The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-05-12

| lana OF every CIVIL ana rellRlt us right.
If he be nominated as the Republican
candidate for vice president he will
have to face not only this out other
i bits of evidence tending to prove his
close utilization and assoc, alton with
the cohorts of the dark lantern. We
should advise him to Withdraw from
! the race before it is too la;se. No man
who ever openly espoused the doctrine
of religious bigotry and inequality can
ever be elected to the great offices of
president or vice president.
| -o<DS
Occasionally you will find Catholic
parents, says the Sacred Heart Review,
who find fault with Catholic schools.
| Generally such parents are untitled to
| judge of the relative merits Of this or
that system of education. Their opin-
ions, nevertheless, are voiced with a
very profound and judicial air. For in
stance, of Sisters schools this remark
is often heard: ooh, yes the Sisters
are fine for teaching religion, but"
! What follows may be guessed Here
however, in a Methodist paper-and
! Methodist papers are not disposed, by
any means, to lean toward d peculiarly
! Catholic system-we find recognition
| by the worth of the Sisters schools
! Writing of a Methodist school for girls,
| the most convincing proof the North
! western Christian Advocate can adduce
| as to its excellence from every view
| point is that it ig the only institution in
MethOdiSm which really completes with
! the Sisters school of the Catholic
! Church" In other words, the writer
( wishes Methodists to recognize the high
standard to which the institution has
! been brought, by comparing it to the
/ Sisters schools. The trouble with the
:, Catholic parents who minimize the
worth of the Catholic school is that
they do not, in most cases, know in
what way a true system of education
differs from that which is false,
At the $3.50 O'Clock Mass in the chapel
of the Sisters of Loretto, st. Mary
Academy, Denver. Feb. 26, as the IIo-
retto Magazine chronicles. Captain Ar
| thur S. Mckinley, first cousin of our
| President, received his First Com
munion- The captain was baptized in
the Cathedral few days previous, and
requested the privilege of making his
First Communion in the chapel of the
LOrCtto Sisters. After Mass the Sisters
! invited the gentleman and his wife to
I breakfast with the chaplain; and dur
/ ing breakfast Sister snilingly asked if
, the conversion was not a returning to
the faith of his f0refa theirs. The cap
tain replied: Yes; my grandfather,
and of course the presidents-for our
fathers were brothers-was a staunch
old Catholic of Belfast, Ireland. But
OUT fathers came to America while very
young and married nom Catholics, then
fell from the faith themselves. Later
they sent for our grandparents; and
they came to the old homestead in
Canton, O.. where the president and I
were raised. l was a child at the time,
but l was present at my grandfather's
death bed. Though we were 100 miles
from a Catholic Church, he requested
my father and uncle to send for a
priest. The priest did not arrive in
time to assist the old gentleman; but
when his wife, our grandmother Nc
Kinley, died, she had Catholic priest
with her"
ST. Johns Hospital, Fargo, N D.,
one of the most modern and complete
institutions in the Northwest, Eas
formally opened the other day, on
which occasion the Sisters of st.
Joseph gave a reception to the physi-
clans and surgeons of Fargo and vicin-
ity. Bishop Stanley was present and
the guest of no Tor was Archbishop Ire
land of st. Paul Until four months
ago the building was used as an episco-
pal residence by Bishop Stanley OF
the Sisters in charge at the hospital it
may be interesting to know that Sisters
JuIItU3 anu L bOTGHJld are veterans OIL
the Spanish war, having served as
army nurses throughout the Cuban
campaign and in the hospitals of the
army camps in the south. On their dis
charge they received from Surgeon
General Sternberg, of the army, the
highest commentator that that Of
ficer could pass upon them.
o
There died at the Victoria. B. c., Ju-
La =
on the Pacific Coast-not only in years,
but in the sense that since the days
when the first white settler penetrated
the wilderness of British Columbia, he
has been laboring in the cause of Chris
tianity among the natives of that pro-
vince. Good old Father Rondeault of
Cowichan, beloved by every one, the
idol of the Indian tribes at Cowichan,
among whom he has labored for the
past forty-two years. has gone to his
reward at the ripe old age of rs. A
severe attack of la grippe, combined
with the natural weakness of declining
years, was the cause of his demise.
ID
Archbishop Christie of Portland, Ore,
has received from Rome, through the
Papal Delegate. Mgr. Martinelli, an
apostolic brief naming Right Rev. F. X.
Blanchet, V. G., Apostolic Protonotary.
1 HIS ulSlillS u4SDcu uOliOl' COulluS ITOIn
the supreme head of the Church, has
been bestowed on Vicar General Blan-
Chef in recognition of his valuable SER
vices rendered to the Church in Oregon
during his long career in the priest
hood.
o
Mgr. Amer. Vicar Apostolic, has ee-
tablished in China newspaper in the
Chinese language, and has received
from the Holy Father a brief congrat-
ulating him on such "a happy inspira-
ton
O.
Sister Catherine Walsh died of con-
sumption on Friday of last week at the
Convent OF st. Joseph, in Flushing, l..
l., 80 years old. Rev. Thomas Walsh
is her brother.