St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-04
WEARS HEAVENS LIVERY
To Serve the Devil In-ArchbishOp
Ireland UnmaSkS an Apostate.

TO Serve the Devil In-ArchbiShOp
ireland Unmasks an Apostate.
Catholic and Episcopallan circles in
. Milwaukee are greatly agitated over
! William j. Kaul, who claimed to have
lost faith in the tenets of the Catholic
church, and was received into the
Episcopalian ministry. He claimed to
have. been a priest in the Catholic
church and connected with the
diocese of st. Paul, present
ing Testimony from sArchbishop Ire
land and the superlors of monaStic
retreat near Dubuque. Kaul. as he
called himself in Milwaukee, acknowl
edged he had been sent to the retreat
for contumacy, as he put it. and said he
had at one time been a professor in
leading Catholic college in Maryland.
Charges that he was an eXcom-
munfcated priest were circulated
about. and, according to Arch
bishop Ireland, who was seen
last night are too true. The, archbishop
said: 1.-THE name of the clergyman is
w. Keul, not Kaul, as recently given.
He was unfortunately priest of the
diocese of st. Paul. located in the west
ern part of Minnesota. Keul was not a
pIOlCSSOI Ill q ltduluS SdlllOlIC IieO-
logical college i'm Maryland. While at
tending to his own studies he acted as
project of smaller boys, or as supple
mentary teacher for beginners. In seek
ng admission to the Episcopal church he
could not have produced excellent testi-
mOnials as to his standing and charac-
ter. The testimonials to be of any value
should have borne the signatures of &C.
clesiastical authorities in Minnesota.
For these reasons. [ will state those au-
thorities never signed testimonials for
him. To say that he joined the Epis-
copal church simply because he had lost
faith in the tenetS of the Roman
church is nonsense. He joined the
Episcopal church because he was
driven out from the ranks
of the Catholic priesthood. Keul left
Minnesota some eighteen months ago,
having committed the grossest immor-
alities and having pocketed some 800
Of the moneys OF his parishioners. A
brother of his afterwards, through
shame, paid $1,000 OF his stealings.
Kenl lived in Chicago with girl whom
he had ruined, until the girl left him.
taking with her his child which she
must now support alone. He then
begged mercy from me and pretended
to be penitent [ paid his board in
a house of penance until L
ritically playing the returned
prodigal. he was meditating a renewal
of his immoral life, when ordered him
away. He again, some six months ago,
begged for pardon and means to take
him to Europe. l refused, as | had lost
all confidence in him. Meanwhile had
discovered a long train of immoralitieS,
extending considerably back of the
time when first had beco me aware OF
his unworthineSS. He 10 a very bad
man. | dislike using these words of
q felloW-man. But in the present
instance / am called upon to defend the
doctrines OF the church, and, further
more, | owe the truth to respectable
Episcopalians who do not hot want to
treat a Scoundrel as saint merely be-
cause he has abandoned the Catholic
faith. The Episcopal authorities sought
for no information from me in regard to
KelL That there have been from time
to time other assertions from the Catho-
lie, priesthood to Protestant churches [
do not deny. Weeds do spring up occa-
sionally in Cur garden, i have. for my
own part, yet to know OF a single in
stance OF a prist joining the
LptSEOpdl CiluICil NHO- Hdo db
the time of his so-called con-
version in good standing with his own
church. 1t there is such an instance
onzrscord, would very much like to
have it made known to me. How Epis-
copal bishops so readily admit to their
ministry men whom we have rejected
for crimes as unworthy of all conf
dence, do lot and cannot understand,
Keul was received into the Episcopal
church six days ago by Bishop Knight.
of Milwaukee, with great ceremony, and
there has been much ado among
the Episcopals over the con-
version 10 their church of Romish
churchman. Kent is thoroughly profit
gate. Any letters of recommendation
bearing my signatures, held by Kent,
dated within the last two years, are GER
tainly forgeries."
TeIegraphic adyices from Milw aukee
say that Kent refused to be interviewed,
aud that Dean Williams, of All Saints
Cathedral, declares that upon the re-
turn of Bishop Knight to the city, the
ecclesiastical authorities will deal with
the disreputable Kent.