THE EXCOMMUNICATION OF DR. McGLYNN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2390, 3 November 1887, Page 2

THE EXCOMMUNICATION OF DR. McGLYNN.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—ln is only a few days ago that I felt it my duty to resent certain language used against Catholics in The Waikato Times Supplement, now I am induced again to write to you about the supposed ‘‘ Bull of Excommunication of Dr McGlynn, ” which is reported in last Saturday’s supplement, as copied from the ‘Frisco News Letter.’ I am not at all clear about the spirit in which it is invented, whether as a burlesque from Messrs Auffray and Co,, or as an advertisement for the paper that published it, or a caricature on the censures of the Catholic Church. Be the intention ever so mischievous, it requires great gullibility to be able to swallow it wholesale, because it happens to appear in a ’Frisco paper, and thence in The Waikato Times.

Some ignorant persons there are who readily believe anything that the wisdom of editors select for their intellectual store ; but, I trust, an opportunity will be given to such persons to know that fiction is sometimes printed as truth, and that throwing mud at Catholics has not yet gone out of date. Such articles do not bring us into ridicule, and at the same time conciliate us. They are not calculated to create a friendly understanding, and beget the approbation and sympathy of the pnblio. I append to these remarks the letter by which the Archbishop of New York published the excommunication of Dr. McGlynn, the “true” document, and I know of no other by which Dr. McGlynn has been addressed. —By ihsertiug it you will oblige, yours truly, A. J. Fox. The Presbytery, Hamilton.

The Excosimonication of Du. MoGlynn.

The following letter has been addressed by his Grace the Archbishop of New York to the clergy and faithful of the archdiocese:—

“ Be it known that on the 4th day of May, 18S7, the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda admonished the Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn, late rector of St. Stephen’s Church in this city, that he had already rendered himself liable to ecclesiastical censure by disobeying the positive command of the Sovereign Pontiff, given January 17. Wishing, however, to deal leniently with him, the Sacred Congregation refrained from inflating censqre, and, offering him a further opportunity to be heard in his behalf, gave him a final and peremptory order to present himself in Rome within forty days from the receipt of the letter containing such order, under penalty of excommunication to be incurred otherwise ipso facto and nominatim. This letter was duly delivered to Dr McGlynn, and as he allowed the days of grace to pass unheeded, it became our sad duty 7 to notify him that the limit of time had expired, and that he bad incurred by his own act this penalty of excommunication by name, whereby he is out off from the communion of the Church, from its Sacraments, and participation in its prayers, and, should he persevere iu contumacy, deprived of the right after death to Christian burial. If has become also our duty to declare to clergy and laity of our charge, which we do by these letters, that the Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn is excommunicated nominatim, with c,ll the penalties attached to this censure by the canons of the Cljurclj. f Miciibei, Augustine, Archbishop of New York.”