Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26
NJ 'GLYNN SAYS MASS,
For the First Time in Five
and a Half Years He
Once Again
RESUMES HOLY FUNCTIONS
Just. SIX Years Ago lie Was De-
nounced to Rome.
THE CAUSES AND THE SAYINGS
That Led Up to His Suspension by the
Head of the Church.
ALL PLEASED TO SEE HIM BACK AGAIN

put on priestly robes and resumed his
priestly duties again this morning for the
first time since his accommodation five
years and q half ago. He celebrated mass
in private in st. Johns College chapel,
Brooklyn, taking advantage of the fact that
it was Christmas This is the only day in
the year that this privilege is allowed
priest.
A number of DR.. McGlynn's friends were
present The reinstated priest sent tele-
gram to Dr. Henry Carey, of Second ave-
nue. and Thirtieth street, yesterday, notify
ing him of this fact. DR.. Carey is one Of Dr.
McGlynn's stanchest supporters. The tels
gram was as follows:
Greetings and love to all friends shall
celebrate mass tomorrow in Brooklyn.
E. McGLYNE.
There is singular feature in connection
with Dr. McGlynn's return to the pulpit
this morning. 1t was on Christmas Day
six years ago that he received the cable
gram summoning him to Rome. DR.. Nc
Glynn spent the greater portion OF yester-
day in his study at his home, No. 699
Willoughby avenue, Brooklyn. He denied
himself to everybody except one or two
very close friends and counsellors.
All Pleased Over the Reinstatement.
DR.. Carey, who has been warm advocate
and friend Of DR.. McGlynn during all the
controversy, said yesterday: "We cannot
help viewing this as victory for the peo-
pie, because DR.. McGlynn has been the
peoples priest, and was dearly beloved BY
| them, and they have never ceased to pray
for this conclusion of the trouble"
Father Malone, of Williamsburg, said:
81 am more than pleased at his restoration
tn priestly Duties and he can oficiate in
any church where there is opportunity If
he SO desires. ! must say, too, that l am
most happy to have lived long enough to
know that the ground principle of justice
| another name tor Christianity-has tri.
umphed in the affairs of the Church in this
| and many other instances. 1t is evident
| that the Holy Father has gone into the
matter deeply and wisely, and the proof
that he understood the necessities of the
case was shown in sending his representa-
| tive with plenary powers to this country to
settle all disputed matters. The decisions
Of this representative will not be set aside
| orquestioned, as he is the representative OF
the Holy See.
| ready making efforts to have him assigned
to his former charge, ST. Stephens Church.
Many of them will attend Dr. Malone's
church this morning
The Beginning of the Turmoil.
The more recent doings of DR.. McGlynn,
those which led Immediately to his suspen--
| sion in 1886 and his accommodation the
| next year, and those which followed his ex-
communication, have been of such char
acter and volume as to quite crowd the
public eye and mind, and the fact is not
| generally considered that his contumacy
| dates back very manv years, 1t is, per-
haps, not we'll remembered that long be-
| fore the Henry George ENHANCEMENT DR..
! McGlynn got into serious trouble and dis
| favor with his ecclesiastical superiors and
| with Rome because of his connection with
| the Irish Land League doings Long be-
| fore that again he was in conflict with his
| Archbishop and his Church over the school
| question. At time when it was optional
whether he should build parochial school
or not in st. Stephens parish, he refused to
| build one.
When the Plenary Council at Baltimore
declared it to be duty incumbent on
| priests to build and maintain parochial
schools wherever possible, DR.. McGlynn
directly opposed the injunction and refused
| to obey it. 1t was urged at Rome that his
opposition was causing great scandal.
| Archbishop McCloskey, who was in Rome
at the time, was empowered to deal with
him. But Archbishop McClosky was disin-
| clined to make serious trouble tor Dr. Nc
| Glynn, and in his kindness of spirit
smoothed over the difficulties as best he
could without exposing DR.. McGlynn to
| the open censure of his Church
He Was Denounced to Rome.
For his connection with the Land League
agitation in 1882 DR.. McGlynn was de-
nounced to Rome by several American
| bishops outside this diocese. In August
of that year letter was sent to Archbishop
/ Corrigan bv Cardinal Simeoni, Prefect of
Propaganda, calling attention to certain
speeches made by Dr.. McGlynn, which the
letter declared to be propositions openly
contrary to the teachings of the Catholic
Church" In September of the same year
another letter came from Cardinal Simeoni,
in which was said
In consequence of information received
from various parts about the andal caused
| by the priest Edward McGlynn, OF your city,
| by his violent speeches in defense of the
| Irish. Land League, in which he has de-
| tended propositions openly contrary to the
| teachings of the Catholic Church, and has
| used language utterly unbecoming TO an
| ecclesiastic, the Holy Father has just now
commanded me to write your Eminence to
suspend the aforementioned priest, Nc
| Gynn, from his sacred ministry, unless you
| should Judge such measures excessive, con-
| sidering the various circumstances, which
you on the spot are better able than any one
else TO appreciate in your well known pru-
| derce.
The letter further hoped that Dr. Nc
| Glynn would be brought back to sounder
counsels, and to desist from ''the course of
action he has recently followed, to the sur
| prise and scandal of all those who have at
heart the.principles of justice always taught
by our holy religion"
The Real Cause of the Trouble.
! These matters were, however, in the toler-
| ance of the Archbishop, passed over, and it
was not until he went into the Henry
George campaign and the Anti-Poverty So
ciety that he was finally communicated.
Something of the character of DR.. Nc
| Glynn's alleged contumacy may be learned
from his speeches and sayings during the
past five years. He is trained orator,
| witty and clever in his words and Gloon ent
and forcsful in his manner. Spoken BY an
other man, and especially presented in
| type, his saying lose almost all the force
they possess in DR.. McGlynn's mouth. The
circumstances OF their utterance, the face,
gesture, and infection of voice of the
speaker and the expressive shrug of the
shoulders or stamp of the foot are needed
to give the force to the phrases they pos
sessed at the speaking
'aThose = Italian = Mon-see-e-e-n-io-o-o-
orip' spoken in long-drawn sneer, with .
pursing of the lips, o shrug of the shoulders
1 and mock motion of reverent obeisance was
more expressive of DR.. McGlynn's opinion
of those ecclesiastical dignitariss than
would have been column of invective in
another mans mouth.