The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16
Catholic Notes.

The Catholics of the diocese of Cam
hrai, France have reopened $40 schools
TO take the place of the 443 primary
schools closed by the Religious Congre-
cations law.
The Oberammergau Passion Plays will
oe given next year from May II to Sep
.ember 25. The burgomaster has issued
notice reminding the men that they
must now let their hair grow.
Mgr. Moriscione, the oldest bishop in
The world, has just died at Squillace,
CatanZaro. He was born on the 22d
of October, 1911, and became bishop of
Gravina and Montepeloso in 1855. In
1858 he was transferred to Squillace.
The monumental new Cathedral of
st. Louis, Mo-, which is rapidly rising,
may be Americas highest art represen-
tative. It's scheme of Mosaic decora-
tons and other embellishments may
cost, it is said, 100000.
In order not to conflict with the
Eucharistic Congress that will meet in
Montreal next year, it has been decided
to postpone the proposed Pan-American
Missionary Congress, at Boston, until
1911
The clergy will welcome a new decree
of the Holy Father empowering them
to dispense from diriment ecclesiastical
mpediments and thus validity marry
persons who are in danger of dying be-
fore d formal dispensation could be OBJ
tanned from the bishop of the diocese.
Again this year the King of England
lunched with the Abbot of Tepi, who is
the ground landlord of Marlenbad, and
who has received the honor of an hon
orary knighthood in the Royal Victoria
Order The abbot has been command
er of the Victorian Order for several
years.
Rev. Herman ]. Collier, president of
Gonzaga college, of Spokane, Wash, has
been selected as provincial of the new
province of the Jesuit order, with juris-
diction over twenty-siX colleges and
residences in southern California, Alas
no, North Dakota, South Dakota and
Wyoming, with headquarters at Port
land.
The French Episcopate has issued a
pastoral letter warning Catholic parents
in France that the teaching in the pub
lie schools jeopardizes the faith of their
children. The letter condemns especially
co-education, saying that the mixture
of the two sexes is contrary to morality
and unworthy a civilized people" The
letter forbids the use of a score of pub
lie school text books. principally his
tories, and appeals to parents to unite
in protection of the faith.
The Pope received as usual last week
many people, among whom was man
of the name OF Montrosi, siXty-eight
years Old and an old crippled woman
who. was wheeled into the presence of
the Pontiff in wheelbarrow. Both pill
grims came from Modena, the man
walking and pushing the cripple in the
barrow They took seventeen days to
make the journey. The Pope received
them most cordially and thanked them
for their great proof of attachment.
All the converts of the great order
of the Sacred Heart in and near Paris
are now closed. The command to close
the last house left open in France, one
in Brittany went into force on Sept. l,
writes a correspondent of the Irish Cath
Ollie On the feast of st. Ignatius, July
81, the famous convent at Contains was
shut, the present mother general re-
naming there to the last, like the cap
tain who leaves the sinking ship with
out hauling down his standard. She
remained to close the door herself.