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Show Father MacCorry, the Eminent Paulist Missionary of New York, Discusses The Situation of the Catholic Church in the West with The rmermaimtaiii Catholic Spirit of Religion In Utah and Montana Great Work of the Church In this Holy Year Splendid Progress of the Past Year. -T-TTT 7 1 T T T T T T Y T T T T T " T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T ter .4 III ; : - ff : : Wplr w-fm fell . : Siff I M i l : : fliWf hi i !i i nil ufi'i! . i pi ii E.sv.- Father MacCorry. the distinguished young Pa .ilist Mission- ary, talks of the Progress of the Catholic Church in the Intermoun- tain States, and outlines its great future. . iliov.' Father MacCorry,. the eloquent una ".I'auiist missionary, who has 1)'-n in Salt Lake City during the past v k, has. sm-at hopes fur tlie Catholic' t'hurch in' i ho intermountain country Ouring this holy year. He a i : 1 Fai:.vr Hopper, also of the 3 Wilis', ("t.inn-'.iir.ity. have been deliver- in. a seri. s ii lectures in the wept dur- j ing th- lust fr;iir nicnihK and they have hart ample ip;v.i t'jnlty to study the j situation in the v-st. Therefore they ; should know v, hereof they speak. i "Th evil of the age. that is the spirit ; of indiffe: eiuism." says Father Mae- 'Cavey. "is rapidly dyinsr out among our ; "'athilie jieoji'e. liy iniifferentism I j jr.fan that siijishod regard for religious ! duti'-s. i . "Parents. a far as the vieious sur- ! j-nun-lings of our large eities will pur- I init, are rearing: their children in a j spirit of piety and rei'mement. To th'.s ! tifl the many Catholir pudalities, read- 1 5ng eipi 1'S and various societies form a.j ery rractieal suiplinunt to the home! training whioh leads all. I "The wise rr.os will toil you that'the j y of t'tty years ago was more 'solid- i ly jOnus than the liny of today T hard- j ;.- think so surrnur.ded by a good home ! iirduoiT'e- and with the many religious ; a lv.':ntat:t s (if a spreading Catholic civiiisation the hoy f fday bids fair j to be just as good a citizen and just j a- I'oligious a man as his father. j "Frcjudioe is rapidly dissipating and ; in its 1'iace a spirit of honest inquiry is j forming a str'king contrast to the j niurky atmosphere of bigotry of a few years as...." j At a rs"ont mission given in New ! T'lik by the j'.mlist Fathers ;io0 eon- j rrts wi-i-o it uic into the Church.) 1 lii-M' -''it i must be remembered w ere j tli- n.-.'it if the process of three I j.:on;hn of instruction. When a cunveri 5s w ;;'ins to attend instsuctions three ... t br.es a week for three months his fneri:y is byond question. From all points we hear similar reports re-ports in regard to the good work in . this line. if course the greatest re- j suits are reaped in the densely popu lated east, but the percentage in the lar west is high also when the seal, teied population i? considered. "Missionary work in America," said Father MacCorry. "is very ncsessary at the present time, both among Catholics Cath-olics and r.n-Catholios among the former in order to combat that destroying destroy-ing spirit of indifferentism and among the latter to satisfy a fair-minded spirit of inquiry. 'Our missions, in plain words, simply mean a shaking up of the spitiual side of man. "Spiritual exercises, s it were, the effect of which is to arouse interest in arid call attention to the great affair of salvation. Sometimes the conditio;-": we lind in places we visit are enough to make the heart sink and bernim; en- ! fev-bled with sheer few. "Hut the thought of the good to be done and the immortal if?ue at stake - ponds a bracing energy into our veins ev-n in the face of the direst discouragement. discour-agement. -The tendency of Protestantism today to-day is toward Catholicity. Failing to lind the peace and unity naturally -aved by the souJ, they seek it where " Ji..li"iilJ.iiiUIH Jiuir. "."J""1" """"" ' - IIWBWWBWB.IMMH I the claim of its existence is made and j substantiated. i "It is a lamentable, fact that Cath- olic Colleges are not sufficiently up- ported in the matter of endowments. ! Without sftjch aid an institution can 'never rear'h the highest standard though its efforts be of the most energetic en-ergetic order. It is a consummation devoutly to be wished that a more generous gen-erous spirit will mon arise. The successor suc-cessor Catholic educational institutions means much to the future prosperity r f the church, both at home and abroad. "Generally speaking it ist an indisputable indis-putable fact that the march of Catholicity Cath-olicity has been upward and onward. "Difficulties of the greatest importance import-ance have yielded to its arbitration, i and from his prison in Vatican the head of the church, Leo XIII. is con- suited in all international difficulties, j Wiih such a record in the past, the i new century, blessed in its beginning j by the many indulgences and spiritual j favor?, of the Holy year, should mean j lnu. h for the inlluen?e of the churc i in enlightening prejudice and spreading ; among men, regardless of creed or col- or. a spirit -of friendship, unity and true ; Christian charity. "It is ple-asing to muse." said Father MacCorry, "on the celebration, in the Holy City ino years hence, that will close the century now dawning. The recent function was one worthy of our progrerv and influence, but I think the- i jubilee in 1990 will be a blaze cf glory 1 such as Rome has not yet seen the scin- ; filiation of, which will find reflection on millions of altars in every land, and the, fontirnents if which will find a throbbing1 response in one mighty, universal uni-versal Catholic heart. As a. reward for thoir exemplary behavior during the retreat Father MacCorry interested the college. bevs with his "Story Beautiful" ! in the collfvre hall on Sunday evening j last. It was a rare treat. Ho.Tman's J pirturefl and Father S5aeCorry's elo- j que.nce leave an impression too deep ! for words." ! |