The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-23


announced
The Order of Salesian Fathers cares
for upwards of 5000 lepers in Colon
bia, South America. When Father AL
bert, the visiting superior, was in
South America he visited, it is stated,
10000 sufferers from this disease.
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Rev. Denis Kearney, for many years
chancellor of the Pittsburg diocese,
died in Pittsburg last week. He was
born at Carlow, Ireland, in 1927, or
dained in 1856 and in the same year
came to Pittsburg.
The work of converting the Navajo
Indians has been begun by the Sisters
OF the Blessed Sacrament At present
they have one school at Fore Defiance
Arizona where they teach 49 children,
only three of whom are baptized.
Stricken with smallpox while minis
tering to one of his congregation, Fa-
ther Buckley of Holy Trinity church.
Middletown, o., has recovered. His
parishioners held meeting the other
evening. The men presented him with
purse of $1,000, the Married Ladies' |
sodality with $500, and the Young
Ladies' sodality with $500.
The oficious Daughters of Liberty.
female A. P. A organization at |
Louisville, KY, are backing suit to
obtain damages from the Sisters of |
the Good Shepherd, that city. The
Sisters some time ago took charge Of
two fallen gicls from Hardin county
and the Daughters of Liberty charge
that the Sisters kept them in cruel |
confinement. They also claim that the
nuns have so hypnotized the people of
Jefferson county that a fair trial can
not be had
After lapse of S65 years, an abbot
has been again enthroned at Buckfast
Abbey, Buckfasteigh, England. Right
Rev. Charles NJ. Graham, D. D., Bishop
of Plymouth, celebrated Pontifcal
Mass in the abbey, once the home of
the Cistercian monks and now of the
Benedictines. Some Cistercian monks
were guests on this occasion. The
newly elected abbot was presented to
the bishop by the abbots of Erdington
and Dourges (France), and the SER
mon was delivered by the Right Rev.
Mgr, Walter Croke Robinson of Lon
don,
The Greek Catholic church has, ac- .
cordlng to the Missions Catholiques,
just made what is described as a veri- :
table conquest in the conversion en- :
masse OF more than $4,000 separated !
Greeks belonging to the districts of 6
Ackar, Hosu and Safita. The decision :
by which these people have abjured :
their errors and returned to the bosom !
OF the Church was taken some time :
ago, when deputation was sent to
Mgr. Doumani, Greek Catholic Melch-
ite, Bishop of Tripoli, to petition that
they might be received. Already the
bishops zeal and activity have merit =
ed the compliment of persecution \
from the schismatics of the district. n
The bishop himself has been ill-treat- =
ed, two of his priests have been pois- -
oned, others have had their boards Z
cut, and many presbyteries have been :,
pillaged. !;
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Mgr. Dennis R. O'Connell, rector of s.
the Catholic University of America fl
will return to Rome on June L and e.
ask Pope Leo XIII. in the name of the
American archbishops to call for a
general collection in all the Catholic
churches in this country for the bene-
NJ OF the university. The fund thus f.
raised will be used to establish schol- -
arships, erect new buildings and i'm -
prove the tone of the university. Such =,
q collection would result in the amass- i;
ing of large sum. There are 1O,6S9 -
churches in the United States. which y,
would average $1,000 each. Mgr. n
O'Connell will return to the United ~
States in the fall to take charge of fa
he university. There will be no vice
rector.
Very Rev. DR.. John A. Zahm, pro. W
vincial of the Holy Cross order, has
Photographic records which OF
IN May 1st enabled the faculty and Ot
Students at the Notre Dame university
o hear the voice of Pope Leo XIII. in
solemn benediction and the responses W
Jung by the cardinals and the mem
'ers of the Papal court, as heard at TX
he Pope's jubilee celebration, March Oh
ID. The cylinder was presented to M.
'ettini, a distinguished scientist, the
lay the provincial left Paris. DIR. w
lahm also was presented with rec
rd OF the Hail Mary, the Pope's IA OF
-orite prayer. The one condition on LIZ
which the Pope permitted the cylin-
ers to be made was that they should
lot be used for commercial purposes. w
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From the government blue book on Kt
Elementary schools which has just Fc
'een issued in England, it appears
hat the number of Catholic parochial
chools on the government grant list w
5 1855. These schools provide accom-
nodation for 403,064 pupils, and have w
sc, ,5SS on their rolls, the average at Al
being 269,191. Of the pupils
nrolled 508,S17 are on the free list"
My 20,970 paying fees. The teachers
q these schools number SO32. The MI
otal grant paid to these Catholic
chools in England last year was ST.