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Show I OFFICIAL ENDOESEJEENT. Editor Intermouutain Catholic: JIv Dear Sir: Replying to your favor asking my approval of The Intermountain Catholic since its establishment in tnn diocese. I will Mate that I consider the founding of a Catholic paper In Salt LaKa - not the leapt of the many blessings oe- towed by Providence on the Church here during the past two years. Its birth occurred oc-curred at an opportune time. Its zeal, in , propagating Catholic truth, has had, .;nce its inception, my hearty, though. silent approval. I believe with Our Holy Father that "a good Catholic journal is a perpetual mission in a parish." and that it will serve as a question box, at at. times, for anxiou. 'iqutrers. In my visl-, visl-, tations I shall 1. . o lind The Inter mountain Catholic hi .;ie homes of every Cethollc familv. lis mission is to espouse es-pouse truth, just!'. h.h-1 morality, and all devoted priest T.lli ind in it an able co-operator co-operator in their missionary work. It is tnv wish that all mv priests and the laity entrusted to mv charge should encourage your noble effort and that of the generous gen-erous founder of The Intermountain . Catholic. Yours sincerely. '.,.-'' L. SCANLAN, Bishop of Salt Lake. " i Salt. Lake City. Oct. 2. 1300. I CARD TROTS. BISHOP SCANLAN. I feel It mv duty to protect, Catholics ' end the public generally from fraud and imposition by notifying them from time to time that no person bearing the name and garb of a priest or sister or asyoa else is authorized or permitted to solicit or collect In this diocese for any purpose whatever connected with the Catholic Church without having irom me permission permis-sion In writing bearing my seal and signature. Should any one be found en-pared en-pared in doing this unlawful work of 1 collecting without ?uch a document, he j or shp. as the case may be. "should be re- carded by all as a fraud and an Importer. L. SCAN LAN. Bishop of Salt Lake. , 1 jfov. ro, iS9o. j THE POPE'S ADMONITION. j -' A Catholic newspaper in a parish Is a perpetual mission. Let all who truly and ! from their souls desire that heligion and poeiety defended by human Intellect and I literature should flourish, strive by their 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 I who devote themselves to the Catholic j press we ought by all means to bring I helps of this kind, without which their f industry will either have no results or uncertain and miserable ones. - POPE LEO XIIL |