THE POPE OPENS ROME COLLEGE

'Like a city set on a mountain'
FROM his window in the Vatican, the Holy Father has during many months, been watching the building of a magnificent college on the slopes of Janiculum Hill.
"We saw it," said His Holiness, "reflecting the morning sun like a city set on a mountain."
Last week His Holiness returned from Castel Gandolfo to bless and open it-the new North American College, a seminary for all the United
States dioceses.
Fifteen Cardinals, all the dignitaries and officials of the Papal Court and the Roman Curia, 33 members of the American Hierarchy, and 80 other Archbishops and Bishops greeted the Holy Father on his arrival by car from his summer residence.
Present too were practically the whole of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See, Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, a representative of the Italian Government and of the Rome Municipality.
7welve acres
The new college has cost about £1,200,000 and covers with its grounds over 12 acres. It will accommodate 311 students in addition to the faculty and staff.
It stands about 10 minutes' walk from St. Peter's, and replaces the 17th-century building in the Via dell' UmiltrA which has been the seminary's lome since Pope Pius IX founded it 94 years ago.
Cardinal Stritch of Chicago, Cardinal Spellman of New York and Cardinal Mooney of Detroit flew from the U.S. for the ceremony.
The Holy Father said that "not only in the far-off centuries of the early Church but down through the ages and in this our day the enemies of God and Christian civilisation ATHABASCA, a lonely town in Alberta, Canada, has one main street, one cinema, and every other day a train runs to Edmonton, 100 miles away.
And now Athabasca is to have a health visitor.
"Just the job we wanted. We like pioneer work," said Senior Nurse Clare Mary Duffy, who has for the past two years been a health visitor in Leeds.
Off to Canada she went last week with a companion, Miss Joan Hill. Together they will open the health centre for Athabasca. Miss Duffy, 'who comes from Co, Monaghan, Eke, is a qualified midwife as well as a State Registered Nurse, Their territory will cover 8,000 miles and each will have a car, as their patients may well be 100 miles apart.
make bold to attack the Creator's supreme dominion and sacrescant human rights.
"No rank of the clergy is spared, and the faithful-their number is legion-inspired by the valiant endurance of their shepherds and fathers in Christ. stand firm, ready to suffer and die as the martyrs of old for the one true Faith taught by Jesus Christ.
"Into that militia you sek to be admitted as leaders.
"Imprisonment and martyrdom, we know, do not loom on the horizon that spreads before your eyes. In an atmosphere of untrammeled freedom where 'the word of God is not bound' the Church in your country has grown in numbers, in influence. in strength of leadership in all that makes for the good of the commonwealth.
"The college on the via dell'Umilta has seen your priests increase from 2,500 to 45,000 and more-proud and glorious tribute to the unselfish, clearvisioned Catholic family life that prevails among you.
"But," His Holiness remarked, "the Church militant is 'one body, with one Spirit . . with the same Lord, the same faith, the same baptism.' And that Spirit calls for more than a dash of heroism in every priest who would be worthy of the name."
The domestic arrangements in the college are under the supervision of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, who have houses in this country at Gerrards Cross-provincial house and novitiate as well as boarding and day school-New Malden and Corby.
C.W.L. loses its treasurer
The resignation owing to ill health of Miss M. V. Brown, national treasurer for the past six years. was announced at the meeting of the Catholic Women's League in Morecambe, Lancs.
Tribute to Miss Brown was paid by the national president. Mrs. H. P. Swan, Miss Lucy Ware is acting as treasurer.
The Hon. Mrs. Fitzherbert was elected vice-president to replace the Countess of Iddeslcigh, whose term of office has expired.
Bishop Brunner, ecclesiastical assistant, attended the meeting. Others present were the Hon. Mrs. Woodruff. past president, Lady Iddlesleigh, Lady Eldon and Mrs. Mary Kemball, national president of the Union of Catholic Mothers.
OBITUARY
Mrs. Worlock
The Cardinal Archbishop and the Bishop of Portsmouth were present at the Solemn Requiem Mass for Mrs. Worlock offered on Saturday by her son, Mgr. Derek Worlock, at St. Peters, Winchester. His Eminence gave the absolution.
Mrs. Warlock, wife of Capt. Harford Worlock, died suddenly at her home at Easton, near Winchester.
Between 1912 and 1914 Mrs. Worlock IA as the oiganiser for a large part of London for the Non-Combatant Women's Suffrage Society, and from 1924 to 1039 travelled to all parts of the country speaking on behalf of the Conservative Central Office.