The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-11-28
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

The Abenaki Indians at Pierreville, Quebac,
are all Catholics. Their pastor, Rev. Joseph de
Gonzague, is a full-blooded aborigine.
step-daughter of John Morley, the eminent
author of the just issued biography of Gladstone,
Is a Sister of Charity in the High Park convent,
Drumcondra Dublin, which Mr.. Morley visited the
ther day to take part in the celebration of the Ju
.oilce of the institution.
1t is not generally known that the final series
IF frescocs painted by Sargent for the upper corri
dor of the Boston Public Library will have for its
theme the life of the Blessed Virgin. Catholics
win await It's appearance with interest The By
zantine treatment of the second series was some
what disappointing, and it is hoped that the pro-
jected one will make amends.-Ave Maria.
Mrs Napier Miles, wife of Colonel Napier
Miles, c. B., who commanded the regiments of
British Household Cavalry in the South African
war, has been received into the Church
Amongst the resolutions adopted by the Irish
hierarchy assembled recently at Maynooth was the
following:
where there are public novenas for the feast
of st. Patrick, such novenas shall in future be
socially offered for the spread of temperance in
Ireland.
Heidelberg, Germany, where there is a building
called the Church of the Holy Ghost, which is
unique in its way. being the only church in the
world in which the Protestant and Catholic services
are held at the same time partition wall through
the center separating the two congregations.
Here are few of the figures which extorted
from the Misunderstanding political economist the
foregoing declaration. In missionary countries
there are about 1890 Catholic priests, $500 Cath
Ollie Brothers and $4,000 Catholic Sisters
elusive of about 10000 native Sisters According
to Liable Louvet. two-thirds of the priests
French, and to France belong four-ffths of the
Brothers and Sisters. These figures refer to
period prior to the dispersion and laicization of
the congregations in the home land, and are ac-
cordingly below the mark at present.-Ave Maria.
Writing of the ''feversh endeavor of French
statesmen to expel religion from France" Mr. Ar
mold White says: Some time ago was visiting
the hospital at Caen in Normandy, where there was
a man being tended by a Sister of Mercy She was
praying quietly by the bedside and rose with tears
in her eyes. I asked her later OH why she wept,
and she said that the dying man had asked that a
crucifx might be placed on the wall opposite his
bed. Under French law this is now illegal. Words
would fail to describe the simple woe of the Sis
ter who lamented the action of powerful gov
ernment in carrying their political warfare
to the beside of the dying"
Press cablegrams report that on Saturday last
Pope Plus received in private audience Father
Boniface Krug, formerly Of st. Vincent's Arch
Abbey. Beatty, Pa. and abbot of the famous
Benedctine Abbey of Monte Casino, Province of
Caserta, Italy, he being the first American to hold
that position. His Holiness is taking great inter
est in the work of repairing the abbey, which is
being carried on at the great Benedictine strong
hold under the direction of Father Krug.
The Pontif desired to know all about the visit
of Emperor William to Monte Casino last May,
exclaiming: "How | wish | could also go there"
adding that it had always been of his keenest
desires to visit the abbey but that for several rea
sons he had never been able to accomplish the jour
ney. His Holiness concluded:
pray that | may soon be i'll such position
as to be able to realize that desire"
Pope Plus evidently wished to repeat this
phrase. which he had made use of on previous
OCCASION when it was generally mlslnerpreted, eX-
planning that he meant he would like to go to
Monte Casino if the Church returned to the con-
dition it enjoyed before the fall of the temporal
power.
"No one is ignorant of the temptations and
dangers that beset the young in the streets of
big city after lamplight," saws the Monitor. There
is no more fruitful source of youthful demoraliza-
ton than this practice, to which too many parents
of respectable character seem strangely indifferent
CITY streets after night have been accurately de-
scribed as nursery of youthful vice No child is
ever improved i'll morals or manners by attending
this school"
The wise man will not wait for his sin to find
him out Rather he Will find out his sin bring
ii TO the Redeemer for pardon, and thus find re-
lease from its guilt and power.
One of the chief joys in life is to know men
nv whom YOU can swear, to know man here and
there over the world of whom you can say, "Wher-
ever he is tonight, there he is helpful truthful,
sincere. wise, intelligent-an educated gentleman;
educated in every faculty of his being, in those
iigbt and beauty; educated in conscience, so that
even as the eye seeks the light his conscience seeks
the right; educated fully and completely''-Bisho
Spalding.