The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-01-20
" THE POPE In POLITICS."
OF. M'GLYNN'S ADDRESS TO THE
ANTI-POVERTY SOCIETY.

he Attacks the Head of the Roman
Catholic Church in Very Caustic Man.
ner-The Pope Flattered by the Atten-
ton of Prince Bismarck-"A Poor Old
ia. of Bones."
NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-Dr. McGlynn's at
tractive subject, "The Pope in Politics." was
q very drawing card at the Anti Poverty
society meeting Sunday evening, and the
Academy of Music had jam such us the old
house has bat seldom held. DIR. McGlynn's
first words We're: "The pope in politics
What business has the pope in poltics9 Who
is the popea Nineteen hundred years ago
there stood man who dared TO say, Il am
the way, the life,' and He said too: Learn
of me, for l am humble in life He said My
kingdom is not OF this world and when men
would make Him king on this earth lie lel
to the mountains and staid all night in
prayer"
The speaker then referred to the good en-
ample set by the first few popes; how they
worked for the peoples good, aud no. for
themselves. at was the meel. spirit OF
Christ, he continued "and not the sword
Of Peter that won ct tho start.
When Constantine took the church
under his care hi made tho church a sort of
temporal adjunct to the empire. Men took
their affairs TO the bishops as their fathers,
the church tribunals wero made civil courts,
and the emperors gave the bishops dec 'soas
the value CT law. The s;upendous buader of
a 1000 years ago-the union of the church
and state-shall not DO repeated in this vr-
gin continent to the detriment Of both.
[Long applause. Unfortunately, the church
is human as well as divine. The fact is that
Peter and his successors are still very hui
man, and it would be strange pope to-day
who should think himself a better man or q
better pope than Peter was. The church did
much, but the Roman empire went down I'M
checked by the church because of inherent
faults in its policy"
DR.. McGlynn then traced the history of
the church, how the popes and bishops
fought in defense of their temporal city, re-
ferred to the Reformation, which he said
was necessary for the welfare of the material
world, and then referred to "Pope Alexander
Of infamous memoryn and his fighting sue
Ger jor, saying, "And this was the successor
of the teacher who said MY kingdom is not
of this world There can be no new doctrine
in this church, and yet in this city last Sun
day priest said that every word Of the pope
from his high chair was as from the Holy
Spirit Think Of such rot as that in this
century, Does it not make your cheeks
tingle2 The pope of to-day is fattered by
the attention of that great humorist, Bis
marck, who asked him to be an arbiter Of
the opera-bouffe war which Bismarck had
provoked with Spain. That figure, which
looks like an old woman, was piled high with
fattery, until he was made to think that he
was holding the balance in the whole world,
and all because he was to settle the opera
bouffe row In the Caroline islands. Flattery
has been piled on an inch thick all over that
poor old bag of bones, &c years old-a poor,
absent-minded old man, who is made to think
that he is the greatest of the pontiffs. Think
of any body going to Bismarck and suggest
ing that he leave to the pope the question Of
the restoration of Alsace and Lorrainei o
no; Bismarck is willing to use the old man,
and finds a force of fatterers to assist him.
Why Is It that Italy is SO bitter against
the popel Because he is in politics. He
is mere politician in the lowest meaning of
the word, and all because of the accused
clinging OF the pope to his accused temporal
throne. We have begun to get touch Of 1t
in the alliance OF the lowest faction Of poll
tics with the ecclesiastical machine, just in
the last election as it was seventeen years
ago, when secret meeting was held in the
back room of the Episcopal residence on Null
berry street between Peter b. Sweeny and
Archbishop McCloskey The object was to
get control Of public money for Catholic
schools, and in return to get votes through
the confessional and pulpit"