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Show OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT. Editor Intermountain Catholic: My Dear Sir Replying to your faver asking my approval of The Intermountain Catholic since its es-Isblifihinent es-Isblifihinent in this diocese. I will stat" that T consider The founding Of a Catholic Paper in Salt Lake not the )art of the many blessings bestowed bv Providence n the Church here during the past two years. Its birth occurred at an opportune time. Its zeal in propagating prop-agating Catholic truth has had. since its inception, my hearty though silent approval. I believe with Our Holy Father that "a good Catholic journal is a perpetual niislon in a parish," and that it will serve as a question box, at all times, for anxious inquirers. Dl my visitations I shall hope to And The Intermountain Intermoun-tain Catholic in the home of every Catholic family. Its mission is to espouse truth. Justice and morality, end all devoted priests will find it an able co-opera- tor in their missionary work. It is my wish that all my priests and the laity entrusted to my eharg" should encourage your noble effort and that of the onerous founder of The Intermountain Catholic, Tours sincerely, L. SCANLAN. Bishop of Salt Lake. Salt Lake City, Oct. 2, 1900. I CARD FROM BISHOP SCANLAN. I feel it my duty to protect Catholics and the puo-Ik puo-Ik generally from fraud and imposition by notifying Them from time to time that no person bearing th nam and jtarb of a priest or sister, or anyone elsi, c authorizea or permitted to solicit or collect in thin Hoces for any purpose whatever connected with the 'p.tholic Church without h- ving from me permission in writing, bearing my sea! and signature. Should anyone be found engaged in doing this unlawful work or collecting without such a document, he or she. as The case may be, should be regarded by all as a fraud and an importer. L SCAXLAN, Bishop of Salt Lake. |