The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-27
Religious Intelligence.

A bust in marble of Archbishop Ryan is much
admired i'll the Fine Arts building at the Worlds
fair
Mexican Catholic papers declare that the effort
of the Bible societies of the United States are
proving fruitess in that country.
The Church in France comprises II archbishops,
81 bishops, 165 Wears general, 6S5 canons and 1Ol
900 priests.
Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore was
elected vice president of the Harvard Law School
association at its recent meeting.
The ordination of seven students was the first
official function of Bishop Fox of Green Bay after
his conservation.
Archbishop Mcguire of Glasgow, Scotland has
issued rule that no person who CANDLES shall be
permitted membership in Catholic society.
1t has been admitted, in reply to a question in
the house Of commons, that all the inspectors
gagged under the Irish estates commissioners arc
Protestants. M
A Madrid correspondent learns on the highest
authority that the king Of Spain will pay his first
state visit to King Edward in November
The Holy See believes it can solve the problem
presented by the seven episcopal vacancies in
France by appointing carons with spiritual priyi-
leges without the official title of bishop
The Pope and Cardinal Merry Del Val the
papa secretary of state have received large num-
Der of congratulations on the rupture between
France and the vatican. These messages include
several from America. -,
Dom Gasquet, the we'll known historian and
scholar, will come to this country next month. He
is to lecture at the ecclesiastical seminary III St.
Paul Mimi. the University of Notre Dame and St.
Mary's academy, Notrc Dame Ind.
The Paris Temps prints dispatch from Rome
announcing that the court at Naples. which has
been Judging contested viii has decided that
the Pope is capable of inheriting in Italy, which
hitherto had been disputed
Very Rev. Father Felix Ward, G. P, formerly
rector of the Sacred Heart Monastery on the New
burg road has been appointed superior and pro
vincal of the Passonist Fathers in the United
States succeeding the late Very Rev Stephen
Kealy head of the order
Fifteen young women took the vel as noviccs
at ST Agnes convent at Fond du Lac, Aug. Is, and
sixteen novices became sisters.
The diocese of Belley France has two small
seminaries, one at Bellev and the other at Mexi
Combes has ordered The seminary at Belley TO be
closed
1t is something Of a coincidence that Cardinal
Logue, archbishop of Armagh, the conservation of
which cathedral has Just taken place was born in
the very year in which that cathedral was founded.
His birth took place at kilmacronau Oct /,
1870
The annual Catholic pilgrimage took place
Gently to the site of ST. Thomas a Beckcts martyr
dom at Canterbury, England. There was pro-
cession through the streets of Canterbury to the
cathedral
Negotiations are going ON with view to Pro-
paganda being requested TO send Englisll-speaking
priests out to the Congo Free State in the imne
diate future Father Henry, rector of Mill Hill,
has just returned from Belgium, whittier he had
been invited by King Leopold to confer on the
matter with the authorities of the Congo govern
ment.
The body of Archbishop Guidi, the apostolic
delegate to the Philippines who died in Manila on
June 20 from heart failure, Will be conveyed to
Rome, where the interment will take place in Sep
tember.
Under the direction of Father Wynne. S. j..
and other Jesuits the entire data for the process of
the canonization of Father Jogues the martyred
missionary of the Mohawk valley has been for
warded to Rome.
At st. Louis recently the Jewish synagogue
B'Nai FL, became the property of the Croatian
congregation. Father Shuser who is in charge of
the new Croatian congregation will have the syna-
gogqe renovated at once, and the formal dedication
of the building for Catholic worship will take place
in September
If all the descendants of our Catholic fore
fathers" said Bishop McFaul recently chad re-
manned true to their faith, there would be more