The daily sentinel., 1908-02-28
"Creat God
Brethren"
What are We Doing?
Father Organs Arraignment
Of the Anarchist and Soc
iaist, at Bier Of Murdered
Priest, Attracts National
Attention.

Attention.
There has been wide comment not
only by the Denver press but by pa
pers in other cities that received ex-
tracts from the panagyric delivered
at the bier of Father Leo, the murd-
cred priest, in Denver at the funeral
Wednesday by Father O'Ryan. Rare
ly ever has there been a more terrific
arraignment of anarchy and crime.
In part Father Organ said:
That any sermon is attempted on
this solemn occasion is not because
of Father Leo. the simple Franciscan
friar who is dead, nor even because
of the high offense against the AL
mighty Father of us all who lives,
but because of the society in which
We live and it's outraged and loosened
bond OF law. Crimes such as that of
last Sunday are assaults on no mere
individual; they are against you and
me and all of u.s. They strike and
wound law and justice in her holy
sanctuary whence breathes the very
life of the civilized state.
Father Leo was struck down, the
murderer confesses, because he was
not a priest. and not for any fancied
the murderer had received from him.
He never knew the dead priest; he
had never spoken with him; their
lives except in that one dread mo-
ment of blood and sacrilege had
never touched. Nor did he kill him,
as priests have been killed, in hatred
of his special creed. But the fiend
knew that the priest was some out
ward symbol and present ambassa-
dor of that only authority by which
kings and human law rears itself in
awful dignity and finds its sanction
the authority and grievance of
God. And because the murderer had
revolted against Gods authority his
rebellion went to its uttermost logical
conclusion in action: he revolted
against its presence in the world of
human law and broke it until it
gushed human blood; he revolted
against it's outward symbol, the
priest, and slew him.
Murderer Logical.
"The murder was logical The an
archist is never truer to his diabol-
ical principles than when he slays
Catholic priest and slays him at the
altar of God. 1t matters not that the
individual priest possessed little of
the worlds power or goods nor de-
sires them for himself: it matters
not even that he is follower of that
blessed Francis who chose Lady Pow
erty for his bride and gave his great
love to the poorest things and the
most unloved. Wherever he is the
Catholic priest in some great way
carries in himself that church of
authority and of God and externates
her to men. He is an officer in that
great army whose tramp is around
the world; whose discipline is most
refined; whose banners are
forever set against the enemy of dis
order and anarchy in the hearts, in
the speech and in the actions of men
as opposed to just human govern
ment ard divine rule.
Yes, he was logical He might
hate the ministers of other Christian
bodies but not with similar hate
the impotent hate that Stays; for they
alas, are too divided to be dangerous
to him. He might hate a king for
he rules; but kings come and go and
kingly policies have their chances
and changes. But the Catholic priest
is slain but to live and the Catholic
policy, the Catholic accents of NOR
ality are unchanged and unchange-
able as the throne of God. He saw
this at home in Italy, that there It is
not the parliament of the king that
saves his crown to him. 1t is not the |
army of Italy that saves her from
the spelling of the Socialist and the |
red hand of the anarchist; though |
weakened by many defections, the |
)ne strong, coherent, unyielding DOW
ar is still an imprisoned pope and an |
ll-used church.
Learn to Hate.
"And hence the whole foul breed
of them. the Socialist who breaches
md the anarchist who translates the
,ermon into red deeds, come here
rating the church and the priesthood.
Here they learn to hate all other
hings that are consecrated to us. the
power of our president, the wisdom
'f our senates, the majesty of our
'ourts and the quiet dignity of our
"Great God. brethren, what are we
ioing? or what are we thinking? A
great president of our country Is
'lain by a degenerate who was nerv-
I'd to the deed by Socialist and anar-
hist vaporings. We read that an
lrchy has its seat in New Jersey;
hat she sits In council in New Or
cans or Chicago. They have a pro-
uganda, red press, An Appeal to
Reason forsooth; we are made
lware that some of them come here
rom southern and eastern Europe in
very shipload, and with supine in
Inference we look on. Have we 4
'ound the pearl beyond that price
hat We may roll it in the dust like