RE McAULIFFE'S BURIAL.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1669, 9 May 1874, Page 2

RE McAULIFFE'S BURIAL.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) •'SißV^j-I regret tp liaye once moire to encrbMch upb'ii your' space' to ; reply 'to " "An6tlier Boy,'' who'seeing !to coincide with,the opinions of his namer the:Sth 'itist regarding tjbe cbnianpt,^bf .tfte^jiriest in no.t. attendinfj tne,l funeral 61 tke unTor]tupate! man HicAu]iffe.i| I repudiate*'the assertion'that I wrote 1 " under instruction's" in the first instance. Such an assertion shows but too plainly the suspicious and vile; mind of the indi^ vidualwho penned^it, because it implies that Father .';Lonerg&n inspired the contents of |ny;-note in answer to dissimulating " Tipperary,',' which is a, false-and wicked assumption^ 'Twioieiihliin^te'to' enlighten "- on the rules of his_Church with regard to the burial of the dead, of which he seemed to be in lamentable ignorance. I^knew that she required those who professed to belong to Jter fold-r?on-the authority'sf Christ's commission to His Apostles, and the writings of the Apostles.! them?. Vsel^s}7^|piStt'(|tice:;l;heir irjligipil w&iteLitt life, or they beTexcluded from the rites of Christian burial when they died; ? and therefore, J. knew,that"!rio r faijljt.7Pas to be attacheait6'tnejcier igymayi wpb' refused \ to attend McAuliftVsJburialj and said._as| much in my first note. -,„,1" now tell " AnptheriTflpfirary fßbyi'''^hlt;he 1 mustknow very/little, even of the of his Church if he did not know that one , of the OjOUjiwJljsrpf Lateran forbade, priests f to attend, 'tlie burial of those who were? Catholics only in name. A fact it is, and all Catholics know it, or ought to know it if they attend their Church. The Rev. Thomas Lbfnergan, let" tiae cor-* respondent, has not taken v £ novel wayof introduciiig himself to the Thames community." He has said no more to' his congregation in his few discourses since he has been her£ than ey.ery child learns from "Butler's QatecKism.":] I, would not again deign" to "reply to a man who scornfully condemns the inspired I words of Holy "Writ, and says that they would do very weU'wHeYe Father Lonerhails from, but not by any means is this enlightened"'isle., 'T6 conclude, if " Another Tipperart "Boy"'came from the birth-place of the priest of whom he writes, he would possess, more Teal knowledge, and less guile and hypocrisy.—l am, &c, ' J, ' 'j ' Dion Snip.