The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-03-07
CATHOLIC OPINION.


The English are offended with Gen
eral Miles because he told the EN-
press of China that she was as grea
| a woman as Queen Victoria. If thu
Chinese ruler did not resent the com.
parison it was doubtless because the
general was her guest and licensed tt
say any foolish thing he wished.
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At the invita- ton of Senator Hanna
whose reputation for piety is by nc
means remarka BILE, General Booth. the
English head of the Salvation Army
Offered prayer" in the senate chamber
one day last week. So far we have
heard no cutlery from the ministerial
guardians of church and state divorce
who are usually so alert in defending
their self-imposed trust, when some of
their own number do not happen to be
the charlottesville Monitor.
The Catholic Citizen makes a plea
Tor better acquaintance among Catho-
lies in large cities, not only in a pa
rocnlal but in a general way
The Catholic life of a city should
not be too parochial," remarks our
contemporary. Members of different
parishes should know each other. The
leading Catholics of the town should
meet cash other from time to time.
Ihere should be rallying point. This
Is forming basis for better social
ana creed strength in the community
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That Mr.. Dooley is a far sighted in
divldual is evidenced by his latest phi
iosophy. Says he, and there are many
IKE MIN: 1 never put anything in the
poor box, but l wud if Father Kelly
Wud rig 1t up like wan of thin slot ma
chimes, so that whin | put in A nickel
me name wud appear over TIL altar in
req letters. But whin l put a dollar in
the plate, L get back about two wards
an hurl it so hard that tn good man
turns around to see who done it. Do
good be stealth, says I, but see that
Herald. iiie- ~ OH
Even at the eleventh hour Ireland.s
Nemesis may be assuaged bv iustice
and the restoration of her nsfionaI
IIgnts OF which she has been ruthlessIv
poooeo. But there is going to be an
other ireland in South Africa that
promises to be just as persistent in hate
d.d dlsloyalty as has been the Erin
WlIhln the four seas for seven hundred
years. The young Beers will be taught
by Wrathful sires to curse the British
name; and, like the Carthagenian hero
lhey Will swear upon thAaitar of their
country never to be friends with the
English spoilers of their fathers homes.
-Catnoic Union and Times.
1t was hard blow that our gentle
cardinal struck when he said in a re-
cent sermon in his cathedral:
Ihere is a social scourge more
M i.
ly life than Mormonism. IT is tho
'earfully increasing number of die
Iorce mills throughout the United
states"
AS If to accentuate the timeliness
II His Eminence's words, the news
papers tell us that there is conster
iatlon In mony quarters at the Thought
u Mormon going to the senate. while
ne is no strike on at the divorce mills.
ma no prospect of even a temporary
ockout. A clever woman, writing in
ne Pilgrim, has this to say:
In period of twenty-five wears.
Sew hampshire increased her divorces !
hreefold, without changing her laws
Turing longer period Said a Young /
dethodist clergyman in New Hamp- |
hlre village to me recently: In my I
lastorate [ married eleven couples !
I
even of them are divorced and some Of |
hem are remarked. One of those di- |
.orced couples continued to work in
ne same shop, and greeted each other
'1th, Hello, Hall" and Hello. Lo1I''
S atoretime, apparently no more /
dashed or conscious of the horror of
he situation than so many cats or
rows would be-
1t is quite true, as Cardinal Gibbons
avs, that divorce is a more serious
menace to morality in this country
han Mormonism is; and, though we
re fully alive to the enormity of the
jtah code, we cannot but think that
ne shocked sensibilities of those who
INK y at divorce while they cry horror
I Mormonism are largely a case Of
sins they are inclined 10
" damning those they have no mind
The Ave Maria.
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