The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-04
ROMAN CHURCH DENOUNCED
Bishop Johnson, an Ep~iscopalian, Uses
Strong and Remarkable Language.
A Warning Cry Against Cahensleyism. but
Also q Savage Attack on Bishop keene
and the Holy Father.

NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-The Times will to-
morrow print the following: A stirring
CRY of warning against Cahensly ism was
uttered by Bishop J. l. Johnston, of Texas.
to-day in Calvary Church. 1t was heard
by more than q dozen of DR.. Jobnston's
fellow bishops of the Episcopalian Church.
coming from all sections Of the country; by
more than one hundred Episcopalian
clergymen, and by more than one thou
sand of the laIty of that church.
The occasion was the laying of the
cornerstone for tho new E~piscopalian
mi~ssion-house. Among the prominent di-
vines present were Bishops Potter, of New
York; Doane, OF Albany; Wbipple. Of Min
nesota; Paddock. of Nebraska; Tuttle. OF
Missouri: Leonard. of Utah: Hare. of south
Dakota; Whitaker, of Pennsylvania;
Spaulding. of Colorado. and Nicely, of
Maine. Bishop Potter presided. Bishop
Tuthin was the first to speak. Then came
Bishop Hare, of South Dakota. Following
him Bishop johnson was introduced.
Bishop johnson started of by declaring
that this should be an era of rejoicing for
the Protestant Episcopal Church. After
speaking briefly of the great growth of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, Bishop John
son went on to argue that his church.
more than any other. was the church which
could with truth proclaim itself TO be q
national church. in the sense that IL recoR-
that this statement Will be contradIcted
by the Church of Rome" he said. "bnt |
deny that 1t Is In any sense either
an American church or q church for
Americans. 1t Is distinctively q ioreian
crat. believed to be infallible by his fol-
lowers. who can dictate the policy OF his
church to his partisans ana they dare not
under penalty of purgatorv-the keys OF
which they believe he keeps-dis0bey his
mandates. He pulls the strings at Rome.
and his puppets jump In America. When
kOms speaks that settles all questions so
far asthe faithful to kome in America are
concerned.
"A great convention was held last week
In Newark. Thousands assembled under
the leadership of prominent Roman Cath
Ole ecclesiastics. For whatf 1t was to
carry out the beliefs of some society of st.
Raphael, which recently held a convention
in Germany. The purposes of this society.
We are informed. are, frst. to keep the en-
igrants true to old = world tradi-
tions and to warn them against Amer
lean traditions; second, to c~entralize.
solidify and isolate the foreign Roman
Catholics coming here, and 80 secure them
against American ideas. This policy is.
according to several well-informed author
tiles. responsible for the fact that In the
West and Northwest We find large foreign
colonies made up OF Roman Catholics who
refuse to become Americanized. pers1sting
IN retaining their Languages and local GUS
toms.
"N as this convention in Newark called
for the purpose of a free discussion, by free
men, of a great question: BY no means.
We are told that the subjects discussed
were carefully selected beforehand. while
the expressed received the sane
ton of competent ecclesiastical authorizes
before they were expressed. In other words,
the teachers prepared the speeches and the
good little boys got mp and delivered them.
LII conventions of this character are to con-
SInue / hope that some day some bad hoy
like Luther. with American ideas of free
speech and a fair count, will get MP and
say something hat will produce cODster-
nation among the pedagOgues.
"At the same time that this puppet show
was going OH here in the East. word came
from Wyoming that a blo"dy riot had CO.
CURED there because an American citizen,
in America, had the temerity to deliver an
address on the influence of the Roman
Catholic Church in government schools.
When we examine the statistics 1t really
looks as though that American citizen had
some color of reason for his objections
Continuing, he said that out of s., 767. 95l
appropriated uDconstitutionelly for Sec
tartan schools by the general government,
Rome got e. 336, 416. At the meeting of the
ST. Raphael Society in Germany. American
affairs seemed TO be the only matters dis
cussed. The Chancellor of tbk University
at Washington there. most vehemently de-
nounced Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop
Ireland. two patriotic Americans. for being
loyal 10 their country and Its lnstltutIons.
They knew what would come If the church
got 20 meddiing in politics. This same
Chancellor" Bishop johnson went on,
"a reformer in America, l suppose. taunts
Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Ireland
as being liberal Catholics. who have forgot
that the Pope is Pope in America as well rs
in Rome. His final taunt 10 that probably
these American bishops intend apply
ing the Monroe doctrine to religion. Well.
We are free to say that if things go on
il just what will be done. In Newark this
same chancellor Haunted the Papal flag in
the faces of Americans. proclaiminR the
Pope both Pope and King. Americans want
no King but God.
"A priest, in speaking of this controversy
going on in their camp. publicly declares
that some of the utterances of the Cahens-
lyi,es are rank rebellion against the United
| States. Jesuitism, which ~ the ruling
DO er of Romans. has never failed to
meddle in politics whenever it has
been allowed to get a footing.
1t has had 10 be expelled again and again.
do with q set of ~officlOus foreign ~eccles.
lasts, who undertake TO dictate not only
what their own dupes must do. but also
how affairs OF government must be ruDP'
After referring further to the danger of
allowing the Jesuits to get a foothold. he
concluded: Pray that our imply Amcri-
can Catholic Church may become q rally
ing point, not only for Protestant Chris
tisns, distracted by o hundred blaring
trumpets of discordant doctrines, but also
to al loyal Americans who, for the love
OF country. may do. even as men Of their
own blood. bishops ana archbishOps. as
genuine and an worthy as any who ever
wore a inter. three hundred years ago. in
England, did-throw OFT the Calling yoke
OF a foreign. meddling bishop-and bid him
mind his own business on the Tlber, and
first learn how to make Italy, Spain and
South America respectable and respected
among nations. Then he might, with SONS
sort OF grace. coIue over here and tell us
how to attend 80 our own affairs"