Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-27
E1.Communication Of victor Emanuel.

ealing attention 10 bHc lHcu th"t d ihe uoNu
ment was issued in 1920 or about that time,
in Philadelphia, as being bona .fde form OF
Accommodation by the then Bishop of
Philadelphia, against Catholic clergyman.
The clergyman had been rebelhous and
eontumacious towards the Bishop and dis
posed to set at uaught the authority and Gus
toms Of tho Church Accordingly the Bishop
of Philadelphia very properly withdrew from
him his faculties as Pastor of the Church of
St. Mary's in that city. The young Clergy
man made resistance. and a violent sclism
was created. The clergyman was solemnly
excommunicated and he retaliated 10y filling
the columns of Protestant newspapers with
all sorts of attacks against the Catholic
Priests, Bishops aud leaders. lie or bis
friends pretended that formal written de-
cree of accommodation had been promulga-
ted against him, and gave to the world the
fictitious document Of Sterne, in his Tristram
Shan4y, as the genuine paper The fact
was that the Excommunication was merely
verbal, and not written at all.
We make the following extracts from the
documents relating to the case, as we find
them in the 9th Volume of the works of the
Right Reverend John England, First Bishop
of Charleston, South Carolina
ave have frequently had the opportunity
of witnessing the modes of attack upon the
Catholic religion, by those writers who assail
it and We have almost uniformly observed
that they never assail either that religion, or
its practices in fair, candid, or honorable
manner. They first caricature what they
mean to decry, and then expose to ridicule
and eXecration, the distorted object which
they exhibit.
Never was there more striking instance
of this misconduct, than that which we are
now obliged to notice. We would have suf- |
fered the base and calumnious fabrication TO
rest in its merited obscurity, but for the i'm
portunity with which we are daily worried |
to learn if the form of accommodation |
which will be found below, was that which |
the Bishop of Philadelphia used in cutting |
off the schismatieal young man, who is em-
ployed in st. Mary's Church, from Catholic |
communion We asked, "And does any one
believe that it wasp We were answered.
Yes" And we were informed that it has
been most assduously copied through the
papers of the Union and we have been re
quested to correct this erroneous impression
Alas how can we do so ? Our paper is in
The hands of few but Catholics, and they are
not the persons upon whom the erroneous
impression has been made We can only
publicly state the truth, and call upon those
editors of papers who have innocentlv COP.
ed the calumnious article, as they would not
De guilty of bearing tdlSe oitnesS against their
neighbour, to copy this correction"
"We have inquired what form the bishop
Ised and have been told that he did not use
my regular denunciation of those marked
out merely had the fact stated publicly, that
he young man who had usurped the place
,f the pastors of the church, was excommu-
licated this was enough for its validity.
We shall now for the information of the pub.
ie, give from the Roman ponti6cal trans
alton of the form of major accommodation.
which is that under which this clergyman
les; which will show our readers how diff
erent the fact is from the fiction, which we
give below :
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
"Whereas, l, the name of The person ,cho
have lawfully admonished
The name of the person accommodated, the
first, second, third snd fourth time, to be
turned from his malicious wav and to desist
from-the crime is here inserted and where.
as, he contemptuously refused or neglected |
to fulfill and obey this command and where
as, obedience will appear to be of no avail to
the humble, if their contempt produce no evil
to the eontumacious Therefore, by the au-
thority of the Almighty God, Father, Son
and Holy Ghost and of the blessed Apostles
Peter aud Paul and of the saints, compelled by
his contumacy, | eXcommunicate him, IN
0riting, il II be uriHen, and | denouuce him
IS one to be avoided, SO long as he shall not
nave fulfilled that which is commanded, that
his spirit might be saved in the day of iudg-
nent"
This is an exact, close translation of the
prescribed form. Now let any unbiased per-
son compare the authorized form with Sterne
fiction, and say what credit is to be given to
the persons who give to the public the one
for the other
From the Philadelphia Independent Balance,
Feb. 10, 1922.
We have at length obtained correct copy
of the accommodation of civilian" pas |
tor ofSt. Marys Church, of this city it is as
follows from Sterne:
"By the authority of God Almig ghty, the |
Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and of the un-
dehled Virgin Mary, mother and patroness |
of our Saviour, and of all ecclesiastical vir-
tues, angels, archangels, thrones, dominions.
powers, cherubims, and seraphins. And of |
all the holy patrarchs, prophets, and of all
the apostles and evangeists of the holy in
nocents who, in the sight of the holy Lamb.
are found worthy to sing the new song of
the holy martyrs and holy confessors, and of
all the holy virgins, and of all the saints to-
gether, with the holy elect of God-may he,
William Hogan be damned
We eXcommunicate and anathematize him.
and from the thresholds of the church of |
God Almighty wesequester him. that he may
be tormented, disposed and be delivered over
with Dathan and Abiram, and with those
who say unto the Lord, depart from us, we
desire none of thy ways" and as fire is
quenched with water, so let the light of him
be put out forevermore, unless it shall repent
him and m Ike satisfaction, Amen
May the Father who created man, curse
him May the Son who suffered for us, curse
him May the Holy Ghost who was given |
to us in baptism, curse him May the holy
cross with Christ, for our salvation, triumph |
ing over his enemies ascended, curse him
May the holy and eternal Virgin Mary.
mother of God curse him May ST. Michael |
the advocate of holy souls, curse him Nav |
all the angels. arehangels, priucipalities and |
powers and all the heavenly armies, curse
him
May the praiseworthy multitude of patri |
archs and prophets, curse him
May St. John the precursor and St. John
the Baptist, and St Peter, and st. Paul. and
st. Andrew, and all other of Christ's Apostles
together, curse him and may the rest of his |
disciples, and the four evangeists who by
their preaching, converted the universal
world, and may the holy and wonderful com
pany of martyrs and confessors who. by |