The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-29

MoISlSuor BlSSDOrrOW, recently ap-
pointed bishop of Port Louis, Mauri-
thus, is an English Benedictine.
Rapid progress, according to au-
thentic reports, is being made on the
new cathedral at Wichita, Kan.
The $50 Catholic church, Paw
huska, Okla, will be ready for occu-
pancy by November Is.
The French government is after the
Redemptorists, whom it accuses of re-
establishing again in the republic.
Irish Dominican fathers and nuns
who have long conducted a school in
Lisbon, have been excepted from the
expulsion order in Portugal.
The Franciscan has the largest num-
Der of bishops of any of the orders in
the church. At present it numbers
forty, two of whom are Cardinals.
A Reuter- Rome correspondent tele-
graphs that it is not true that the Pope
has suspended pilgrimages on account
of the cholera.
The Catholic teachers in the Chi
cago public schools have formed them
selves into an organization under the
title of "The Duchesne Teachers
club" For some years a number of
the Catholic teachers have been meet
ing once month at the Sacred Heart
convent on Pine Grove avenue. to at
tend the lectures of Father Coppens,
S. j. Lately, under the advice of Rev.
Mother Dupont, superior at Pine
Grove, it was deemed advisable to
form a more permanent organization,
and to invite other Chatholic teachers
to join, thus increasing the scope of
the work
Two American priests, the Reverend
G. j. Lucas of Pittston, Pa, and the
Reverend James P. McGraw, chan
cellor of the diocese of Syracuse, car
ried off the highest honors this year
in the cannon law examinations at the
University of Apollinari in Rome.
The banns of the marriage of Prince
Victor Napoleon and Princess Clemen-
tine of Belgium were published. The
wedding will take place about the mid
die of November at the Chauteau of
Moncaliere, near Turin
From Rome this week comes an in
timation that the introduction of the
Cause of Christopher Columbus beau
LITIGATION and canonization will be
abandoned, it having no prospective
success.
The kingdom of SaXony has a popu-
lation of 4,50S,601 About 100000
of this population is Lutheran, yet it's
king and his family are Catholics, and
good Catholics at that. The king
himself is a devout and practical
Catholic
At Santiago del Estero, in Argen-
tine, stands the convent and home of
st. Francis Solanus. AT the recent
tercentenary celebration of his death
the archbishop of Buenos Ayres led
pilgrimage to it.
An event relating to the Franciscan
order and of special interest to the
Irish race, will be tse probable beauti-
fication of the illustrious Irish Fran
ciscan, John Duns Siotus.
Rev. Maurice P Foley D. D., of St |
Augustine, Fla, will go to the Philip |
pine islands as bishop of Tukuegaroa. |
A telegram Informed him that the |
Holy Father had confirmed his ap-
pointment.
In this country the Little Sisters Of
the Poor conduct fifty-one homes for |
the aged poor. Perhaps the largest |
is that at Baltimore, which accommo-
dates $50 inmates.
An official report in regard to the
receipts and attendance at the Pas
sion Play" at Oberammergau, during
the season just ended, shows that
otf
performances.
Rev. Stephen Baur, C. S. Sp., has re-
ceived from the sultan of Zanzibar the
decoration of the Brilliant Star for his
long and fruitful missionary labors in
Africa. Father Baur began his apos-
tolic work in 1852.
The United States government will
erect a monument to cost $4,000 in
the memory of the Confederate SOL
diers and sailors who died in northern
prisons during the civil war. Acting
of War General Oliver has
awarded the contract. The monument
will be placed in the Confederate GEM
etery near Point Lookout, Nd. The
bodies of 1856 Confederate soldiers
and sailors were buried in the ceme-
terry at Point Lookout. The principal
reason for erecting monument in
stead of marking each grave is that
1t was found impossible to identify
many of them.
That the Catholic archdiocese of OF
.awa will not be divided on the acces-
sion of Archbishop Gauthier as was
at first predicted. is now considered i
certain. The rumors to the
opposite effect originated in Ottawa,
but are denied at Kingston The
Kingston Standard, in fact, states au-
that the report that King
iton was to be reduced to bishopric