Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1891-11-23
DR.. M'GLyNN'S REPLY
To the Terms Proposed
by The Propaganda.
WILL LEAVE THE CHURCH
Rather Than Comply With The Pro-
posed Conditions.

NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-In an address last
night to an audience that filled the large
hall of Cooper Union Dr. Edward Nc
Glynn replied to the letter of the propa.
ganda, published with the approval
of the pope, which defines the con.
ditions upon which DR.. McGlynn can once
more enter within the pale of the Roman
Catholic church. When DR.. McGlynn ap-
peared upon the platform the audience
greeted him with the widest demonstra'
tion of enthusiasm. The doctor said:
THE Roman authorities, we are told,
are still disposed to use mercy, but that
even any hearing of the case shall be
granted only on the conditions: first, that j,
myself, make the request and state my
grievance; second, that i publicly con
denim all that have said or done of an in.
sulting character as against the arch
bishop and as against the holy see; third,
that be ready to abide by the orders and
submit TO the judgment of the apostolic
see; fourth, that promise to abstain from
any public utterance or assistance at any
meeting on the matter under considera.
tion.
THE penalties from which might hope
to be relieved by complying with these
conditions are: first, suspension from my
ministry; second, accommodation. Ear.
nestly as should wish to exercise my min.
istry and frequently to receive the sacra.
ments,
1t is Not Possible
for me to bring about so much desired q
consummation by complying with the
above mentioned conditions.
DIR. McGlynn then said he was sus.
pended from his ministry by Archbishop
Corrigan because, as the latter alleged, of
McGlynn's insulting language against the
pope i'm nm interview reported in a New
York paper, in which report there was
nothing about the pope nor even the re-
motest allusion TO him or his teachings,
but justice rather than charity was as
serted to be the remedy for the poverty OF
the masses. The doctor asserted that he
justified himself in letter to the paper
against the archbishop's charge, and the
archbishop publicly stated that mo cen
sure would remain" if the doctor had
withdrawn n declaration that the only
remedy for social evils lay i'm the abolition
Of private ownership of land and in the
restitution to all men of those rights in the
soil now monopolized by a few.
The doctor claimed that this showed
that he was suspended, and his suspension
continued because he taught and failed to
retract the economic doctrine that the
natural bounties
Belong to the Community
and their rental value should be taxed into
the public treasury The doctor told how
Cardinal Simeoni Of the propaganda or.
dered him to proceed to Rome and also to
retract the doctrines he had uttered. The
doctor said that as he could not retract he
refused to go to Rome. He was therefore
afterward communicated.
DIR. McGlynn told how clerical friends
had written to Cardinal Sim eoni i'm his be.
half and how the cardinal had made ne
reply. The doctor finally sent cablegram
to the cardinal declaring that he would
not retract and would not appeal. The
cardinal then wrote n letter to a bishop
friendly to DR.. McGlynn and the latter
sent to the cardinal comments thereon.
To these the doctor received no answer till
the publication of the ultimatum a
few days ago. The doctor denied that he
had insulted the pope or the archbishop,
although he had differed with their policie.
and opinions, as he had right to do. The
doctor said
DIR. McGlynn's Terms.
81 am ready, if relieved of the excommu-
nication and suspension, TO abide by the
orders and judgment Of the apostolic see,
so far rs such orders and judgment are
within the well-known and true defined
limits prescribed by right and the teach.
ings of the Catholic religion"
The doctor denied that he had ever
taught false doctrines; denied the infalli-
bility Of the pope; criticised the policy OF
the holy see and said that the pope was
the arch-conspirator against the liberty
and freedom of his country. lie called the
propaganda lot Of ecclesiastical shoe
makers" and said if bishops, archbishops,
cardinals and popes would mind their own
business the cause OF Christianity and
Catholicity would be the better subserved.