The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-02-17
HOME COMING Of
CARDINAL BOURNE

| Enthusiastic Reception for EngIand's
New cardinal-Arrival at Westmin-
ster Cathedral-First Public Ad-
dress-BIesses kneeling Thousands
Receptions and Other Functions
for His Eminence.
The events which recently happened
in the capital of the British Empire are
of such importance to the Catholic
Church and her future in the English.
speaking world that they may well
claim our almost undivided attention.
For the first time since the Reforma-
ton civic London offered an official
welcome to the representatives of
Blessed Peter. That was one of the
outstanding features of the great cere-
mony which adds another ecclesias-
teal memory to the treasury of West
minister's recollections. Another fea-
ture was the confidence expressed by
the acts of the Holy See and the words
of the Cardinal in which those acts
we're mentioned that the day is not so
far distant when England will again
become wholly Catholic save for a few
heretics and when possibly Monsignor
Benson's description of the state of
religion fifty years hence may be real
lied. Surely there was something
significant in the official presence of
this son of the late chief of the
Anglican church in the procession of
Bishops, Canons and Monsignori who
traversed the long nave of Westmin-
ster between thousands of the faithful
to welcome home again Cardinal
Bourne with his Roman honours fresh
upon him. It was indeed an impress
sive sight Within and without vast
crowds of men and women thronged
the Cathedral, kept back from the
great doors by strong force of police
and by a very smart corps of Boy
Scouts of the Catholic Boys Brigade
who now proudly call themselves ''The
Cardinals own" and who sounded a
triumphant fanfare of trumpets when
His Eminence's motor made it's way
through the crush. 1t was the first
opportunity that any had had to greet
him for though he landed on Friday
night at Dover he spent the night al
the Visitation Convent, and motored
up to London the following morning
Arriving in the evening at the Re
demptorists at Chaplain he spent the
night and the morning of Sunday with
his old friends and said the early
Mass and administered communion az
a simple priest might have done, in
the church where he was baptized
confirmed, made his first communion
and received the call to the great Office
of the priesthood.
Arrival at Westminster.
; In the afternoon, still very quietl!
and unaccompanied save by few
: friends, he drove in his own motor
: across the frontier of his Archdioces,
and arrived at the Cathedral just aftel
. the Lord Mayor of London, accom-
panied by the wellknown Catholi,
Mayor of the past, Sir John Knill, ant
Z Sir William Dunn, another Catholi
! alderman, had been escorted up tn
) nave by the Administrator of tn
5 Cathedral. There was something rem
2 iniscent of those fine steel plate en-
/ cravings of Catholic professions il
!, old Cathedrals about the scene a.
: through the dimness of the vast build
/ ing, looking down from above tn
D sanctuary some hundreds of press
4 men and photographers first describe
n tho 11Yro xxyhS&n cold nf
s canopy and beneath it the figure q
t the Cardinal in the magnificent robe
L of his new dignity, the great hat Cal
+ ried before him, the long train of ele
t quent scarlet sweeping far behind hir
n carried by two gentlemen In blac
y velvet court dress, his people bendin
n low on either side, the serried ranks @
d his clergy, some four hundred strong
y awaiting his coming like the whit
t crest of great wave of faith forme
# by the dark masses behind them an
e breaking just clear of the marble pave
r ment of the brightly Illuminated san,
e tuary. No less beautiful and imprel
e sive was the scenario when the Gel
I? trail figure knelt before the altar, a
C the various dignitaries took thei
r places in the sanctuary, afterward
e passing to his Archiepiscopal thron
e while the prayer, 'Oremus Omnipoten
II Sempiterne Deus qui facts mirabili
3. solus," was recited by the Proves
IS Bishop Fenton, begging God to bles
of the Cardinal and the flock committe
:: to his care.
a Address of His Eminence.
le Standing at the extremity of th
ID sanctuary steps His Eminence read hi
W address to the people, his low cles
Of voice with its indication of perfe,