The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-04-18
THE NTERMoNTAN AND COLORADO CATHOLICS IS,

with King Edwards visit to Italy thal
there has been no meeting between an
English sovereign and a Roman pom
tiff for nearly 1000 years. True, Leo
XIII met the late Queen Victoria botn
at Brussels and in London. But he was
only nuncio to the Belgian court at
the time, and probably no one ever
dreamed in those days that he would
succeed to the chair OF st. Peter. queen
Alexandra has visited Leo XIII at the
Vatican with the present Prince OIL
Wales and her two younger daughters.
But it was before she became queen,
and, as 1 have stated above, no
crowned Pope and crowned British
monarch have met for a thousand
years.
1t will be an interesting meeting, IL
it takes place, especially when one
reflects that the English sovereign
bears a title conferred by the Papacy
upon the occupants of the BRUSH
throne 300 years ago or more, prior 10
the Reformation-namel that of de
fender of the faith" 1t was granted,
/ as every one knows to Henry Viii
in recognition of a remarkable treatise
which he wrote, published and sent to
| the Pope assailing and contesting the
doctrines of Martin Luther. Afterward
he himself became a dissenter from the
Church of Rome, and, apprehensive lest
| the Pope should deprive him of the
title of defender of the faith" he
caused it to be confirmed by statute
namely: by act of parliament immedi-
ately after cutting himself adrift from
, Rome. Therefore today, though King
Edward bears a title originally con-
ferred by the Papacy, yet he holds it
by virtue of an act of parliament
Chicago Tribune.
o.
Major 'Lige Halford who was given
an army commission by a grateful
president whom he once served in
domestic capacity, came home from the
Philippines the other day The first
thing he did after landing was to re-
pair to the Ministers association to
tell the brethren there of the great
progress of Methodist missionary eff
fort among the Catholic natives. One
would gather from the majors re-
marks that his chief business while
in the islands had been the promo
ton of this religious enterprise. His
military duties, merely nominal, con-
sisted in the main of drawing his pay.
'Lige was always remarkable for his
devotion to the religious affairs of the
sect with which he is identified. He
was regarded. even while presidential
secretary, more in the light of an ex-
horter than of a public official No
fault is to be found, of course, with
his missionary fervor in behalf of
Methodist, provided he does not use
his official position merely as a cover
Tor evangelistic endeavor That his
behavior in this respect has not al
ways been above suspicion is appar-
ent from complaint lodged with the |
war department some time since to
the effect that IN his character of !
army officer he addressed himself with |
more zeal than discretion to the CON |
version" of Catholic Filipiuos. The !
majors outgivings at the Ministerial |
assembly appear very much like a |
of the truth of the COM
plaint.-The Monitor.
The French government demands the
absolute right to appoint bishops in
that country. This is wore than the
right OF 1nvestiture claimed by Ger
many in the middle ages, and if recog-
nized by Rome would place the hier
arcny OF France as completely under
the control of the government as is that
Of England today. But it will not be
Last year some of the great actors OF
the Paris stage began declaiming the
sermons of Bossuet and Bourdaloue in
public halls and created quite a stir
among old theatre goers. Lately a Ger
nan tragedian in Frankfort-on-the-
vain reclted the first epistle of St. Paul
% the Corinthians to an immense audi
ence and was applauded to the echo.
fhe world is ever ready to hear good
sermons will spoken.
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Archbishop Montgomery. coadjutor of
san Francisco, has been named by the /
holy Father metropolitan of Manila.
HIS election was the result of long and :
areful elaboration. He is an Ameri- |
an and will not try to bring the church {
# the Philippines into cross purposes |
With our government. He is a jealous !
bishop and will labor to spread a s
lealthy form of religion in the archi-
elago. He speaks Spanish fuently and
VII be able to issue his pastorals with J
ut an amanuensis. and address his
eople without an interpreter. ..
A cablegram from Rome to the New
DIRK Tribune, dated the 10Th ult. says: :
Archbishop Ireland's nomination for
arolnal has been submitted by the pope
0 some members of the sacred college.
seems to have been received with APP I
rotation by the majority of them, e
hose most favorable to it being Car s
inal Serafino VannutelIi, SatolIi, Agli- c
rdi and Vincenzo Vannutelli. No de- :.
ision, however, was reached whether !
e should be included among those to y
e appointed cardinal at the next con- !
iStory"