The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

The combined K. of G. councils of
Pittsburg and Allegheny will take ac-
/ ton at their next meetings ON the
proposition of the joint committee up
on the subject of a hall. Should the
| councils agree TO buy a site and build
! they will procure the incorporation un-
der the laws of this commonwealth of
a corporation to be known as the Co
lumbar Land company (or by some
other suitable title), the object and
purpose of which shall be to buy suit
able ground in such location as shall
! be hereafter agreed upon. and to erect
thereon building for the use of all
said councils.
Along the western fringe of the
continent buildings dedicated to Cath
olic worship are being rapidly erected.
These structures are of a more ornate
style than those of a few years ago.
Architecturally they are more spacious
and more in conformity with the can
ons of taste. In the early decades of
Californ;as development the aim was
to erect buildings that would meet the
eXigencies of an abnormal situation.
All that has since been changed. The
barrenneSS that characterized the first
structures has been Supplanted by af-
fluence and beauty of design and con-
struction. The growth of the Cath
olic population is a thing of normal
increase, and its needs can be provided
for with precision. The newly erected
churches are not so large as those that
were built in the eighties. but they are
much more beautiful and satisfying to
the demands of the eye.
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Columbia university. Portland. Ore,
which was recently purchased by
Bishop Christie has been subjected to
thorough renovation. and with it's
improved facilities can accommodate
about 200 students. In the student
body are representatives from almost
every state in the northwest. The con-
ditions of admission are rigorous.
Bishop Christies intention is to make
it approach in scope and influence the
more advanced seats of learning in the
east. The new undertaking has met
with much sympathy and encourage
ment.
The application of the Law of Asso-
Citations to the religious orders in
France has resulted in the expected
exodus. The effect has, of course been
International. At recent sitting of
the Spanish chamber. Senor Sagasta, in
reply to an Interpolation. said the pur-
pose that the trainers of the new law
in Spain had in view was the preven-
ton of the influx of French religious
This object has been achieved, as sta
tistics show OF the 700 members of
these bodies who have crossed the
Spanish border only fifty-two have re-
mained in Spain.
NeXatious restrictions have been
placed upon the operations of Catholic
societies in Italy. A ministerial circu-
lar has just been issued forbidding the
use of churches for what is termed po-
litical purposes. It's real purport is to
prevent the assembling of Catholic
Thus does the regime of
liberalism attempt to stifle public dis
cussion and the analysis of conditions
that lead to action. 1t is not thought
however. that the anti-clerical frenzy.
of which this is a manifestation, will
have any very decisive effect.
The Holy Fathers interest in music
is well known. 1t has led him to es
tablish a college of music in Rome.
He has placed it under the protection
of the cardinal vicar, who opened it on
Nov. 1. It's first director is the Rev.
Father Hartman, o. F. NJ, whose. zeal !
for the advancement of church music |
is we'll known. Much good may be an
ticipated in the way of a return to the |
of a former time and the |
abandonment of the highly figured mu- |
sic of the modern Italian school.
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Rev. j. r. MKee, Nj A, formerly |
curate of st. Agnes and st. John the |
Baptist, Tuebrook. Liverpool, was tam |
nounces the .'Tablet') received into |
The Catholic church.
Jules Verne Blind and Penniless!
Jules Verne che of the great magma
-ion," as the French call him, the writer ,
Of eighty fabulously successful novels,
lies dying at his home in Amiens. old. |