The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-11-19

Tine FRANCISCAN sisters nave quiz
a large hospital of four floors, 20f
feet front, costing about $4,000. a
! Waterloo, Ia.
From Ireland comes the remark
able intelligence that Mrs. Cranley
of Clonbrin. Monasterevan. is draw
ing her old age pesion at the remark
able age of 124 years.
At the recent conservation of st
! Patrick's cathedral. New York. 5000
boys and girls were in the edifice on
one of the days, and on another
$500 religious.
The new Columbus Institute of the
knights of Columbus at Milwaukee
| is finished and opened. and the
| knights will eXpend a further $4,000
on improvements.
The Catholic college men of Indi-
annapolis have formed College club
to promote friendly and social rela-
tons among former students OF
Catholic colleges.
The recent terrible forest fire de-
! stroyed within 40 minutes the towns
and the Catholic churches of Bau-
dette and Spooner; the former was
built by the c.. c. Extension society.
At the College church of san An
tonic in Rome there is given every
Sunday evening from October to Au-
gust. a course of practical and ca
techetical instructions and homilies
on the gospels.
1t is said that the first book writ
ten by Catholic missionary on the
American continent was by Father
LaIement, in 1860. on The Blessed
Sacrament. He was the Jesuit SUI
perior of quebec.
In the first week of October. there
was a large number of converts to
the church in England, some of them
persons OF distinction.
The Jesuits and all the members Of
foreign religious institutions have
been banished from Portugal by gov
ernmental decree.
The Italian government has issued
a decree forbidding Portugal religi-
Gus communities establishing them
selves in Italy.
When Archbishop Carroll of Balti-
more was invested with the Pallium.
it was the Minister of Great Britain
who was the bearer of it.
The very day last week that the
Pope was reported i'll, he received in
audience Bishop Kennedy and several
ladies from Dubuque, Ia.
Novmber 18th, this year. will be
the 21st anniversary of the opening
or dedication of the Catholic univers-
ity. at Washington.
China greatly needs English speak
ing missionaries. At present there
are only about nine English-speaking
priests in the empire.
The Catholics of Portugal are be-
ing blamed for not supporting the
Catholic press. especially for not sup
porting the one, solitary Catholic
Daily in Lisbon.
Last Sunday, both ult, the Bishop
of Brooklyn laid the cornerstone for
the new St Finbar church in that
city, which will cost, when COM
pleted. 100000.
Among the reforms to be insti-
tuted by Pope Plus X in the very
near future, will be, it is reported,
a reorganization of Catholic soci-
cites. This reorganization will en-
brace all, md will be OF obligatory
character.
From Budapest, October %, comes
intelligence that Prince Esterhazy
has given the banished Jesuits of
Portugal an asylum on his extensive
domain in Hungary.
Before the Boston priests in annu
al conference. last week, the rector
of the Catholic university. Msgr. DR..
Shahan, made a forcible appeal for
the establishment in the university
of a chair of sacred liturgy
There are very few who know that
the former old st. Patrick's cathe-
dral in New York was consecrated by
Bishop Cheverus, first bishop of Bos-
ton, on May 10, 1915. The old ca
thedral of Boston was consecrated
before it by Archbishop Carroll
In Portugal over 200 nuns are. kept
in an arsenal under guard. The
Jesuit college at Campolito one of
the largest in that country, has been
destroyed and many of its fathers
killed or wounded.
A very handsome church was dedi-
Gated at Anderson. in South Carroll
ma, on the 18th ult The church in
the southern states is growing rap
idly.
The observatory of the Jesuit Fa-
theirs near Torlasa, Spain, says the
scientific American sis probably
the unique example of a great insti-
tuition devoted entirely to the study
of the interrelations OF solar and ter
restial phenomena"