CORK.—Street Preaching

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 19, 7 May 1903, Page 9

CORK.— Street Preaching

The following letter from the Most Rev. Dr. O'Callaghan was read in all the Catholic churches in Cork on a recent Sunday :— lt is well to remind the congregations at the Masses on Sunday next of the old law in Ireland, which has always been strictly enforced, forbiddjng Catholics to bu pi«_suiit at leligious meetings of other denominations, or to listen to sermons, and withdrawing fioni oidmaiy Confcssois faculties to absolve in such cases. Yofl are aware that religious meetings, intended for the edification and conversion to Protestantism ol the Catholics of Cork, are held in our streets on Sundays, and not unfrequently in prominent places when large crowdsjLre lctu mR our churches on their way to their homes Our attention has been called to the fact by many, who are both pained and o (Tended, and with whom we fully agree, that it is strange such things are allowed in a city like Cork. We Catholics certainly do not treat our Protestant fellow-citizens in like manner.