| Description | Papers of Archbishop Bourne. Includes material on Bishop Amigo, Pope Benedict XV, Catholic Education Council, Dawes Trust, employment issues, foreign missions, India, church music, parishes, seminary students, Temperance Movement, the Universe and Wilfrid Ward. |
| Admin_History | In 1896 Bourne was Coadjutor Bishop of Southwark and by 1903 Archbishop of Westminster, aged 42. During the Eucharistic Congress in London (1908) he defied a Government ban on public processions of the Blessed Sacrament by giving the Blessing from the Cathedral Loggia. He became Cardinal - with the titular Church of S. Prudentiana - when he was 40 in 1911.
He became known for his patriotic speeches during the First World War, he upheld the rights of the Arabs in Palestine, was a fervent supporter of Catholic schools, denounced the violence in Ireland, reproved the Modernists, and was luke-warm towards inter-faith talks. He opposed the idea of a separate Catholic University and a Catholic Political Party - Catholics must mix.
He died 1 January, 1935, aged 73. |