Bishop McGovern of the Catholic Diocese of Cheyenne announced that he intended to come to Casper for the dedication of St. Anthony's Catholic Church.
The same church, approaching its centennial, was the topic of a recent post here, as COVID 19 has resulted in the postponement of celebrations that were planned for the anniversary of the church's dedication. They are now planned to occur next year.
Bishop Mannix in New Jersey throwing out the first ball at the Polo Grounds on August 1, 1920.
In other Catholic news, Bishop Daniel Mannix, the Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia, was arrested by British authorities on the RMS Baltic. Bishop Mannix was an outspoken opponent of British rule in Ireland, where he had intended to go. He was also an outspoken opponent of the use of violence in Irish efforts and had spoken against the 1916 Easter Rebellion. He was allowed to go to the United Kingdom, save for Liverpool and other British cities with large Irish populations.
RMS Baltic.
On the same day, Parliament passed the Restoration of Ireland Act which replaced jury trials with courts martial in areas in which IRA activity was disrupting conventional judicial process. It was supposed to help reduce the need for martial law.
Also on that day Parliament passed the Unemployment Insurance Act of 1920. The government was a conservative one and the economy was doing well, so the step is surprising. The following year the surprise would be the cost that the moven entailed during an economic downturn.
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