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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29
straight to Heaven" Delusion.

A prominent physician recently died
In one of the southern states. He had
loyalty served the confederacy and was
popular man among his neighbors.
Judging from his name, 1 suppose he
was one of the men whose ancestry, a
generation or two back, were Irish
Catholics. He was Protestant, Ma
son and Odd Fellow. In a sealed COM
munication, opened after his death,
among other things, he said
My sins have been many, but now
believe that the Almighty God has
blotted them out, and that will leave
this world to go to a better one
above
No doubt he was sincere, according
to his light, but what assurance had
he of blissful immortality and an in
slant entrance into heaven? But this
is not uncommon among our dissenting
brethren. They do not believe in pur-
gatory. They know that the Bible says
that nothing defiled can enter heaven.
They imagine that stupendous mira
Gle is to be performed for their COM
plete sanctification. They are, they
think, to leave this world spotless and
at once to keep company with saints
and angels. 1t never seems to occur to
them that this smacks of presumption.
While even great saints in their hu-
mility, and with an approximate con-
ception of Gods justice, after lives of
modification, penance and holy labors,
diff1ded in themselves, many thousands
of men and women who do not lead
such lives, actually think that they will
Immediately. after death, enter the
abode of bliss. 1t is very difficult to
persuade them that this may be de-
fusion and of the most perilous kind.
When our Lord offered to give St. AL
phonsus Rodriguez anything he asked,
he solicited nothing for himself but
that his two holy maiden sisters should
escape purgatory and go at once to
heaven after their death. THERE'S no
doubt that the request was granted,
the more so as these ladies lived saint
ly lives in the world; but how can peo-
pie who do not lead such lives count
absolutely upon instant beatification?
Souls whom we pray for as being the
last to issue from other pains may
have had centuries of purgation. How
we ought to pray for them and pray,
too, for the conversion of all who are
in delusion as to their state in this
in New Century.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29
Gift of $4,000.

If the financial results of the de-
mand for seats. at the lecture to be
given by the distinguished Jesuit ora
tor, Very Rev. William O'Brien Par
dow, at the Auditorium, Chicago, on
Nov, 80, equal those received for boxes,
the $4,000 provision of Bourke Cochran
will be more than met
The subscription for boxes has been
very generous. The sum of $500 has
already been obtained from subscrib-
ers: and even this will be more than
equaled, and minor donations and re-
ceiDts from the sale of reserved seats
will bring the fund far above the
$4,000 mark
The lecture was to have been de-
livered by Bourke Cochran, but he pro-
posed that Rev. Father Pardow ap-
pear in his stead, making at the same
time the offer of $4,000 in case an
equal sum was realized from the lee
ture.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29
Returning to the Fold.

France, though in very bad way
from the Catholic point of view, both
by reason of attacks from without and
apathy from within, has one strong
reason for Catholic hOpefulness in the
revival of religion among the leading
writer's.
Ferdinand Brunetiere, who lectured
in America two years ago, has since
become convert, and his example has
been followed by Francois Coppee, Paul
Bourget and Joris Kahl Huysmans
Other active authors now closely iden-
titled with the church are Paul Her
vieu, Marcel Provost, Henri de Regnier
and ]. de Marion, while Leo Taxil. once
put in prison for writings which
shocked the moral sense of the French
courts, has been received in to the So
ciety of Jesus.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29
Two Strangely Divided Lives.

Two strangely divided lives, says a
London paper, are brought into con-
trast by the appointment of Mgr. Stan
lev. house prelate of His Holiness and
protonotary apostolic, to be auxiliary
bishop under Cardinal Vaughan, for the
new assistant of the head of the Cath
olics in England, was a pupil at Rug
bv of Archbishop Temple. the head of
the Anglicans. The monsignor is a
Younger brother of Lord Stanley of
Alderley. After leaving Rugby he
graduated at Trinity college, Cam
bridge. and was ordained in the Church
of England. He was for some years
q curate of the High Church of st.
Mary Soho. 1t is to his honor that he
declined the valuable family living of
AlderIey in order to work among the
poor. At that time he used to ride
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29
Largest Parish in the World

Chicago has the largest parish in the
world, according to William E. Curtis
in his daily letter in the Record Her
aid. 1t is the Polish Catholic parish
of st. Stanislaus Kostka, and at the
latest enumeration, on Easter Sunday
1902, there were 81, 300 communicates
representing at least 45OO families. The
parish covers about eight square miles
OF territory. The church is situated at
the corner of Noble and Ingraham
ony.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29


In the church of the.Immaculate Con
ception, Boston, on Sunday, the Rev.
Thomas J. Gasson, S. j. teacher OF
ethics in the Jesuit college there, dis
cussed the attitude of the Catholic
church toward cremation.
Father Gasson showed that Pope Leo
XIII, by a decree of May 19, 1886, has
forbidden Catholics to adopt, under or
binary circumstances, this method of
disposing of the dead.
1T must be borne in mind" said
Father Gasson, that this decree is not
one of faith. but simply of discipline,
that is, the church, for wise reasons,
judges it i'll advised and contrary to
Christian tradition to thrust the body
of the departed into a crematory
If experience should show that pub
lie health demands cremation, there is
no doubt that the church will accom-
modate legislation so as to sanction any
reVerent manner of carrying it out
To say that cremation would inter
fere with the resurrection of the body
is a puerile statement. Is it any more
of miracle for the divine power to
resurrect the body from the ashes
which are. the result of cremation than
to resurrect the body from the dust
which is the result of burial? Both are
equally possible to divine omnipotence."
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29
Popes Who Were Lavmen

Several of the popes were laymen
and the election of the pontificate has
several times been declined. Martin w.
was layman, and at one time mayor
of the city of Rome. Clement " was a
lawyer and was secretary to ST. Louis
of France. Innocent VIII was married
and the father of a large family. He
did not take orders until after the death
of his wife. Adrian II was elected
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29
Health Of Cardinal Gihhnns

His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Of
fectively set at rest the recent rnnors
of his ill-health, and delighted bis
many admirers by his appearance and
bearing at the meeting of the preIa tes
in Washington last week. 1t is stated
that his eminence is preparing his rem
iniscences of the vatican council. which
viii be published shortly in one of the
leading secular MAGAZINES
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

At the quarterly meeting of the Je-
suit Alumni association of New Or
leans held the other day, a committee
of three was appointed for the purpose
of corresponding with other alumni as
sociations throughout the United States
looking to the organization and to ar
range for a meeting of delegates from
all Jesuit alumni associations in this
country, the meeting to take place in
New Orleans, to go into permanent
organization.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29
CHURCH CALENDAR.

First Sunday of Advent.-Gospel, st.
Luke xxi, 25-33: Signs foretelling the
destruction of the world
Sunday, Nov. 30.-St Andrew.
Monday, Dec. 1.-Bl. Edward Com.
and Com.
Tuesday, Dec. 2.-St. Bibiana. V NJ.
Wednesday, Dec. 3.-St. Francis
Xavier c.
Thursday, Dec. 4.-St Barbara, V. NJ.
Friday, Dec. 5.-St. Sabas, Alb.
Saturday. Dec. 6.-St. Nichalos, B. C.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29
Nuns and Shakers.

An exchange states that number of
Shakers, who belong to the community
of Mt Lebanon dined with Catholic
Nuns at Pittsfield, Mass, on Nov 81.
Some of the women came to Pittsfield
to do some shopping and decided to
visit st. Josephs convent. They were
received by the sister superior, who
showed them about the school, chapel
and dormitories. The visitors accepted
an invitation to dine with sisters. The
Shaker women were so we'll pleased
with their reception by the nuns that
they have written letter expressing
their thanks for the indication of
friendship which the Catholic women
bestowed uDon them
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

three times and declined twice. He
was 76 years old when he was elected
the third time and died at 81. He was
a married man and d cardinal deacon.
Persons holding that ecclesiastical rank
are not pledged to vows of celibacy.
He separated from his wife after his
election as pope. however, but she and
his daughters lived in Rome during his
pontificate' and saw him frequently.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

The site at Cudahy, Wis, recently
donated to the Sisters of st. Vincent's
infant asylum is intended to be used
for the erection of summer home for
the infant asylum rather than as per-
manent quarters. The asylum in Mil
waukee is crowded and in summer
time the children suffer greatly from
the heat. The sisters propose to build
summer home at Cudahy, where the
children will be cared for during the
heated term.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Ecclesiastical Briefs Cleaned From
Church Progress"
DOMESTIC

During recent mission at the Gesu
church, Philadelphia, about 5000 people
approached the sacraments. A class
of ,110 converts went under. instrnctior,
and confirmation was administered to .
class of about 100 adults, most of whom
were converts.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

The Polish parish of st. StanisIaus
hostka, Chicago, Ill, had, at the latest
count, tthis YEAR, $1,000 con1elunicants.
II ls IN the spiritual care. OF the Fathers
of the. Resurrection. whose mothere
house is in Rome. The parish school is
taught by the school sisters of N2tre
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

A fac-simile of the grotto of Lourdes,
with life-size figures, has. just been
completed at the convent of the Sisters
of Mercy, adjoining Immaculate Con-
ception church, Newport, KY. The
ceremony of dedication took place Sun
day of last week, and was we'll attend
ed by many members of the congrega-
ton
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

On Sunday last the handsome new
convent at Pine Bluffs, Ark, was dedi-
Gated by Rt. Rev. Bishop Heslin Of
Natchez.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

A valuable sword of honor is to be
presented by many admirers to Colonel
st. Remy, the brave and devoted Cath
olic officer who refused to obey the
requisition of the prefect of Morbihan,
France, to head a squadron of Chas-
seurs to Lanone in Brittany to assist
the prefect in expelling the nuns who
were teaching in the school of that
town.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

Mrs. Johanna Manning of Detroit left
by will $100 for masses for the repose Of
her soul; to st. Vincent's orphanage,
5000; to the Little Sisters of the Poor,
800; to the House of Providence, 5000,
and to Bishop Foley, $1O0 for the educa-
tion of the priests of the diocese.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

Very curiously, Father John, the
miracleworking priest of Russia. has
come nigh starting a sect against his
wishes. A peasant recently wrote a
poem which almost put the priest
equal to the persons of the Trinity
The priest at once condemned the poem
and its author, but people began wor-
Shipping him and he was obliged to re-
down.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

Mgr. Leoni, secretary of the papal
embassy at Lisbon, has been promoted
by the holy father auditor of the en-
bassy in Brazil, and Mgr. Vassalo, sec
retary of the embassy at Munich, has
been appointed to the same position in
Belgium.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29
Church
Universal.
The Church and-,eremation

third-class, and was very fond of his
pipe.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

The position of Chancellor of the
Royal University of Ireland, which
has been vacant since the death of
Lord Dufferin, WILL it is believed, be
filled by the Marquis of Lansdowne.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

M. Combes, it is reported, will ask
the committee on the religious orders
to grant authorization to six male or
ders, namely, the Camilliens, Brothers
Of st. John of God, Carthusians. Trap
pists, White Fathers and Fathers
of the Holy Ghost.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

Credit is. given by competent experts
in this country and in Europe to Fa-
ther Delatre, a French priest, for the
remarkable work he is doing in the
field of african archaeology. One of
the best finds he lately made was that
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

Henry Harland, the author of the
brilliant story, 1.-The Cardinals Snuff
box" is coming back to America at the
end of this month. Although a native
of Connecticut, he has lived most of
his life in Europe. He is convert TO
the Catholic faith.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

Mother Mary Katherine DrexeI is
soon to establish mission school for
members of the Navajo Indians in Ari-
zona. Her plans are drawn and more
than 100000 will be spent on the main
building of the institution.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

In the past eight years Rev. Francis
Mueller, pastor of st. Albertus congre-
cation, Detroit, has wiped out a church
debt of $4,000. In the meantime he has
also made many improvements. The
latest is the purchase of a residence
to enlarge the capacity of the parochial
school so as to accommodate 1000 pu-
pills.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

Mr.. James R. Lawrie has resigned
the professorship of music in Santa
Clara college, California, after fifty
one years of continual service. A set
of stations of the cross, made at An
gers, France, has been added to the
college chapel. The stations are a me-
mortal from the college alumni.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

The body of the late Rev William D
McKinnon. who died in Manila on Sept
"a, $ to be sent to his home in Califor,
MIA for burial.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

Following quickly on the appearance
of another Catholic lady on the plat
form in the north of England and
Britain, Mrs. Craigie is to lecture in
winter.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

According to official announcement.
the Catholic Order of Foresters has
membership at the present time of 103,-
243. Illinois stands first in the list of
states, with 29,569.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

The holy father has appointed Doctor
Media a director of the Osservatore
Cattollico, the editor of which was the
late Father Abettario.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

The new hospital recently established
at Perham, Mimi, by the Franciscan
Sisters of Little Falls, was dedicated
by Rt. Rev. Bishop Trobec.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29
FOREIGN.

The new governor general of the
Holy Land, Mouzaffier Pasha, is a
Catholic.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

The Ursuline nuts at Paola, Kan, are
planning to build an academy, to cost
$685. 900.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

The Church of the Immaculate Con-
ception at Newport, KY, when compiet-
ed in the very near future, will be one
OF the most beautiful church edifices in
the state.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

The Catholic population of Ottawa
celebrated in a worthy manner the
twenty eighth anniversary of the
episcopal conservation of His Grace
Duhamel.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

Monsignor Cagiano, papal major
domo, has taken special steps to pre-
vent the continuation of the wholesale
forgery of cards of invitation to Vati-
can functions, which has of late been
carried on to shameful extent in
Rome.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

Rt. Rev. Bishop Thiel of San Jose,
Costa Rica, has departed this life.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

The great German publisher, Herder,
will bring out in January the first num-
ber of a new Catholic magazine, THE
Biblical Quarterly" More than sixty
university professors and learned mem
bers of religious orders, Jesuits, Bene-
dictines and others have promised their
cooperation. The name of the maga-
zine indicates it's character. 1t will
treat of Biblical questions, with re-
views, criticisms and notices of Biblical
publications
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

1t is now stated that his success in
settling the complex agrarian problem
in India caused the selection of Sir
Anthony Mcdonnell for under-secre-
tary of Ireland. Sir Anthony is prac-
teal Catholic
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

of a white marble sarcophagus, seven
feet in length and belonging to the
Punic period. 1t is a masterpiece of
Greek workmanship. The find was
made on the site of ancient Carthage
near st. Monique.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

Boston, Mass. will have the largest
organ in the world, the cost of which
is estimated at from $4,000 to $4,000,
when the alterations to the organ of
the Immaculate Conception church are
completed. These alterations will cost
between $4,000 AID $4,000 and will
greatly improve the organ in every
way. They are now under progress,
and are so extensive that they will not
be completed before Christmas.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29

Dame, thirty-eight in number, with
four lay teachers; ans the pupils are
1873 boys and 1902 girls.
The Washington times., 1902-08-17
WOMEN AND DIPLOMACY.

The Chicago Chronicle" recently made the extraordinary
ton that ambassadorps legations ought be abolished by this
country 1t follows this up by the still eccentric statement
that this has will be the dpo
matte service they have in the departments home.
This pretty safe prophecy make, likely that
either thing will happen But if the time when
seek positions the international diplomatic service will be most
unfortunate for the interests of general and
fortunate if they such positions than if they do not
The of have suffered the past and
still suffering from the fact that instead of discussing the real
the general public off such side
this that suggested by the Chronicle Instead of fac
fairly and squae the truth which that hundreds of thousands
then which they
and the question whether cannot be
President of the United States locomotive something
of this kind have do with the real
situation than the flowers that bloom the
place such position that of foreign consulate
not only the actual difficulties of the bust
the almost nsumounab preudees of foreigners would
dee the which would be made
against all the other who doing
of 1t kindness push her such
place served by her fair chance
show competitors something
equal footing
The Washington times., 1902-08-17
KITCHENER.

kitchener present position to testify to the truth of
that prover Nothing like success" year he
and ron cod mpacabe brutal ferocous and all
who had remorselesy
wounded of sending his
take them the hopiaand get killed The people who abused Htche
rather dangerous when wounded than
they do scrup stab their woudbe
when Kitchener South Africa
the by the oooded ruhne of his
present Boer well Brion exong him for his
nothing like the somersauts which
by the opinions of who thoroughly informed the
talk this of Lord Kitchenes
les belonged
The truth of the matter that Kitchener those soldiers bad
k needed by the British Empire today to whom the far
either glory social and the ends of the service
body and mind His extraordinary ability has
personal ambition He
people said him the
which the world needs all departments of Gfe
which achieves only from personal
the behalf employed
the world which the dis
counted and the who does things to achieve control
The Washington times., 1902-08-17

There broad dominating national thought the
that good anybody until he
the other fellow.
Man is naturally fighting animal He wishes to supreme some
And the thought that
strife As nation have struggled bo and
dua constantly ourselves neghbors pitng
ourselves against all
We taught that obtain everything by appi.
cation and favotism
manhood proceed weeaed preceps
elbow through school
through public ife We e and tread and scramble and hste
but grasp, obtain succeed And whether be
politics. civic life, literature what will "a1ive
says the homey American
"get there
Now it impossible for obtain under
taking the his requirements activity with his
with his BRAIN without being flushed with his victory He
ahter walks proudly for having conquered something's
the habit of conquerng suroung obstacles he
becomes and of himself excited aed with his
And with the individual with the the nation
o the in all departments
his confidence what he and does lie has pushed himself
until he has become intoxicated with his of power And
called national No other nation has it
England and the Continent the old feuda system still
sway preudce the old division of the classes and the
make impossible hold the Independent thought that the first
wherever there lacking this feeling equality
above aheadsome modify and utity
the thought and action of the one below.
Look Everything pertains America
watched with the possible interest.
Because Europe beginning realize country
succession, but political TRUTH considera
ton equality respect from his whether they be
physical intellectual material And this built the
Republic.
Now man intoxicated power greatest
and drunkard in the world And with with
take infinite lest drink deep the
of and eng wreck the future of ideal