The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-06-30
BUTTE.
FATHER DE sTERE HOME.
Returns After Several Months Spent
In Europe.

In Europe.
Quite Miner. June 24)
Two children near the portal of th5
confessional, two Sisters of Charity ii
silent alteration before the altar. and a
priest whose rapturOus gaze rested
upon every object in St Patrick
| church as if all We're the creations OF
| a moments tine-this was what a
Miner reporter saw yesterday after
noon about 3 o'clock. The actions OF
| the priest easily suggested the sGran-
| ger who saw St Patrick's for the first
time for he inspected its interior from
every point of vantage. a radiant
smile meanwhile Illuminating his whole
countenance. But the priest was nc
| stranger. He was Father De Siere the
head pastor himself. who had only a
few hours before arrived from his
| travels on the other end of the globe.
! Nothing remarkable had taken place.
no change III the beauty of shrine or
| the tint of the ceiling since his depart
ure last fall. Yet from his manner of
inspection one would imagine the good
priest still gazing in esctacies upon
the marvellous creations of the cathe-
! dral of Milan or the more familiar
objects in the churches of Belgium, his
native land. Either that, or the emo
ton was inspired by the vision of
home-like objects, which human love
| always magnifies. ST. Patrick's church
is Father De Siere's home.
Father De Siere had a few moments
for the reporter, although fatigued
with his journey hither by rail. His
travels over Europe were more extern
sive than Bishop Branders, although
these two were together much of the
time. He did not visit Lourdes, but did
go to another miraculous shrine in
Flanders. He had a substitute in the
Lourdes pilgrimage.
Father De Siere witnessed the Pas
sion play at Oberammergau and he was
so much impressed with the represen-
tation that he intends to deliver a lee
ture upon it some time in the near fu-
ture. So far from promoting BIAS
phemy or in any manner detracting
from piety, Father De Siere says, if it
is properly staged and correctly acted
its effect upon human emotions are the
same as that produced by the tender
est passages of the emotional drama
in our secular literature and even in
fidels who come to scott went away
edited.
Father De Siere noted many signs of
prosperity in the old world since he
left Europe as a young man. This was
particularly observable in Holland and
Belgium, France and Germany. Ire
land was much happier than it was
twenty years ago. In fact, no place
did the priest observe signs of decay
except in Italy, though the people did
not appear particularly detected
The Chinese problem had not as
sumed an acute stage when Father De
Siere left Europe, but the sentiment
of all peoples favored the infiiction of
punishment upon the Boxers. The
Boer war had not lost it's edge, and
oddly enough, Father De Siere found
the educational masses of the continent
blaming the United States for its con-
tinuance. They put up a very ingen-
ius but withal very good argu-
ment," said Father De Siere. ST got
into conversation with German schoI-
ar one day, and he turned upon the
Boer war by the British and our own
war upon the Filipinos The United
States did a great thing for humanity
by whipping Spain and liberating the
Cubans,' said this savant although
Europe generally favored Spain. But
your great country lost its prestige
among us when it made war upon the
Filipinos. And for what end is it war
ring? Precisely for the same object
which prompts England to make war
upon the Boers-gold, gold, gold ONLY
Britain obtains ii in the Rand while
you Americans seek it through COM
mercial exploitation. America is the
only country that could step in to save
the Dutch republics, were it not that |
the conquests of England and the con-
quests of the IL StAtes are 80 |
alike as to make no difference And |
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