The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-24
OATH OF THE CLAN-NA-GAEL.


The following is the oath taken by the mem
bers of that famous Roman Catholic society:
1 (name in full) do soemnly swear in the pres
ence of Almighty God that 1 will labor while life
can form OF government in ireland; and that
will keep secret the names and every
hood from all not entitled to know such
secrets that L will obey and comply with
the constitutional laws of the same whatever they
may be; that will preserve the funds OF this
order for the cause of Irish revolution alone as
specified in the constitutions: that 1 will deem it
my special Guty and mission to promote and foster
sentiments of union, brothery love, nationality,
among all Irish Catholics; that will not permit
the nomination in any political caucus conven-
ton of person not pledged to the principles of
this society; 1 will always give member OF this
brotherhood preference in all matters of business
and will work and vote only for Irishmen for
political Office. take this obligation without any
mental reservation. holding the same forever bind
serton of my duty to the brotherhood is infamous
and merits the severest punishment, so help me
God"
This oath the candidate is adjured to keep at
the hazard of his life 1t was printed in the
Chicago Inter Ocean and was sworn to be cor
rect at the Cronin trial 1t was reported by
said paper December 16, 1898. Priests and
Bishops act chaplains for this holy (?) order.
On pages 615-616 "DowEng's History of Ro-
manism," is a long Bishops oath not men,
toned the other day. 1t is distinctively in the
interest of the temporal power OF the Pope,
especially where it says ''to defend and keep
the Roman Papacy and the royalties of st.
Peter, saving my OrUerS, against ali men.
This, of course, is in keeping with what Car
dinal Manning says in his Vatican Decrees,'
page So:
off Christian Princes and their laws deviate
from the law of God, the church has authority
from God to judge of that deviation, and by all
it's powers to enforce the correction of that de-
parture from justice. l do not see how any
man who believes in the revelation of Chris
tianity can dispute this assertion, and to such
alone am speaking"
And also with that which he again says on
page 40, ''Vatican Decrees":
s'The political conscience OF Catholics is not
left to the individual judgment alone. 1t is
guided by the whole Christian morality, by
the greatest system OF ethical legislation the
world has ever seen, the canon law and the
moral theology OF the Catholic church"
In an edition OF the secret instructions of
the Jesuits containing the Latin and the Eng
lish, with an historical sketch by w. G. Brown
lee, ID, published in Boston, Mass, 1888,
the following is to be found on page 81:
1.-The first copy of the Secret Instructions of
the Jesuits' was discovered in the Jesuits' col
lege OF Paderborn, Westphalia, and second copy
in the City of Prague In the preface to these
is found the same injunction as that above,
If these rules fall into the hands of strangers
they must be positively denied to be the
the copy at Paderborn was in this
wise, as appears from the preface
to the English copy, published in 1868. When
Christian, the Duke of Brunswick. took Peder-
born he seized upon the Jesuit college there,
and gave their library, together with all their
In examining these they discovered The Secret
instructions among the archives OF the rector.
And they being, as were also the other monk
1sh orders, no friends of the Jesuits, brought
them before the public"
Therefore. Mr.. Editor from this, IN this con-