The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16
Church
Universal
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Estimates have been submitted for
a new parochial school for st. Joseph S
congregation at Sharpsburg, Pa. 1t
will be of brick, three stories high.
Bids are also being received on brick
convent for the same congregation, to
cost about $4,000.
Seventy years ago there were only
about 10000 Catholics in the state of
Ohio. Today they will number, it is
reported, $4,000.
On occasion of the blessing of the
new philosophical and theological SEM
mary of the Oblate Fathers at San
Antonio Tex, on April &c, there was
a parade in honor of MsgT. Falconio,
the apostolic delegate. The COM
handing officer and staff of Fort Sam
Houston, with the Twelfth United
States Cavalry band and all the troops
then at the post were OF the head of
the procession.
The seventeen anniversary Of st.
celebrated last Sunday. The parish is
the Oldest in the Chicago archdiocese.
When founded there were only 200
Catholics in the diocese. Today there
are 100000.
The Sisters of the Holy Cross at
South Bend. Ind, are about to erect
hospital. The corner stone was laid
last Saturday.
A new church is to be erected in Mt.
Carmel parish, New Bedford, Mass,
which will cost $4,000.
A new church, the first and only one
in Deuel. county, South Dakota, will
soon be built at Clear Lake 1t will
cost $4,000.
Bishop Bonacum of Nebraska denies
the report that he has been summoned
to Rome with regard to trouble with
priests in his diocese. He has not
been summoned at all.
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The esteemed Protestant Episcopal
Living Church stands in need Of deep
commiseration. For years it has been
appealing for a change of name of the
denomination to which it belongs. 1t
has wished it to be the American
Catholic church. Thursday the Epis-
copal dioceses of Pennsylvania and
New Jersey voted heavily against the
proposition, as other dioceses have
done hitherto. The handwriting seems
on the wall so far as the movement is
concerned in this country. If the
brethren really desire to be Catholics
they must come to us.
The Noncomformist ministers of
ing considerable ritual to their Sun
day services in future.
There is some excitement in Ger
many over the ill-mannered articles of
one Protestant, Pastor Schwartz, who
has been publishing in his journal,
named from the contrary, The Banner
Of Truth, some articles defaming the
pope and the Catholic church The |
archbishop of Freiburg is taking legal
action against the professor
Speaking at the Jesuit university at
st. Louis the other day. President |
Roosevelt said: 1T is indeed a pleas
ure to be received as guest of the first
and Oldest university west of the Mis-
sissippi river, in the Louisiana Pur-
chase territory. l know your work |
have myself witnessed its progress in
the west. 1 have come across it not
only among our own people, but also
among the Indian tribes. 1t gives me
great pleasure to be here in this great
to greet you and to listen
to well nigh unique ceremony"
One of the banished monks of the
Granje Chartreuse to whom a peculiar
interest attaches was Brother Patrice,
who is a granddaughter of Daniel
O'Connell. He had been on the point
Of entering the British diplomatic
service when sudden change of heart
sent him petitioning for entrance into
the French monastery. Now he is
among those whom the French gov
has sent out into the world
rs eXiles in perpetual testimony of
he dishonor of the Eldest Daughter of
he Church.
The Catholics of Austria have al
ready donated 1881 JAG gronen toward
Catholic university at Salz-
burg.
SHORT SERMONS.
Even in those who enjoy friendship ;