The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-18

Lo9uS IN En9tano-Some OF tne
New Cardinals-Events in Portugal
Memorial to Bossuet Dedicated.
The news which has become public
property sooner than the authorities
at Westminster desired is hailed with
joy not only by British Catholics but
also by British Protestants. AS soon
as it was confirmed the newspapers
gave their prominent places on
bulletin board and in column to the
announcement that there was to be
again an English Cardinal, and that
Archbishop Bourne would receive the
red hat from Pope Plus at the con-
sistory to be held on the 9th of No
vember. Nor is this the only news
now made public. The rumor which
gained currency a week ago is con-
firmed sand it is indeed the Sees of
Birmingham and of Liverpool which
are elevated to the rank of Arch
bishoprics. What is not generally
known, however, is that there has
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for the last three months, stopping
with an Italian congregation Of
priests, and it was at the quiet and
Insignificant house of the latter that
the great events which mean so much
in the spiritual history of England
took place few days ago. Your cor
respondent is also in a position to
cfo %hof fI1nCn oil hn
changes which are to take place. 1t
is more than likely that one or two
new bishoprics may follow, and that
a well-known See will shortly be split
into two Dioceses, while a prominent
Catholic layman has made a muni-
ficent offer to endow another Catholic
Cathedral in the South of England.
It is interesting to note that both the
new Archbishoprics are in Cathedral
cities where there already existed a
Protestant bishopric. People were
wont to al1ude to the Roman Catholic
Bishop of Liverpool to differentiate
him from the Protestant Bishop. Now,
to the chagrin of some, there will be
no need for this, for in both the case
VI LIZA anu AlF O1 pOO1 IL Will
be the Catholic Archbishop and the
Protestant Bishop!
CardinalElect Bourne.
Archbishop Bourne will leave Eng
land in three weeks time for Rome
and will remain there till Christmas.
Until the present step was taken by
the Holy See His Grace has been the
ruler of wider Archdiocese than any
before known in the Catholic Church,
for he had sixteen suffragan Bishops
He is now left with four only, North
ampton, Southwark, Nottingham and
Portsmouth. He of course retains the
primacy of England and is granted
precedence over all the other Arch
bishops and Bishops with the right
to convoke and preside at all meet
ings of the Hierarchy, to act as rep
resentative of the Episcopate in all
official negotiations with the govern
ment and to use the Throne, Pallium,
and Archiepiscopal Cross throughout
England and Wales. The Archbishop,
who is the son of convert and is now
in his fifty-frst year, was educated at
Ushaw, st. Edmund's Ware, and st.
Sulpice, Paris. When he became Assist
ant Bishop to DR.. Butt of Southwark
he was the youngest Bishop in Great
Britain. When the Church in England
was bereft of that whole-souled and
knightly prelate, Cardinal Vaughan,
and it seemed well nigh impossible to
fill his place, this quiet young Bishop
so different in every way apparently
from his predecessor, save in single
ness of purpose, stepped into the
breach, placed there by Rome largely
at the dying wish of his predecessor,
and well has he justified the hope and
affection which Immediately began to
go out towards him. In person Arch
bishop Bourne is of middle height,
slight of figure, with grave and
scholarly aspect and regular features
crowned with quickly whitening hair.
His manner is quiet and his voice
slow and refined, has a most attrac.
tive tfmbre and reveals something
of the quiet strength of the man who
could check ten thousand fellowmen
in the first outburst of their indignant
fury as they heard from his lips oil
the outrage done their liberty and
their faith by the action of the gov
ernment in preventing the procession
of the Blessed Sacrament at the
Eucharistic Congress. Behind al
Archbishop Bourne's utterances there
is force, simplicity and maniiness
and when the history of the post
Reformation Catholicism of England i.
written the name of our new Cardina
will be among the greatest in its
annals.
Archbishop Whlteside OF Liverpool.
Your correspondent has also the