Catholic Information From Abroad

VATICAN CITY
PRIVATE AUDIENCES. The Holy Father has received in private audience recently Cardinals Salotti, Tedeschini, Marmaggi, Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster, and Van Roey, Archbishop of Malines; • Mgr. Masterson, Archbishop of Birmingham; Mgr. Petit, Archbishop of Menevia ; Mgr. Guerry, Archbishop Coadjutor to the Archbishop of Cambrai ; Mgr, Marmottin, Archbishop of Rheims; Archbishop Beltrami, Apostolic Nuncio in Columbia ; Archbishop Anton iut ti, Apostolic Delegate to Canada; Mgr. Platero, Archbishop of Burgos ; Archbishop Costantini, Secretary of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide ; Mgr. Kerkhofs, Bishop of Liege; Mgr. Picaud, Bishop of Bayeux ; Mgr. Weber, Bishop of Strasbourg; Mgr. van Wayenbergh, Rector of the Catholic University of Louvain ; Bishop Blanchet, Rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris; Mgr. Louis, Bishop of Perigueux; Fr. Nivardo Buttaraggi, Abbot General of the Cistercians of Casamari; the Argentine Ambassador ; General Mark Clarke, upon his relinquishing his post as Commander in Austria to take up his new appointment as Commander of the American Forces in the Pacific; Count Carton de Wiart.
SPECIAL AUDIENCES. The Holy Father has recently received in special audience Mr. Leigh Smith, the first secretary of the British Legation, with his family; Major-General Miller, and five chaplains; the Superior General of the Handmaidens of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with her Assistant; Colonel Lewis; Captain Francis Wallace; Mr. Robert Stanford; the Fathers forming the General Chapter of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate; and a group of missionaries of the Holy Spirit.
FR. LEO DESCHATELETS, Provincial of the Eastern Canada province, was elected Superior General of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate at their general chapter held recently in Rome. The new General is the first North American-born priest to hold the office. CANADA MGR. PETER MONAHAN, Archbishop of Regina, has died in a hospital in Regina following a lengthy illness, aged 65. The eighth of 15 children, the Archbishop was a native of Saint Lin, Quebec, where he was ordained in 1909. He served as a professor at Joliette College for two years and was rector of St. Mary's Church in North Bay, Ontario, for 10 years. In 1932 he was elevated to the Hierarchy and was consecrated as Bishop of Calgary, where he served until 1935, when he was named Archbishop of Regina. • The FEDERAL MINISTER of External Affairs acted as spokesman for Catholic members of the Senate and House of Commons when a delegation of the Dominion parliamentarians called on Mgr. Vachon, Archbishop of Ottawa, and presented him with a cheque for more than 3,000 dollars to be used towards defraying the cost of the Marian Congress.
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES marked the departure of the miraculous statue of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary from the national shrine of Our Lady at Cap de la Madeleine en route to Ottawa for the Marian Congress, to be held there next month. The solemn procession will take a month-and-ahalf to reach Ottawa, a distance of some 200 miles from Cap de la Madeleine.
CARDINAL FRINGS, Archbishop of Cologne, has been invited by the Archbishop of Ottawa to attend the Marian Congress in that city next month. It is expected that the British Military Government will give their permission for the Cardinal to attend,
FRANCE
THE HEAD of the State, Mr. Vincent Oriel, Cardinal Rogues, Archbishop of Rennes, three Bishops, and five Ministers of the State .were present in Orleans for the civic and religious ceremonies, on Thursday last, commemorating the relief of Orleans by St. Joan of Arc.
GERMANY
GASTON TESSIER (Paris), first president of the Christian Trade Union International, Auguste Cool (Brussels), the second president and I. S. Serrarens (Utrecht), the general secretary, have arrived in Berlin for a visit of several days. They state that their visit is to make the first contact with friends from Christian trade union work,
THE BATTLE for denominational schools still goes on in Berlin. The chairman of the Berlin Christian Democratic Union, speaking against the introduction of non-denominational schools, stated that the rights of the State were less than the rights of the parents and that non-denominational schools were separatism of the worst kind.
GUATEMALA THE LAW passed by the Guatemalan Congress imposing government controls upon the Press and radio will have far-reaching consequences for the Church in Guatemala, the Catholic weekly, Verbum, of that city has noted. With the exception of the Government's organ, the entire local Press has bitterly criticised the law, which gives whatever party happens to be in power an almost absolute hold upon the Press and radio of the country.
HUNGARY
A MISSION has arrived in Rome to negotiate the resumption of diplomatic relations with the Holy See.
NETHERLANDS SIX LEADERS of trade unions, including two representatives of the Catholic trade unions, Mr. A. C. de Bruyn and Mr. P. J. Serrarens were received by the British Ambassador at The Hague, Sir Neville Bland, before leaving for England, where they are to be received at the Ministry of Labour for discussions on man-power and other economic and social questions. Their visit will last from May 10 to May 25.
POLAND
THE CHAPEL of the famous monastery of Jasna Gora was, in April, entered and burgled and gifts offered by the faithful, valued at about £2,000, were stolen. The thieves have since been captured in Warsaw where they tried to sell some of the gifts to a jeweller.
ARCHBISHOP RONCALLT, Papal Nuncio in Paris, recently ordained four Polish priests in the Polish seminary of that city.
MGR. GOLINSKT, Professor of the Lublin Seminary, has been appointed Auxiliary Bishop to Mgr. Wyszynski, Bishop of Lublin.
PORTUGAL
THE FIRST colonial representatives to attend the canonisation of the Portuguese Jesuit martyr, Blessed John de Britto, in June, arrived recently in Portugal from Mozambique under the care of Cardinal de Gouvela, Archbishop of Lourenco Marques. Accompanying Cardinal de Gouveia were four native chiefs and their wives, four native professors and their wives, four native Seminarians, four native Franciscan missionaries and a number of diocesan priests.
SPAIN
THE NEW University College of St. James the Apostle, for the use of foreign students exiled from their own countries because of religious persecution, was opened in Madrid recently. Among those present were the president of Pox Romana, Fr. Nicolas Kohut, representing the Ukranian Catholics, the Dean of Dublin University and many others. The new college is large enough to take 112 students and it already has 72.
DR. RICHARD PATTEE, international affairs consultant of the American National Catholic Welfare conference, and distinguished writer, has arrived in Spain as the guest of the Central Office of the Spanish Catholic Action for a lecture tour.
U.S.A.
THE MISSAL that was used in the first and only Mass to be offered in the Antarctic continent, on January 26, 1947, has been presented to the college at which the naval chaplain who accompanied the expedition was educated The missal, richly decorated and bound in red leather with gold edging, was
only used on this on occasion.