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priesthood. In accordance with this senti-
ment he furnished the following for publ

priesthood. In accordance with this senti-
ment he furnished the following for publ
cation:
'Dr. McGlynn, from the day he was re
lieved of accommodation by Mgr Satolli
was a priest in good standing in the do
cese Of New York and. simply by his own
wish. no proposition was made to have him
appointed to any particular locality Mgr-
Satolli gave him a letter recommending him
to all the bishops of the country and spg- ',ss
rights as minister In any diocese ne mght
be in for the time being. 1t was always
no thought of severing his connection with
the diocese of New York, to which he De-
longed. Mgr. SatoIli at that time declared
% the land onestjon nes @ We're not no, in any Sense
contrary to the doctrines of the churcn,
and that he free to maintain them,
as any one would be TO assail them, be-
cause they were merely a question. OF po-
litical economy. 1t was entirely by Dr.
McGlynn's own volition that any opplica-
ton for local position was prepared at
local paper, in commenting on the
complete recantation of DR.. McGlynn,
says the news will be surprise to Catho-
lies, to the followers of the anti-poverty
doctrines, and to the world at large, be-
cause the priest, even after remittance
of the ban Of exclusion and partial res
toration of priestly functions, rejoiced, as
in a triumph, and reaftirmed in public his
adherence to the tenets tnat caused the
culminatio of quarrels of many years
standing. II will not recanC," has been the
tenor of DIR. McGlynn's declarations ever
since 1887, when he was put beyond the
pale of his church, and when he was re-
stored and allowed TO celebrate mass on
Christmas day, 1892, he went from the
altar in the little chapel of St Johns
College, WnlouShby avenue, BROOKLYN, al
most directly TO the room in Cooper Union
in which he was for so long the disciple of
George and the apostle of anti-poverty
He came into the church again, as his fol-
lowers had said he would, with brass
band,''- and, in speech he made before
he spoke on the gospel of Christmas, he ex-
pressed, in joyous words, his conception of
From the first word to the last there was
not an expression of regret. for the stand
he had taken, and for which he had been
condemned. He spoke of his cause as holy
one, and of himself and his followers as
martyrs He told of his triumph, declared
that Rome had acknowledged that he had
always been in the right, and announced
that he would lecture in the same place
for the same cause, every Sunday nigh night;
he said, "the glorious principles of the
fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of
mar, man, even if it be from on. platform bar
DR.. McGlynn did not preach his doctrines
frequently after that jubilation and, save
for a trip to the West, in which he did
but little talking, most of his time since
the return of his priestly functions has been
spent with his sister in Bensonhurst. II
was generally known among Catholic
clerics that his restoration had not been
complete, and il was generally understood
that his announced perseverance in the
PRONUNCIATION of his beliefs not help
ing him to become again regularly estab-
lished rector.
Mgr Satolli began the consideration of
DR.. McGlynn's case shortly after he came.
to this country delegate from Pope
Leo XIII. He had, in reviewing the situa-
ton, to consider d series of troublous af-
fair fifteen
which the Doctor had raised his voice
against his superiors. The excommunica-
toward which McGIynn's attitude as
an advocate of Henry George. in 1886. when
he ran for Mayor, was but contributory.
The priest had made himself heard years
before i'm opposition to some of the doc
trines of his church and he had been par
ticIlariy outsp9ken IN onn % OF R sne
timore that rectors who could do so much
should build parochal schools.
When he was called to order for his in
dorsement of Henry Georges views on the
land question he paid not the slightest
attention. He was commanded by Arch
bishop Corrigan to forbear. He paid no
ever. Rome was offended, and the priest
was summoned thitber. He pad no heed,
and late in December, 1856. ne vas sus-
pended from his priestly functions.
Then demonstrations in which.
while affirming more strongly than ever his
belief if the doctrines of George, he most
fiercely attacked the Archbishop Cardinal
Simeoni who had declared his principles
heretical, and even the Pope himself.
Sentence of communication was soon
pronounced, and McGlynn at once began a
series of lectures more bitter in denuncia-
tion than those that followed suspension.
Many appeals were made for DR.. McGlynn's
reinstatement, but it was not until Dec
%. 1892, that Satolli issued the order making
him again a Catholic priest, but leaving
him unassigned to undergo a season Of
penance. That season is over, and before
long he will, purged of the doctrines SO
offensive to his superiors, be preaching in
a church of his own.
DR.. McGynn had large following in his
old congregation of st. Stephens Church
in East Twenty-eighth street, near Third
avenue and his anti-poverty utterances
sank pleasantly into minds that had long
been accustomed to the struggle with pow
erty-for most of them are poor.