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For Reunion of All Christians
Conduct Novenas id England for Return of “One Fold and
One Shepherd”—Anglican Divine Denies Established
Church Has Repudited Pope.
By H. C. WATTS
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
London.—Someone sent me a cut
ting from a religious paper in which
was printed an interesting article
on liturgical ceremonial in the
Western Church. On the hack of
the cutting I came across several
announcements about the Church
Unity Octave, the novena of prayer
which is observed with the inten
tion of bringing about the 'Unity of
Christians in the One Fold and un
der One Shepherd.
From the Feast of St. Peter’s
Chair—said one of these announce
ments—till the Feast of the Con
version of St. Paul, the Octave is to
he observed. Mass was announced
on all the days within the Octave,
and there was given names of
certain churches where prayers be
fore the Blessed Sacrament would
he recited for the intention of the
Octave.
The list of intentions was very
full. That of the first day was for
the reunion of Christendom in the
One Fold. On the succeeding days
the intentions were: The Reunion
of East and West; the Repairing of
the 16th Century Breach Between
Rome and Canterbury, the Return
cf Protestants of Continental Eu
rope to Holy Church; the Return of
English-speaking Protestants to
Holy Church; the Return of Lapsed
Catholics to Holy Church; the Con
version of the Jews; the Missionary
Conquest fo the World for Christ.
Sent Out By Anglicans
That was the list of intentions,
and knowing that the Church of
Unity Octave is being observed un
der episcopal approbation in most
of the Catholic dioceses of England,
it looked like an announcement of
Catholic devotions. Then further
down on the list I noticed that it
said that in the church of St. Mag
nus the Martyr at London Bridge
there would be a perpetual watch
.’’coram Sanctissimo Sacramento.” At
another church Father Spencer Jones
was announced to lead the Church
Unity devotions on a certain day.
And it was then that I understand
that the church of St. Magnus the
Martyr is an Anglican place of wor
ship, and that Father Spencer Jones
is a clergyman of the Established
Church.
But the fact remains that here is
a movement, carried on from year
to year, in which certain" Anglicans
pray, from the Feast of St. Peter’s
Chair—a festival that finds no .place
in the Anglican liturgical calendar
—to the Festival of the Conversion
of St. Paul, for which a special
office is provided in the Anglican
prayer book.
It is a puzzling situation, because
here are Catholics and Anglicans
both observing nine days of prayer
for an apparently similar aim. In
my perplexity 1 sought out a very
well known Angilcan divine, who is
a frequent attendant at Catholic
worship when on the Continent, and
ptii the matter to him.
“Why should not Anglicans ob
serve this novena of prayer?” he
as.-ed, when it was pointed out to
him that the Church of Unity Oc
tave was being observed in England,
in tlvc United Stales, on the Con
tinent, and that the Holy Father
himself had privileged the devotions
with indulgences.
“The Church Unity Octave,” he
continued, “was begun as an Angil
can devotion. It was first observed
by a religious community in the
United States, that lias since made
its submission to Rome. It was
brought over to this country and
taken up by the religious communi
ties in the Church of England, as
well as in many of the parish
churches, and so far as 1 can see it
is being continued.”
Anglicans and the Pope
It was pointed out to him that
in Anglican churches on the first
day of the Octave members of the
Church of England were praying for
the Reunion of Christendom in One
Fold. “That means,” I said, “their
union with the Apostolic See, and
your Church repudiates the Pope.”
He turned, sharply, and replied:
“The Church of England does not
repudiate the Pope.”
“But,” I answered him, “it says
in your own Book of Common Pray
er, among the Article of Religion,
that ‘tin; Bishop of Rome hath no
jurisdiction in this Realm of Eng
land.’ ”
“It does,” he said. “And if you
will look at the title of that section
you will see that it is head ‘Of the
Civil Magistrates,’ and that it deals
with the authority of the Ruler over
the ecclesiastical and civil estates of
the Realm.
“As I see it, this article deals with
the Bishop of Rome as a Bishop,
and says nothing whatever about his
office as Pope. Therefore, what it
denies to the Bishop of Rome as
Ordinary of his own diocese, it does
not necessarily deny to him as Pope.
“Nor, as it appears to me, does
this Article dispute the spiritual
jurisdiction of the Pope. It simply
says that the Bishop of Rome has
no jurisdiction in the Realm of Eng
land, and as far as my memory
serves me, he never claimed to have,
since the Realm Is a political or
ganism over which the jurisdiction
of the Temporal Sovereign extends.
The Pope never claimed to exercise
jurisdiction over the body politic,
which is in other words the Realm.
In its fullest extent, this Article, as
I understand it, denies the power of
the Pope to depose Princes.
“Of course, this may not be an
interpretation of the Article that
is generally accepted. But on the
fact of it, it does not, to my mind,
amount to a repudiation of the
Pope.”
Accept Papal Office
Now how far this ingenious,
though not altogether convincing
interpretation of one of the Angli
can Articles of Religion is accepted
among Anglicans it would be diffi
cult to say. For many years past
commentators have been found
among the divines of the Anglican
Church who have sought to find
in this Article some kind of accept
ance of the Papal office.
The fact remains that year after
year certain devout Anglicans per
sist in this novena of prayer, and
the end of thein intention seems '*>
he unity under the shadow of the
Apostolic See. Nor can the Church
Unity Octave be said to have failed
in its object. It was followed by
the conversion of the Society of the
Atonement at Garrison, N. Y., by the
conversion of the Anglican Benedic
tine monks of Caldey Island, as well
as that of the nuns of St. Bride’s
Abbey in Wales. And the nuns of
lyburn, in London, whose special
work is prayer for the conversion
of England, can give many authen
tic accounts of conversions that
have followed on after the Octave.
Father Wynhaven Interests
Community in His Novel
Agricultural and Mechani
cal College.
warn oPburgur?
COLLEGE” ROBS PRIEST
SISTERS CELEBRATE
Centenary Observation at St.
Catherine, Ky.
Catherine, K.,—The one-liundredth
St. Catherin, Ky.,—The one-hun
dredth anniversary of the founda
tion of the Sisters of St Dominic
in the United States will be cele
brated here by members of the
Sisters of St. Dominic of St. Cath
erine of Siena and plans for a more
elaborate cclebation, in which the
public and all former pupils of St.
Catherine’s will participate are
being aranged for May and June.
The humble begining in the little
twisted valley of the Cartwright
Creek has produced fruit a hundred
fold.
A pilgrimage to the St. Rose
Church, where Sister Angela Salis
bury, the first member and first
superior of the community, received
the habit on Easter Sunday, April
7, will he made on that day, follow
ing the celebration of a solemn mass
of thanksgiving, but due to the fact
that the day this year is followed
by holy week, the public exercises
will be postponed.
These will lie held from May .11
to June 6. Clergy Day will he ob
served on May ill, and on June 1
there will be a solemn mass of re
quiem for the dead and memorial
service in the cemetary. Religious
Day, on June 4. will he observed
with a special pageant and on June
6, which will he designated Alumnae
and Friend’s Day, tlfere will be sol
emn mass, a pageant, solemn Bene
diction and in the evening an enter
tainment by members of the Alum
nae.
St. Catherine’s today is a commun
ity of close to four hundred sisters.
Pope Pius VIII gave his approval
of the foundation of the community
in 1822 when Dr. Samuel Thomas
Wilson, (). P., with the approbation
of the Right Rev. Benedict Joseph
Flaget, founded the order.
New Orleans—A missing link
among the educational institutions
ot New Orleans, one that will give
poor boys from all Louisiana an
opportunity to get expert training
as farmers, as dairymen or as me
chanics without expense, has been
projected here under the direction
ot the Rev. P. M. H. Wynlioven,
who as founder of St. Vincent’s
Hotel and free labor bureau has
already furnished food, clothes and
shelter for 200,000 men arid employ
ment for 18,000.
Hope Haven Agricultural and
Mechanical College is the name of
the institution in which Father
Wynlioven has succeeded in arous
ing the interest of the community,
as witnessed by the fact that as
sociated with him in the enterprize
are such leaders of their various
denominations as the Very Rev. E.
A. Cummings, president of Loyola
College Rabbi Mendel Silber of the
Gate of Prayer, Rev. W. McF. Alex
ander of the Prytania Street Pres
byterian Church and Rev. Robert S.
Coupland, rector of Trinity Church.
The Hope Haven project is not
new with Father Wynlioven, for the
dairy department lias been operat
ing on a small scale for some time
and considerable farming is being
done by the few lads already pro
vided for.
Under the system by which the
facilities for carrying on the work
will be amplified, Father Wynhoven
hopes to have established a unit
plan which will stimulate competi
tion among the lads who come
there.
"The plan,” says Father Wyn
hoven, “is to develop the living
quarters to accommodate fifteen
boys and a captain. This will stim
ulate competition among the squads
of fifteen and annually prizes will
be given for the best managed
group.
“The residence buildings will be
tw'o stories, but the upper stories
will be no more than screened sleep
ing porches. The project is not
a charity project—no more than are
the public schools charitable insti
tutions. It will be an asset to the
community. Hope Haven service to
poor boys will be similar to scholar
ships given to older lads at the big
universities.
“The salient difference is that
these younger boys whom we will
care for will he provided with liv
ing quarters, clothes, food and edu
cation. It is no more a charity than
a Rhodes scholarship. If whatever
is free is charity, then the children
who play in the public parks or
visit the art museums are objects of
charity.”
Father Wynhoven has been rector
ot seven churches; lie is treasurer
of the Louisiana Commission for
the Blind; secretary of the Morn
ing Star Publishing Company; chap
lain of the Catholic Daughters of
America, and treasurer of the Jef
ferson Chapter of the Red Cross.
Providence, U. I.,—A diploma
from a Sail Francisco “college of
burglars,” signifying that he was
a graduate thereof, was among
the possesions of Charles Benson,
59, who was arrested here , while
at work drilling holes in a vestry
of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
here.
The Rev. Martin F. Reddy, pas
tor of the chqrch was , awakened
by the sound of a window open
ing in the church vestry and
watched the intruder, with a full
set of burglar tools, start drill
ing the door of the safe, which
held a portion of the parish
funds. Officers were summoned
and surrounded Benson, who hid
behind the alter. When captur
ed he said he had entered the
church to get warm.
Among the possessions which
the police secured from a check
ing room in a railway station
were a full line if burglar’s tools,
flashlights and the diploma
which shows him to be expert in
his profession. Benson says his
home is in Ridley Park, Phila
delphia.
CARDINAL O’CONNELL TROPHY
Boston,—His Eminence Cardinal
O’Connell is the donor of a new
trophy for which, athletes will com
pete in a relay race to decide the
championship of the Catholic' col
leges on March 4. This race is to
he a feature of the Ii. of C. games
lo be contested on that date. Car
dinal O’Connell has cabled his offer
from Rome.
Boston College, Holy Cross, Ford-
ham, Georgetown, Notre Dame, and
Detroit University have been in
vited to enter the competition. The
trophy, it is stipulated, must he won
three times by a college before it
becomes the permanent property of
such winer.
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Newman Lead at Notre
Dame.
Notre Dame, 1 nd.,—Father Finn
and Cardinal Newman are the most
popular authors among the students
of the University of Notre Dame,
it has been revealed as a result of
a questionaire just completed at
the University, in which students
were asked for facts pertinent to
Catholic growth and influence.
Twenty-two of the 75 votes for
Father Finn came from preparatory
students, hut even among the col
lege men the idol of the juveniles
received twice as many votes as
Mousignor Benson, who was third
on the list and was accorded 25
votes. Cardinal Newman, who was
second, received 73 votes and the
required readings in Newman have
started a Newman cult among the
more serious-minded students in the
English classes.
__ John Ayscougli received 19 votes;
F. Marion Crawford 9; Cardinal
Wiseman 5 and Joyce Kilmer 6.
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Jerusalem,—Permission has
granted by the Archaclogical G
mission to rebuild the ancient F
ilica of the Agony on the site
the Garden of Galhesemane, whi
recent excavations have uncov
the ruins of the original edifice
a Christian Cemetary. The
of restoring‘this former shrine
he undertaken by the Francis!
who had charge of the excavate
When the site of the first li
ilica was investigated the orig
foundations, (he bases of the Cl
unins, and the mosaics in the fl
were found exceptionally well jj
served. Adjoining the basil
were discovered human remal
which arcliologists pronounced th
of Christians who had been bur
there sixteen or seventeen i
luries ago. These remains were
a good state of preservation.
At first the Archaelogical Co
mission, among whose members
several distinguished Catholic sc
tists, declined to authorize a :
building, but finally gave perm
sion when it was shown that t
work to be undertaken was the
toration of a former Christian mo
uqicnt and not the construction
a modern edifice. The commisr
was established to conduct arcl
logical research, preserve the
mains of early Jewish and Cirri
ian architecture and to prevent 1
erection of structures out of hr
mony with tile venerable buildir
which survive from ancient times
The first Basilica of the Agj
was erected by St. Helena, mothei
Constantine the Great, in the fotj
century.
The Cincinnati K. K. K. passed)
resolution of sympathy on the dea
of Pope Benedict, according to I
press report. There is somethi)
pathetic in observing how the inc
unlikely of bodies bowed till
heads at the passing of the Pope,
spite of their protestations of c
mity toward the Church. The mr.
prodigal of sons is touched by tj
death of a father whose guidaij
he had ignored and whose authc
ty he had denied. In the case,
the K. K. K. it is either that/
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