The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-01-14
Religious Intelligence.

Religious Intelligence.
Rev. D. NJ. German succeeds Bishop
eject Dr. j. P, Carroll as president of
st. Josephs college, Dubuque, Ia.
There are today 116 different Catho-
lie religious sisterhOods in the United
States.
Rt. Rev. Bishop T. F. Lillis sang his
first pontifical mass in ST. Patricks'
church, Kansas City, on New Years
Cay. In the afternoon he administered
confirmation to a large class in which
there were several converts.
The White Sisters of Secure de Notre
Dame d Antique founded by the late
Cardinal Lavigerie, are pledged to the
erection of a hospital in Uganda which
shall be wholly reserved for the treat
ment of sleeping sickness.
Archbishop-elect Moeller of Cincin-
natl has accepted the spiritual director
ship of the Catholic order of Foresters.
This office was held by Archbishop
Elder.
Ri Rev. Bishop Hartley of Columbus
confirmed a large class at the Ohio
penitentiary, Sunday Jan. /. The con-
verts were recently made by Rev. F.
L Kelly, o. P, chaplain of the insti-
tuition.
While the ceremony of consecrating
the new bishop of LeavenwoTth was in
progress word was received from Cali
fornia that Father Moore, administrator
of the diocese and a candidate for the
position, was dead in San Francisco,
whittier he had gone some weeks before
IN search of health.
Bishop Canevin, who succeeds the
late Bishop Phelan of Pittsburg, is de-
scribed as one of the most scholarly
prelates in the American hierarchy. He
is comparatively young man, and for
several years has actively administered
the affairs of the diocese as coadjutor
10 the incapacltated bishop recently
passed away.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Professor Charles d. Neil of the Cath
Ole university, L. S. commissioner Of
labor to succeed Mr.. Carol D. Wright.
Mr.. Neil is professor of economics, has
lectured and written on the labor ques-
ton. and has been for some years a
member of the board of charities of the
District of Columbia, He was, also,
assistant recorder of the Anthracite
strike commission.
In the Protestant sections of Canada
drunkenness is. stea Oily on the increase:
The criminal statistics for 1903. just
published. show this by the convictions
nv. ,~io CO
has been IS per cent; in Manitoba. 10
per cent: in Nova Scotia. 100 per cent;
Quebec is the only province in which
there has been decrease.
Paragraphs have been going round
the papers about a piano sent by the
English king to the monks at the Great
ST Bernard. The Montreux CORES
pondent of the London Morning Post
explains the occasion of this gracious
gift: When the king. then Prince of
wales. visited the celebrated monastery
in 1888 he was struck by the absence
of musical instrument there, and
promised the monks that he would
send them a1piano in return for their
hospitality The Instrument was sent
and now King Edward is renewing 1t.
THE prleStheodf, Hotes Che CdlIIoilC
Telegraph of tCffsihnati. should be
a hove the NECESSITY of descending to
the odious practice of continual beg
ging to obtain the wherewith to defray
the ordinary expenses of the parish.
No gentleman likes to beg; and no con-
siderate gentleman will force his pas
TOR TO assume the undignified and
dIsa greeable role of a beggar. 1t be-
booves us. therefore, to be duly gen.
erous in support of our church and its
charitable and educational insutu-
lions: and we would again suggest the
proprjety of putting among the New
Years resolutions one of sincere. sub
etantiaI. lay cooperation with the
clergy.