, 1877-12-16
The Despotism Of Papal Discipline
What Was the Fate OF
Bishop Rese, Of
Detroit.7
General Notes from the Church
at Home and Abroad."-
Personal Points.
Doubtful Divinity for the unre-
qenerate---SerVlces
To-Day
pApAL DISCIPLINE.

PAPAL JloC!I LIN II"
WHAT BECOMES OF DISSENTING CATHOLIC
BISHOP RE5E.
Tothe Editor of,he c7<reland Leader:
] find the following suggestive article IN tue
current number OF the american Hdfcame":
REM1S1scEScE or POPE r1Cs NINTH.
A very able ana reliable writer in 1896 wrote:
Plus II. fed from Rome IN SosemoeF e ao41 n,4hI n
OF ten days after, with ten OF twenty OF ny com
panlons. went to see II the 1neulsition had any
Sis Sserc1ary' cbancellors, md jailers asked
one Of the jailcrs If there were any prisoners IN
The cells. According to the laws OF the 1nqusition
shrugged his shoulders. which meant there are
plenty Ny companions were for at once exanlla-
ny the cells and dungeons. and for compelling the
;icsiet and inform the Government The
Government being informed sent and exam
ned found many and caeq estatea 81 te e.lo fn
.rto had been twenty-five years in his dungeon
After being delivered from The prison he was car
tied about the streets OF Rome in Til mph Anoth-
e, monk Of almost 60 years Of a@e Vas 1npE1s- r.
pncd in the Convent Of Franciscans, called the
Convent OF Araceoli. For twelve years he had
been immured in that horrible hole This man was
Il native of South An1crica; he somehow succeed
ed, on hearing that the Republic was proclaimed,
In getting word to the National Assembly that Ac
was in this prison dcu,ton was ut once sent 1;,,i
tho Father Abbott strcnuously denied It, anu re,
fused them admittancc- They threatened him and
compelled hin, 10 opcp the door 10 the monk cell
There they found the monk. lie was almost re.
duced to blincucss scarcely able to stand. and
he mad to be supported to yet along. lle was
knows Of It. All came ANXIOUS to know for what
cause he was there His answer was, ~ have not
the rcmotest 'dea why was for twelve years Kept
in that dungeon, and had always settled in my
mind and was At pence with myself never l.avin.
the slightest hope Of seeing The daylight AGAIN.
lie turned and thanked them one after another Tor
made for him and he WIS enab,cd to return to Sonh
America
The mar under whom such atrocious crueltics
were p-acticed is the Pope whose a.fablity and
am;abi1ty is SO laudcd in Romanist papers. To
this day ans Roman Catllo: ecclcsastlc lower in
dignity than Cardinal can be ordered 10 Rome to
report himself, and he must co. and once there lie
is subject to be thrown into some ecclesiastical
dungeon and Kept there until he dies: All inquiry
may he stned hy report OF his death, And 1T the
threshold OF the Papal prison the civil law stops
This brings to mind an almost forgotten cir
cumstancc, which will interest the old citizens
Of Detroit In 1888, Bishop Rese. Bishop OF the
Diocese OF thai city, WAS ordered by the head
OF his Church, Pope Gregory, to present him
self at the Papal Court and answer to the
charge OF having favored i liberal system OF
evangelical theology, and from that day the
Bishop disappeared, aud has never been heard
of sitcc- In 1874 letter was published BY one
who had returned from Rome, to the effect that
Bishop Hese had been arrested by the Papal ar-
thorities and confined in the 1nquisition Tor an
o+yanso ,on,m;t+c1 in this co,,ntrv-nanc!v. of
one"ae ,.. ,:,.ss., .s..,.":..1 :aa.-
has'ns luaopeu atole iloSta !u..ao
1haI were alio"cu os lue eAule'l' lnccohiulun,
OF the Pope, who was then kiug Of
the states OF Inc churcn tae re!ease oi tns
Blshop, on the GROUND o. h's pe!ns an .i11ell-
can dtlzcn' 1nat Tue olenSe chalser asalnst
min Was no c1sl crime, anu tnat luz oIense WAS
committed III TINS country. 1nas lcttef was gen
orally COPIED and created some attention 1T the
time. to susll all extent 1hat some OF tse neads