The Arizona sentinel., 1878-02-09
DawninE of . New Day.
AN IRISH CATHOLIC CHURCH.

Father McNamara, Catholic priest of New York, who has been noted for his in- dependent utterances, has organized what he calls the Catholic Church in Ireland" and is holding services in hall in Water street in that city, which are attended by large and apparently sympathetic auden- ces, drawn principally from disreputable section of the city. Last Sunday (Jan. 20) evening he spoke in denunciation of the Ita- lian priests, and the prayers and responses were in the Irish tongue. His dress was the full vestments of an officiating priest at the altar, he devoutly crossed himself, and blessed lis people.
 Standing before the altar, the Father said that he had called the people together not to advance any new doctrine, but to res tore in its purity the old-fashioned Catholic religion of the Irish, of many, many years ago-the religion that had been seized on by strangers, who had no sympathy with the Irish, and who used it only for politi- cal purposes and their own personal az grandizement. These foreign priests have governed with an iron hand, and the Irish have obeyed blindly; but they will do so no more. The end has come. Italian priestcraft will have power no longer, and the Irish Catholic Church, in all its old fashioned beauty and simplicity will be restored.
 At the close of his address the articles of the Irish Church were read as follows:
 That the Irish Catholic Church recog- nizes the serious injury that Papal infuen- ce has worked to Irish Catholics all over the world; that the worship of the Pope has approached idolatry. and that in paying their devotions to him the people have al- most forgotten to worship God; that they will no longer contribute money to the support of absolute and worthless set of Italian ecclesiastics. That the decree of infallibility was a fearful act of blasphemy against God. That Italian priestcraft got control of the Irish people by intriguing with the wealthy Ian owners of England. who had their own selfish ends to gratify. That it is not religion, bu. blind super stition which makes men fear the excom- munication of the Pope. That they protest against the assumption of spiritual autho- rity by the Italian priesthood over a church which did not originate in Rome but existed in Ireland many centuries ago.
 That the Irish Church look for the foun- tainhead of their religion, not in Rome, where the Cardinals live in sensuous ease, but to the country where Christ was born and suffered and died. That it is the duty of all sincere Irish priests to cut loose from Italian ecclesiastical powers, and bring the people back to their simple, original Irish religion. That the people love their own Irish priests, and call upon all to come over at once and ally themselves without a days delay, with their own people to pro- tect their own .ation. That the members of the Irish Church pledge themselves not to enter any church, or receive the sacra- ment at the hands of any priest who re- cognizes the authority of the Italian eccle- siastics. That theIrish priests who con- tinue to recognize the spiritual power of the Italian priesthood shall be declared accommodated.