The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-17
CATHOLIC OPINION


ropean, especially Saxon, royalty. can
descend. The whole House of Haps-
burg is rotten to the core. Royalty
in Europe is dead or dying. But
where it is dead, they should bury
it and not allow it's carcass to con-
taminate the air decent people breathe.
Western Watchman.
Are we sorry to lose Bishop Quigley
What a question: Of course we are.
But at the same time, in unison with
every priest and layman in this dio-
oese, we rejoice with pride and exulta-
ton in the great honors that have been
conferred upon him. A thrice happy
New Year to him!-Republic.
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CHANGING over the leading events in
Marconis life which appeared in last
Sundays New York World, we find
this:
Joseph Marconi's second marriage
was with a gray-eyed, keen witted
Irish girl, Anna Jameson. Two chill
dren were the result of this union
Alphonse in 1866 and William in 1874"
So the wondrous wizard of wireless
biography had an Irish mother
"gray-eyed and keen witted"-another
confirmation of the saying that great
men have all had remarkable mothers.
Republic.
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Yesterday the Cook county Democ-
racy conferred an honorary member
ship on John Mitchell, the famous
leader of American labor. Contempt
raneously there was talk of running
him for governor of Illinois. There
is no question but that an honest man
and a strong one would be in office
were he elected but, seriously. would
! 1t be well for him or well for labor
| in general? The country needs such
men as Mitchell as struggles for So
cial justice far more vitality than the
state of Illinois needs governors bound
hands and feet. As matters now stand
the upright, independent struggler is
! more of patriot than is the hide
| bound partisan.-Catholic Mirror.
! With tens of thousands of people
! sh1vering for want of coal the miners
| of Pennsylvania refused to work on
New Years day We hope they en-
! joyed their holiday.-Western Watch
man.
Our Methodist friends are jubilant
! over accomplishing their labor of col
| Letting a S2O,O00,000 fund for church
| purposes. Money is a great help, of
course. but will it assist our friends in
filling their churches on Sunday? Much
of it was contributed by wealthy OPP
pressors of the poor. Will it help them
to lead more Christian lives? Will con-
tr1buting it prevent them from direct
| ing trusts, corners and combinations
and fiaying the weak and unfortunate
alive? We should be glad so to be-
! Heve.-Catholic Mirror.
The Protestant independent does not
Of he
in the Philippines a Catholic" church.
not subject to the bishops or the pope
1t says THE character of those prom
inent in the movement is such as to
dtscredit it. The character of apos-
tates and renegades is always the same
from China to Peru. When the pope
weeds his garden, he throws the weeds
over the WALL said the witty old Dean
Swift. And there are always poor,
blind bigots on the other side to gather
the weeds to their bosom.-The Leader.
The pope is not an irresponsible ruler
who can make and unmake laws at his
pleasure 1t is a principle in legisla-
ton that while a legislator is master
of his own laws. an inferior legislator
cannot make laws for a superior Above
the pope is God and our Lord Jesus
Christ. He is the supreme legislator
for the church. He it is that fashioned
her constitution, gave her mission and
set her to be the mistress and teacher
of the nations. Whatsoever laws, there
fore, he enacted, no human power can
change or set aside. The pope him
self, though the Vicar of Christ. is
herein powerless. He is merely the
executor of these laws, and he is bound
by their provisions as strictly as the
humblest of his ehildren.-The Leader.
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For person of Cardinal Gibbons
years to shake hands with nearly 1000
people in a short space of time must
have entailed a hard time for his en-
lnence. 1t is, however, in another light
that it is best to look at the incident
and we ought to be thankful that so
able a prelate is able to be among his
people and can stand so great strain |
upon his physical powers. They used |
to say, Those whom the gods love die |
young There are many striking in |
stances in the Catholic church to prove |
this proverb false.-Observer.
Whatever it be that keeps the finer |
faculties of the mind awake wonder |
alive, and the interest above mere eat |
ing and drinking, money making and |
money saving, whatever it be that |
gives gladness or sorrow, or hope-this, /
be 1t violin, pencil, great thoughts, or, |
highest of ALL the love of woman, or /
simply divine gift of holy influence,
for the salvation of that being to whom |
it comes, for the lifting him out of the
mire and UP on the rock For it keeps |
a way open for the entrance of deeper,
holier, grander influences, emanating
from the same riches of the godhead.
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1t takes a great sOu1 IN he q true
friend-a large, catholic, steadfast and
loving spirit. One must forgive much.
forget much, forbear much 1t costs
to be friend or to have a friend.
There is nothing else in life except
motherhood that costs so much. 1t
not only costs time, affection, strength,
patience, love-sometlmes a man must
even lay down his life for his friends
There is no true friendship without self
self-sacrifice.
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We have endless opportunities for
exercising love. Our brothers lie
stricken all along life's highway-br
men who have fought and failed. feeble
folk who were never strong enough for
earths conflict, some without health.
others without money; some without
friends, others without hope What is
10 become of them? If we would be
helpers in this world of perplexity and
sorrow, II we desire any real peace and
happiness, if we would ever rest our
aching heads where st. John rested his.
on the very bosom of Jesus, we must
practice the lessons of love.
A List of New Books.
The Lives of the Popes in the Early
Middle Ages By the Rev. Horace K