The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-07-12
CATHOLIC OPINION

The Holy Father is reported to have
written an encyclica1 on the Blessed
Sacrament. Most Catholics have too
many devotionS and too little devotion to
the Holy Eucharist. If they would cut
off half their prayers and reduce to one
the number of societies to which they
belong, but multiply their cast of virtue
and go worthily to communion four times
as often as they do, they would have far
more chance to be canoniZed than they
have now. 1t is by eating the body of
Christ and drinking His blood that they
will have life in them.-The Catholic
Columbian.
The testimony in the courtmartial of
Major Glenn at Manila few days since
was remarkable for the facts it brought to
light. Much of the burden was thrown
on Lieutenant Gaujot On his part Lieu
mitted that he had administered the
water cure to three priests.-The Catholic
Tribune.
Those who speak and write of France
as Catholic country without religion
need to be reminded that France fur
nishes the church with more foreign mis-
sionaries than any other country-two-
formed by one authority. This is a
truer test of the state of religion among
a people than the religious dispositions
of its rulers. The Protestant bodies, both
dismay that there is close connection
between the spiritual condition OF
church and the number of calls to it's
ministry The London Saturday Review
deplores the fact that the young men
who take orders in the Anglican body are
yearly becoming more insufficient in
quantity and inferior in quality. Were
there more supernatural atmosphere
round the Church of England" it says,
I'VE should not hear of a failure to find
men for the ministry nor for the religious
life, nor of so per cent of the manhood of
our towns never. entering a church door;
nor would there be leakage to Rome.
President Moore, of Andover, makes a
like lament; and the question has been
the theme of at least one ecclesiastical
conference recently, and of two magazine
articles that we have seen. The Specula-
tions of these learned divines on this mat
ter have, of course, certain interest for
Catholics, though we have a much SIM
pier and truer explanation to offer We
accept their findings so far as to agree
with them that the vitality of a religious
body may be measured by its power to
attract strong, earnest, devout and bright
young men to its ministry: and we prefer
to judge the church in France by this
standard.-The Ave Maria.
.
At st. Patrick's church in Scranton,
Pa, last Sunday lot of stri ers left
eject a man who was on the unfair
list. The absurdity of the reason for
missing mass only aggravates the sin.
1t is to be regretted that hot-headed men.
by such actions, injure the cause of
labor.
In the Record-Herald for June II in Che
letter of William E. Curtis is found the
statement that the Pope annulled the
marriage of the Prince of Monaco in 1880.
1t is so well known that the church does
not claim to have the power of annulling
marriage and this has been so often
and so we'll shown to the world, as in the !
noted cases of Napoleon and of Henry the |
Eighth that it Is merely necessary to |
call attention to this RUTHLESS statement |!
to have it repudiated.
What the church can do and sometimes |
does is to ascertain that a marriage was |
not yaiidly contracted or was never con- |
and in either OF these cases |
il is within her power. not to annul a |
but to declare that there never !
was one. This is quite different thing |
though of course not materially different |
i'm the eve of such a rough rider as Curtis
who gallops along the paths of calumny
and SANDER as gaily as If they did not I
lead to public infamy and reprobation
In the first two paragraphs in this
same letter we are told how delightfully."-
the dear Pope Is in obeyiiig
the clustering mandate of our secretary
Of war After this news follows the gos-
sipy item perhaps you haven't heard |
that the Prince of Monaco has been di-
vorced again.
Among other misstatements too numer-
JUS to mention we are requested by the