Bishop Luck.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4430, 16 March 1883, Page 3

Bishop Luck.

(Pee Press Association.)

Attcki-and, Thig day. Bishop Luck writes to the Star as follows :—" In a paragraph in Saturday's issue I'regret to say you hare made tnp . pose before the Catholic public in both .a false and painful position. Whatever my own Views are about the mission of Mr Redmond, and those can be learnt from p letter addressed by me to the President and members of the Hibernian Society, they are not such as seek to impose on any of my Irish diocesans. I regret extremely that your statements about the pastoral letter^ addressed by me to the clergy, about the .difference of views between myself and them, and about their intentions to disregard my suppositions and pastoral utterances, I regret to say that such statements should have appeared,.especially at a moment when misapprehensions may give rise to a misunderstanding. These statements are untrue, and yoa<£jave made me pose in an attitude of English versus Irish, an attitude which I deprecite; an attitude' which is most offensive.both to myself and many Catholic * Irish who read the Btar, and an attitude, in fine, most alien to my wishes and the sympathies of my heart." It is understood that the letter referred to in the above is a very lengthy epistle setting forth the Bishop's reason for advising the Society to refrain from taking any steps to support Mr Bedmond's mission. The Hibernian Society adopted a resolution thankiDg Bishop Luck for his letter, but drawing his attention to the Society's rule excluding all political matters from discussion by the Society;