The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-24
CATHOLIC OPINION.

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There are some noteworthy points
in the Suns editorial on Archbishop
Corrigan. 1t says: During his adj
mlniStration there came about a very
radical change in Protestant sentiment
towards his church. Animosity gave
place TO high and hearty appreciation
of the splendid service to religion and
morals rendered by Catholicism and
us firm and uncompromising mainten-
ance of its ancient faith and doctrine
commanded respectful consideration,
even in the time of scepticism which
goes to the extreme of doubling the
very foundation, and authority of re-
| nglon. Nowhere was there a more in
neXlble exponent of this fidelity and of
the ecclesiastical discipline which en-
( forces it than Archbishop Corrigan."
| Again: Archbishop Corrigan was dis
tinguished by repose and serenity
| both scholarly and of the cloister. His
administration was firm and of a de-
| termlned persistency, but it was with
| out harshness, for he was naturally
of gentle and amiab1e disposition and
strife of itself had no attractions for
him. His bearing was always marked
| by a pr1estly dignity which won for
| him the respect of large social circle
| outside the ranks of Catholicism. TT
dead archbishop was a religious figure
| entitled to respectful and even affec-
tlonate consideration from this COM
munlty generally, even from people not
OF MS own faith or of no religious faith
at all. He lived to see the last traces
of animosity to the Roman Catholic
church obliterated in every church. so
that his death was looked on by all as
grlevous loss to the cause of religion
and good morals in New York. He
left his archdiocese in a condition of
greater prosperity and harmony than
1t had ever known throughout its his
tory. Home Journal and News.
.
Women who adore criminals are
Just now coming under inspection by
reason of the sentimental solicitude
SHOWN by the ladies in Italy for noto-
rious brigand at present in prison
awaiting trial for numerous murders.
the fair sex gather at the Jail, bring
flowers, magazines and jelly, and write
letters: The brigand is their hero
They don't want him punished.
Other examples, just past, in the
United States, are cited to show that
TINS quality in women is universal |
Mention is made of widow who has
become the bride of a man convicted |
OF numbering his aged millionaire
TREND 1t is recalled that only few
months ago the wife of a PENNSYLVANIA |
Jailer eloped with two tenants of MUIR |
dererS' row.
The romance of this last-named !
heroine is noted with the more inter |
est and pleasure because she had been |
an exemplary wife and mother.
Lombroso, the high Italian GRIMM
ologist and composer of large-selIing
WORKS on degenerate man, appealed to
Ior an explanation, asserts that the /
ladies are yearning for the medieval:
that IN TACT they are themselves medi-
aeval and their souls sob for recov-
cred JOY over the temperance, if only
Tor a few hours, of the brilliant dash
and knightly abandon in their modern
cooling.
: Another diagnosis suggests that all
the personal power, certainly all the
muscle there is in Italy, has come to
America and the ladies are on that ac-
count dfsconsolate habitually, always
ready to crown the brow of Drawn
when by chance it appears.
Commoner still is the hastily adopted
theory that the women who send jelly
TO murdererS are themselves affected
with an abnormal streak; that they
are not representative women, but de-
tectlve, ranging from the Stiffness of l.
cheap novel-reading to the criminality
of vice.
More careful students of the matter,
however. Jail officers lawyers and re-
porters. reject this natural notion as
not in accordance with the facts They
say the murderer worshippers belong
TO no one class in any respect. The ]
lailers wife in Pennsylvania, the wild
DIV in New York, who could say !
aught against them before they began
the alteration?
@
Nowhere does attention seem to
lave been directed to the deeper +,
'ause. Is it possible the commenta-
ors have never heard a mother say
The was sorry for all prisoners and '
hoped they would escape. because her !
'wn boy might go to Jail some day?
When Ia woman sends jelly to MUIR
ierer it is the mother in her protest
ng against the punishment of a son
he may never have for a crime he
nay never commit.-Republic.
Mr.. Herbert Spencer, having pub o
sned all the, ascertainable facts in the
inverse, with regrets for the unascer-
now at the age of 80 finds a
lumber OF comments which he some .