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Show ! OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT. ! Editor Intermountain Catholic: My Dear Sir: Keplving to vour favor king my approval of The Intermountain . Catholic since its estH-blishmcnt in tr.is i diocese, 1 will Mate that I consider the funding of a Catholic paper in Salt Laka not the leai of the ma.nv blessings bestowed be-stowed by Providence on the Church here, curing the past two years. Its birth oc-: oc-: curred at au, opportune time. Its zeal, in propagating Catholic truth, has had. since its inception, my heartv. though t t silent approval. I believe with Our Holv ! f ! at her that "a good Catholic journal is a perpetual mission in a parish." and that ; it will serve as a question box, at all s times, for anxious inquirers. In mv visi- ; tations I shall hope to find The Inter- rnountaln Catholic in the homes of everv Catholic family. Its mission is to espouse es-pouse truth, justice and morulitv, ar.d .ill devoted priests will find in it an able co-operator co-operator in their missionary- work. It is my wish that all my priests and the laity entrusted to my charge should encourage your noble effort and that of the generous gen-erous founder of The Intermountain L. SCANLAN, , Bishop of Salt Lake. Salt Lake City, Oct. 2, 1900. CARD FROM BISHOP SCANLAN. I feel it my duty to protect Catholics nd the public generally from fraud and Imposition by notifying them from time ' lime that no person bearing the name ;ir"d garb of a priest or sister or anyone fise is authorized or permitted to solicit or collect in this diocese tor any purpose whatever connected with the Catholic Church without having from me permission permis-sion in writing bearing mv seal and signature. Should any one be found engaged en-gaged in doing this unlawful work of collecting without such a document, he or she. as the case may be, should be re-' re-' garded by all as a fraud and an imposter. L. SCANLAN. Bishop of Salt Lake. Nov. 20, 1S99. THE POPE'S ADMONITION. A Catholic newspaper in a parish is a perpetual mission. Let all who trulv and from their souls desire that heligion and fociety defended by human intellect and literature should flourish, strive bv their i liberality to guard and protect the ' Catholic press, and let every one in pro- portion to his income support them with his money and influence, for to those who devote themselves to the Catholic press we ought by all means to bring he-lps of this kind, without which their industry will either have no results or uncertain and miserable ones. POPE LEO XIII. |