IRELAND AND WE VATICAN,

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2044, 13 August 1885, Page 4

IRELAND AND WE VATICAN,

Aoni.woNDi.sTof the London Times wrlt(i _,_The follouiii4 pluu state ment of facts m.iv perhaps help the Pio pigutda to .1 light indgment on the nlli.ince of Nationality and Religion, now assiduously pies3(d upon tlicm I<> ceitaiu Imh puldtis At the Ust monthly meet ing of dii X intend Inane!) of a well know confraternity of Roman Catholic laymen, the following icsolution was duly pioposed and seconded :—" That we, tho members of the Guards of tl.e Town- hill branch of the League of the Cio-.s, stiongly protest against the conduct of James Munioe in giving voluntary e\ idente to the Crown to com ict Bui ton and Ciin linghiro, and we refuse to have anything to do *ith the Guaids as^ lons as rfueh a reptile is in our midst. We call upon him to resign the position he hol-is in this branch aa our delegate to the Co'intil " Thepari&h priest, w ho pi esided, declined to put the resolution Thereupon the "Guaids " lesigned in a body "At the request of Major Pieice," con « tiqnt* the mutineer whose nanative I qi,jrt..;_ •• W» assembled at 9 p m on Saturday in full leg ilia nt the Archbishop's house, Westminister, and told him our grievance His Emi nunce told us that he could not think of parting with a man that he admiied for what he had done. We were all foi mcd into line, and his Eminence asked all in favour of djnxmite to hold up their hands, and we all declined to do so. Then he asked us to hold up our hands if we thought Mnn roe had done wron», and we all held up our hands. And then he said- 1 All of >ou who do not want to belong to my Guards, an I who arc against Munioe, take oSf your sashes," and we all took them off. He told "Major I'ierjc to take charge of them, but we told him that they were our otvn pri-ate property, and that we would send them to I'.irtiell's Guauls in lieland Then we all retiied in a body." And then the wiiter of this instructive histosy went home to ask and to obtain space fiom Mr RunellV oig.iu, United li eland, to show our count) yincn in London h',w we have been treated by our paii-,h piiest and our Cardinal."' The alliance of nationality and religion is possible, no doubt, but it will seem to involve the ecclesiastical sanction of " bojeotting," "even in the house of worship," aa a penalty for discharging the first duties of a good citized and an honest man.