REV. T. LONERGAN V. INNOVATIONS.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1668, 8 May 1874, Page 2

REV. T. LONERGAN V. INNOVATIONS.

(To the Editor of the Evwrisra Stab.) SiEj-^Permitme through your coloumi to thank "Dion Snip "for hig-reply to the letter of "Tipperarj I,'- which Appeared in Tuesday's issue of your, paper. I am aware that f/Dion>[Snip" wrote ilinder instructions, and: therefore I presume it is a fact that the " new light" of the Eoman Catholic Church here did 2± refuse to read the burial service over the *~ unfortunate man JSilcAuliffe. The reason assigned^ fojv thi^lnnovation is that he was not, according to the decrees of the Ghurch^withiniits pale orilEarter ;liit, nor for some time before. Now let me ask, "Dion Snip," or the.priest in question, from whom he, derived his information, inasmuch as he. could not hare known it from* the man himself, and I deny that anything that may have been said by any of his relations.was evidence to warrant the priest, refusing to do what he could (if any thing) over his grave. "T)jou Snip" seems to have no difficvlty - in- bringing , the! Council of Lateran in to justify, the course taken bp: the J priest, but lets me inform him that there are many laws made even in bur own days which would ' be very imprudent to enforce except under very: peculiar circumstances; and I am strongly of opinion that the rev. gentleman would have acted more wisely by following the example of the gvo4 MHI IQlllom

priest who hud" pfecededthaii he has done by making himself ihe subject of news-, paper correspondence. The Eev. Thomas Lonefgan has taken a novel way of introducing himself to a-Thames community, and I predict for him a warm career should he persist in such unseemly_cpnduct.' One word in reply to "-Dion Snip," where he says " that he that will not hear the Church let him be tothee as a heathen and a publican." 'Such threats might do very well where the rev; gentleman hails from, but lam>ot aware that the teaching or ruling of one particular priest is necessarily the doctrine of the Church;, and had "Dion Snip been at Willoughby-street Catholic Church last Sunday he would have heard the rev. gentleman saying things, which even the Council of Lateran "would not justify, and should he be so foolish as to. try and . carry out, will be the means of bringing vthe Catholic religion into contempt—l [*l AnOTHTCE TIfPEBABY BOY.