The Irish standard., 1890-02-15
THRILLING EXPERIENCES |
How Some Converted Catholics" Sue
ceeded in Making their Escape
From ''Romanism."

From R0manl6m.
FATHER CONNELLAN'S RUSE
What He Did to Escape Catholicism, ant
What an Upright ~ Life He
Now Leads.
Miss Frances Clare Cusack. ex.nun ol
Kenmare. will please accept the assur-
ance of our most sincera sympathy. lI
the Herald report OF the gathering o1
the defenders of the republic from Jesu
ties and kindred evils at Music hall
Sunday afternoon, to listen to Edith
O'Gorman. the escaped nun, we foo
this statement: Miss o 'Gorman was in
troduced by DR.. Fulton. who made an
attack on the Nun of Kenmare because
she had seen fit to deny some Of the
statements made in attacks upon RO-
man sisterh00ds. Thus has official noti-
fcati0n been served upon Miss Cusack
by Bost0n's boss bigot that though she
may have, in the heat of her excitement
after her thrilling escape from Roman
ism," made statements not in the line
Of truth. she Is not to correct her errors
nor those OF anyone else. Everything
must go just as it is stated at first, ana
the more exaggerated and least truth
full it is the better for all parties.
It must he that the doors of converts
and seminaries are being fitted with
time locks of late, as there is notable
decrease in the number of escaped
religious during the past few months.
In tact the supply falls SO far below the
demand that it has become necessary to
ressurect a long buried cadaver IN the
person of the notorious Edith O'Gor-
man and bring her again before the
public eyes. We hardly like to accuse
the Music hall howlers of idolitatry, as
the exercise of this kind of worship has
been accorded as a special prerogative
to the ''Papists.,n but last Sundays sex--
hibition was startlingly reminiscent of
the ancient Egyptian custom of mum
my worship.
THE LATEST ''EsCAPE."
For the benefit of those of our readers
who may not be up on these affairs we
reproduce the sketch given in the Janu-
ary number of the Converted Catholic
of the dramatic wav in which descend
ent Of ''the Conlons of Geevaugh'' es-
capped from The Catholic church. Here
1t is: '.Rev. Thomas Connellan was
born in county Roscommon. Ireland, in
1855. He was ordained Roman Catho
lie priest in Maynooth in 1880. and was
very popular in Sligo and Alhlone.
Readers of the Converted Catholic are
familiar with his romantic escape from
the Roman church. On September 90.
1857, after saying mass in Athlone he
went rowing on Lough Rec, and was
supposed to be drowned, as his clerical
clothes were found In the boat later in
the day. In reality he had taken suit
OF secular clothes with him in which he
escaped to London. His death by
drowning was believed and mourned by
all. He was converted in London. and
is now actively engaged in writing on
the Roman con troversy." Think OF the
horror his supposed death must havs
caused, and think how much greater
must have been the horror and cOuster-
nation Whenit was discovered that he
had only escaped and was going to
disclose the fearful mysteries of Catho
licity. II is strange that the Pope has
not issued q bull requiring a guard of
Papal Zouavts to be placed round each
religious house to prevent a recurrence
of the disasters. However, as long as
this is not done, any person who can
show a good record of having ESCAPED
may apply to Brother in law Bradbury
and he or she will be accorded the prl-
vileges Of Music hall. Certificates Of
character not necessary.
GLADSTONE ON DOELLlNGER.
The sketch OF the life and character
Of the late DR.. Doellinger, which Mr..
Gladstone contributed to the last num-
ber of the London Speaker, was repro
duced in full ii last Sundays Herald,
and 1t will 20 further towards giving
us a clear idea Of the great German
theologian's s position than what anyone
else has written. Mr.. Gladstone. it
seems, has known DR.. elliDger per-
sonallY since lS45. and has always cher
ished a very warm regard for him. TO
Catholics, however. the q hief interest
OF Mr.. Glads:one's paper lies in the
traces one finds In tof what one may
call = latent PROBES tantism the mind
#of the great scholar long before the
time OF the AZ Vatican g Conncil. Thus,
Mr.. GLAD dstonet saws that although their.
conversation was mo st Ultimate. Dr
SDOelli 9er y was above .all the tricks of