The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-04-01

ident Roosevelt Catholic chaplain of the
navy yard at Charlestown. Mass. He
is the first to hold the office. Father
Brennan has Just returned from more
than three years cruise aboard the
United States training ship Hartford,
of which he was chaplain,
-"
Archbishop Moeller expresses the
opinion that the time is not ripe for
the exclusion of women singers from
the choirS This opinion is stated in
letter to the members of the diocesan
music commission of the Cincinnati
diocese, all of whom he has reappointed.
s.
News has been received in New York
that Brother Serapion Van Koop, MEM
Der of a wealthy Belgian family who
two years ago went TO the Hawaiian
islands to take up the work begun by
Father Damien. in the leper colony OF
Molokai has himself fallen victim to
the disease. The letter was from the
young missionary himself, written to
a friend in Belgium, who sent it to the
Rev. Father John j. Dunn, head of the
bureau for the propaga CATION of the talth,
New York. The letter concludes with a
request for prayers. Brother Serapion
Van Koop is IS years of age.
The sixteenth international eucharis-
tic congress will be held in Rome from
the 4th to the 18th of June, 1905, The
organization was founded twentyfiv
years ago, and the first international
congress was held at Lille in 1881. The
city of Rome has been chosen for the
coming congress at the express request
of Plus X, who desires that the utmost
external solemnity should give to these
eucharistic celebrations character of
exceptional grandeur.
Bishop Conaty's organ, Glad Tidings
of Los Angeles, has a good word TO
say of the late Mrs Leland Stanford:
1T should be said here that the Stan
fords were always friendly TO the Cath
Ollie church. Mrs. Stanford had Just
hequeathed $4,000 to Catholic charities
She erected the marble statue of Padre
Junipero Sierra at Monterey, and was
known to frequent Catholic churc hes
and to practice some Catholic devotions
Leland Stanford gave freely to Catholic
institutions, md even contributed a
monthly s.tiper.i for many years to thf
support of a parothial school in Sal
Francisco. 1t is known that their sol
was privately baptized in a Catholic
hospital i'll Italy short time before his
death"
s.
The death of Cardinal Steinhuber
which took place last week, has in
creased to ten the vacancies in the col
lege of cardinals. and IT is the com
mon opinion in Rome that the pop,
cannot delay much longer tho holding
| of the consistory, which Was announced
to take place some time before Easte'
! Sunday Cardinal Steinhuber was th'
only member of tho sacred college be
! longing 10 the Jesuit order. which, be
| ing the most powerful order i'm tn,
| church. is never left long without rep
! resentation among the cardinals, $,
that also for this reason every one l.
: expecting the consistory will. take plac
| before the end of the month.t
The famous cope of St Nicholas "
the theft of which from the Ascot
Cathedral. Italy, baffied the police 70
more than two yeats and which wa
eventually found in j. PierpOnt Nor
| gan's collection in the South Kcnsing
; ton museum. has at last been returne
= to the italian government
! Profound secrecy was observed il
1 its removal from the museum, and it
! place on tho wall was immediat Of
I filed by piece Of tapestry The cop
/ left England a few days ago in charg
of one of the secretaries of the Italia
embassy, and elaborate precaution
were taken for its safety on the yoy
age.
Sir Purdon Clarke, the resignin
curator of the South Kensingten mu
scum. has told an interviewer how
| London dealer whom he knew wi
f, came to him with the vestnient unde
l.; 10 e., r
museum for $4,000, Sir Purdon tol
him he could not purchase it at tina
! price and the dealer said he would TAX
/ it to PierpoIit Morgan. Sir Purdo
vcntured to think he would not he abb
to gain access to Mr. Morgan, but tn
dealer smilingly assured him that how
ever unapproachable the great tnancie