The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-02-28

The requiem mass celebrated Sdlur-
day in Rome on the occasion or the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the death
of pope Plus TX was an unusually
striking ceremonial Cardinal Satolli
oficiated. The pope who was sur
rounded by the members of the Sacred
college, the pontifical court and the
Roman aristocracy, gave the absolu-
ton although he was suffering from
slight cold.
The emperor of Germany has dec
GRATED Msgr. Gasparri, secretary of the
congregation of extraordinary eccle-
siastical affairs, with the order of the
Black Eagle. This honor is recog-
milton of the work which Msgr. Gas
parri has done in connection with the
establishment of the theological facul-
ty in the University of Strasburg.
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Father Eaton of the Oratory, Edge
baston, near Birmingham, has already
collected in the United States some
S65 900 for the memorial church to the
memory of Cardinal Newman. A sim
liar sum is in his hands, and $4,000 is
needed before the foundation stone is
laid AS Father Eaton is to remain an
other few months in America, the
Oratorian fathers hope he will succeed
in collecting all that will be required
for the national monument to one of
our great princes of the church-one
whose history is so interviewer with
the Catholic university movement in
Ireland.
The Catholic bishop of Newport, in
letter to his flock, strongly advo-
eating the reading by them of the
lives of the saints, points out that at
the present time it is virtually i'm
possible for a Catholic to keep the
faith firmly and to practice it salts
factorily without the assistance of
reading Every one reads now. The
non-Catholic press which covers the
whole country, does harm to the Cath
olic religion in two ways-sometimes
it attacks the faith, and at all times
it occupies the peoples time and at
tention is to push religion into the
background.
The American correspondent has
seen Mgr. O'Connell, the newly ap-
pointed rector of the Catholic uni
versity at Washington, and Cardinal
Satolli, with whom, as prefect of the
congregation of studies, the appoint
ment rested. Cardinal Satolli not only
consented to the plea of Cardinal Glib
bons in favor of Mgr. O'Connell, but
honored O'Connell by presenting him
with a beautifully decorated parch-
ment as a document of appointment.
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The governor of California has ap-
pointed Father Yorke a regent of the
state university. New York and Cal
ifornia are the only states which rec
ognize the fact that there is a Cath
olic church in the world.
The knights of Columbus directors
in annual meeting last week reported
a more than 100 per cent increase in
membership during last year. Death
claims paid amounted to 1921, 900. The
membership of the order is now $4,000,
and the surplus in the treasury
amounted to $S14,OOO. The project of
extending the order into Mexico was
1903 will see the standard of Columbus
planted in the republic just south of
us.
After an exclusion of thirty-one
years, the Jesuits will again be per-
mitted to return to Germany. This
decision was reached by the German
! government on Tuesday. Chancellor
Won Buelow said he would use his in
fiuence to instruct the Prussian mem
bers of the Bundesrath to support the
! repeal of the anti-Jesuit law so far as
to- permit individual German and for
eign Jesuits to reside in Germany. but
not to allow the founding of Jesuit
chapters. Herr SPAIN, one of the
! Center party leaders, after the Chan
cellor had made the statement, thanked
him in behalf of his party.
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The pontifical brief promoting Mon
signore James e. Quigley from the
sec of Buffalo to the archbishopric of
| Chicago was received by the apostolic
delegation in Washington last Satur-
day. 8
Rev. Mr.. Melzar, former Lutheran
minister, born in Germany in 1867,
whose father and grandfather were
also Lutheran ministers, has been re-
Rev. j. j. Gibbin, Port Angeles,
Wash;
The Holy Father has just completed
| a poem, which is highly praised by lit
erary critics. 1t is dedicated to a friend
whom the pontiff desired to advise on
the best means of prolonging life.
A general chapter of the Franciscan
order will be held in Rome, beginning
! on Easter Sunday, for the purpose of
electing a new general of the order to
succeed the general who died some
time ago. Those who will attend from
this country will be the Very Revs.
Louis Haverbeck, o. F. M, of Cincin-
natl; Huguolinus Storff, o. F. NJ, of
st. Louis: A. Batelli, o. F. NJ, of New
York; Edward Blecke, o. F. M, of
Paterson, N. j., and Stanislaus Jeka.
Q. F. M, of Pulaski, Wis.
Nuns teaching in Catholic orphan
asylums at Rochester, N. Y, had until
recently been paid for their services
by the city. One James Sargeant, a
lively anti-Catholic, entered suit to
restrain the continuance of such pay
ment, and now the court of appeals,
as the tribunal of last resort in that
state is called, has decided in favor of
the nuns. The ground held by the
court was that while public money
cannot under the state constitution. be
paid for the support of "schoop'
where religion is taught, it can and
indeed must in many cases be psid
for the support of secular education
in an asylum" since, as in this case,