The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16
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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 hcnor of Msgr. Falconio,
the apostolic delegate. The COM
manding 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.
Marys church, Chicago, was fittingly
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 a
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.
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 |
England are seriously thinking of add
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 contray, 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: ut is indeed pleas ;
ure to be received as guest of the first [
and Oldest university west of the Mis- [
sissippi river, in the Louisiana Pur- t
chase territory. l know your work /
have myself witnessed its progress in /
the west. | have come across it not {
only among our own people, but also J
among the Indian tribes. 1t gives me '
great pleasure to be here in this great a
to greet you and to listen q
to a well nigh unique ceremony" 1
O.
One of the banished monks of the
IranJe Chartreuse to whom a peculiar r
interest attaches was Brother Patrice. Il
who is granddaughter of Daniel a
O'Connell. He had been on the point C
IF entering the British diplomatic '
service when a sudden change of heart "
sent him petitioning for entrance into t
he French monastery. Now he is /"
among those whom the French gov Fl
has sent out into the world n
Is eXiles in perpetual testimony of S
he dishonor of the Eldest Daughter of T
he Church Ii
The Catholics of Austria have al a
eady donated 1881, ,146 gronen toward c
building Catholic university at Salz- d
,urg. e
SHORT SERMONS. n
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