The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-09-19

authorities sent soldiers to several in
land towns charging the police 10 for
bidding the setting forth of various pill
erimages to Lourdes; planned to take
place in September.
Right Rev. Mgr. OReilly. prothont-
ary apostolic, an intimate of Popes
Plus TX and the late Leo XIII, is a
recluse at Mt St Vincent He lives
in the "casle'' built by Edwin Forrest,
the tragedian. On September % he
will reach his ninetieth year.
A writer in the New York Sun says
that of the present population of New
York. which is 100000, there are
/. 100000 Catholics; 1,221 600 Protestants,
100000 Jews and there are 555, 900 in
ha bitants without individual or family
religious connection.
Sunday. October is will witness a
fitting religious commemoration of the
fiftieth anniversary of the archiepisco-
pal diocese of San Francisco. The
event will lie celebrated in St. Mary's
Cathedral and marked by one of the
most imposing ecclesiastical functions
in the history of the Catholic Church on
the coast.
1t is stated in Paris that the visit of
the car to Rome has been definitely
fixed for four days, between Oct. 16
and Oct 20.
Expelled from France, the Marist
Brothers will open a secondary college
near Canterbury, England. 1heh' for
me1 students will follow them Ell
masse.
Rev. Ernest Rich Grimes Of the
"Cowley Fathers" and for some ten
years percentor of their church at OK
ford. England. has been received into
the Catholic church al Erdington Alb
hey by Dom Bede Camm. 0. S. B.
Bishop Conaty ocntemplates building
a Cathedral in Los Angeles, Cal. The
entire outlay in the erection of the
proposed structure, together with i'm
in the episcopal residence
and adjoining parish, will foot up to
the $250,000 mark.
1t is remarked throughout Europe |
that since the late socialist successes
Kaiser Wilhelm is paying even greater |
to the Catholic church. He !
plainly sees that only the church |
stands between his empire and de-
struction.
The Greek Christians of New Eng
land are schismatics, refusing to the
chair of Peter supreme Jurisdiction in
matters. Their priests
are validity ordained, administering all
the sacraments and teaching the doc /
-rine of the Church of Rome in all re-
spects save in that of the primacy of
he Roman pontiff.
Seaboard cities prove a veritable
harvest place for the proselytizer.
When one remembers that a million
migrants entering, our ports annually
ully $4,000 are Catholics who are
'ften sorely pressed financially, the
emptation to receive pecuniary aid
rom sectaran missionaries is some
lines irresistible by the stranded for
igner.
The car has issued an order permit
ing all students in middle-class schools
n Russia, Poland, to receive instruc-
ion in the Catholic religion, with the
roviso that it be given in the Polish
Ongue only. This to prevent Russians
rom being instructed in Catholic doc
rine
1t is becoming the fashion TO ceIe-
rate the anniversaries of old church
Boston falls in line with
lis sentiment and the New England
Historical society has fixed
pom Sept. % as the day for observ-
lg the centenary of the first Catholic
hurch's institution in that city. There
re to be addresses by four Catholics
prominence in Boston, choral and
lusical programme as we'll as sol
mn religious services in the cathe-
raj.
There. are between $4,000 and $4,000
reeks in the United States. New Eng
nd has by far the majority of the :
lpulation which counts Syro- Maron-
es in communion with the See Of
eter, the Greek Christians. Syrians
natives of Greece, who do not recog-
re the supremacy of Rome Boston
is a colony of Syro- Maronites, who r
Joy the privilege of ancient
tes received from st. James the Aposs
>, have a Choir bishop and superior
the Syro- Maronite missions through
1t this country.
For thoroughly going Catholics those
the archdiocese of Philadelphia have
W peers IN the united states. Iney
e amongst the most fervent promot-
s of Catholic education. Last year c
e registers of the parochial schools z
owed an increase of 1.029 over the .
eceding twelvemonth. Two fine high
hoos for Catholic boys and girls
urish in the archepiscopal city, and -
100 Catholic young men and women 4
tend the Catholic colleges and
ademies There are 5000 children in :
e orphan and industrial schools.