The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1872-06-30
new ORLEANS SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 30 5s7a -
7he Galway Judgment: and the Dublin cl.rev

OA1AAS>ANpS CONUdl
Tho Galway Judgment and tho Dublin Clergy
The clergy of the Archdiocese of Dublin
assembled on the 9th inst. in st. Keyin,s
Chapel, attached to the Cathedral, Marl-
borough street, to take into consideration
sne attacks On Catholic doctrine, Catholic
fr,sstnood IN the now famous Judgment y
delivered at Galway by MFR. Justice Keegh.
dis Eminence the Cardinal Arc3rbisbon
presided, and the meeting was attended by
nearly all the clergy of the diocese, both
aeeaiar a and regular. the chapel being
Maensely M crowded. His Eminence opened
the proceedings in brief address. He was
loudly applauded, after which the Very
hev. Canon Forde read the folio wing ad.
dress: ,..o.. ...,...i =. :.
To the Catholics of the Diocese Of Dublin:
Dear Brethren-A great scandal has come
upon us.
-. "A jodge.a protesting catholic-elothed in
rs reported to have uttered from the Judgment
seat words of fiercest insult-words which
have reused up the sleeping monster Of bigotry
baclsto Us from England and in menace of re-
newed persecntion-whieh have brought dis
grace on the cause of justice, and filled the
asiends Of discord and disloyalty with,nnutter
: The wise policy OF English modern statesa
men had done much to reaD up throne. for
sna %bs GP the svsBs 81 shs .s Of s
daya have we'll nigh shattered that throne, by
rousing into almost unprecedented indigna-
tion the Seelings of whole nation Tho
Of An indiscreet man may, by one act, il not
repudiate, shiver into fragments the tablets on
which they are insci ibed. For centuries the
bench, whence jostiee between man and man
supposed to be administefed, was regarded by
our people as the stronghold Of their oPpress-
ors habit had, in some sense, Injured them to
-insult aud Injustice from its occupants better
times, however came round, and the seat of
law gradually arose before the nation's eyes as
the seat of impartial justice too. But the
words of passion which have lately come forth
from it have done much to awaken in the
minds of the people the memories of wrongs
which they were willing to forget. None ex-
cept those who are thoroughly. conversant
with the inner feelings of the Catholics OF Ire
land can sound the depths. of the indignation
which at this moment fills the bosom of the
nation They feel to a man that tue laws of
decency have been violated in order that their
reverence for religion might be wounded.
public officer, paid by their industry to ad-
minister justice, their religion has been bias.
phemed throughout the empire We are not
in which the late investigation in Galway ter
minated. 1t may be the stern logical outcome
Of the evidence brought forward, or II may be
the very reverse. WGh this inquiry we are
not now epgsged. We will leave TO others the
task of criticising that decisioh, if criticism
be called for But whilst We disclaini all in
teption of reviewing the conclusion to which
the Judge has arrived, We must enter our T most
priety implied in the most unbecouIing Ian
gusge which the reports of the public journals
put into his euth. And whilst We protest
feiqned indignasiop,. .repudiate the ealpmnipus
misrepresenta atien BY which II is atten pied to
be established that the priesthood Of ireland
is prepared to prostitats flre most sacred IN
stftatiop of eligion 20 the unworthy purposes
of low political intrigue. IN the Strongest
terms w,hfchthe sauctity oe the place where we
stand viii allow, we resent the tone OF this
haraDsas fspietss, .s,s from beginning e end With
pie. here Is pothingso holy or sacredin our
eyes that may hope 70 escape sacrilegious in
vasion Of this Wild eausion; the Holy Father,
must he lnaligped, the discipline oftbe Church
in the adpinistration of the sacrament's 8 m
be distorted, the unhappy cleric whe is dragged
before this tribun al must be mimicked to cause
amusement for his enemies; the hereditary
enemies ofethe peoples faith and liberties
must be euiogized as something more than
angelic.
cit is not our baainess to defeud the political
rem, neither is it oiiF right to sit in Judgment
on their conduct. Indiscreet zeal may have
carried few of them beyond the line of de-
discussion.. which of the two 10 the moro un-
rdonabas-tha priest, IN the heat of an angry
contested election, in which he believed that
the independence OF his flock was assailed,
yielding to an impulse, unbecomingi if y0u Will;
or the erni ned judge, in the delivery of q SOL
emh judG nnent, surfcndering him self to Rlnnst
paroxysm of vitnperation Ii the cass6elI1
is judged 10 DE defled, snrels the ermine 4s.
not quite upstaihed.. If the priest is 60 be re-
legated to obscurity and political siience1for
bis Andiscretiop, is the judge TO go unrnes-
tioned7 If altar denu a oiaeions are censuFaois
temple Of justice exactly the place 70 hear the
fouiest epithets hurled from the very seat ofjus-
tioe onths heads Of men apoD whom the people
lobk Nith HsspecS snd in whom. they Tepose
them entiIe eotHdene0f' The. learned j1dfte
a ..hn.,, ahs I,,hEc innrnnln aai.ih..Ga .his