The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03
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II E1IS1tCdll ASoi Va
st. GATHERINGS, Nottingham, England,
from 1909 to 1914, together with Mrs.
Gordon, has been received into the
Catholic Church in the Transyaal,
where they took up their residence on
leaving Nottingham in June, 1914.
crimes, Nottingham, Mr.. Gordon states,
81 saw the Bishop (of Pretoria), who
was most kind and said he did not
think that dissatisfaction with the
Anglican Church was sufficient justi-
fication for submission to Rome. 1
agreed, but said that we had got long
past mere discomfort with Anglican
ism to whole-hearted acceptance of
the Papal claims"
Bishops Son Convertible report
which has lately been current, but
the accuracy of which was denied in
quarters likely to be able to give au-
thoritative information on the subject,
namely, that the Rev. Ronald Arbuth-
mott Knox, Youngest son of the Angli-
can Bishop of Manchester, England,
has been received into the Catholic
Church, is now confirmed on good
authority by the Manchester Guard
ian. Mr.. Knox was a scholar of Bal
liol College, won the Gaisford prize
in 1908, and was Ireland and Craven
scholar in the same year. He was
elected a Fellow of Trinity College in
1910, took Anglican orders in the
following year, and in 1912 was ap-
pointed chaplain at Trinity College.
The reception took place at Farnbor-
ough Abbey on Saturday, September
%, the Right Rev. Abbot Cabrol, O.
S. B., receiving the converts submits
sion.
Catholic Procession in Petrograd.--
The council of the Russian Church
met recently at Moscow, among which
there are many laymen, and issued an
encyclical to be read on Sunday in
all the Russian churches. The coun-
Gil proposes to examine soon the
question of the re-establishment of
the patriarchate abolished by Peter
the Great, and of the reunion of the
dissenting sects produced in the Ortiz
odoX Church since that suppression
For the first time an outdoor process
sion of the Blessed Sacrament has
taken place in the streets of Petro
grad.
Archbishop's JubiIee.-The golden
jubilee of the ordination of the Most
Rev. DR.. Healy, Archbishop of Tuam
Ireland, was celebrated on September
Is at the Cathedral at Tuam. High
Mass was celebrated and at it's conclu
sion the ''Te Deum' was sung. Owing
to the illness of the Archbishop there
was no public announcement of his
jubilee. The members of the Cath
Ollie Chapter, the Canons of the Arch
| diocese, and large number of priests
were present, and there was large
| assemblage of the laity in the Ca
thedral. After the service many OF
the clergy present called on the Arch
| bishop, who, although at that time
seriously i'll, was reported to be grad
| ually regaining his strength. He is
seventy-six years of age
Convert Scottish Bishop.-The news
| of the appointment of Rev. Henry
Gray Graham as Auxiliary Bishop OF
st. Andrews and Edinburgh, England
/ will GRO Tot &c
| country. The son of Presbyterian
| minister, the new Bishop was twenty
years ago assistant professor of He
brew and Oriental languages in st
Andrews University, of which he is
a Master of Arts and Bachelor of Di
vinity. In 1903, two years after be
coming pastor of a leading Presbyte
| rian parish, he was received into the
Church, and three years later he com
pleted his studies for the priesthood
at the Scots College in Rome an(
was ordained there. The following
| year he became curate at Motherwel
in Glasgow, where he remained unit
| appointed pastor of Longridden, abou
two years ago. He is forty-three years
| old
Cardinal Logue and the GaeIi,
League.-In response to letter from
the secretary of the Leinster Colleg,
of Irish, notifying him of meeting t
be held in Drogheda to establish ;
centre of the college in that town
Cardinal Logue wrote as follows
"Carlingford, 18th Sept, 1917. Dea
Sir: Owing to my being from home
your letter did not reach me in tim
to write before your meeting on Mon
day last. hope your centre in Drog
heda will be a success. The Irisl
Colleges give the only hope that any
thing effectual will be done for tn
Irish language. AS for the Gaeli
League, since it has been turned int
a political machine fear it will prov
quite barren as far as promoting tn
revival of Irish is concerned | am
dear sir, yours faithfully, i. Michae
Card. Logue.'