The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-28
Religious Intelligence.

To mark his Goth birthday, John d. Crimmin
has sent to the treasurer of St. Johns guild, New
York, check to defray the cost of trip of tn
floating hospital this summer. Between 800 ant
$500 children and mothers will be cared for thu
trip.
Bishop Hortsmann of Cleveland will sail June
for his ad limina visit to Rome. He will remair
abroad only five or six weeks. making his absence
no longer than is necessary to fulfil the obligations
of the decennial visit to the Holy Father and the
Eternal City which is required of every bishop.
One of the two Japanese soldiers who were cap
tured while attempting to dynamite bridges anc
destroy telegraph communications a Catholic
Before being shot he made his confession to
Russian priest there being Catholic priest pres
| ent.
Bishop Kelley of the diocese of Savannah has
ordered that the new rule governing church music
will be enforced in all the churches in his diocese
ON Jan. l, 1905.
Called to administer the last rites of the church
to dying woman, Father John j. Boylan of St.
Lucy's church, Jersey City, turned physician, and
in half hour the woman he to have shrived
removed from danger of death by the prompt,
skillful action of the priest.
Ex-Congressman Seth W. Cobb has embraced
the Catholic faith and has been baptized by the
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delphia and Archbishop John j. Glennon of St.
Louis, assisted by several priests.
There sensation of unsual intensity in
the French chamber of deputies the other day,
when NJ. Buisson, the governments representative,
in proposing the law suppressing every school I'M
der the direction of religious congregations, be-
came the panegyrist of the founder of of the
doomed congregations. The eulogy was paid to
ST. John Baptist de La Sale, founder of the Chris
tan Brothers, and while some OF It's assertions
need qualification and correction, 1t IS wlthall
brilliant argument against the enemies of the re-
lgious congregations In France
Cardinal Satoli as project of the congregation
of studies, was received in the usual fortnightly
audience by the Pope May q, and took the oppor-
tunity to pay farewell respects to the pontif be-
fore leaving for America. The Pope cordially
wished him pleasant journey and also gave him
the apostolic benedction. Satolli presented to the
pontif a model of q monument to the late Pope
Leo by Professor LUZ. 1t will be erected in the
church of ST. John Lateran The model was left
in the Pope's apartment to be examined by other
members of the sacred college.
In Cleveland recently St Patrck's Catholic
club house, spacious and we'll furnished building
costing no less than $4,000 and devoted to the
use of the young men of st. Patrick's parish,
formally opened with fitting ceremonies. The
structure is the best appointed institution of its
kind in the state and is splendid monument to
the energy of Rev Francis Moran, pastor of St.
Patrichs.
Latest reports from attendants at the bedside
of the Rev. p. Scanlan, chancellor of San Fran
cisco diocese, who was stricken with pneumonia
while in New York, en- route to Europe, are en-
couraging. Though it is not definitely known
here, it is thought that Father Scanlan will con-
tinue his journey, when sufficiently recovered to
travel
An attempt was recently made to assassinate
Rev. George B .Eckert of the Holy Angels church.
Ottawa Kansas. The priest heard footsteps out
side his study and stepped out the porch when
shot which missed him, was fired from the bushes
ten feet away.
To enable them to issue bonds for building
their new home in Sioux City, Ia. the Sisters. of
the Good Shepherd have filed trust deed ON their
recently acquired property In that place. The
plans for complete building will involve an out
lay of about $4,000 but only one wing will be
built at present, costing about $4,000 and the
rest added when needed and financial conditions
will justify.
In disastrous fire which swept the village of
Utica. Mich. St, Lawrences church was destroyed,
entaling loss of about $4,000
A fierce wind storm blew the top off the tower
of St Francis convent and Orphans Home at |
Nevada, Kan. damaging the building about $500. |
Fifteen panes of glass were broken. The building
was fully insured and repairs will be made at once
Out of fifty births during months time in
the city of Dunkrk. n. V thirty-seven were chill
dren of Catholic parents. The fact is quite sig
nifcant and is not without its lesson.
One day last week Bishop Shanahan, of Harris
burg. confirmed $50 persons in Our Mother of
Sorrows Church, Philadelphia, where he formerly
served pastor. Of the above sixty were adults,
mainly converts.
It is likely that ere long apostoate for non
Catholic missions will be established in the Gin
,innati diocese. Father Kress, the head of the
movement in Cleveland has written the archbsh-
Fps and many of the clergy, recommending Gin
,nnati apostolatc similar TO that in Cleveland,
New Y DIRK and other cities.
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Once more the College Of Santa Clara, Cal.
las given birth to great religious drama. This
ime it is Henry Garnet Priest and Martyr"
rama that comes as the result of several years
f painstaking labor the part of D.. j. Kavan-
agh, S. j., q talented member of the college fac
ltv. The play is founded on the stirring times