THE LATE CARDINAL MORSN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3301, 21 August 1911, Page 5

THE LATE CARDINAL MORSN.

UNIVERSAL EXPRESSIONS OF SYMPATHY. WHO WILL BE HIS SUCCESSOR ? [ 'NITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.} I SYDNEY, August 19. . Messages of sympathy and tributes in connection with the death of Cardinal Mqran have come from all parts of the Commonwealth and all classes of the community, including the Anglican Archbishops. The impression is that if the Australian eardinalate is to be continued, Archbishop Carr, of Melbourne, will succeed the late Cardinal Moran, he being senior to Archbishop Kelly. °

THE PRELIMINARY OBSEQUIES. A REPRESENTATIVE GATHERING. (Received August 20, 5 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 19. Idle preliminary obsequies in connection with the late Cardinal Moran’s funeral were held yesterday—including the celebration of the Pontifical Regieum High Mass—and very largely attended. Those present included -representatives of the Government, and the Anglican Primate, several members of the ministry, the Lord Mayer, Mi- W. Redmond (the Irish delegate). Several prelates of the Roman Catholic Church participated in the service, which was most solemn.

In the course of a eulogy of the late Cardinal Moran Archbishop Kelly said!: ‘‘Who does not feel his loss? ‘in loving Ireland, his motherland, and Australia, his adopted country, he loved ever yindividiial. citizen at Home and here. If possible he had a more tender sentiment in regard to the interests of those outside his fold'than those within it.”

As a successor to Archbishop Vaughan and Cardinal Moran he (Archbishop Kelly) would try and obliterate the impression conveyed in a certain publication that the late Cardinal Moran had dealt harshly with the late Archbishop Vaughan’s relations in regard to the latter’s interment. Cardinal Moran had informed him that he paid the full bill for Archbishop Vaughan’s funeral expenses, and advised him to let the matter rest till the Day of Judgment. THE FUNERAL PROCESSION. IMMENSE CROWD IN CATHEDRAL

(Received August 21 12.55 a.m.) SYDNEY. August 20. It is estimated that nearly 250,000 people, viewed the late Cardinal Moran’s funeral procession. The hearse containing his remains, leaving Saint Mary’s Cathedral, proceeded via Liverpool, Elizabeth and College Streets, and thence returned to the cathedral, followed by Church dignitaries and clergy, members of Catholic societies and guilds in their regalia (and including a representative of the New Zealand Hibernian Society children of the Catholic schools, the Irish rifle regiment, representatives of the GovernorGeneral and State Governor, Mr W. M. Hughes representing the Commonwealth Ministry, and several members of tlie State Ministry and the official heads.

Many public men were present at the obsequies as a tokefi of respect to the departed Cardinal. An immense crowd thronged th© cathedral, where Archbishop Kelly performed the last rites. As the coffin was placed in the vault the. service' was simple and most solemn and impressive. The choir rendered subdued dirges, and the combined cathedral hells were tolled.

THE LATE CARDINAL’S CAREER.

HIS WORK IN AUSTRALIA. When only twelve years of age the late Cardinal Moran accompanied to Rome his nncle, Cardinal Cullen, then rector of the Irish College m the city of the Seven Hills. During a stay or twenty-five years in Rome, the late Cardinal was in turn student, professor, and vice-rector of the Irish College. -He also made an exhaustive study of the archives of the early Irish and British churches, and was recognised to be an unsurpassed authority upon that subject. His antiquarian researches resulted in over twenty publications from his pen. „ In 1566 he returned to Ireland as private secretary to his uncle, Cardinal Cullen, who had been made Archdeacon of Dublin. He also became Professor of Hebrew' and Scripture m Gionlilte College, Dublin. In 1872 he was consecrated Bishop of Ossory, where he remained until March 21, 1884, when he "was translated to the vacant archdiocese of Sydney. On his arrival.in the New South Wales capital m September, he w T as welcomed by a concourse of one hundred thousand people. Next year he was called to Rome and made a Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII, on July 27. He presided at the first Plenary Council of the Catholic Church in Australasia, which, was attended by seventeen prelates, in November, 1880. . Ihe late Cardinal was generally recognised as an able and'energetic primate. His published works include: Memoir of the Most Rev. Oliver Plunkett (1861), “Essays on the Origin of the Early Irish ‘‘History of the Catholic Archbishops of Dublin (1864), “Historical Sketch of the- Persecutions under Cromwell and the P"™™?® (I 860); “Acta S. Brendam (1872); “Spicilegium Ossorieuse, being a_ collection of documents to illustrate the History of the Irish Church from the Reformation to the year 1800 (18/9); a volume of ooeins entitled Thoughts,” a political work on The Federal Government of Australasia ; “Letters on the Anglican Reformation ’ (1890) ■ “History of the Catholic Church in Australasia”' (1894); “The, Reumon of Christendom and Its Critics (1896)1, “The Mission Field in the Nineteenth Century” (1900); and “The Priests and People of Ireland” (1905). _ The Cardinal accomplished a deal for his Church. Twenty-eight Homan Catholic institutions of charity -r» date from his arrival. He was the founder of St .Patrick’s Ecclesiastical ▼ College, at Manly, and this is regarded by his people as his greatest work. The Cardinal, without any appeal to the Roman Catholic community, paid for the erection and furnishing of St. Patrick’s, which, it is said, could not have cost him less than £BO,OOO. Great personal influence was exercised by the Cardinal over his community. If he contemplated any big Church work he had only to ask and the appeal was readily responded to. Some tune ago he undertook to raise £IOO,OOO for the completion of St. Mary’s Cathedral. A rough estimate show's that nearly £40,000 is already in hand towards the project. In fifteen years he spent £IOO,OOO rn making the Cathedral what it is to-day. The completed structure will rentes ent an expenditure of over £200,000. CarcVnai Moran was a conspicuous figure at ail the public functions during the centwnarv celebrations of 1888. And he organised a great Roman Catholic

function in connection with the event, it took the form of a public meeting in St. Mary's, at which Lord Carrington, then Governor of New South Wales, attended and spoke. Five other colonial Governors were also present on the occasion. One of the Cardinal’s pleasantest recollections was the Catholic Congress of--1900. On that occasion Earl Beauchamp, a Protestant Governor, and his staff, together with the Chief Justice, the'Premier, and other leading citizens, attended High Mass in St. Mary’s Cathedral. During the Congress also the Governor entertained the Cardinal, his visiting prelates, the delegatee, and local members of the Congress at Government House. This was considered by Roman Catholics as a remarkable recognition of the dignity, power, and influence of their Church. Ten years previously the Cardinal was conspicuous in the reception of two deputations from the' maritime strikers, when he used his influence to try to bring about a settlement/ 'He again figured prominently in the Federal movement, his most notable effort being a big speech at the People’s Federation Convention in Bathurst. One of the last occasions upon which the Car- ! dirial was prominently before the general public was during the wisit of the American fleet. He was a guest at the State banquet, and himself gave a big banquet in honor of the visitors. In the. early] part of 1908 his Eminence paid a visit to New' Zealand.