The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-03
FOREIGN.

| Women catechists are reported a sfeal
need of the church in Japan OWING 10 tne
/ fact that japanese custom DISCO DISCO III
nances women of that country from coH
yersation with male religious.
Most Rev DR.. Begin. archblshop Vi
Quebec. it is stated will pc mage rone ial Iao
! Xii has sal that the Cathollcs III that
region deserve the honor. .,.,
The Pope has chosen Mgr- Ftllice n1
Ia represent him at King Edwards cor
''lalr mrs. rs Heard of Lisheen House, Ballina-
hinch Cashel, was receiyed into INTO, ,Iai1 Lde
church by the president OF RockWeh coi-
lege on Holy Saturday.
WjIfred Ward the far-famed Catholc
essayist has purchased the Weekly Cath-
o-.c Register of London ana IN the Iie%r %,
future viii revive 1t as vigorous up-lo-
date Catholic monthly magazine.
Swiss liberals are preparing TO miro miro
duce bin at the next meeting of pariia-
ment eXpelling members OF French re-
ligious orders from that country.
The atholic papers in Rome publish
new poem by the pope. IT was written LOT
last Christmas day and has been printed
now in honor of the pontifical Jubilee
The Catholic leper asylum al Mandalay,
India. in charge of Father Wehinger, now
contains 147 male and seventy-eight Wo-
men leDers.
Madrid have inaugurated bank which
viii lend small sums of money at merely
nominal interest to worthy WorRinSmen
with families. Leo XIII has approved
The tower of the old cathedral Madrid.
Spain, toppled over after the celebration
of high mass recently, and buried hun
dredS of people in its runs. Ten DodleS
have already been recovered from the de-
bris and the police and people of the
city are working on the heaps of stone
and rubbish.
At Capetown. South Africa, Cath
olic lady. a member of the Victorian
League has accepted the task of caring
for the graves of all the Catholic soldiers
who have fallen during the war.
Sydney. Australia, has now a Catholic
mayor eight Catholics in the city cOun-
Gil a Catholic vice president of the fed
eral executive council and two Catholic
members Of the provincial ministry. Be
sides. there are twenty-five Catholics in
the provincial parliament of New South
Wales.
Radica. the survivor of DR.. Doyen's
operation which separated her from her
twin sister. has been baptized Catholic
i'm Paris She was formerly a Protestant.
Her godmother was the Marquise de
ReauYoir, who has adopted the child.
Last reports from the Riviera say that
Radica is on the high road to recovery.
From Honolulu comes the statement
that a wealthy Belgian Catholic lady.
Miss Maria Roosevelt. is asking permis-
sion to take up Father Damiens work
among the lepers of Molokai. She pro-
poses to use her own means in bettering
the eOndltf0n OF tl0Se unfortunate people
and in supporting herself
Some week ago the Island of Jersey
legislature passed an act prohibiting the
religious orders from settling there. King
Edward VII recently confirmed the act |
sitting in council. and it is now law The |
act does not affect the Jesuits. Carmelites |
and others now in the island, as has been |
thought; il merely prevents other orders |
from settling there.
A movement has been initiated to have
a foregathering of all those veterans in !
the cause of temperance who took the |
nledEe in ireland (and kept itl from |
Father Mathew between 1899 and 1875. The |
surviving total ahstainers include the !
Hon. Benjamin Hughes. eK-mayor of |
Wexford, and the nestor of Irish |
journalism. who took The pledge from the |
sanity Capuchin on April s. 1910. and has
years.
4 few days ago the Sacred Congrega-
ton of Briefs presented to Leo XITI
thirty portable affairs fitted for use Ten
were arranged for masses for the Greek
rite. seven for the Graeco-Melchite rite.
two for the Syro- Malabar one for the
Ruthenian. two for the Syrian four for
The Chaldean. two for the Coptic and
Two for the Armenian rites. 1t is doubt
ful if a more striking object lesson OF the
>hurchs universality and adaptability
could be arranged.
Another wanderer has returned to the /
iold. in the person of DR.. Wattericl the |
old Catholic" priest of South Germany.
some years ago DIR. Watterick went
lstraN after the Doeilinger faction but |
'ecentiv he made his submission and pub
icly abiured his errors at Friedburs. He
Tas distinguished as an 'fOld Catholic !"
laving produced several scholarly vol
imes while IN heresy- In his submission
le condemned whatever in tho latter may |
,Ifc faith