HONORS TO "CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS.

New Zealand Tablet, 8 May 1919, Page 38

HONORS TO "CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS.

There will presumably^ be few more Honors' list published and so it is interesting to have in the latest another group of decorations and special mentions for Catholic . chaplains (says the London correspondent of the Catholic Herald of India). The 0.8. E., which is now to rank higher than the D.S.O. in military circles, is conferred on Father Wolstan Workman, the Chaplain-in-Chief with the Canadian Forces, and also on a Dominican Father Coutunier lof the Palestine Force, and on Father Purdie, a Cambridge priest, for his work in Salonika with the troops. Father Calderbank, a Franciscan naval chaplain, receives the Legion of Honor for an act of great gallantry, and four chaplains, Fathers Ingram, Leonard, D. Roche, and Dolan, receive the Military Cross. A regular military chaplain, Father O'Farrell, ( celebrated an interesting event, .his silver jubilee, 17 years of his priestly life with the army being spent at Aldershot. During the war his house has become a rendezvous for priests from all parts of the world, secular and regular, whom duty called to serve the troops and who were always welcome to his presbytery, which had become for them a club house. Bishop Keatinge paid tribute to the assistance given by Father O'Farrell to his brother chaplains, and another tribute came in the form of a gold chalice and monstrance subscribed for by the chaplains themselves. In addition to this magnificent presentation the Aldershot parishfor the OF. combines also duties of parish priest.gave their rector a cheque for his personal use and the schools presented him with a silver tea service in commemoration of the auspicious, event.