The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-30
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Mgr. Falconio has been accorded
remarkable reception in Los Angeles.
Not only Catholics turned out to ex-
tend hospitable greetings to the papal
representative, but non-Catholics unit
ed with them in paying honor to the
distinguished visitor.
There is an excellent organization
in England known as the Catholic
Newspaper Guild, whose object is ex-
pressed in the rule: Never throw
away Catholic papers or magazines
when read, but always distribute them
for the benefit of others"
The distinguished Irish-American
orator of New York, the Hon. Mr..
Bourke Cochran, is native of the par
ish of Kilvarnet, in the diocese Of Ach-
onry, Ireland. Last Sunday, at the
invitation of Bishop Lyster, he deliV-
cred an address at he laying Of the
foundation stone of a church there.
John Oliver Hobbies (Mrs. Craigie)
is commonly classed among English
authors; but she is an American,
though now making her home and find
ing her work in London. She is also
a devout Catholic, having been re-
ceived into the church about ten years
ago. She is not yet forty years of
age.
The memory of Mrs. Surratt, who
was falsely accused of being con-
cerned in the death of President Lin
coin, has been cleared by the evidence
of Colonel Wood, who was chief of the
secret service at that time, and of Rev.
Father Waiter, both of whom were
imposed to silence until just before
they died.
The "Observatore Romano" has pub
lished some remarkable details con-
cerning the significant attitude of
King Edward VII at the diplomatic
dinner in his honor given in Paris by
NJ. Delcasse. The king never address
ed a word to M. Combes, while his af-
liability to the papal nuncio, Mgr. Lor
inzelli, was most marked. After din
ner the king took the nuncio aside into
an embrasure of a window and chatted
with him for long time. When de-
parting, the king somehow forgot to
salute NJ. Comebs!
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Holy Father has said that a Catholic
paper is a perpetual mission in every
parish, many of our good fathers seem
to doubt it. Seldom does this mission
receive mention from the pulpit and
less frequently are the parishioners
requested to avail themselves of its
advantages. All, however, recognize
its value when there is to be church
euchre or bazaar. Yet these are not
part of the mission to which the Holy
Father refers.-Church Progress,
o.
Rome, May 16.-The diocese of Van
couYer Island has been taken from
the jurisdiction of the archdiocese of
Oregon. Vancouver has been raised to
an archbishopric, forming new Cana
dian ecclesiastical province having
two Canadian western bishOprics.
Right Rev. Bertram Orth, bishop of
Vancouver island, has been created
archbishop of the new archdiocese.
King Edwards visit to Leo XIII, is
thus explained by the London Catholic
Times, in response to angry criticisms
of the formers dissenting subjects:
THE king calls on the pope because
ne is a gentleman; the pope returns
the call for the same reason" and
everywhere, the Times adds, gentle
men are glad that the observances of
polite society are upheld. The London
Times admonishes carpers that the
spiritual influence of the papacy,
whether people like it or not, is a
great historical fact"
If Mormon Smoot has in store the
same kind of time in the senate at
Washington, as that accorded by the
general assembly at Los Angeles, he
may repent of his political success.
But he won't A man may profess the
Mormon faith without forfeiting his
political rights and privileges under
the constitution, fact which our Pres
byterian friends appear to have alto
gether overlooked.-San Francisco
Monitor.