REPLY TO TIPPERARY.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1667, 7 May 1874, Page 2

REPLY TO TIPPERARY.

! <To the Editor *of the Evening Star.) ; Sib, —A, person has just called ray attention to a [letter in Jy6ur issue of the sth inst., sigaed'ATipperary," evidentlywritten by some very obtuse individual as regards the rules of the Koman Catholic he says he.,^belongs. With'regard to "the « rumour " 'that the le» st-i£?^ not ?°' to he > burAal of McAulifle, I may say I underst;an^ it is perfectly true. ;The reasons he did npi; do'"sbJLundpfstlind are, that the deceased ]*[cAuliffe was, according tb the decrees of our Church, outside its pale, and cpnsiequentl^lnpt; entitled to. be buried as onfc of ita members. He did ripfc'■; practice {tjteHdman Catholic Beligibn during his ;lifetime, and consequently despised its ¥^ cbjnm^nds; and Chnsti sbji; ";|se': that will, hjot hear the": Church l^t him' ;]be to! thiefe ks the hea^th^n find the pubii.ca^l'! • THerefbre as the dhurph'did noOec££nise 'KcAuliffe r as one of : its me^b^rs, Jher priests could not attend his burial; in fact, the fourth Council^''of Ijjateran expressly prohibits themrto^attjndj a: funeral of any ypersbn rvrho:n^g.v I scted his known duties' as a Catholic. I telieve that one «f the ;irielatives of the deceased not only stated that he did not practice the-; Catholic religion^, ;but also tiat he wai de facto an iDfidel. So that if wil};bjß seen that it,,nas not;"jEhe"fault,pf the priest t]^|^c Auliffe did not receive J the last " ritej " off the, Church to. w^jch ,he professed i jtp, belong. The Churchi Vf ith^Kej; divine,, authority, :decrfied the course.-they; should take, -and that depree i^ jjaseaeupon^the : dQgmatio. testimony pf Christ himself. The presumption of 'I Tipperary "; in st^tinj? th^ the, conduct pf the priest in this instance ' is an itvnoViatjpn. in; thepractices x>f thejjlecgy; pfiny G.hurchr'Vis^really:imjusingi in,^sp/faras the writer is so monstrously ignorant.>pf the practices and precepts of his Churclii which ignorance he lucidly displays in his letter..f,- Lelsytoe •.; him, t|me Beis"sufferin*g from 'caecethessdfiberidi nbt to write on*any;tbing connected with the Eoman Catholic ""CKurch, as by doing so he will.only display his own ignorance and his own evil consciencel-^1 am, <fee,

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