The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-31
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Dublin, and fortunate, in consequence
Is the charity on behalf of which he
pleads. Every seat was filed in st.
oaVieur's church, Dominick street, on
sunday when he ascended the pulpit
10 preach the annual charity sermon
IN aid of st. Vincent de Paul's female
orphanage, North William street, in
, which 1000 of the most destitute chill
dren have been brought up, and their
falth, which was in danger OF being
lost, preserved. Before concluding ms
discourse the eloquent preacher pald
( a graceful compliment. to the sons OF
st. Patrick to whose missionary zeal,
he said, is due the wonderful develop
ment of the church in America, in Aus
tralia. and in fact in all parts OF the
world during the past century
The one time member of Galway and
ardent advocate of Catholic rights,
now the curled darling of the enemies
of both faith and fatherland. contin-
ues in the Belfast Protestant press his
screaming appeals to ''the generous
opinions of Ulster" Generous. indeed!
The Catholics of the north know some
thing of the generosity. They look
forward with gloomy forebodings to the
18th of July, when they will no doubt
be trealed to a fresh sample of it. The
full Irish priesthood taken from Mr..
O'Donnelrs latest contribution to the
Northern Wing, viii lgive an idea of the
depths to which he has fallen. He de-
scribes that glorious body as "a clerical
monopoly, perhaps the most Ignorant
and incompetent, the most wasteful of
lay money, and the most Indifferent to
lay welfare, which can be found in the
entire world" Comment would be su-
! perfluous.
At the month of May procession in
the Christian Brothers. schools. Mount
| Sion. Waterford on Sunday, the Most
Rev. DR.. Sheehan, addressing those
present, said that he referred to the
| matter with reluctance and pain. 1t
became his duty publicly to ask this
! Protestant dignitary to do what the
corporation of Waterford had request
| ed him to do. So far he had taken no
steps to comply with the unanimous
request of that body. Dr. Sheehan ex-
pressed hope that DR.. O'Harra would
not allow the Catholics of Waterford
and the neighborhOod to remain under
| this grevious imputation.
A repore of DR.. O'Hara's sermon
having found its way into the Clonmel
Nationalist and the press of Waterford,
in which city his lordship resides the
matter has been taken UP by several
public bodies, and this distinguished
digniary of the Protestant church has
been challenged to substantiate his
statements. So far he has made no at
eempt to do so. To their credit be it
said. his lordship's coreligionists are
not the least forcible in their con-
demnation of him. Alderman Goff, a
Protestant member of the Waterford
corporation, in supporting resolution
calling for an explanation or retrac-
ton, said: "I have always met with
extreme kindness and extreme toler?
alton from my Roman Catholic fellow
citizen, and / do not think that. there |
is a city in Ireland-and / am saying |
now what L have said over and over
again-that 1 don'1 believe there is a
city in ireland iIihwhich there is less |
religious animosity5than there is in the |
city OF. Waterford,is
Some time ago5Dr. O'Hara, Protest |
ant bishop of Cashel and late rector OF |
Coleraine paid visit to the scene of |
his former ministrations. While So
iourning there the atmosphere of the /
north proved too much for his lordship |
and brought on an acute attack of big
otry. Preaching in his old church, he |
stated, according TO the Belfast Orange
press.1 that ! he aYas placed, in a part
very few--a country overshadowed by
tine dark cloud of ignorance and super
stition-a country made miserable by
and wicked agitation, and
he knew how their little flocks in the
Protestant churches had to struggle for
bare existence. He knew how they
were only suffered to live, and they
were there by. sort of grudgihg con-
on the part of others SANDERS
~. fl,;7 -tnn tnY1tI in |
half hidden in the anti-Catholic papers
of Ulster, where they are the means
of doing much vile and ignoble work.
They should get wider publicity, the
wider the better. as they sicken and
die when dragged from their native
haunts. Refutation follows publicity
of such gross calumnies.'
The executive committee met,in Dub
lin on Tuesday, 9th inst, Rev DR.. NJ.
?. O'Hickey in the chair: the other
", Miss Hayden, Messrs MacNeill,
Pearse. Lloyd 0'Donoghue, O'Neill,
Barrett (treasurer). ONeastain editor
An ClaidheamhesS sSoluis') and O'Daly
general secretary. Important matters
we're discussed and arrangements made ]
n connection with the forthcoming !
Ar. Richard A. Foley has
'esigned his position on the executive .
committee. The following new branches {
we're affiliated. viz, Glasgow. Wigan.
Oesertserges (Co. Cork). The follow c
ng renewed their affiliation: Rathfarn- i
lam and Maynooth. Monthly reports t
we're received from Kilkenny, Clon- i
mel, Limerick, Waterford, Rostrevor, 7
'olmcille. Swords. Glasgow. Co, Derry,
nd marlborough, Co. Cavan.
. Il
The convent at ST. Pierre belonged C
0 the well known French Order of the s
seligieuses de st. Joseph de Cluny, "
whose fine school at Mount SackVille | n
Phoenix park, occupies such a promi- h
ent place amongst the educational in e
titutions of this country. At least one n
lember of the st. Pierre community Il
-as an Irish lady, as to whose fate n
ate her sorrowing relatives now anX- n
'usly await information. c,
o
The Castle Attacks the Peoples Rep d
esentatives-The United Irish League N
no longer the sole object OF the Cas- h
e's attack. The lord lieutenant and al
Is advisers have developed a new a,
Ian of campaign. and in addition to
ghting the popular organization. they
ave now decided to make an onslaught
4 the councils constituted under the ta
cal government act. The first of M
lese bodies to receive the attention of M
lie coersionists is the Mill street Ur- T.
IN council. three of whose members -.
e charged with the awful Offense of to
ferring to landgrabbing at q recent 80
Getting. This development of the %
lstle policy will be watched with in g.
rest, and we have no doubt that one &c
its first results will be to make ev- pI
y county and district council in the I'd
untry more determined than ever to
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