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Show APPRECIATED COMPLIMENTS. The Catholic Columbian, one of our newsiest and most stalwart defenders of Catholic doctrines, after a long and accurate description of the new cathedral, pays the following glowing tribute to The Intermountain Catholic: "The Intermountain Catholic, published at Salt Lake City. Utah, issued a creditable edition of 20 pages commemorating the dedication of the magnificent mag-nificent new Cathedral in that city on August .". This sturdy Catholic weekly was established in 1899. and has during the past ten years been a potent po-tent force for Catholic rights and doctrines in the west. Like the new Cathedral, it is built on solid foundations, and is destined to aid the good Bishop Scanlan. who has been a strenuous advocate of it among his people. The following from an editorial shows its fire and spirit: u 'The glorious Cathedral, to all outward seeming, seem-ing, is as imperishable as the granite rocks which support it, and, from its material and the solidity of its structure, is destined to last, like the Egyptian Egyp-tian pyramids, till the end of time or the earth falls from under it.' " The dedication of a splendid new Cathedral at Salt. Lake City last Sunday was an event of no ordi nary importance. The new Cathedral cost about $500,000. and it is pronounced to be one of the finest fin-est church edifices west of the Missouri. Cardinal Gibbons and prelates from every part of the country coun-try were present at the dedication ceremony. Yet Salt Lake City is a pioneer diocese. It has only fifteen diocesan priests and nine regularly established estab-lished parishes. Its total Catholic population is estimated es-timated to be less than 11.000. We doubt whether another diocese in the country can equal the record of Salt Lake City and its zealous Bishop. True Voice. |