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Show i J OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT. Editor Intel-mountain Catholic: I . My Dear Kir: Replying to your favor i asking mv approval of The lntermountain Catholic since its establishment in tr.i diocese. I will state that I consider the founding of a Catholic paper in Salt LaK-j not the least of the many blessings be-: be-: stowed by Providence on the Church nerc : during the past two years. Its birth oe- curred at an opportune time. Its zeal, propagating Catholic truth, has had. i since it Inception, my hearty, though silent cppiovai. 1 believe with Our Holy ' ' Father that " good Catholic journal is a perpetual mission in a parish." and tnat. ; It will serve as a question box, at times, for anxious inquirers. In my visl- ! tations I shall hope to find The Inter- mountain Catholic in the homes of every Catholic family. Its mission is to es-! es-! pouse truth, lustloe and morality, and all devoted priests will find in it an able co-operator co-operator in their missionary work. It is I ! my wish that all my priests and the laity ! entrusted to mv charge should encourage your noble effort and that of the gen-; gen-; erous founder of The Intermounlam Catholic. Tours sincerely. L. SCANLAN, i Bishop of Salt Lake. j Salt Ike City. Oct. 2, 1900. . ' CARD FROM BISHOP SCANXAN. . ; .1 feel it my duty to protect Catholics ; ; end the public generally from fraud and i imposition by notifying them from time- to time that no person bearing the name nd garb of a. priest or sister or anyons else 1 autnorized or permitted to solicit or collect in this diocese for any purposo whr.tever connected with the Catholic i Church without having from me permis- ston lb writing bearing my seal and j signature. Should any one be found en gaged in doing this unlawful work of collecting without such a document, he t or she. as the case mav be. should be re- ' carded by all as a fraud and an imposter. , L. SCAN LAN, Bishop of Salt Lake. Nov. lSfif. THE POPE'S ADMONITION. ; ' A Catholic newspaper in a parish is a t j perpetual mission. Let all who truly and ' i from their souls desire that heligion and ! I -iocietv defended b- human intellect and literature should flourish, strive by their liberality to guard and protect tha ; ' Catholic press, and let every one in pro- ' i portion to his Income support them with , . his monev and influence, for to thos j who devote themselves to the Catholic ' i press we ought by all means to bring ' j relps of this kind, without which their ' industry will either have no results ov uncertain and miserable ones. POPE LEO XIII. j PHIL. CORCORAN -Editor. |