The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-12-30

Father McGrady, the eloquent Social
list priest, has resigned his pulpit at
Belleville, Ky. While it has been ex-
pected by socialists that the wers
that control the church would sue
coed in driving the priestly advocate
of the rights of the workers from the
pulpit, his resignation came as a
shock to his congregation last Sun
day, and there was a dramatic scene
when he stated that he had severed
his relations with the church. Tears
sprang to the eyes of many in the
large congregation, and at the close
of the service the beloved pastor was
surrounded by members of his flock,
who expressed regret and sorrow
that he had seen fit to tender his
resignation.
Father McGrady gave the following
version of the affair to newspaper
reporter:
On November 8 the bishop sent
him number of demands, among
them being the following:
ITO bring or send to us before De
cember 8, 1908, a letter recalling such
praises of Darwin, lola and Renan,
and some of the other writer's named
in your letters published in the July
number ofWilshire's Magazine, which
shall be given the same publicity as
your fulsome praises have been
given, to the detriment of the church
and to the scandal of the faithful.
That scandal must be repaired and
an early promise given that you will
obey the directions and conform to
the teachings set forth in the ency-
clicals Of our Holy Father, the pope
We admonish you not to allow the
sale of any books written by you
to which the imprimatur has been re-
fused for cause, or for which the i'm
primatur should be asked, in accord
ance with the rules of the Holy Cath
Ollie church.
We admonish you not to be absent
from your parish so frequently and to
refrain from emitting views on So
cialism, either by speech or by letter,
which are at variance to the teach
ings of our Supreme Pontiff or the
church,
On November II Father McGrady
replied to the bishop, submitting
eight propositions, covering the en-
tire teachings of socialism, and re-
questing Bishop Macs to answer and
state in writing whether any Or all
of said propositions were condemned
by the\church, offering to give his an.
swer in full on the date designated
by Bishop Macs.
Bishop Macs ignored the PROPOSE
tons, but evidently he saw that by
condemning the propositions he would
condemn the fathers and popes of
the church for the first four centu-
ries, and if he would indorse the prop
ositions he would approve of social
ism, said Father McGrady There
fore he shifted his position, dropped
the question of imprimatur on my
books, dropped the question of my
being absent from home on a lecture
tour and and confined himself to
three points contained in another
letter to me, written on November
26, in which Bishop Macs said:
I'VE hereby order you to bring or
send to us a retraction in writing of
the unqualified appreciation of auth
ors condemned by the Holy See con-
tanned in the July number of the
Wiltshire Magazine. You shall send
this retraction in writing within one
week, with promise to do your ut
most to have it published in the said
Wiltshire Magazine, and failing there
in, have it published in such maya
zine as | may designate. 4"
To this Father McGrady made the
following comment:
I'm my letter to Wilshire's Maya
zine I referred to number of bril-
liant men of worldwide reputation
who had adopted socialism, and I
praised their genius to show that men
of most intellectual acumen had
adopted the teachings of Carl Marx.
This is the second charge. The
bishop calls it scandal to praise a
III oil VI SCll1uo IL oil HIS WTlIluSS dI0
not accepted by the church. There
fore the Catholic would be guilty of
heresy if he praised the declaration
of independence because it was writ
ten by an infidel and undoubtedly be
communicated, according to the
bishops rule, if he went so far as to
state that Jefferson was a great man.
If l submitted to these conditions
would sacrifice my manhood and my
conscience and stultify myself before
the public. For every man in the
country would say that l should be
confined in an insane asylum.
Therefore l resign to preserve my
self from the charge of idiocy and
to protect my memory from everlast
ing infamy.
They want to condemn socialism
but my eight propositions was a