St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-16
FATHER McGB.YNN,S CASE.
Michael Davitt's Opinion Regard
ing the IL accent Ord ers from II ONE.

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New YORK, Dec. 15.-The Irish World
this morning prints in interview with
Mi chael Davitt on the call to Rome of the
Rev. DR.. McGlynn, in which he says.
among other things:
DR.. McGlynn ought, both as priest and a
social reformer, proceed to Rome in ODE
dience to Cardinal Simeoni's orders, and show
that as minister of the church he has taught
no heresy, either in religion or morals, con-
trary to the doctrines of our faith, and that
his views upon social problems are not only
consonant with the dictates of justice and
truth, but are more calculated to win
millions of the toiling masses into harmony
with religion than to antagoniZe any ap-
preclable number of right-thinking men.
Rome may appear at first to besprej JUDGED In
her views, but as she is slow to pronounce
upon issues as submitted to her. the chances
always are that her decision will q just one.
Cardinal SimeOniS opinions are not 10 be
taken as the verdict of Rome by any means.
The good cardinal is probably suffering yet
from the bad attack of land league nightmare
which oppressed him some three years ago
when he ran tilt against our movement in
Ireland and was awakened by a rude shock
which will cause him TO hesitate before inter-
fering again in Irish national politics. When
l was in Rome last year [ learned that DR..
McGlynn had been repTimanded by Cardinal
Simeoni SO far back as 1882 for his outspoken
utterances in this city in defense Of the land
league. l am confident that if DR.. McGlynn
goes to the Eternal City on this mission he
will achieve victory as complete as that
which the archbishops of Cashel and Dublin
have already scored there against English in
trigue and misrepresentation.
Upon the question of Archbishop Cor ri
gans suspension of DR.. McGlynn. Mr..
Davitt would not express an opinion, but
continued:
Rome can no more be guilty of the injus-
tce or stupidity of condeming the advocates
of the doctrine that there cannot, in justice or
in reason, be private property in land, in the
sense il which Mr.. George opposes it, than
she could now venture to support the doc
trine of private property in human beings.
Tue propaganda may incline more to the doc
trine of private property in land than to the
Georgian theory, but even such pronounce
ment will have no binding force upon a single
Catholic throughout the world. 1t will be no
eX-cathedra pronunciamento coming from the
supreme pOntiff upon an article of faith, but a
declaration emUOdying the views and opin-
ions of eminent ecclesiastics, which are inst
as liable to end in political or econoR1 c
problem as other fallible mortals Rome is
more favorable to monarchy than to republi-
canism, just as she possibly may declare her
self more on the side of landlordism in land
than on that OF state or national proprietor
ship; but she wisely refuses to make ii an
article of faith to repel republicanism in the
interest of monarchy, and L am satisfied
that this is what she will do with
reference to the rival theories on the land
question. They will find out in Rome
DR.. McGlynn has been doing fifty times more
work for Oh rislianity by his labors and
speeches here in New York than he has ac
complished even for the cause of industry.
If France and Italy had had fearless priests
of the people as Ireland has to-day (true low
ers of the poor and courageous champions of
the oppressed,) DR.. McGlynn, instead of blind
adherents of kings and too faithful defenders
of aristocracy, the Catholic church would not
be in the same position she now occupies on
the continent of Europe. No kindred mis-
take will be committed, am sure, on the con-
tinent Of America