The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-01-12
SOME OF THE LATE DIR. NC
HLYNN's SAYINGS.

The Roman Cath lio cauroh will never
be at home In America until the Pope
shall walk down Broadway with 9 stove
pipe bat on.
It 10 the teaching Of all religion, Of nat.
urai religion. aud rs we'll Of Catholicism.
that man VIII sins against his con-
science sins against the Holy Ghost.
And IL even the power that sits enthroned
within the Vatican commands q man to
violate his conscience TO obey that CON-
mand Is to sin against the Holy Ghost.
Even II high Roman tribunals summon
man to answer for teaching scientific
truth, and demand that man retract
it. then IL Is my duty and every mans
duty to refuse to retrnct 1t.
II Galilso had detisd the power Of that
tribunal and incurred the penalties 1t
would then jnfliot. and when he was dy-
ing they had said, "Rspudiate your
truth or die without the sacrament" 1t
would have heen his duty to refuse the
sacrament. 1t would nave been proper
and Catholic for him to aay;. submit
to your sentence while oursing your tyr
amy. By the power Of the OWL law you
can annoy, dspounos, imprison. torture
and kill but my soul rides free above
your dungeons and your anathemss.
Another generation viii came to this
prison and win tear 1t stone from
stone"
Catholic theology, too often distorted.
m isrepresented. misapplled by the am
billion, cowardice, ignorance, stupidity,
lust and crime Of those who sit in high
| p'aces-Catholio theology that Is nearly
always letter than Its professors, teaches
that all truth is one.
| holy sacrament and the errors. stupidity.
plumbers and crimes with which the his
| tory Of the church for 1000 years and
| more Ia illled ON every pace.
must teach you to distinguish be-
tween the errors and Grimes OF the ecols-
| siastical machine and the ideal church OF
Christ.
Nowhere Is the church more hated than
| In the so-cafed Catholic countries. There
he 1.-THE ecclesiastio) lie Stunned IS though
| uncisan. The sight Of his shovel hat and
sleek fare 1t the window Of car enpsies
the whole compart nent and gives it 70
| him alone.
II you want to zee an absolute devotion
/ to the church you must look for 10 where
the church has been deprived OF her
i wealth and benefactlons and largely freed
| from Homes domination and diplom aoy.
| still hope for Democratic Pope, and
| I'll take back all I said aobut the stove-
pipe hat and let him wear any kind OF
| has he chooses, II he will devote his ener-
CLOS to smashing his temporal throne so
that it could not be rebuilt in thousand
years.
You know there are various ways of
b ibing people. You can make them
presents. And when Cardinal Antonelli
gives to his brother, the banker, $40, 900
| In q single year for investment, people
will wonder how he oan save so much on
q salary of Is. 900 a year.
| So long az Catholic people give the
Pope to understand that he can do what
he pleases with them, and allow an
archbishop in New York to forbid an
merican priest to make political
speech or attend political nesting with
out first obtaining the consent OF the
sacred congregation OF the propaganda.
which don't know hut Florida Is n sub
urb Of New York and Mobile street In
San FrAncisoc-so long as Catholics let
the Roman machine. Of which the Pope
Ia . mere puppet. do this, the ma
chine will uss Paddy In Ireland and
German Paddy, and American Paddy ~
Lpawns on the political ohessboard, 10 be
sold out at any time for what 1t can gel
in return.