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Show OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT. Editor Intermountain Catholic: My Dear Sir Replying to your favor Rskinjr my approval of The intermountain Catholic since its establishment in thib diocese, I will state that 1 consider the founding- of a Catholic paper in Salt Lake not the least of the many blessings be-fetowed be-fetowed by Providence on the Church here during the past two years. Its birth occurred oc-curred at an opportune time. Hs zeal in Ipropapating Catholic truth has had. inee its inception, my hearty though pflent 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 ail times, for anxious inquirers. In my visitations vis-itations I Fhall hope to find The Intermountain Inter-mountain Catholic in the homes of every Catholic family. Its mission is to espouse es-pouse truth, justice and morality, and all devoted priests will find in it an able co- i operator in their missionary work. It, is my wish that all mv priests and the laity entrusted to my 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. Salt Lake City, Oct. 2, 1900. I CARD FROM BISHOP SCANXAN. I feel it my duty to protect Catholics and 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 anyone rise is authorized or permitted to solicit or collect in this diocese for any purpose whatever connected with the Catholic Church without having from me permission permis-sion in writing, bearing mv seal and signature. Should anyone be found engaged en-gaged in doing this unlawful work of collecting without such a document, he. or she. as the case may be. should be regarded re-garded by all as a fraud and an imposter. L. SCANLAN, 1 Bishop of Salt Lake. I Nov. 20. 1S99. I THE POPE'S ADMONITION. A Catholic newspaper in a parish is a perpetual mission. Let all who truly and from their souls desire that religion and society defended by human intellect and literature should flourish, strive by their liberality to guard and protect the Catholic press, and let every one In proportion pro-portion to his income support them with his money and influence, for to those who devote themselves to the Catholic press we ought by all means . to bring helps of this kind, without which their industry will either have no results or uncertain and miserable ones. rOPE LEO XIII. I s . |