The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-04
The CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Very Vigorously Attacked BY a
Leading Bishop Of the Epis-
copal Church.
Declared to Be a Foreign Church
Ruled By a Foreign
Autocrat.
Jesuitism, He Says, Always NEEDLES In
Poiftios When 1t Is Allowed to
Get = Following.

New York, Oct 3.--Bshop Johnston, of
Texas, (Episcopalean) raised cry Of warn
ing against Cahenslyism to-day, on the
occasion Of the laying Of the corner stone
for the new Episcopalean mission. His re-
marks were listened to by more than
dozen Episcopaiean bishops from various
sections Of the country, over 100 Episco-
palean clerQymen and ever 1000 of the laity.
He spoke of the convention OF German
Catholics in Newark last week and said he
denied that the church of Rome is in any
sense either an American church or
church for Americans. ut is distinotively
q foreign church, ruled by
foreign autocrat believed to be
infallibls by his followers who
dictates the policy of the church to his
partisans. He pulls the strings in Rome
and his puppets jump in America. This
great convention in Newark assembled for
what2 To carry out the beliefs of society
Of St. Raphael which recently held a con-
vention in Germany. Its purposes are,
first, to keep emigrants true to old world
conditions and warn them against Amer
Jean traditions; second, to central
ize, solidify and isolate foreign
Roman Catholics coming here. and SO
secure them against American ideas. Was
this convention in Newark called for the
purpose of free menu BY no means. We
are told that the subjects discussed were
| carefully selected beforehand, while the
| sentiment received the sanction of promi-
nent ecclesiastical authorities before they
| we're expressed. In other words. the teach
ers prepared speeches and good little boys
got up and delivered them.
IF conventions of this character are to
continue hope some day some bad boy like
Luther with American ideas of free speech,
will get up and say something that will
produce CONSERVATION among the peda-
gogues. At the meeting of this st. Ra-
| phaers society in Germany the chancellor
| of the university Mt Washington vehe-
| mently denounced Cardinal Gibbons and
| Archbishop Ireland, two patriotic Ameri-
cans. for being loyal to their country and
| its institutions. This chancellor taunts
| Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Ireland
| as being liberal Catholics who have forgotten
| that the pope ia she pope in America as well
| as in Rome. His final taunt is that proba-
| bly, these American bishops intend apply
! ing the Monroe doctrine to religion as WELL
We are free to say that if things go on
much further as they have been going that
ls just Whas Will De uone. Jesultlem mas
! never failed to meddle in politics when it
has been allowed to get n following. it
has been expelled again and again, for
what else can a self-respecting nation do
with a set of officious foreign ecclesiastics
who undertake to dictate not only what
their own dupes mnst do, but also how the
affairs of the government must be run.''
In conclusion Bishop Johnston hoped
Americans might throw off the CALLING yoke
of the foreign meddling bishop. bidding
him mind his own business on the Tiber
and first learn how to make Italy, Spain
and South America respectable and re-
spected among nations. then he might with
some grace. come over here and tell US how
to attend to our own affairs.