination recently, when an illuminated address was presented on behalf of his brother priests of the archdiocese. Since his ordination at All Hallows’ College, Dublin, twenty-five years ago, the Dean has labored not only on the Murchison and Eastern Goldfields, but also in the Eastern agricultural districts, and in the metropolitan area. No greater tribute of respect and admiration could have been paid to anyone, whether as a minister of religion or as a citizen, than that furnished by the celebration of the Yen. Archpriest Hennebry’s golden jubilee at Hobart (says the Monitor). There was a large congregation at the Solemn High Mass in St. Joseph’s Church, when the occasional discourse was delivered by the Right Rev. Mgr. Gilleran, who, later on, presented the jubilarian with a purse of 150 sovereigns, subscribed by the priests of the archdiocese. At a social, held in the Town Hall in honor of the occasion, his Grace Archbishop Delany presided, and eulogistic speeches were made by the Mayor of Hobart and others. The Ven. Archpriest was presented, on behalf of the Catholics of Hobart, with a cheque for a substantial amount. His Lordship Bishop Shicl has now with him in the Cathedral parish of Rockhampton, the Very Rev. Father J. Rowan, Administrator, and the Rev. Fathers T. A. Simington and T. Grogan, and it is a coincidence that his Lordship and the three priests are from the same diocese, Meath, Ireland, and all four, at .one time or another, attended the same seminary in Navan, in the diocese of Meath (says the correspondent of t lie Catholic Cress) . Five brothers of the Rowan family are priests. The Very Rev. Father Rowan’s brother, Denis, is a professor in the University of Friburg, Switzerland. The Rev. Father John Rowan is ministering at Lichfield, in the diocese of Birmingham. A third brother is the Rev. Father Michael Rowan, a member of the congregation of the African Missions. The last of the Rowan family to become a priest is Frank Rowan, whose ordination, according to a letter received by the Very Rev. Father Rowan, was arranged to take place on June 29. Two sisters of the Very Rev. Father Rowan were also religious, but both have passed to their reward. At St. Patrick’s Cathedral a few Sundays ago his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne made an appeal for funds on behalf of the proposed Catholic College in the University of Melbourne. After referring to the more prominent grounds on which the appeal rested, {he Archbishop said that he wished to emphasise another ground of more general character, which was the relation of the Catholic Church, from the earliest times, to universities and university education. There were ages which were called dark by those whose minds were darkened by ignorance and prejudice, during which it was stated that no university education existed. The Catholic Church was represented as the enemy of education, and the Reformation was supposed to have spread university education throughout Europe. Gibbon would tell those people that at the close of the fifteenth century there were in Europe about 50 universities. In an article in the Contemporary Review written by a non-Catholic writer on medieval universities, it was stated that at the close of the fifteenth century there were 66 universities, of which Italy had 18, Germany 15, France 12, Spain and Portugal 10, England and Scotland 6. The oldest of these, Bologna, Paris, and Oxford, were founded in the twelfth century, and perhaps earlier.