The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-10-22
Our literary Gable.

send us two competitive sonnets. The first by May
Donaghy, o4, follows, under the caption,
| The Power of Song
Ben Chaucer, with flood of beart-fet song
First woke the chords of English pOesy,
And still his myTiad-voiced melody,
Allures with power the Chaucer-lovinG throng
Great bards with musics power make heroes strong
For song divine is music's magic key,
Which sets the hopeful soul from bondage free,
Whose power, LIES harmony shall eer prolong.
Q poets wise teach us thy noble art
10 sing in soul-felt numbers thoughts so real
mat each may be enwrought with blessings pure,
And wake to whole-soued song the careless heart,
TN eherishing some far-of faint ideal,
1t rise to deeds of worth that shall endure
The second Power of Song" is from Clara OCon-
nell, 05.
When Heaven beheld old earth deep-steeped in wrong
With sweet-voiced poetry, she turned to light
The clouds that wrapt the world in darksome night
And raised mems hearts to God on wings of song:
From thence to time eternal vast throng
OF truly grateful souls uphold the might
VI song whose potent strains make life bright
And raise the soul to deeds both real and strong.
Q song thou Heaven-gift what power is thine?
whose mystic strains enthral the human mind?
waking it now to great and noble aims
NOW raising the soul to thoughts and deeds divine
On, let us, with triumphant laurels bind
Inc brow of bards whose strains thy power proclaim.
The opening paper in the Catholic World" for
october is from the pen of Rev John T. Driscol en-
titled Mr. Malock and the Philosophy of Theisn -
MI Mallocks entry into the field of Theistic Apollo
getlcs was made known first through the pubica ton
OF Religion Credible Doctrine" and more re-
Gently through THE Veil of the Temple +" This last
Is discussed by the Catholic World" writer who
says the volume naturally resolves itself into two
parts The first is examination the evidences for
the CHRISTIAN religion in the light of the scientific
coveries concerning the antiquity of man and of the
results obtained by the study of Comparative Religion
especially OF Buddhism. The second part is an in
Vestlgatlon into the grounds of Natural Religion To
this part for the present confines his remarks be-
cause 1T is continuation discussion set forth
in Religion Credible Doctrine and because of
the new light which this later presentation throws on
the problem of Theistic Philosophy
Z James j Walsh, NJ. D., Phi. D.. relates the chief
events of the ponticate of Boniface VIII This Pope
has. if possible been the subject of more SANDER
than any other Pope that sat on the Papa
throne By many people he has been looked upon al
most as monster of cruelty veritabIe type of the
meanest political trckery. of this bitter feeling
in his regard is due to Dante. The Florentne poet
was on principle, politically opposed to him. In 1899
Dante was sent by the Florentnes on mission to
Boniface which failed and this further embttered his
feelings. Besides, Dante ardent Imperiaist
When GU" modern English poet sang of 1.-The poet
as lowered with the hate of hate the scorn of scorn
surely Dante above all was in his mind Boniface
has suffered from the full burden of Dante's hate
though not his scorn. That he reserved for smaller
men. He does not hesitate to put Boniface in hell
ana that too, by anticipation the foresight of the
damned recognizing him a companion already in
the nineteenth canto, though the Pope was still
among those who ate and drank put on clothes
doom with the damned who to be his eternal
companions.
How thoroughly it realized even in the Middle
Ages that Dante's position with regard to Boniface
was personal matter, the result of political preju-
dice rather than honest persuasion, can be Judged
from the fact that while Dante's treatise DE Mon
arena con GovernmenO condemned by the
church authorities because of the political enet
it contained Dantes Divine Comedy never shared
this fate, in spite Of its unsparng condemnation of
Boniface and certain other Popes to the extent
of placing them in hell. Bowden, the DISTINGUISHED
German theoogan in his introduction to Hettingers
Commentary on Dantes Divine Comedy, says that in
this Dante treated by the church somewhat as
absolutely necessary, but permitting many things to
go dnnotced because they really the express
sion of malice but of pettishness.
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At the ordinations which took place last week
at Dunwoodie, N. Y, two young Irish-Americans
Oliver Welsh the son of Thomas j. Welsh, we'll
known architect of San Francisco, and Archibald