The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-09-09
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

A course in church music has been
inaugurated at the Catholic normal
school and Pho Mono college at ST.
Francis. Wis. It's purpose is to train
Catholic oreanists to be able to carry
out the wishes of Pope Plus X. and it
has received the unqualified approval
Of Archbishop Mesaner.
During the recent flood in Bridge
port. Conn. the Queens Daughters, a
Catholic organiza ton, sent out relief
committees and furnished with food
and clothing many who suffered the
loss of these necessaries.
Archbishop Riordan of San Fran
cisco sailed from Rimouski, Canada,
by the Allan line. on August 10, for
Europe.
The Catholic Mutual Benefit society
of Australia, at its recent biennial con-
vention, unanimously resolved in favor
of federating the Catholic societies of
that country.
Pilgrimages to Lourdes this year are
larger and more numerous than ever,
the white trains" as the Lourdes
specials are called, being packed to
standing room. From all parts of the
country thousands of bedridden inva-
lids, mostly INDECENT, are being sent to
the famous grotto by private subscrip-
ton, and many of those returning de-
clare themselves completely cured.
About 400 priests of the archdiocese
of Chicago, including rectors of
churches and their assistants have
just completed a retreat at the univer-
Ind.
Bishop Hartley of Columbus, O.. will
make his first liminia visit to Rome
this month. His diocesan report will
show that the Old cathedral debt has
at last been cancelled, and that the
diocese is making steady progress in
all directions.
A dispatch received from the gov
ernor of German East Africa says that
nounce that a Catholic bishop named
Spies, two missionary brothers and
two sisters We're murdered while trav-
cling from Kilwa to Liwale.
Father Sorin, late superior-g general
of the congregation of the Holy Cross
and founder of the university of Notre
Dame, will be honored by having a
bronze statue erected to his memory
at Notre Dame at cost of SO, 900. He
went to Indiana in 1S41 from France
and died in 1888
Archbishop Quigley announces that
the work of organizing churches for
Italian people in towns near Chicago
and of supplying them with priests
and schools is being carried on. In
Chicago Heights, where there are at
present about 500 Italian families. Rev.
John B. Prosseda, C. NJ, is organizing
a congregation. A church school and
parish residence Will be built ias soon
as plans are completed.
The Hon. Charles Fitzgerald, about
to become chief justice of the prov
ince of Quebec, was born in Quebec
of Irish parents fifty-one years ago.
He spent some time in London as a
pupil of the late Lord Chief Justice,
then Sir Charles Russell. His most
famous case at the Canadian bar was
the defense of Louis Riel, the leader
of the patriots in the northwest. He
has just resigned the post of Canadian
minister of justice.
report is being circulated in Rome
that the Holy Father intends shortly
to introduce some important reforms
a number of religious orders
He wishes, it is said, to hasten the
extinction of those religious congrega-
tons, both of men and women, which
have been declining greatly in numbers
and Importance, by Incorporating them
with the larger and more flourishing
orders. The project has been mooted
for a long time, but the report is given
here for what it may be worth.
Father Rodriguez, director of the
Vatican Astronomical observatory,
went to Spain, at his own expense, to
1aake observation on the total eclipse
of the sun. The Pope, who was adj
vised to send one of the vatican OBJ
servatory scientists, refused to do so
at the expense of the vatican. He has
never shown much interest in the work
of the observatory established by his
predecessor and when asked to go and
see what had been done, he recently
answered: 4 have more serious mat
tiers to think about"