The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Rev. George Houck, diocesan chan
ceilor, is at present engaged in writ
ing history of the Cleveland diocese
Inc work will be a voluminous on,
containing over 800 pages and will Civ,
the history of all the churches il
northern Ohio up to Dec. 81, 1900. L
VII! be published by the first of Jan.
uary. This is not Father Houck's
initial step as a historian, as some
years ago he published a history OF
the church in northern Ohio.
Archbishop Elder has written to the
German pastors of the Cincinnati
| diocese. urging them to preach sermons
| occasionally in the English language.
for the benefit of the younger people
who have been petitioning for this
privilege.
An orator in Hyde Park, London.
was arrested for creating a disturb
ance in declaring that "a Roman Cath
olic priest suggested the assassination
of President Mckinley" At the police
court he offered to prove his assertion
! from the Book of Kings, but the mag
lstIate, declining to listen bound him
over to keep the peace
The sinews of goodness are courage.
moral and physical, fact which places
all really good men and women be-
yond the reach of ridicule, and above
the hiSh-water mark of contempt.
The Rev. j. Eeguin, o. M. l.. who
mas been laboring for forty years at
Fort Good Hope, near the Arctic Cir
eie, IN the vicariate apostolic of Ath-
abaska- Mackenzie, has gone to France
TO be operated upon for cataract. He
mas however, requested that if the op-
Grafton fails and he becomes wholly
ollnd, he shall be permitted to return
TO his Indian flock and die among
them.
AT their recent mission in Milwaukee
the Paulist Fathers made seventy-four
converts.
In an address by Pierre Choteau be-
lore the first quarterly meeting of the
Alumni association of ST. I,oris mi
Verslty, at st. Louis recently. he sug- |
gested the propriety of erecting on the |
worlds Fair grounds a monument !
commemorative of the achievements of !
the early Jesuits in exploring, reclaim
ing, and. to great extent. civflizing
the inhabitants of the Louisiana Pur
chase. The suggestion was applauded
warmly, and the association pledged it
self to devote its strength to the ac-
of the work
This little statement of facts indi-
'ates how admirably the principle of
liberty of speech is being applied in
tally under the regime of spoliation. At
he Catholic congress held recently at
'aranto, the bishops of laramie. Royo
nd Leghorn delivered addresses. on r.;
ccount of which they have been sus- {
ended by the enlightened and liberal !
tanan government. This is reform in {
flood, to borrow one of Justin Nc '
arthy's ironical phrases. l
Spain, in her legislation, is now re- !
reducing the most Objectionable fea- S
Tres of the French law of associations.
recent decree orders all religious as
in Spain to apply for author a
alton within six months. Foreign C
lembers of religious orders must in a
'ribe their names at their respective a
'nsulates. This drastic proposal has T
lused more than ripple of excite v
ent in ecclesiastical circles. 1t is ex t
ected, however that there will be b
'adual subsistence of feeling against j
lie orders. I
Knights of Columbus throughout the le
untry will be gratified to learn that Ct
e society in Wisconsin will soon be
evated to the dignity of a state or RI
Lnization. The constitution of the
Ger provides that whenever four Y
unclls with membership of 500
SIDE in a state, a state organization III
n be effected. Wisconsin now has IN
( councils of the knights of CoIum- al
napb in q riCI, !
tn an aggregate membership in ex- re re
SIS of 500. II
The Ancient Order of Hibernians is a. q,
throughout the entire conn
7. Evidences of progress are seen on ,r
sides. One item that will have un- ~
ual interest is the announcement w.
At at a recent joint initiation in Bos- bc
4 2OO candidates were admitted to w,
order, and 1000 members were en-
ssent. The expansion of the order in bo
issachusetts may be gathered from do
fact that there are $4,000 members
the Old Bay state, that interest in ice
ehc studies is widely spread, and 1ri
II the order shows constant and un: ST,
m growth. or r'
tanker William H. Leinkauf a Jew ON
".
to the Catholic orphan asylum s500 !
the Protestant orphan asylum. and trC
OO each to the Jewish Widows we
Orphans home, Mobile. and Touro tht
New Orleans. the latter in on
rye of the Little Sisters of the isl,
H. the
I
ow they are gambling on the Pope's hal
dispatch from Paris says that cor
local office of an American insur- n.
e company has just issued a policy
95OOOO on his life The company t
llred certificate from the Pontiff's is
before undertalrino +ha Wa
,nce and u-as orI,- ,,-ii1i,.Ie 'iie m haN
for. -,.o,,tIs OiiiS winning 10 insure the
oi 9" iiOilh. pro
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favorite way to praise a man is TO %
Sc his kin for imposing upon him. not
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